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Concept of Dracula or vampire is as old as humankind. Human has not always been

haunted but also attracted towards Dracula, vampire, UFO’s déjà woo or demons

etc .The reason behind this magnetism is the presence of creature inside human.

Man is a mixture of mortality and immortality. Human body is mortal whilst spirit

inside him is immortal. And that is the point which originates the concept of 

vampire/Dracula. Basically the concept of Dracula/vampire is hired to indicate the

devilish part of human nature. In the real world every new day starts with the news

of killing, raping, kidnapping and torturing. Human is usurping the rights of his own

kind for his own satisfaction. Writers and filmmakers start writing and filming this

situation in their books and films respectively, being the most sensitive segment of mankind.

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reover the element of curiosity and superstition also instigate human to see things

in that way. Bermuda triangle, a place in the western part of the North AtlanticOcean is classified as paranormal where things like ships, aircraft and human etc

disappears unusually. Human has two sources for verification of existence and

phenomenon that are Religion and science. Religion is an ancient source born with

Adam whilst empirical investigation of natural world is known as science. Religion

from its inception remains same (believing in one God with the difference of small

helping gods and goddesses) but science is progressing with the human maturity.

Religion just testifies the concept of genie not the vampire but science is still silent

in this context.

Dracula, a novel written by Bram stoker in 1897 is not only the first famous attempt

using the images of vampire to portray the devilish aspect of human nature. Back in1819 John Polidori also employed the character of Dracula as an aristocratic man in

his “The Vampyre”. Similarly cinemas are decorated with vampire movies after

every single day and “Twilight saga New Moon” is the recent attempt in this regard.

Basically it is a novel revealing on one hand a bond of romance between good

natured vampire (feed on animal blood rather than human) and human while on the

other hand resentment between damned vampire (feeding on human blood) and

the good one to save humankind in shape of Bella (a character played by fine-

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looking actress Kristen Stewart).

Not very old ago another very captivating effort was made in the form of “Queen of 

the damned”, released in 2002 in which Stuart Townsend (a handsome actor), a

good natured vampire (as a Lestat) is first shown to awake the sleeping arrogant

queen of the vampires Akasha (character marvelously played by Aaliyah) with his

enthralling music and then kills her with other ancient good natured vampires tosave human world from demise. In a nutshell a common line between the two

movies is the protection of mankind from satanic intricate attempts but with news

cover.