Morgan notes:
"In 'Vampire', blood is a fine wine,
a food, and epicurean delight...an excess which leads
to death, murder, betrayal.  In Dracula, it is a
metaphor for a spiritual transgression, an act against
god."
 
Good points.  The presence of blood itself is muted, perhaps necessarily, in
b&w films like Browning's DRACULA and Dreyer's VAMPYR (despite the victim's
moans--"The blood!  The blood!"), but the Hammer/Christopher Lee films seems
to delight in Technicolor blood for its shock effect.  In CRONOS, the use of
blood is somewhat muted, by comparison with Coppola and INTERVIEW anyway,
but it serves as an object of obsession and desire in this unique twist on
the vampire tale.
 
Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
 
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