In this movie, Mina seduces Professor Abraham Van Helsing and attacks him. In this movie, Professor Abraham Van Helsing asks Mina for permission to hypnotize her, while in the novel, it's Mina's idea, and she asks Van Helsing to do it. In this movie, he lives for several minutes after the attacks, and Mina delivers the final death blow. In the novel, Dracula immediately dies and crumbles into dust after suffering the knife attacks by Jonathan Harker and Quincy P. In the novel, Dracula forces Mina to drink his blood, and she is traumatized by the incident. This alters later scenes taken from the novel, such as when Mina asks Dracula to turn her into a vampire, and willingly drinks his blood. The novel never explicitly identifies Dracula as Vlad the Impaler, and Mina has no personal connection to Count Dracula.

Though this movie is notable for being more faithful to Bram Stoker's novel than most other adaptations, numerous liberties were taken, including: The pre-title prologue and the subplot about Mina being the reincarnation of Count Dracula's wife are inventions of this movie. References to non-Dracula movies include Dracula turning Mina's tears into diamonds, a reference to the Jean Cocteau movie Beauty and the Beast (1946), Lucy's glass coffin, taken from the various versions of the 'Snow White' story, and the window in Lucy's bedroom, taken from the Frank Capra movie The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932). The lunatics in the asylum rioting to signal the coming of Dracula was used in Dracula (1979). The idea of Dracula's motivation for coming to England being to find his reincarnated lost love was first used in Dracula (1974). Dracula's line of dialogue, 'I never drink.wine' has also been used in numerous previous Dracula movies, originating with Dracula (1931). The scene of Dracula rising from his coffin for the first time is also taken from Nosferatu (1922). Renfield being Harker's predecessor (the characters are completely unrelated in the novel) has been used in numerous previous Dracula movies, starting with Nosferatu (1922).

Several elements of this movie were taken from previous Dracula adaptations.

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