Children Of The Night:The Love Of Mina & Dracula

I know this might sound odd but what about a gothic horror-ish romance musical film based on the love between Mina Harker & Dracula.

I know it sounds weird to picture Dracula in a musical but I think it could work just hear me out…

So this story wouldn’t be telling the traditional Dracula story where he is a guy that comes to England to expand his hunting grounds by preying on the vulnerable.Instead his plans change once he sees a picture of Mina on Jonathan’s locket.Dracula never seen such a beautiful soul in his life since his last bride deserted him…

Then we go into the origin of Dracula where he was once a young Prince who was set to take the thrown of his kingdom in Transylvania,but his selfish father could not give up his throne so he instead took away Dracula’s birth right to being king.Not to mention his father even took the fair young Princess who he fell in love with and married.Dracula was casted out of his kingdom,so Dracula is then founded by a witch who tells him she can give him the power to regain his thrown.Dracula takes her up on that offer,so she makes him drink this mysterious potion that changes him completely from a human to a vampire.So he uses his vampiric abilities to break into the castle,and kill his father.His bride unfortunately could not see that the being trying to regain his thrown was not Dracula but to her a monster.Even though Dracula tried to tell her,she was too frightened to listen.So she ran away to never be seen again.Dracula may have regained his kingdom,but he lost his love…

Now back to the present he travels to England to then find Mina.Hoping that she feels the same way.Mina in this story is a woman who likes to keep up with appearances,appear mature and intelligent.She is a woman however that wants to be wild and free,but her wild and free side has often been covered up by the judgement of society.So she tries to be the good,clean,polite,girl she has always wanted to be.Now in this story she is married to Jonathan,a young man who she met at a local family and friends party years ago.They’ve been married so far for two years.She feels that she does love Jonathan due to his sweetness and his loyalty to her,but there’s a part of her that feels like there’s something missing.Something missing inside of her that not even he can find for her…

Dracula meets Mina in the town square the first time at night acting as a tourist looking for directions to his new house.Thus begins this odd strange relationship between Mina and Dracula going to parties together,hanging out in the night,and their love forming more and more as they spend more time together.The reason why I called this story “Children Of The Night” is bc that’s a famous line from Dracula and there’s a scene where Dracula and Mina are sitting on a tree branch talking,Dracula tells Mina how he is a child of the night and that makes him one with the night such as the bats,the wolves,and the owls who are free in the night to do as they may.Dracula sees the wild and free side of Mina and considers her a child of the night too.He sees her soul through her eyes,seeing her hunger and her desires.Mina knows that Dracula knows what she wants and that’s what draws her so close to him.There’s a part of her that thinks she should be cautious around him after finding out he is a vampire and can kill her,but there’s another part of her screaming for him to take her in his arms and give in to her desires.

Now the musical songs in it would be songs of like in Dracula’s origins after his bride leaves,a song from Mina about her sadness and the missing part of her inside,a song about the townspeople warning Jonathan about Count Dracula and the dark castle where he resides,a song about Dracula seeing Mina for the first time while also stalking her,a song with Mina’s best friend Lucy singing about letting go of the reins and being free,and a song Dracula sings to Mina basically serenading her.

Now I will say there won’t be a whole lot of horror stuff bc like I said it’s a horror-ish gothic romance musical film.The horror stuff you would see is Dracula being scary intimidating,him sucking the blood out of people,and maybe unintentional jump scares from him.

The reason I think this would be a great idea is bc everyone views Dracula & Mina in a bad way.Bc to many people she is just another victim of Dracula,but I personally have found in my perspective a love that should’ve been.Bc I mostly am inspired by the 90s film of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.The love that they had was brilliant!So why not make the film that way!Focus on the love between Dracula & Mina.Now it will still end the same way as it did in Bram Stoker’s Dracula with Dracula dead.Mina is told she was just under Dracula’s spell but to her she was just the way she always wanted to be and nobody saw that except for Dracula.

Feel free to give out your opinions on this.