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I hadn't heard of this one before, and while the trailer looks appropriately chilling and horrific, I wonder if the events with Dracula attacking people are all supposed to happen in a single night? Otherwise, it seems like being trapped in a ship during the day with survivors would be a bad play by Dracula.
Joel,
Not necessarily. I mean vampires might not be able to cross running water, but is the ocean considered running? I mean he might be able to hide under the boat during the day or deeper to keep the humans from finding him.
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Well, in the book they do actually search the ship, not long after the first crewman disappears and another claims to have seen a stranger on board. However, they don't open the boxes because the things are nailed shut and the crew think the things are just filled with dirt. I guess no one was thinking "vampire" (yet). Dracula was maybe doing the whole mist thing to get in and out.
It isn't until there are only two men left the mate figures out to search the boxes. They only hint at what happens when he did that, though. Whatever it was it drove him crazy and he jumped overboard.
To go back to your earlier post, though. The trip takes place from around mid-July to early August. There are times when the ship is beset by storms, and everyone's too busy to be scared. And Dracula takes his time at first. Maybe he wasn't too worried because it's a more modern era and very few people believe in what he is.
If Dracula is able to cloud minds. He could also make people never think about checking the boxes.
I wasn't even thinking about the running water bit, just that it's a relatively limited set of hiding places on a ship, and the crew knows it backwards and forwards. They should be able to suss him out (but clearly won't be able to).
Real life stowaways were a thing. And they needed to eat sleep, poop,a and pee somewhere as well as stretch their legs every few days, and breathe.
So its a case of reality is unrealistic, even before you get the advantages an undead being would have over a living one. (like hiding under the water in the bilges for days
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Yeah I forgot about the bilges. Thanks for that Wolf person.
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I wasn't even thinking about the running water bit, just that it's a relatively limited set of hiding places on a ship, and the crew knows it backwards and forwards. They should be able to suss him out (but clearly won't be able to).Real life stowaways were a thing. And they needed to eat sleep, poop,a and pee somewhere as well as stretch their legs every few days, and breathe.
So its a case of reality is unrealistic, even before you get the advantages an undead being would have over a living one. (like hiding under the water in the bilges for days
True, but a real life stowaway isn't brutally murdering people, they're focused on staying undiscovered.