Topic: Olrox.

[erimocard]

In Reply To #30

He is from Transylvania. He comes to Europe with the Demeter just like Drac. The story is almost the same, only he comes to Germany (Bremen) instead of England.

[Raphael Belmont]

what about Galamoth?HE is the one that should have been in the story...After all i think he could defeat Drac easily.


edit: in case you guys forgot him and i'm reviving this thread here's the guy:

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Holy Thread Necromancy, Raphael!
Are you going back to old threads or something, geez.

[Lumas]

In Reply To #30

He is from Transylvania. He comes to Europe with the Demeter just like Drac. The story is almost the same, only he comes to Germany (Bremen) instead of England.

Actually, which probably has already been stated, Orlox is count dracula and was suppose to be Dracula. The stoker family just got pissed and sued and won so they had to change the names of the characters...

Course I am not a fan of the stoker family since the release or "Dracula The Un-Dead". That had to be one of the worst books i have read and it was a slap to the face of bram.

[Abnormal Freak]

Aw, and here I thought this was a recent debate. :(

Anyway (if anyone still cares about all this)... Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror is indeed an adaptation of Dracula. However, it wasn't that the Stoker family got pissed and so the filmmakers had to change the names of the characters; it was an unlicensed adaptation (they hadn't gotten the rights), so they simply changed some of the names and story pieces to try and get around copyright protection. Count Orlok is indeed supposed to be Dracula.

After the film was released, it was then that Stoker's widowed wife threw a fit and had all prints of the film burned. Thankfully, some survived and we're able to view the film today. There was a pretty big restoration handled by Kino International a few years back that restored more of the film, and is to my knowledge the longest version of the film currently available.

There is a 1979 remake by Werner Herzog titled Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (a.k.a. Nosferatu the Vampyre) which uses the names from Dracula instead of the ones in the original Nosferatu, but is again essentially a remake of that film and not a more proper adaptation of the novel.

[X]

Yeah I read about that too. But now that a lot more time has gone by, count Orlock has evolved into his own personna. Besides, that dude is just plain creepy-looking. He is perhaps the spookiest-looking vampire you'll ever come across and with fangs THAT long and fingernails THAT long you don't ever want to!! Unless you have the Vampirekiller to give you optimal range to smite the freaky dude.   

Fortunetly he doesn't appear to move very fast so you could probably outrun him if given the window of opertunity. 

-X

[Archangel]

Funny to read something about Orlox now.

Just recently, I read some Fan Speculation about him on a Fan Site:

http://sympathetic-magick.net/joachim/olrox.htm

[VGuyver]

I just saw the original movie. Not a bad piece of work. Even though it's a bit dated and somewhat cartoony at points, it's still haunting. Actually, the appearance of Olrox is much more in tune with the original appearance of Dracula, not the pretty boy look that we get from Castlevania and Bela Lugosi.

As for SotN's Olrox, well the vampire certainly has Dracula's respect as Dracula gave him an entire section of his castle to control, other bosses in the game were simply slaves or prisoners. Orlox on the other hand was a full free vampire. It would be nice to see a castlevania game with a bit of backstory to him. Also it's good to note that Portrait of Ruins first antagonist is modeled after Nosferatu loosely, just like Orlox was.

Also, check out some fanart for Castlevania done in Nosferatu style on deviant. You can see another close resemblance there.

http://genzoman.deviantart.com/art/Nosferatu-Count-Orlok-150503728

[Lumas]

Yeah I read about that too. But now that a lot more time has gone by, count Orlock has evolved into his own personna. Besides, that dude is just plain creepy-looking. He is perhaps the spookiest-looking vampire you'll ever come across and with fangs THAT long and fingernails THAT long you don't ever want to!! Unless you have the Vampirekiller to give you optimal range to smite the freaky dude.   

Fortunetly he doesn't appear to move very fast so you could probably outrun him if given the window of opertunity. 

-X

Yeah i have to agree with your on that X Orlock has become is own personna and he is deffinately the spookiest vampire, the guy is just plain creepy, he really didn't even that much make up.

[X]

That's a good pic of count Orlock but there's only one inconsistancy with him. His fangs. On all vampires we see their fangs where the human's canines are located. But only on Count Orlock do we see that his fangs are situated where the human's to upper, frontle Incisors are placed. It makes me wonder if Orlock is some kind of bastard falf vampire/demon creature.

-X

[VGuyver]

if you look closely, you see that is is the canines teeth, they are slightly longer then his front teeth. However, all his teeth are fanged, but the canines are still predominate.

[X]

Actually what I was referring to was that the pic does not show his fangs in their proper place. The picture shows him with his fangs in the regular location as with all other vampires when they should be where his frontal incisors are. I guess i forgot to make it clear in my last post...sorry.

-X

[James Belmont]

Actually what I was referring to was that the pic does not show his fangs in their proper place. The picture shows him with his fangs in the regular location as with all other vampires when they should be where his frontal incisors are. I guess i forgot to make it clear in my last post...sorry.

-X

There is no proper place for vampire fangs, considering that in the old myths, vampires didn't have them to begin with. It wasn't until "Varney the Vampire", a penny-dreadful novel written 50 years before Dracula, that the idea came about, and even then, most literary sources don't mention the placement of the fangs, but merely that they're there. The discrepancy only comes about through the vampire's depiction on film, when makeup effects people had to actually give their actors fangs, and it all came down to artistic interpretation.

As for Orlock himself, his fangs are the way they are mainly because he has a strong kinship to rats, and such fangs were given to him so that he would appear more rat-like.

[DragonSlayr81]

As for Orlock himself, his fangs are the way they are mainly because he has a strong kinship to rats, and such fangs were given to him so that he would appear more rat-like.

This is true. It also draws his connection to the plague(rats being a main transport of the plague).

[X]

When you put it that way it seems like Orlock is a demon rat/vampire creature. he does look kinda like a rat, doesn't he.

-X