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Master Barlow's Blurbs: Mr. Barlow is the master vampire and is very different in appearance to his minions - He is the first physically disfigured vampire since Count Orlok in Munrau's 1922 Nosferatu. Barlow is thin, tall, bald with blue skin. His fangs are the incisors rather than the canines, so he kind of resembles a rabbit. He is resurrected by sacrifice - first a dog and then a boy.
The Story
Barlow's victim's vary, he tends to begin by turning children who go on to turn the adults closest to them. They appear far more human than their master... in order to beguile victims. Their eyes have a telltale glint though. Vampires can fly and try and get victims to open their windows. They all have a link with the Master and do his bidding. They are repelled by Hawthorn, crosses and crucifixes, and holy water. Most of the "Dracula Cannon" holds true, they cannot go out in sunlight etc... Oh and they seem to attract rats.
James Mason plays Straker, Mr. Barlow's human servant. Of all the characters I thought this was the worst miscasting. I felt Straker in the book was a rather menacing character and in the film he just wasn't, instead he was a benign looking bowler hatted man. The boy Mark killed him in the book which was quite an epic David and Goliath-esque battle, in the film he is shot by Ben which really deflates the tension.
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