History Film / DraculaDeadAndLovingIt

** Modified version where Dracula acts like Comicbook/SpiderMan to free Renfield. Then flies to the ground. Renfield attempts to follow, and makes a fool of himself falling on his face. Dracula points out:
-->"''I'' fly. ''You'' don't."

-->'''Dr. Seward''': For Heaven's sake, who in all of England, by the furthest stretch of imagination, could possibly be a vampire ?
-->'''Maid (introducing)''': Count Dracula.
-->'''Dr. Seward''': Well, maybe him.

---> '''Villager 4''': ...shed-yool?

** Likewise when the brides come to seduce him and suggestively rub against the bedstool

->"''My '''God!''' What'' are you ''doing to the furniture?''"

* ActorAllusion: While this is the first time Creator/PeterMacNicol had ever played Renfield, this isn't the first time he's ever played TheRenfield, having played [[BigBad Vigo's]] brainwashed minion Janosz Poha in ''Film/GhostbustersII''. Especially ironic since Vigo the Carpathian was an {{Expy}} of Vlad the Impaler, {{Dracula}} being the most famous example.

* GhostlyGlide: Dracula's wives do this. Both lampshaded and subverted when he stops them from feeding on Reinfeld and tells them to leave. They start to do so by gliding away... before he tells them to knock it off and the women walk off normally instead.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the original 1931 film, Van Helsing stakes Dracula while he's asleep and vulnerable. In the film, he fights off Jonathan, Dr. Seward, and Abraham Van Helsing at the same time despite knowing his weakness, and it takes the sun rising (and [[SparedByTheAdaptation Reinfield's]] incompetence) to finally finish him.

* CompositeCharacter: Brooks dispenses with all of Lucy's suitors except Seward, who becomes her much-older guardian instead. Harker takes over the role of all the four younger men. It's mentioned that he liked Lucy, while being Mina's suitor. Liked, not LIKE-Liked. Meanwhile, Harker's Transylvania adventures are given to Reinfield.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Van Helsing's jobs.
-->'''Dr. Seward''': Count Dracula, allow me to introduce Professor Abraham Van Helsing of London University. He's a doctor of rare diseases, as well as theology and philosophy.
-->'''Van Helsing''': ''Und'' gynecology!
-->'''Dr. Seward''': [[DoubleEntendre Oh, I didn't know you had your hand in that too.]]

* BritishStuffiness: A main source of humor in the film.
-->'''Jonathan''': The opera is astonishing. The music is fraught with love, hate, sensuality, and unbridled passion... [[EstablishingCharacterMoment all the things in my life I've managed to suppress.]]
* BuffySpeak:
-->'''Jonathan:''' But Lucy, I'm engaged to Mina. And you're dead!
-->'''Vampire!Lucy:''' I'm not dead. I'm undead...!
-->'''Jonathan:''' Yes, well, I'm not un-engaged.
* CallBack: The door knocker crumbling in Renfield's hand, which Mel Brooks states is a deliberate reference to ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' in that film's commentary. Also, Van Helsing pronouncing the word "back" like "beck."

* RunningGag: Dr. Seward and enemas.
-->'''Dr. Seward''': Gives him a feeling of ''accomplishment''.
** Van Helsing and Dracula both want to have the final (Transylvanian) word in a conversation, [[spoiler: extending all the way to when Dracula's just a pile of dust and Van Helsing still sticks his head back inside to say something. And then it extends to the ''end of the credits.'']]

* StakingTheLovedOne: Parodied.
-->'''Van Helsing''': It must be done by one who loved her in life!\\
'''Harker''': I only ''liked'' her!\\
'''Van Helsing''': Close enough!

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Dracula's plans for Mina.

* BedlamHouse: Where Renfield is kept and treated with enemas.

** Even more hilarious due to EnforcedMethodActing (see the Trivia page).

* ClassicalMovieVampire: Dracula is a parody of this.

* CloudCuckoolander: Everyone has this to a certain extent, but Renfield is the most obvious one.
* CobwebJungle: Carried over from ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'' and PlayedForLaughs.

* GroinAttack: Renfield's gets ''stepped on'' at one point.
* HeroAntagonist: Van Helsing.
* HighPressureBlood: The staking scene.
* IDoNotDrinkWine: Subverted during Dracula's dream.
* TheIgor: Renfield to Dracula.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Harker: "But I am British!" Lucy: ''(Tearing open her dress)'' "And so are THESE!"

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Dracula and Renfield.

** ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the climax of the movie, the shadow clearly shouts "Uh-Oh!" and runs away when Van Helsing and the others show up to kill Dracula.

* PivotalWakeup
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by a chandelier.
* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision A Strike]]: "Renfield, you asshole!"

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Renfield.]]
** [[spoiler:And the brides, apparently, as the climax doesn't move back to Dracula's castle. Thus, they're not staked.]]

* VillainProtagonist: Dracula, of course.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Dracula into his bat form, of course.

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Mel Brooks as Van Helsing.

* GagBoobs: Jonathan is British! But then, so are Lucy's boobs.

* AdaptationalWimp: Dracula has his still has his shapeshifting, and CompellingVoice hypnotic powers, but lack's the novel Drac's [[DaywalkingVampire ability to walk out in the daytime]], hence being exposed to sunlight will (and did) kill him.

* AdaptationalWhimp: Dracula has his still has his shapeshifting, and CompellingVoice hypnotic powers, but lack's the novel Drac's [[DaywalkingVampire ability to walk out in the daytime]], hence being exposed to sunlight will (and did) kill him.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the original 1931 film, Van Helsing stakes Dracula while he's asleep vulnerable. In the film, he fights off Jonathan, Dr. Seward, and Abraham Van Helsing at the same time despite knowing his weakness, and it takes the sun rising (and [[SparedByTheAdaptation Reinfield's]] incompetence) to finally finish him.

Van Helsing informs Jonathan and Harker that they have "entered ze realm of ze supernatural!" and that Lucy is the victim of a vampire attack. It is imperative that the vampire is stopped before Lucy dies, or ''she vill become vun herrself!'' Sadly, Lucy does indeed die and rise again as a member of the evil bloodsucking undead. This finally convinces Harker and Dr. Seward that there is a vampire in their midst. They set off to stop him...just as Mina begins to develop the same symptoms that Lucy had before she died.

* MoodWhiplash: The opening credits are this UpToEleven. They consist entirely of an incredibly foreboding and dramatic orchestral score playing over increasingly disturbing images of how vampires were depicted throughout history. It very effectively sets the mood...for a far more terrifying and serious movie than the silly comedy it actually is. Many viewers, even those who do not like the movie, often consider it the best and most memorable part, mostly because of how out of place it seems and how surprisingly well-done it is (Creator/JamesRolfe has said it might be the greatest opening to any vampire movie ever).

The story begins as a young solicitor from London, Thomas Renfield (Creator/PeterMacNicol), meets the mysterious Count Dracula. He begins to suspect that something is amiss, but the Count hypnotizes him before he can escape. The pair then travel to London, where the Count has purchased a manor next to an insane asylum. He meets his next-door neighbors at an opera: Dr. Seward (Creator/HarveyKorman), his daughter Mina (Creator/AmyYasbeck), her friend Lucy (Creator/LysetteAnthony), and Mina's fiancee Jonathan Harker (Creator/StevenWeber). Shortly thereafter, Lucy becomes mysteriously ill. This prompts Dr. Seward to seek advice from his old friend Dr. Abram Van Helsing (Brooks).

* AmbiguouslyGay: While Jonathan acts romantic at the idea of marrying Mina, he seems to find the very idea of having sex with any of the women who has an interest in him repulsive. While the text attributes this to BritishStuffiness, that could just be a cover.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: [[spoiler:Vampire Lucy never goes hunting for children here.]]