American society 's fear of the modern day plague of AIDS , since the HIV virus is transmitted through blood and semen . Coppola 's Dracula visits his victims in the dead of night or in a dark milieu . He takes Lucy from her bed to connect her with both intercourse and feeding . These visits from the attractive creature who first exhausts the sleeper with fervent embraces and then withdraws her blood symbolically parallels the night-time emissions that convoy erotic dreams . Frank...











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