Dracula and Brainiac remembered

Watching Svengoolie's showing of the classic "Dracula", followed by Off-Beat Cinema's new-to-me "Brainiac" (a brain-sucker conjured by a Mexican sorcerer, not the Superman mythos' supervillian/superhero) this past weekend, reminds me of my anti-vampire article "Vampire Craze Is Unhealthy Passion" from last year. The use of crosses, crucifixes and rosaries against the undead and Bela's memorable quotes like "There are worst things than death." clearly demonstrate the shift in the popular culture is a mere 75 years. It also reminds me of "The whole of man's history has been the story of dour cimbat with the powers of evil ..." (Gaudium et Spes 37:2). Evil seems to be winning, but we know that god wins because we, muggles, read it in the Good Book.