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Castlevania, the game, started as a pastiche of Universal monster movies, sending an orange guy with a whip to fight a mummy, Frankenstein’s monster, and big bad Dracula. Castlevania, the show, spent its fourth season exploring the relationships of a quartet of immortal vampire queens, reflecting on how we process grief, and looking absolutely incredible in motion. I don’t think it’s an outcome that anyone expected, but seven years after the last (maligned) Castlevaniagame, the Netflix series has become the new benchmark for videogame adaptations.

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