I was thinking (be afraid, be very afraid
) about the Dream Curse and realized it in some ways bore a startling resemblence to the plot of the Japanese film
Ringu and its US remake
The Ring. From there I also remembered how some fellow DS fans and I went to see the premier of
Bram Stoker's Dracula and had fun finding all the parallels--the ring, the cane, the portraits of Dracula and his love, etc. For that matter isn't Barnabas the archetype of the "good guy vampire" made popular in
Interview With the Vampire,
Nick Knight (who had a woman scientist in love with him trying to make him human) and
Angel?
Now, I am not--repeat NOT and please recall that I
said/wrote I was not--accusing anyone of plagirism. But I am wondering about what other parallels folks might find. Seems to me DS was in some ways quite advanced for its time.