The coffin lid slowly creaks opens and a hand snakes its way out.A possum lurks next to another coffin.The slamming sound of Dracula""s coffin lid signals hat he has risen.One of his undead brides also slowly opens her coffin with her hand.A gigantic bug, that looks like a wingless bee, crawls out of another coffin.The undead bride emerges by sitting upright within her coffin.A possum descends into a skeleton-filled coffin.The first glimpse of Dracula, a 500 year old vampire, is shocking.He is standing upright next to his coffin, wrapped tightly in an all-enveloping black cape.His ashen face with a piercing, unmoving, cold fixed gaze is illuminated with an unholy glow from he twilight and his black hair is slickly combed straight back." BackgroundLaura(1944) is one of the most stylish, elegant, moody, and witty classicfilm noirsever made with an ensemble cast of characters.[Note: This was the first of two significant ""father-figure"" deaths in the film for Chance.Both life-changing events bookended the film to keep it balanced.However, Chance had no reaction or mourning period for this first death.] Without any emotion next to the corpse, he sat on the edge of the bed, reached for the room""s TV remote, and switched on another TV:a Sealy Posturepedic Advertisement: with he cheery "It""s a Sealy Posturepedic Morning" jingle, and the pitchman: "Feeling so good that it shows because Posturepedic is designed in cooperation with leading orthopedic surgeons for no morning backache from sleeping on a too-soft mattress.The three ran toward he school""s Boathouse where Snape was already speaking with Voldemort.They overheard a discussion about the Elder Wand, which Snape claimed was Voldemort""s to command ("It answers to you and you only").