The luridly-colorful set designs by John Barry, costume design by Milena Canonero, the synthesized electronic score by Wendy Carlos [sometimes credited as Walter Carlos - her birth name until undergoing a sex-change operation in 1972 to became Wendy], the colorful and innovative cinematography by John Alcott, and the hybrid, jargonistic, pun-filled language of Burgess"" novel (calledNadsat- an onomatopoetic, expressive combination of English, Russian, and slang), produce a striking, unforgettable film.Dracula and his wives - they take the form ofwolvesandbats.They leave their coffins at night and they feed on the blood of the living.The traveler, an affable real estate agent named Renfield (Dwight Frye) isn""t superstitious or afraid of the warning: "But hat""s all superstition.]When he is mistaken as an undertaker by the ominous butler, Joe is told that he is not properly dressed for the occasion, but then cut off in mid-conversation and told to go upstairs where "Madame is waiting.As he strides from the room, he turns toward the patients, refusing to acknowledge defeat, maintaining by his example that it is better to try and fail than o meekly accept an unsatisfactory status quo:But I tried, didn""t I? God-damn it.Everyone is taken by lovely Eve""s shy charm, helplessness, naivete, lack of pretention and passion.But Birdie reacts sarcastically and skeptically to Eve""s fabricated, ingratiating "make-believe" image and stories:What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin"" at her rear end.