Hollywood represents female monsters as Eastern harems to signal danger

Evidence

Several scenes in the film depict sexual acts between humans and monsters. The first of these is the orgy at Dracula’s castle between Jonathon and a trio of female vampires, whom Coppola represents as a harem. The vampiresses perform oral sex on Jonathon; they are half-naked, dressed in belly-dancing costumes with head veils in the style of early Hollywood Arabian Nights films. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 663

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s inquiry: the Muslim monster is coded through harem and veiling imagery, linking the monster figure to Orientalist erotics. — connects to: The seductive-woman archetype persists as a cultural figure of danger.