Regressed aging

Regressed aging, or reversed aging, is a physiological condition in which an individual ages in reverse, either physically, mentally or behaviorally. As this is not a true medical condition (at least not in the way its presented in film), all references to regressed aging take place in movies that allow for either a science fiction, fantasy or horror-based setting.

In Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the vampire Count Dracula uses undefined mystical powers to regress himself from an aged man with various physical abnormalities to a youthful figure with long brown hair and a mustache. It is possible that this regressed aging may have been made possible through the consumption of blood, though this is never explained in the film.