Seward Sanitarium | |
Aliases: | Seward's Sanitarium Stamford Insane Asylum [1] |
Category: | Medical center |
Continent: | Europe |
Country: | England |
County: | Essex |
Town: | Purfleet |
Residents: | Doctor Seward; Renfield |
Notable apperances: | Dracula Universal Monsters |
1st appearance: | Dracula (1931) |
The Seward Sanitarium is a fictional mental health facility that features prominently in the Dracula multimedia franchise. It was a key setting utilized in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula and has appeared in several film adaptations of Stoker's book, beginning with the 1931 Universal Pictures film classic, Dracula. Also known as Seward's Sanitarium, it has also appeared in Universal's Spanish release of Drácula by director George Melford as well as the 1979 adaptation of Dracula by director John Badham and Francis Ford Coppola's stylish Gothic interpretation in 1992, which is aptly named, Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Description & History[]
The Seward Sanitarium is a lunatic asylum that is located in the town of Purfleet in the county of Essex and lies adjacent to the Gothic estate known as Carfax Abbey. The asylum was founded and managed by Doctor Seward in the latter half of the 19th century. One of his most infamous patients was a deranged insect-eating madman named Renfield who, unbeknownst to Doctor Seward at the time, was the hapless slave of the vampire known as Dracula.
Films that feature Seward Sanitarium[]
- Count Dracula
- Dracula (1931)
- Drácula (1931)
- Dracula (1979)
- Dracula (1992)
Residents of Seward Sanitarium[]
Character | Film/Series |
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Jack Seward | Dracula (1992) |
Mina Murray | Dracula (1992) |
R.M. Renfield | Dracula (1992) |