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Letters from a Stoic (65 AD) | Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One of the more well-known Stoics today is Seneca. He lived before Marcus Aurelius by roughly around One Hundred to Two Hundred years. Similar to Marcus Aurelius' work, the Meditations, Seneca also wrote various letters, the difference being to whom the letters are addressed.

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

This was hilarious. Like the style of "The Office" but with flatmates who happens to be vampires.  It maintains the usual elements with Vampires. No reflection, blood suckers etc. It also keeps that "Friends"-like arc with flatmates or room mates where the usual conflicts and hilarity ensues.  They could make a franchise out of this or a trilogy similar to Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy.

Nosferatu (1922)

This was a silent horror film made around 1922 in Germany. This movie helped Bram Stoker's original Dracula gain more popularity. Mostly because the estate didn't want to give its rights, ensuing a legal complication.

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

It appears Hollywood made a killing of a Frankenstein franchise around the 1930's, the same way superheroes movies are created successively these days. This would be the first Frankenstein film I've seen in the list of sequels written in its Wikipedia  page. I've seen various incarnations from Hotel Transylvania to popular cartoons growing up, and a couple months back, the main source written by Mary Shelley.