About

Hotel Transylvania is a multi-media franchise consisting of movies, TV shows, and video games. The first three entries in the series have Genndy Tartakovsky as their director, who's previous works include Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory, as well as starring Adam Sandler as Count Dracula. The premise of the movies revolves around Dracula, who runs a hotel for monsters, and his daughter Mavis, who marries a human and starts to change Dracula's worldview.

History

On September 28, 2012, Hotel Transylvania was released in theaters in the United States. In the film, Dracula builds a resort in Transylvania, hidden from the humans, to raise his beloved daughter Mavis in a safe environment. In the present, the place is the Hotel Transylvania, where monsters bring their families to vacation far from the frightening humans. Dracula invites his friends – Frankenstein and his wife Eunice; Wayne and Wanda, werewolves; Griffin, the invisible man; Murray, the mummy; Bigfoot, and several others – to celebrate the 118th birthday of Mavis. When the party is ready to start, the 21-year-old Jonathan is walking through the forest and stumbles upon the hotel. Dracula sees Jonathan and disguises him as a monster to hide Jonathan from the guests. However, Mavis also sees Jonathan and Dracula forces him to pose as a monster. Mavis later believes that Jonathan is the "zing" of her life despite the advice of her father about humans. The trailer for the movie was uploaded to YouTube^[1] on the Sony Pictures YouTube channel, gaining 5 million views in eight years (shown below).

Hotel Transylvania 2

On September 25, 2015,Hotel Transylvania 2 was released. In this film, Mavis and Johnny get married to each other and are happily living in Hotel Transylvania. Mavis quickly gets pregnant and gives birth to a boy named Dennis. When he is five years old, his fangs have not grown and Mavis thinks to move to California with Johnny and Dennis to give a chance to the boy to be raised among humans. Dracula asks Johnny to travel with Mavis to the house of his parents in California and convinces her to stay at the hotel. Meanwhile Dracula joins his friends Frank, Wayne, Griffin, Murray and Blobby the Blob and they travel with Dennis to a vampire camp to teach the boy to turn into a vampire so that Mavis and Johnny stay at the hotel. However, due to the dangerous environment, the worried new mom suggests that Dennis would be safer in Johnny's hometown of California, as Drac believes his grandson may never develop vampire powers by his fifth birthday. And to make things far worse, an impromptus visit from Dracula's very, very old human-hating father, Vlad causes things to get a little "out of claw". The trailer for it was released on Sony's official YouTube^[2] channel on June 17th, 2015, where it received 40 million views in six years (shown below).

Hotel Transylvania 3

On July 13, 2018, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation will be released. This film centers on Dracula, Mavis , Johnny , and the rest of their family, both human and monster, and friends as they take a vacation on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship, where Dracula suddenly becomes attracted to the ship's mysterious captain Ericka ). What Dracula doesn't know is that Erika is secretly the great-granddaughter of Abraham Van Helsing, the notorious monster slayer and Dracula's ancient archenemy. Now it is time for Mavis to be the leader of the "Drac Pack" and rally up everyone so they can stop Erika and save Dracula, before it's too late. The trailer was posted to the Sony Pictures YouTube^[3] channel, where it gained 17 million views in three years (shown below).

The fourth movie, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, has had the release date change multiple times, but is currently slated for release on January 14th, 2022, and has multiple different characters switching from monster to human before going on a global trek. The trailer was released on the Sony Pictures YouTube^[4] channel, where it gained 9 million views in four months (shown below).

On June 25th, 2017, a television series created for Disney called Hotel Transylvania: The Series was created as a prequel to the entire film series. The episodes revolve around the dealings of the hotel itself, and the trailer was posted to the Disney Channel official YouTube^[5] channel, where it gained 55,000 views in four years (shown below).

Online Presence

On September 30th, 2012, an official Facebook^[6] page for the film was created, which gathered upwards of 9 million likes over the next 4 years. On October 14, 2015, the Hotel Transylvania Wiki^[7] was launched, gathering upwards of 240 pages over the next 3 years. On April 10th, 2010 the /r/hoteltransylvania^[8]subreddit was created for discussions about the films.

Related Memes

Mavis

Mavis is the deuteragonist of the Hotel Transylvania movie series. She is Dracula and Martha's Vampire "teenage" daughter who turns 118 in the first film. In the second film, she becomes the wife of Jonathan Loughran and the mother of their son, Dennis as well as the granddaughter of Vlad.

Dennis

Dennis is the half-human/half-vampire son of Jonathan and Mavis, and the main deuteragonist in Hotel Transylvania 2.
He is also the grandson of Dracula and Martha (his maternal grandparents) as well as Mike and Linda (his paternal grandparents)^]

Blah Blah Blah

Blah Blah Blah is what Jonathan think what Dracula usually say. It's a trend that is even passed down to Mavis and Dennis

It's Okay, I'm A "Lesbo"

It's Okay, I'm A Lesbo takes the character Mavis and uses it in a meme template with Rapunzel from Tangled. The meme template has Mavis asking Rapunzel if she did kiss her, Rapunzel admitting she did, to which Mavis declares that she 'is a "lesbo"' prompting Rapunzel to say 'You Better Be!', and has gone on to spawn several other meme formats and remixes for the following years.

Haha Jonathan You Are Banging My Daughter

Haha Jonathan You Are Banging My Daughter is a similar four-panel comic style that uses a slightly remixed version of I'm Stuff to have Dracula congratulating Jonathan on having sex with Mavis.

Dracula Rap

Dracula Rap is a video template from the first movie in which Dracula is convinced to start rapping, only for the audio to be replaced with something else, often crude or childish, to be out of place.

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