The bucket in question is not so much a bucket as it is a coffin — a smaller version ... Nosferatu Hail "Knockout" ...

In Sierra Negra, graverobbers Barraza and Mendoza steal the coffin of Count Karol de Lavud ... stake in order to steal Lavud's medallion, the vampire returns to life and begins a crime spree ...

Some link diseases to vampire-like characteristics like pale ... Cures included staking the corpse or firing a bullet into the coffin. Historian Marion McGarry has suggested Stoker also took ...

"I feel that any creature that crawls out of a coffin after 2000 years is not going ... an opportunity to encounter an ancient, starving vampire in a way that is (imo) a little more believable." ...