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HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (2012)PRODUCTION NOTESMONSTERS: THEY’RE JUST LIKE US!“Hotel Transylvania is a story about a father and adaughter – it’s just that the father happens to beDracula,” says Genndy Tartakovsky, director ofthe Sony Pictures Animation film, HotelTransylvania. “Like all fathers, he’s anoverprotective, psychotic, and endearing guy who'd do anything for his daughter, butunlike other fathers, he’s the Prince of Darkness.”In Hotel Transylvania, it turns out that the world’s most famous monsters – includingDracula, Frankenstein, the Werewolf, the Invisible Man, and the Mummy – are just likeregular people, with families and problems and a need to get away from it all… butunlike humans, they have to live in hiding from a world that thinks they’re, well,monsters. What better place to hide than Hotel Transylvania, which Dracula himselfoperates as a sanctuary from the rest of the world and has been human-free since1898? But Dracula has issues of his own… his daughter, Mavis, is a teenager – in fact,she’s about to turn 118 – and as shebecomes a woman, the vampire’sgreatest fear is losing his relationshipwith her. Well, his two greatest fears arelosing his relationship with his daughterand garlic, but that’s another story.“One of the toughest things you have to do as a parent is to let your children go out intothe world,” says producer Michelle Murdocca, who has shepherded the film since itsinception. “You can’t protect them forever; you just have to trust that they’re going to beable to take care of themselves. It turns out that even Dracula thinks the world can be ascary place sometimes.”© 2012 Sony Pictures Animation 2