Damn Blacula you are a smooth operator.
OH! He can do the bat thing. Time to update the vampire powers list.
#Monsterdon #Blacula

the #blacula soundtrack is also on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kCitVHJsoh7F4upouhZ-2ets6ORTXCihM

#monsterdon

@Telstar @Taweret Yes, thanks, Taweret, as usual, for the inspiration and perspiration behind #Monsterdon.

May I suggest to you directly Robinson Crusoe on Mars, as a potential future movie?

also reminding again so it's at the top of the TL - if you can see this then you are entering the #monsterdon zone of the timeline. if you do not wish to see those posts please add a filter, or else come and join us next week <3 https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

Tina why do you have a kimono? It is a damn fine kimono but why? I guess cause she just looks good in it. Okay.
#Monsterdon #Blacula

@jonny Thank you so much for the movie! #monsterdon #blacula

This is my weekly (or every-other-week-ly as scheduling permits) post to say that I've just posted a bunch during Sunday night #monsterdon and you can filter out the tag if you don't want to see a bunch of posts about Blacula (1972)

For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about Blacula (vintage 1972).

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
1) right click on the gears & open in a new tab
2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
4) Click on "Save New Filter"

... and you're done.

@monsterdonne Thanks for providing a way to watch this movie here as it's not available in any official form in Argentina #monsterdon #blacula

@monsterdonne This was a fun watch #monsterdon #blacula

I'd seen this one before, due to some black scientists I followed on Twitter watching it and doing a similar post-a-long thing with it. I watched it the next night myself as it sounded fun. #Monsterdon

@Fanfalla I've looked at the sequels Wikipedia page and oh wow, it actually makes sense. #Monsterdon

@Taweret That was so much fun, thank you for adding that to the poll. (Did I suggest that one? Or did a lot of people? Either way, thank you)

Is there any chance we could do the sequel at some point? #Monsterdon

Good film! Thanks @Taweret@octodon.social and everyone #monsterdon

OK like i said i'm gonna take this down in about an hour since i think there is still active copyright enforcement - grab ur copy now if u want it: https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/4eGuzrJEvZotBRQyPcbK5R #monsterdon

Ah, yes, BLACULA was indeed one of the films mentioned in HORROR NOIRE, according to a helpful list someone on IMDB has compiled.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls043691869/

I don't recall it getting a lot of discussion, but it is definitely a notable trail marker in the history of Black horror

#Monsterdon

@jonny
In any other movie, it would be a near miss! But in this movie he nailed that cop! I wonder if it was just a lucky throw.

#Monsterdon
#Blacula

@jonny i liked the turned photographer's ambush and also blackula himself bonking the cop back and forth in the hallway

#blackula #monsterdon

@Taweret @CactuarJoe F-ing off into the sun is the new f-ing off into the sea #monsterdon

posting some fun facts! #Monsterdon #Blacula

While the film was in its production stages, William Marshall worked with its producers to make sure that his character had some dignity in it. His character's name was changed from Andrew Brown to Mamuwalde and he received a background story about his being an African prince who had been turned into a vampire by Dracula in 1780.

Unexpectedly excellent - I wouldn't call it a great movie, but it was a lot better than it had to be. Thanks @Taweret and all for a fun time as always! #monsterdon

still can't get over the american couple just casually antiquing in dracula's castle, what a bizarre plot point

#Monsterdon

this whole taking care of business sequence was gold #monsterdon

Well, that was a way better movie than I anticipated, but "genuinely terrifying", as one Rotten Tomatoes review had it, it wasn't.

#monsterdon

@Taweret 💯 #monsterdon

Thanks, @Taweret for hosting this...this...lifestyle event!

🧛 I'm traveling this week, so was not able to participate much tonight, but enjoyed greatly the Real Time Film Analysis on Blacula.

🧛‍♂️ Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies has asked me to compile all the commentary and send to an intern there for prepping Ben's intro and outro prior to their presentation of Blacula.

#Monsterdon
#Blacula

@jonny yeh his little chuckle xD

#blackula #monsterdon

@lytta bouncing that killer cop's head off pipes on opposite sides of the hallway was pretty great tho

#blackula #monsterdon

@chirpbirb At least it wasn't streaming issues. (Downloaded the movie before the event) #monsterdon #blacula

Blacula has reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder #monsterdon

@moira I think he was only incidentally an antihero, like, from the point of view of the viewer (because ACAB), but from his point of view? He just wanted his love #monsterdon

@Genstar i find that's part of the fun and chaos of #monsterdon; you can join whenever and the commentary is always fun :3

one of the better movies we've done

#monsterdon

Whatever happened to Skillet anyway? Did he make it out alive? #monsterdon #Blackula

It would have made more sense if the other vampires got crazy facial hair when they got into a biting rage too #monsterdon

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie event. See the post at the top of this thread for more info.

The Doc and the Detective got the wrong vampire, traumatizing her sister(?) and driving her fiancee to suicide.

Yep, that's an ending!

#Monsterdon #Blacula

So ends another #Monsterdon. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting and to all the lurkers and posters. And remember, #Monsterdoners: Next year, we move to the suburbs. Just like last year.

@CactuarJoe It's an honest question for me, I think he edges up to it but I don't know if he crosses the line

#blackula #monsterdon

wait, the skull on the credits doesn't have fangs 😆
#monsterdon #blacula

Might as well be walking on the sun.
#Monsterdon

@chirpbirb @Taweret Yeah, that was great (besides some syncing issues because I started late because I had trouble downloading the subtitles and therefore I had to skip some parts like the intro or the scene with the truck at the start). #monsterdon #blacula

One of these weeks I;m gonna start watching on time / not get distracted / spend too much time getting screen caps / not have to chase a cat and end up half an hour behind the group watch.
But this is not one of those weeks.
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #Blacula

Skillet Lives #Monsterdon

@moira Kinda? I feel like his only real goal was to get his wife back, which isn't particularly Heroic, but it's better than some heroes do. #Monsterdon

@moira Fortunately, coming in at minute 53, I seem to have missed the homophobia in #Blacula #Monsterdon

really cool voice there of blacula, timbre and expression, perfect fit #Monsterdon

That was amazing. Thanks friends #monsterdon #Blacula

#Monsterdon Hey! The sign says "No Smoking"!

#monsterdon I don't have a lot of riffing on this one- this is Citizen Kane compared to the Nixon Werewolf one we sent up last week and the truly bad spots were sent up much better already. I did though just about lose my shit laughing at the sounds of this guy's helmet on the pipes, just "dook, dook, dook" all day long.

on preview: Checkov's "No Smoking" sign?

Still, that was fun! Nice to have a little cleanser after the last two musty movies ^^ #Monsterdon

Well that was a ride. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting.

#monsterdon.

ugh, gooey. #Monsterdon

Blacula really enjoys punching the cops. I think it's thematic #monsterdon

The guy that played Skillet-Jitu Cumbuka. Really? #monsterdon

but. Blacula had agency through the very end. and that's important #monsterdon

Once again, the monster is the true victim. Happy Easter #monsterdon !

thank you @Taweret for organizing again! always a great time :3

#monsterdon #blacula

that was … funky interesting #Monsterdon

Is a denouement really so much to ask? A last pithy line, a little "where are they now"? I don't feel I'm being unreasonable. #Monsterdon

well there y'go

that was pretty good, better than a bunch of other vampire films I've seen

#blackula #monsterdon

Poor Mamuwalde :(

At least the cops didn't get the kill.

#Monsterdon

and the harpsichord returns for our hero's heroic death. #monsterdon

God damn, the cops killed the wrong black person TWICE. nothing has changed since the 70s in that regard 😡 :acab:
#monsterdon #blacula

#monsterdon tik tik tik tik
(film reaches end)

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 #monsterdon #blacula

roll credits!!!

genuinely one of the better vampire films i've seen, what a movie

#monsterdon #blacula

that movie whipped

#Monsterdon

oh my heart :( #monsterdon

William Marshall made that death magnificent. Loved the silhouette angle up the stairs too. #monsterdon

Subverted by bite! #monsterdon

KILL THAT BLOOD SUCKING WHITE BASTARD DEAD! BEAT HIS HEAD IN WITH A SHOVEL!
Uh cause he's a vampire. Yeah. He's one of the living dead. That's why he must die.
#Monsterdon #Blacula

Gross fucking special effect! Impressive for the time period too! #blacula #Monsterdon

Well, so much for that plan after all.

#Monsterdon #Blacula

ty for joining, everone!

#monsterdon

Now a harpsichord?

#monsterdon

Oh ick, Blacula's gooey D: #Monsterdon

@moira The cross? I thought crosses work

#Monsterdon

Noticing her gray streaks - I think they're getting mixed up with Bride of Frankenstein? #monsterdon #Blacula

@moira Oh wow this ending, immolating himself because Tina is really dead (past undead) now! So Committed! And those worms instead of just turning into dust, YOWZA!!!! And no stern quote to end it all! #Blacula #Monsterdon

unlife's rough out there for a blacula

#Monsterdon

@vknask Yes, in the back #Monsterdon

#monsterdon WHAT is what that MAJOR CHORD MUSICAL STING come ON

Wait, he's killing himself? In the sun? Then.. how is there a sequel to this movie?? :blobfoxthonking: #Blacula #Monsterdon

And now, ladies and gentlemen,

THE FULL CONCENTRATED POWER OF THE SUN! #Monsterdon

It's me at the beach. #monsterdon #Blackula

Lol they gave Tina Bride Of Frankenstein hair. #monsterdon #blacula

dude just wanted to be left alone with his new vampire gf and now he's unaliving himself with the sun :(

#monsterdon #blacula

throw them down the stairs again! #acab
#monsterdon #blacula

the weird extra facial hair he has when he's going sikko mode are so goofy looking

#monsterdon

@brooke Got her right in the sternum, ouch D: #Monsterdon

no smoking

see? because

#monsterdon

nooooooooooooo #monsterdon

"there's no need for that"

also no point to it, i mean, _vampire_, aren't you gonna figure it out?

#blackula #monsterdon

He's going for the sun

#monsterdon #blacula

Blacula thinks consent is sexy.
Damn right Blacula. Damn right.
#Monsterdon #Blacula

If Blacula's body goes up in smoke in front of that No Smoking sign...

#monsterdon

Whew. All the music was good, but the ending credit music was A+
#Monsterdon

So we can do the sequel in the near future, right? #Monsterdon

Some Romeo and Juliet shit going down here. #monsterdon