Klaus Kinski, who plays Renfield here, is a rather controversial figure. A large number of people he worked with wanted to kill him, to the extent of brandishing weapons and attempting to burn his house down (no less than Werner Herzog). He was mentally ill in several ways. He had three children. His two daughters both say he molested or attempted to molest them as children. They didn't attend his funeral and he had a lawsuit against one of them.

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@adhdeanasl I bet the directors cut was way longer and someone told the editor to speed it up

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The were VERY serious about corseting in the 1890's. Good excuse for fainting in my book.

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If I ever do go to the Opera I am wearing a cape

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@jonny The jittery, out-of-focus hawk (?) cracks me up. Nailed it.

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@_L1vY_ "How shall we end this movie?"
"Push everything off a wall"
"Cool, I think we're done here....let's go down the pub!"

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And to think I almost didn't watch #monsterdon tonight because I'm really not a huge fan of old horror films... thanks to everyone for making me laugh, I needed that

So do Humans have to be invited in by Vampires into vampire houses?

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* Good actors, in an un-engaging dull adaptation
* Even the "wolves" delivered their lines without enthusiasm
* Lighting by Bobby, 7 years old
* Geolocationally challenged
* Painfully poor quality soundtrack
* Tacky costumes with mismatched colors
* A lot of staring, particularly into the camera
* Exactly 2 short scenes that were funny

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@paco I won't be complaining about how fast modern movies go for a while I think #monsterdon

Mina's mountainous 'do is starting to remind me of a younger Baroness Schrader #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #CountDracula1970

again, that is day masquerading as night and a very nice villa in Spain pretending to be grotty Victorian London.
Nobody is even trying...except camera guy who is trying too much

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(watching #Padres #Dodgers #MLBPlayoffs whilst boosting #Monsterdon cuz a girl gotta multitask in these parts)

@quemarlo @Taweret@octodon.social wow, comparing Christopher Lee in the Wicker Man to Lee in this....well we all have to do stuff to pay the bills I guess. And this was one of those films

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@Zerofactorial We all know no self-respecting harpsichord would involve itself with this production.

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So crosseS DO have an effect in this version! I was wondering, because all the windows in Dracula's castle had little colored crosses in them.

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@allanb He's a Professor of Black Arts, not an architect dammit

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right, the popcorn is gone and I've not even seen anybody get bitten, only the hint of biting...come on now!

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"They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the flies!" #Monsterdon

lol @ giant plastic spider clearly from halloween shop that is a front for money laundering

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Zillow is going to have a fun time with the listing on that castle

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Why are there ape sounds in Romania ?
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@allanb Don't forget the copious nostril shots!

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@jonny lol, it wasn't even GOOD taxidermy...

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So, a lot of religions required burial over cremation, including Catholicism, which may have linkages to vampires supposedly needing to rest in earth from their home country. Catholics weren't supposed to be cremated until 1963.

One interesting thing about visiting New Orleans is below ground burial isn't really practical, so you have above ground crypts. There were dirt merchants who sold dirt from various countries so you could get at least nominally buried in home soil.

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I feel nothing but relief now that the film has ended.
And no "fuck off into the Sea" either, the bastards...

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These biting scenes are awakening feelings in me, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

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TBH, if you could travel in a coffin from point A to point B without being conscious in-between you'd give it a go, wouldn't you?

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Never look in the Kinski hole....

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@CactuarJoe what the director lacks in pacing he makes up for in wild camera pans that feel like a car accident is happening. #monsterdon

I can just imagine the script for this one, it's the word Lucy over and over for a full page.

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The always flattering, up-the-nostrils camera angle #Monsterdon

I'm already preferring Keanu Reeves in this role....

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"It was a time of moustaches, capes and pipes...."

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@moira @jonny you mean it wasn't a rotten marlin? I'm even more confused now

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Damn, Drac shouldn't have elected to ship in that instantly flammable box

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"Time and space have little meaning"

much like watching this film...

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Time for some sexy girl stakings

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"A slight stroke"!?

Professor of WHAT, again?

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Dracula - the musical!
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I keep wondering about those chords -- electric guitar? or harpsichord?

@r343l The nose is the portal to the soul

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@jonny Well, it is a metaphor for gay sex, so... yeah, basically.

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"The mountains in the north of Transylvania" he says, pointing out of his window in London, somehow able to see those mountains.

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"You can't let her die through ignorance..."

Sigh...let me tell you about the US in the year of 2024 my friend....

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No one involved in this production has any clue what a flying bat actually looks like do they

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This is what happens when you give Method actors bit parts as madmen... they chew the scenery

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@jonny See? The whole maintenance thing is a lot of work. You can see why they gave up on it.

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They've got some nerve if they charge a cleaning fee on this AirBnB

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Bat to the face takes on a new meaning. #Monsterdon

"Children of the night... SHUT UP"

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You would not get to live in England today if you are old unless you have a fuckton of money and lawyer so very accurate.
He hatred of people from the Middle East will probably get him a Tory membership, maybe even a Labour one....

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We paid for this carriage recreation, dammit, we're getting our money's worth out of it

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@jonny you missed the Mime Cop #monsterdon

So, the guy who produced the film Harry Alan Towers, cast his wife, Maria Rohm in pretty much everything. In this film, she plays Mina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Alan_Towers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rohm

Klaus Kinski worked with him in other films as well, including sexploitation film Venus in Furs, which was so controversial that Italy ordered all prints destroyed and several people imprisoned, including Kinski.

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@jonny @moira I don't know why I thought the goat would have more horn. My search image was all wrong 🤣

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@jstatepost @jchaven
1) type "#monsterdon" into your search bar
2) go to the hashtag's page, and 'Follow' the hashtag
3) posts with the #monsterdon hashtag will now appear in your timeline. Look for the ones that announce the next movie, the time and where to stream from
4) Do that, at the same time as the rest of us, and make snarky, funny, or appreciative comments, adding the hashtag to those comments as well so we can all see them
5) laugh your a$$ off

that is all

Here's a thought for Vampire hunters - take the ashes of your burned Draculas & mix 'em into cement. Then, if you wanna be a real dick, drop the blocks into the middle of the Mississippi or Amazon Rivers.

"Good luck reconstituting, asshole."

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@moira @Configures it really did not work, not at all....
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@3janeTA Yeah, this was a good one. For me, anyway, it was the right pace of something hilarious, followed by enough seconds of nothing so I could read everyone's posts about it. #monsterdon

@Crazypedia it was a surprise considering how everything else dragged #monsterdon

And with that final act of arson and littering, FINI! #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #CountDracula1970

@adhdeanasl “Tell, don’t show,” amiright?

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Honestly, the guy who plays Quincy Morris is WAY creepier than Christopher Lee #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #CountDracula1970

Soundtrack so cruel it makes your ears bleed

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@athena_rising the stuffed badger #monsterdon

Kinski then went on to play Nosferatu again in Nosferatu in Venice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_in_Venice

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In Herzog's Dracula film, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Klaus Kinski goes from playing Renfield to playing Dracula himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre

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"I have cargo"
"Have you tried using our App to book?"

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He'd probably have better luck with something other than a starter pistol

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The moving taxidermies are cracking me up!
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But if you ever want to be creeped out by a sculpture, read The Twisted Ones by Ursula Vernon

tbf Taxidermy does creep me out

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@SesameSquirrel Harpsichord, I thought. This is pre-midi, I'm pretty sure

I also thought, what is the Greek thing... bouzouki, that's it

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Where the F are we now?
I can't figure it out
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"I'm not looking at dodgy stuff online, I'm 'searching for the secrets of the dark arts!"

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"Day pretending to be Night as Spain pretends to be London"

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Dramatic dimwits
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@whknott @ramsey not blood types!
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@diazona He wants to move to England for... he hasn't stated I think?

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#monsterdon Silly! Dingo ate my baby!

That is one hell of a nightgown
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Bat on wire, very expensive special effect to pull-off
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@jmelesky "Does my insurance cover emergency medical evacuation?"

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#monsterdon The shadow of the cameraman lends a kind of serious french cinema flair to an otherwise solid production.

@lysdexic Thank you, Christopher Lambert is exactly who I was trying to think of

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herzog made a whole ass movie about how awful kinski was to work with

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Something tells me the credits are not going to claim that no flies were harmed in the production of this film.

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@srol no wifi code or anything, the monster! #monsterdon

If they don't show Christopher Lee climbing the outside wall I will revolt
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@CactuarJoe also, how do you get blood out of facial hair?

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How do you end up with cobwebs on *lit* candles?

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Enter freely.
Leaving will be another matter.

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lol @ camera panning to big sex mirror

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@paco 🤣You are FLATTERING the quality of Hong Kong dubbing #monsterdon

Speaking of which #KungFuSat will be showing the dubbed Chang Cheh movie THE 9 DEMONS (1984) this coming Saturday, 10/12 at Noon ET

tfw you can't afford footage of wolves so you just get a bunch of German shepherds #Monsterdon

Really, they couldn't throw in a good cow "moo!" for good measure? #Monsterdon

"Why does everyone look at me so strangely?" They're all incredibly horny is my guess. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon It's Frau Blucher! *whinny*

lol

*Everybody in the village looks at him strangely

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"Oh no, an attractive woman in my room, oh no!"

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