@adhdeanasl Van Helsing looking grim at Lucy's funeral like "You British don't know her death was NOT the worst thing to happen to Lucy ... or people around her, for that matter. #Monsterdon #CountDracula

#Monsterdon 🧛 ⚰️ 🦇 😱 💞

"What good are laws against someone who can set himself above the law?" <-- a question many USians are asking right now also

#Monsterdon Fun fact: goth gals bite.

more unnecessary zooms!!!! eyeballs.

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We’ve reached the point in #monsterdon where my poor tiny fedi instance is choking and confused.

WE STILL HAVE 30 MORE MINUTES OF THIS.
#Monsterdon

Impressed into service…
Wtf he called her a servant!
#monsterdon

Whoops, never mind, we're ending that scene mid-musical score. #Monsterdon

"Secrets of the black arts" this is sooo racist...
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Lucy just stealing children, as you do.

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This whole film feels dubbed over. Am I missing osmething, was this an Italian production?

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Apparently getting bit by the vampire turns you into Morticia Addams. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon love that they don't even try to do a bat transformation sequence

they just cut from man to reaction shot to window pane with shadow of bat on the other side :D

but enough of that tense scene. #monsterdon

the camerawork is legitimately more interesting than the narrative in this movie

#Monsterdon

I can't tell if the children are playing in the graveyard at mid-day or midnight. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon This movie is really about the dangers of greed. If Dracula had just been satisfied with Lucy, he'd have probably gotten away with it. 🤔

(Editted cuz I got the ladies names mixed up)

@SeanAloysiusOBrien It sounds like those old Holiday Inn ads where people would claim staying at a Holiday Inn gave them specialized experience. "No, I've never met the Count, but I did spend last night in a Holiday Inn last night!" #monsterdon

Why do I feel that a "Don't play in graveyards" instructional PSA is about to start? Did Coronet shoot this?

#monsterdon

wednesday, what're you up to?

#Dracula1970 #monsterdon #mastoween

yea sure throw in some shaky-cam of a statue why not at this point

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Frog spit water. Lol.
#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

#monsterdon Guys guys stop trolling Van Helsing. Hypertext and Obsidian were NOT a thing before okay??

"Maybe you work for Dracula"

"I've never met the Count. But I feel as if I know him better than my own soul."

Sure sounds like something someone who's been enthralled by Dracula would say!

#Monsterdon

Did they visit the Prague Cemetary or something? #Monsterdon

"what good are laws against someone who can set himself above the law" i have to assume that's from the book. also now i'm thinking fondly of the sequence at the end of Blackula where cops get beaned by a barrel and electrocuted and stuff #monsterdon

That little brat threw the ball directly into the fountain! #Monsterdon

Is that the full reaction to seeing a weirdo bat man biting your friend? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon “I know him better than my own soul.” Awww, they’re soulmates!

- She’s dead!
- But you’re still alive!

Shocking. Absolutely shocking.
#monsterdon

You think I have trouble with vampires, you should see what clumsy French police inspectors do to me. #monsterdon

"I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle" (1990)

"And NOWWWW ... it's DEATH TIME!"

#Monsterdon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_wiKHmrD5s

#Monsterdon Dracula opening the doors of that porch with taxidermied animals behind it deserves being a meme template.

Kinda pissed there was no Demeter sequence.

Hoping the movie based on that part of the book is good.
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Van "Zoom" Helsing, they called him.

#Monsterdon #CountDracula

@ramsey also, it is far too late for anyone to start "acting" in this movie. #Monsterdon

see now saying you know dracula better than your own soul is not a great way to convince someone you're not draculas servant #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Seward channels the absent van Helsing via a book. At least we’re spared Helsing’s horrific accent.

"I have never met the count, and yet I feel I know him better than my own soul"

is not a particularly persuasive rebuttal to someone accusing that you are a servant of dracula

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Have they considered calming down with these zooms?

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"Why can we arrest this man?"
Cops are not the answer man. Especially not here.
#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

@jeffron isn't it? 😁
#monsterdon

"...I have never met The Count, yet..."
<zooom>
<zoooooooooom>
<zooooooooooooooooooom>

#Monsterdon #CountDracula

DRAMATIC ZOOM

followed by

UNREMARKABLE DIALOGUE

#Monsterdon

The prof is so short he has to reach UP to the fireplace mantle

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@CactuarJoe I don't know how it is, but I'm liking it. It's working fine for me. #Monsterdon #CountDracula

Ah yes, the three types of beast: dog, bat, other #Monsterdon

...So wait, you had a book *intimately describing Dracula AND NAMING THE FUCKER* and yet you didn't believe Johnny when he told you what happened?

Prof, I think you may just be fucking stupid. #Monsterdon

ACTING!

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#monsterdon His name is

BAT-MAAAAAAN

NANA NANA NANA NANA

“Perhaps it is not too late for me to act.”

Van Helsing, man, it *is* too late. If you think you can do something, then before Lucy died was the time to do it.

#Monsterdon

Man I wish I had nights like that too lady 🧛

#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

Dr. Helsing, you can just go ahead and say it's a vampire. Even in 1970, we all knew that going in.

#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

#Monsterdon There was a bat in the bedroom! Rabies shots for everyone.

Dracula's going after the same woman from a well-to-do family repeatedly instead of going to an orphanage or a matchstick factory. Is it a matter of flavor? A clean and healthy living kick?

#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

Rome is a country wat?

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#Monsterdon harpsichord is the star of the film now

#monsterdon Lucy is simple minded. The neighbor kids called her feeble. Little Miss Feeble-Minded.

So, Lucy was kind of a like a juice box, but for vampires.

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"perhaps it is not too late for me to act"

I dunno dude, she's dead? That feels pretty late to me.

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The bat is truly the best part of this movie. #Monsterdon

Yeah I have nights like that too lady :blobsleepless:

#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

Love the bat action shadow vampire fleeing whatever.
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*Frame freezes*

Here at Vampire elevators we have been designing elevators for the undeads coffins since-

#Monsterdon don't forget to fully put away your vampire before closing

also, where's Quincey Morris? this is so faithful to the book in some ways but no Quincey Morris. how could you cut the cowboy?

#monsterdon

at least Lucy's still just on her second blue nightgown. She might have another packed but hasn't had the energy to change #monsterdon

also i guess that vampire feeding orgasm was a little death AND a big one

"It is not too late for me to act."

You're telling me, buddy.

#Monsterdon

It is not too late for me to act...in a better film. #Monsterdon

Maybe making direct a adaptation of Dracula is a bad idea. Great as a book but the pacing as a movie is kinda slow and dull.
#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

#monsterdon The ADR makes me think of the dentists office

Lucy looks like she's about to have a wet dream. (do women have wet dreams?)
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See! See! From behind! Like I -------what!?

#monsterdon

oh Drac is uh, biting Lucy again, I guess. c-cool?

#Monsterdon

@nev "I'm actually impressed by how they condensed and altered the plot to get all the characters in the same place at the same time while remaining relatively true to the story" It's implausible that Harker was somehow brought all the way from Transylvania to Dr. Seward's asylum in the British countryside (Who arranged it? Who PAID for it?), but it does well in moving things along and getting folks together a lot quicker. Shame they spoiled it a bit. #Monsterdon #CountDracula

I sense romantic sparks between Lucy's nostrils and that patch of wall

#Monsterdon

The feed on the #monsterdon hashtag is running about 30+ minutes behind for me so it's super confused. And I get lots of 500 errors when I try posting. Definitely seems like a Fediverse thing not going smoothly

I keep thinking the floral pattern on the sheets is a series of blood spatters.

#monsterdon

Lucy in the skies with diamonds! #Monsterdon

Wait I knew that scene looked familiar

#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

The room service in this asylum is terrible. Look at all the blood on those sheets.

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Here’s hoping they got the Rh typing correct or Lucy's gonna have a bad time.

i think the director had a thing for nostrils, and i could really do without it, honestly. #monsterdon

Thought the little embroidered flowers were blood stains at first.

#Monsterdon #CountDracula

From the novel:
“I didn’t know that she was here till she spoke; and she didn’t look the same. I don’t care for the pale people; I like them with lots of blood in them, and hers had all seemed to have run out. I didn’t think of it at the time; but when she went away I began to think, and it made me mad to know that He had been taking the life out of her.” I could feel that the rest quivered, as I did; but we remained otherwise still. “So when He came to-night I was ready for Him. I saw the mist stealing in, and I grabbed it tight. I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength; and as I knew I was a madman—at times anyhow—I resolved to use my power. Ay, and He felt it too, for He had to come out of the mist to struggle with me. I held tight; and I thought I was going to win, for I didn’t mean Him to take any more of her life, till I saw His eyes. They burned into me, and my strength became like water. He slipped through it, and when I tried to cling to Him, He raised me up and flung me down. There was a red cloud before me, and a noise like thunder, and the mist seemed to steal away under the door.”
#monsterdon

Does Lucy get a gray streak in her hair at this point?

#Monsterdon
#CountDracula1970

@SnoopJ @apLundell Same here

#Monsterdon

I'll bet Lucy's feet are cold. Someone get her a duvet!

#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

@iaintshootinmis@digitaldarkage.cc The cat trap is working!

#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

You know what? I'm gonna say it.

I miss Radu.

#monsterdon #subspecies

Dracula, you can take that flute and shove it somewhere. #Monsterdon

sounded so much like he said, "I'm afraid you're not allowed in this part of the ass." #monsterdon

Doing that rich person thing where he gets transfusions of young hottie blood... pretty sus #monsterdon

Renfield was very lightweight. That’s how he survived that fall. Hollow bones. #Monsterdon

Great dummy work there.
Bet alot of people are mad they didn't just throw Kinski out the window.
#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

I wish I looked that put together when I hand someone an Alka-Seltzer.
#Monsterdon

lol defenestrated #Monsterdon

"who's there?"
luuuucccyyyyy
#monsterdon

Worst knock knock joke delivery ever ...

#Monsterdon #CountDracula

when's the kool-aid man gonna burst through a wall to refill her blood supply?

#Dracula1970 #monsterdon #mastoween