@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*

This film could have been lit so much better
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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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@jgamble Shooting night scenes in the daytime with a dark filter over the lens was de rigeur. Led to a LOT of underexposed movies, especially westerns.

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@moira @jonny They had monty python do a goat job on a goldfish? #Monsterdon

@Configures @overholt Also, I think they literally missed the boat.

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@jonny wait that was supposed to be a _goat_?! I honestly couldn't tell.

#Dracula1970 #monsterdon #mastoween

TL;DR of tonight's #Monsterdon : there were some sweet harpsichord riffs and maybe other things happened

FIN

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everyone for posting! Looking forward to next week... I swear....

#Monsterdon Great choice, @Taweret , and thanks for ushering us into the spooky spirit with a highly appropriate monster. I mean, of course, Klaus Kinski.

Well, of all the adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula, that was definitely one of them.

Goodnight #monsterdon, and all honor to our host @Taweret !

so excited for #monsterdon watchers who have never seen herzog's nosferatu

"also delete files?" yeah, sorry C Lee, i hope this paid your rent for a couple of months or whatever, but i don't think i'm wasting hard drive space on this snooze fest. 🦇 #monsterdon

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So ends another #Monsterdon. As always, our thanks to the posters, lurkers, and especially, @Taweret for hosting. And remember #Monsterdoners: This was a Dracula, indeed.

What house did this movie pay for Christopher Lee?

Dear fuck....

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lol, Dracula getting burned is pulling the face I do when I have to get up in the morning

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wait, who is throwing rocks on the local villagers now?

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that last one was a squirter #monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie "Do you know why I pulled you over today?"
"Because you got a C+ in Black Arts in HS?"

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A little blood in the face yep
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Not a single splatter of blood until the last one......

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"all my life ive studied the black arts"

yeah yeah, a lot of us went through a hot topic phase back in the day

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Bulgaria? Romania? Where are we?
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@ramsey I was completely wondering that too -- unless Herbert Lom just got very tired.

And who was "Your Excellency"? #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #CountDracula1970

best scene so far #monsterdon

@ShiitakeToast So going to London gives him extra-vampy powers, got it. 👍 👍

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To Varna, wherever the F that is..

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Wuh - *slight* stroke ?
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lol, you don't call the Home Secretary "your excellency"

....well it's not the words I'd use anyway....

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A *slight* stroke?

Also, did it just happen, or did the count have some influence?

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Is someone waving that stuffed ostrich around?? #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #CountDracula1970

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lol, shoot that stationary badger you cowboy you!

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Hey! No! Big-tiddy goth gf did NOT consent to snuff film stuff! Bad dom! BAD!

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@aprilfollies Hey, at least he's negotiang consent beforehand

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Day or night -- YOU be the judge!
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"couple of white guys, breaking into a cemetery, what could go wrong?"

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Lucy's gone Goth

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The up-nose camera angle count was a drinking game, I'd be plastered now 🍸 #Monsterdon #CountDracula1970
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#Monsterdon this girl's hair is so tall it has its own airspace restrictions

The exposition is covering gound everyone knows already

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I thought he was going to bite her nose for a second there

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If this movie leaves me with anything, it’ll be a headache, from the high-pitched soundtrack. #Monsterdon

The first three blood types A, B and C (C later changed to O) weren't discovered until 1900, three years after Stoker published Dracula. In 1902, the fourth was discovered, type AB. It was another five years more before the idea of crossmatching blood to test for reactions was forwarded.

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@ramsey I'm getting the sense this movie is about as precise about which country they're in as it is about whether it's day or night

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@jonny he's just ahead of the game, he's style icon! #monsterdon

@diazona Sweet, sour, ummami... and blood type?

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So if drac's fangs are the front two incisors, wouldn't it be easier to get to the jugular from *behind*? Then the fangs would be in the proper position to...

.................what!?

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@strangefour Or just took a shower and washed all the pancake makeup out?

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This version of Quincey Morris doesn’t sound very Texan.

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lol, that is such a shit bat.....

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Vampires make more zither noises than I expected #monsterdon

"Rich man takes advantage of young woman late at night...."

In London? Never! Madness!

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@ramsey Professor of WHAT, exactly?

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I'm not sure which is worse, the extended periods where nobody says or does anything in this movie, or the bland, stilted dialogue which conveys absolutely zero character from anyone who speaks. #Monsterdon

And Mina’s wearing like an entire couch cover
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Hey, there's... Guys, there's a hair on the side of the film, can you...? Guys, the HAIR, it's really distracting. #Monsterdon

@SRLevine I don’t know why he’s eating the flies, perhaps he’ll die. #Monsterdon

I keep my box of flies in the latrine too. Don’t you? #monsterdon

Oh I almost thought you said Closeau. #monsterdon

#monsterdon These old movies sham up the spider webs, because these webs indicate a very healthy and very consistent spider activity. If not a little bit repetitive. Making the same ramp on every object, like it has ADHD and just wants to be sure.

why would you just open a coffin that you found?

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"Composer, I need some dramatic music, the actor is going to be lighting some candles. There's got to be TENSION!" #Monsterdon

Dracula looks as baked in that tomb as Elon did last night at the Trump rally

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Why are there no cobwebs in this unused room?

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#monsterdon The camera work is quite good, you can start to see the cinematography start to develop around some of these core movies. Still using small-kid viewpoint, the lower and higher ones are for predator/prey and bug viewpoints…

I get that it's hard to maintain a whole ass castle but you'd think the draculas would have rigged up some sort of like brainwashed servant caste of igors to handle it for them. it's not just the dust, there must be a lot of deferred maintenance on the castle and that's why dracula needs to move, but without any igors he'll just have to move again soon #monsterdon

Such realistic bat motion. The spared no expense... #monsterdon

If I only had those handsome barely padded wood chairs, I would sit a lot less. #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe not nearly as homo-erotic as I had hoped. #monsterdon

The camera pans in this movie are not...subtle....

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i need a doormat that says "enter freely and of your own will"

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"the house is in Zone 2, 10 minutes from a Tube station...."

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#monsterdon Those aren't dire wolves, those are good boys! Who's a good boy! Who wants cheese and smoked brats?!? See, all puppers like the same thing.

@Taweret we the viewers are clearly not supposed to know how to read canine body language #monsterdon

Mildly irritated dogs
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Dude those were not wolves, those were German shepards #Monsterdon

Welcome to Romania. Apparently it's somehow gloomier than England.

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I think they think “atmospheric” means literally rain or fog
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When the Foley guys are like "we MAKE the movie"

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"I rather missed you last night." Had they formed a relationship of sorts on the train? He did look rather impatient and bothered lying there in bed fully dressed With His Fucking Shoes On.#monsterdon

Why does everyone look at me like that?!
Honey their gaydar is going OFF THE CHARTS! They simply cannot help it #Monsterdon

The way they are shaking that cab to imitate horses pulling it does not convince me, nor does their acting

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#monsterdon It was sham french. The credits were in french, the spoken word in continental drag. LOL

#monsterdon That whistle is going to be torn off that train and smashed into foil. Thin beautiful foil. Just try me. One more fuxxing whistle and you all will get my wrath! LOL!

Weird combo of unnatural lighting and natural lighting makes everything look like cheap cardboard

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London lawyer with a blood sucking monster for a client? Yeah, that checks out. #monsterdon

"Maybe you know him. Count Dracula?"

The other guy:

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subtle camera work on the zoom in lol

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Apparently we’re all going to Bistritz