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

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you're never going to get a better antagonist than slowly turning goat guy #monsterdon #BestOfMonsterdon #VillainsOfMonsterdon #RunwayTurnsOfMonsterdon #TaxidermyOfMonsterdon

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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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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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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lol, you don't call the Home Secretary "your excellency"

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

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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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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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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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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…

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.

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

Costumes in 70s period films always give me community theater vibes. I don't mean that as a diss, I love community theater. I'm often in community theater. But they have that feeling of "this was my grandpa's coat." #monsterdon

You _do_ speak English, right, you ignorant foreign barbarian in your own land?

#Dracula1970 #monsterdon #mastoween

I love that mobile phones mean you don't have to make conversation with people to find information

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#monsterdon The advertisers in my way for #Monsterdon will never get my business. LOL.

pov me remembering anything i have ever said

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@moira @whknott slowly turning goat guy <3 #monsterdon

@Taweret If Van Helsing had a catch phrase, it’s, “All my life, I've studied the black arts.”

He really wanted us to know that. I think he said the same exact line at least 3 or 4 times in the movie.

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@jonny I’m curious about what discount Vincent Price was doing just before he popped up into the screen. #Monsterdon

@whknott @allanb we nose all about those! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Grading Dracula? 🧛‍♂️ Hmm.

Screenplay: A+ plagiarism, C- adaptation
Costumes and makeup: A+++ mutton chops and nightgowns
Lighting: D-, daylight and darkness have no meaning
Cinematography: 2/10 and confiscation of zoom lens
Acting: 8/10 Very Serious Actors
Soundtrack: -5/10, foley nightmare in howl, squawk, piccolo & harpsichord
Scenery: ?? What country was this again??
Taxidermy: 11/10 nightmare fuel
Plot: ⚰️ 🪨 🔥 End. Two fangs.

@Sorl Totally. How do you think they do the mirror thing?

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“They don’t make em like they used to.” Thank goodness for that. #monsterdon

@jstatepost@mstdn.social @jchaven it's a watch party with a theme of 'Monsters' where we can either snark at the bad movies or genuinely enjoy the good ones at 9 PM (American time) on Sunday

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For real that if ever this network disappears, I will mourn #monsterdon more than Lucy's parents. I love you guys

btw a good film to pair with this is the more recent "Shadow of the Vampire" which is a cool meta-vampire movie about a director making a Nosferatu remake and his star is secretly a *real* vampire. So funny and awesome. John Malkovich stars as the filmmaker and Willem Dafoe is the vampire! so good! #monsterdon

Now that was a #Monsterdon

though there is this: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_119:_Vincent_Price

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Why didn't the Muppets ever make a vampire movie

Gonzo as Dracula would have been *amazing*

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@overholt No Taxidermy Terror in the book I recall, and I've read it several times. The whole Mina-lured-to-concert-for-attack was made up. It was doing ok condensed-plot-wise up until then! #Monsterdon #CountDracula

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In the "unimportant details that bug me" category goes my observation that they really did not know how to light nighttime scenes. In particular, the candle in the well-lit hallway and the very light night Harker spent in the castle.

I have a funny feeling that this was a common problem in '70s movies though.

@north @3janeTA Oh yes that was a fun one. Not so monster-y in the traditional sense, but extremely entertaining!

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#monsterdon Herzog's remake of Nosferatu is so great.I know that's contrary to a lot of the chatter here but hey I'm biased, Herzog is one of my favorite directors. He's a mad genius.

That’s it for my very first #Monsterdon! Thanks for joining my inane commentary, y’all. 🧛‍♂️

@aprilfollies @Taweret@octodon.social lol #monsterdon

The pacing of this film was terribly slow, but the ending was fire. #Monsterdon

Man, #monsterdon was a blast tonight. Thanks for the #MST3K vibes Monsterdon family. Great pick. Terrible film.

@3janeTA Sweet, welcome! Honestly, for #Monsterdon this is pretty close to average, though more on the boring side than is typical. A lot of times we have an action-packed (or, something vaguely emulating action-packed) monster attack to close it out.