We don't have to watch long shots of Renfield staring into the distance anymore?

YAY

#monsterdon

I feel like there should be something important from Renfield getting through that window, but does it say more about him or Dracula?

#Monsterdon

This would be a pretty incomprehensible film if we didn't already know the story. #Monsterdon

@ricci @blogdiva Hmm, well, there are attacks in this movie, and if you squint a bit there might as well be some clones

#Monsterdon

DEAR MISTER MORRIS I DON'T WANT TO ALARM YOU STOP THERE HAS BEEN A SMALL INCIDENT WITH MISS LUCY STOP SHE WAS WANDERING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT AND A SHADOW DISAPPEARED NEXT TO HER AND SHE FELL OVER STOP WE NEED YOUR BLOOD BECAUSE SHE LOST SOME STOP #monsterdon

🦖 #MONSTERDON 🎞️

Notice how the Count is getting younger after he partakes - also part of the original book.

We boomers are still very interested in this technology.

#CountDracula1970

Renfield also seems fine, just let him eat bugs damn #monsterdon

...Please don't eat the dragonfly. PLEASE don't eat th- okay fine. #Monsterdon

Here's a behind-the-scenes shot of the visual effects department. #monsterdon

so far i'm not really getting a sense of conflict from the film. some people seem to be becoming draculas but it doesn't seem to be posing a problem. really everyone in this hospital seems to want to go do dracula things and the doctors are preventing them #monsterdon

I wonder if different blood types taste different

Dracula probably could have told them about blood types

#Monsterdon

You think all the people roaming the halls of the sanitarium at night would bump into each other

#Monsterdon

He heard here gently flop on the carpeted floor from the floor below WHILE HE WAS ASLEEP
#monsterdon

what a FASCINATING piece of wall

The movie tells me so with the zoom

#Monsterdon

luuuuuu
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luuuuuuu
ccccyyyyyy

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Luuuuucy, you got some 'splaining to do!

#Monsterdon

I don't like blanket statements about everyone in the past being dumb as dirt, but man it must've been awful to live when you know blood transfusions help sometimes, but sometimes REALLY fuck the recipient up

#Monsterdon

They hadn't really figured out blood typing at this point in history. Transfusion was quite risky and complicated.

First actual blood banks weren't established until the 1930's in Chicago.

#monsterdon

"... and his hair was PERFECT..."

IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

#monsterdon

i'm gonna be completely honest i got immediately distracted by the idea of dracula buying a house and struggling with castle maintenance so i don't know what's going on in the movie because i have been reading about stuff like this
https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/restoration-of-scottish-castles
https://www.medievalchronicles.com/medieval-castles/looking-after-a-castle-castle-upkeep/
https://knightstemplar.co/the-challenges-and-techniques-of-medieval-castle-maintenance/

but as usual don't know what is real or an AI spamblog so i am just letting it ride #monsterdon

Those punctures are like a meter apart. I’d look for a vampire with a very large head. #Monsterdon

Introduction first, then demand pints of blood....

#monsterdon

"Maybe you should get him on Telegram"

What kind of grifter, nazi, or nazi grifter is Qunicy?

#monsterdon

oh man drac's allergies are _bad_

#Dracula1970 #monsterdon #mastoween

@cheribaker Nor sleep in full makeup, I'd bet

#monsterdon

I'm thinking about my pajamas and feeling habitually underdressed right now. I don't even own a chiffon winged gown. #Monsterdon

...now I want a late night hot meat bagel...damn you Dracula!

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someone just replaced every word in this movie with Lucy from here on out. #monsterdon

Lucy: I’m travelling and staying at a strange hospital, but I’m SO GLAD I packed this filmy wedding gown to sleep in.

Mina: okay I guess. I turned my curtains into a choir robe
#Monsterdon

The zooms in this film: *dramatic prairie dog*

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Stalker voice saying your name be like the gothic equivalent to saying "heyyyyyyy" in Tinder

...Is that a *didgeridoo* on the soundtrack there??? #Monsterdon

I'm afraid the guy with the scarf is as close as we are going to get to an Igor

#monsterdon

I don’t know about this Harker guy, but I’m not sure I’d be satisfied with “you were found in an Eastern European river, and now you’re in London”. It’s still bugging me several minutes later. Like, how long was I out? Who shipped me overseas? Why wasn’t I treated in, say Budapest, or even Berlin? #monsterdon

"Jonathan wouldn't lie"

My dear sweet innocent Summer child....

#monsterdon

@Taweret wait you are not joking this is real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Best_Fiend
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon there are so many doppelgangers in this thing. The mental patient looks like Christopher Lambert. That doctor looked like Gene Hackman. English guy reminded me of Harry Hamlin.

#monsterdon He survived the fall out the window. Oh hooray. LOL.

I am getting word from wikipedia that the painting toilet fly guy is dracula's servant, so that explains why dracula's house is in such disarray and why he needs to move. the plots do converge.

edit: sorry for spoilers i just realized that this movie was in fact "just dracula" and not like a movie set in the dracula universe
#monsterdon

Most people won't be able to listen to this now as you're watching a movie. Just know the only lyrics in this minute-long song are "I put my hand inside a toilet. #monsterdon

Great scene of interior of train station, ruined by awful lighting

#monsterdon

He fell into a river and floated to Van Helsing’s?
Poor Van Helsing is tasked with saving everyone.
Just stay away from Dracula, people! #monsterdon

It’s too bad they couldn’t have gotten somebody with a more intense, uncanny vibe to play Renfield, #Monsterdon

I'd like to personally thank the director for including this scene where the actor eats flies, and further for *drawing out* that scene to a full five minutes. That's very thoughtful and nice to watch >_> #Monsterdon

Ladies and gentlewierds, may I introduce Andy Warhol as Renfield. First a little abstract wall art, then some toilet flies as a snack.

#Monsterdon

omg that renfield scream, i thought it was wilhelm at first #monsterdon

I thought those walls were supposed to be padded, not hard?

#Monsterdon

"Live from Mar-a-Lago..." #Monsterdon

He trained those flies himself, from when they were maggots, when they displeased him, he ATE them in front of the others....

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Unknown to Jonathan we've replaced his usual doctor with Captain Nemo. #Monsterdon #Dracula1970

(we are down to the 'surprising unpopped kernels of corn' stage of this bag )

Mad camera pan and scream as Hubert Lom says 'Dracula'

#monsterdon

Wow he sleeps like the dead ⚰️🧛‍♂️

#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

The harpsichordist is really not getting enough credit

#monsterdon

"Chased by bats. GIANT bats!"

Too bad we didn't get to see THAT scene!

#monsterdon

I usually find soundtracks from this era fascinating, but they're really trying too hard with all the things tonight.

#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

I call bullshit on lifting that concrete cover
#monsterdon

why is the music not getting its own cast role and credit so it can qualify for scale payment

#monsterdon

A Dracula ate my baby. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "this airbnb was _not_ professional. host's thralls kept trying to party with me"

Oh, so they’re the Babysitters Club. Got it. #Monsterdon

I’d love one of those dresses for Halloween tho
#monsterdon

Oh shit is that the baby
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lol, did he actually do a "What We Do In The Shadows" style "BAT!"

#monsterdon

She shouldn't have lent her baby to Dracula
#monsterdon

"I want my baby back!" Starts humming the tune. #Monsterdon

Did this Dracula just talk up how great The Most Dangerous Game is?

#Monsterdon

It kinda sticks to the book storyline

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“My employers expect me back in London.”

“We shall see.”

That's not ominous at all.

#Monsterdon

This Dracula is ethnically Hungarian?

#Monsterdon

"This was a Dracula indeed!" Is a great line.

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Count... 1-2-3-ah-ah! Dracula! Yay! He counts!

Are you not hungry? You've hardly touched your cobweb salad. #monsterdon

so this house im buying, what's the school district like?

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“The blood of Atilla runs in these veins.”

I guess that’s who he had for dinner earlier.

#Monsterdon

Edit: I think I misheard “Atilla” as “a tiller.” I assumed he meant like a farmer, one who tills the land.

I want a Count with a short cape and a looooooooooooong

fireplace

#Monsterdon

He doesn't even grunt when he gets up
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"Have you lived here many years?"

No, I just sub-lease from the spiders. #Monsterdon

those must be load-bearing cobwebs #monsterdon

The candlestick is a vampire too, it has no reflection.

#Monsterdon #CountDracula1970

If someone invites you in by making an express point that you’re doing so of your own free will, that’s probably a bad sign. It’s like a 19th century binding arbitration agreement. #Monsterdon

Dracula answers his own door, drives his own carriage, prepares his guest’s room himself. He’s a modern vampire. What does he not do? #Monsterdon

Wait his candles are also not in the mirror?

#Monsterdon
#CountDracula1970

@Newpa_Hasai arsonist spiders

she did say ALL the evils of the world would be around

#monsterdon

I should just answer my door with, "I am Dracula" from now on.

Dishwasher to install? "I am Dracula".

Sandwich delivered? "I am Dracula".

Perfect opener. Can't go wrong.

#monsterdon

My teen son says "Can someone in this world PLEASE invent WD-40? EVERYTHING squeaks!" #monsterdon

like im not gonna know youre still christipher lee. you got the most distinctive voice in the world

#monsterdon

Really all I'm getting out of this film so far is that half of us really want to book a train ride through Europe. #Monsterdon

@brooke but he has booze?!

#monsterdon

Remember those old kids toys where you pulled a string and a random animal moaned? Yeah. Remembering those tonight. #Monsterdon

May dog have mercy on your soul

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Yesssssssssss they're doing the thing from the book where Harker thinks the carriage driver is Dracula too

#Monsterdon

yeah, that's Christopher Lee driving that engineless car and freaking out the wolves

#monsterdon

@moira It's tradition, Dracula (1931) had armadillos. #Monsterdon

@catzilla it's our old friend Day For Night For Day #Monsterdon

waaaiiitttt, I know that voice....

#monsterdon

You know what eastern European peasant women wore in the 19th century? Heavy winged eyeliner and false eyelashes

#Monsterdon

"May god protect you, sir, from the camera at your feet."

#monsterdon

"Why do you look at me so strangely?"

The cape? Maybe It's the cape my dude

#Monsterdon

You're from England and you're traveling abroad. I imagine you would be used to that look by now #monsterdon

Too tired to take off his goddamn shoes before getting into bed?? #monsterdon