"What do you see?"

"Darkness"

Obviously she isn't watching the same #Monsterdon movie we are

Miss Mina is not available right now, please leave a message at the groan and I'll get back to you. #monsterdon

Despite the many events, this film moves very languidly... #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #Dracula1974

the dirt is still there, drac. its just on the floor. get a broom

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@plaidtron3000 or an Air B'nB ? #monsterdon #Vampires

Dutch angles? In a british hotel?
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@Lazarou I've literally had this argument playing D&D. Fucking poorly documented vampires.

#monsterdon #palanceIsDracula

The Dutch angle that slowly goes to level, then cants again, then goes to level again, is symbolism that represents the camera operator being drunk. #Monsterdon

Guns, if they don't work the first time, try and try again
#Monsterdon

<opens letter>

"What is it?"

"Gone back to <some unheard-of British town>

anddd... CUT

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@strangefour Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula could be funny, but I don't like how it violates a key part of the Sherlock setting (unless it's a person pretending to be a vampire)

#monsterdon #mastoween

@catzilla Hotels are a public place. (yes, I have read an unfortunate amount of vampire lore, why do you ask?)

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Oakley Court, aka "Carfax Abbey" is now a hotel. I feel a need to visit

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Boxes of earth sent to the Carfax estate? Some sort of new car lease terms we hadn't heard about?

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Harker: Carfax Abbey is in terrible condition.

Drac: That's fine. I'll be in the basement mostly.

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Wait, this Dracula has killed one person to in part turn her, and a bunch of people for revenge.

He also presumably killed the crew of the Demeter, though it's kinda striking that that was 100% offscreen.

#monsterdon #mastoween

#Monsterdon each coffin is a Dracula save point

#Monsterdon let us sneak around in wooden shoes. Clop clop clop.

@Louisa Yes, my sister and I gasped when he suddenly saw dead Lucy at the window, staring in! #Monsterdon #DanCurtisBramStokerDracula

"How many boxes of earth was the ship carrying?"

like this is the most important thing to ask, Van Helsing? a+ investigative skills there

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Ah, I see, they've moved Carfax to Whitby…because they got rid of Seward and Renfield and had no need for an asylum. RIP my boys :(

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All the zoom-in close-up shots on Jack Palance in this flick - hope they had lots of lens wipes on hand.

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THRILL as they TRACK Dracula's PACKAGES! #Monsterdon

Stockton-On-Tees has a lot of call centres now, and less horse faeces on the roads. Human feaces though...well it has been raining...

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dracula chop!

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I'd feel more menaced if Dracula didn't look like he was having intense gas pains. #Monsterdon

Dracula-Palance able to take out a whole hotel full of British swingers with his cowboy chop!

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No bat flapping silliness in this one
Drac uses transport
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@Lazarou Yeah I'm assuming that's what the story was supposed to represent but I did not pick up on that at all

TBH I think the alternate version of Lucy who wants to become undead is a much more interesting character

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And fuck that, and fuck that, and especially fuck that over there.. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974

@diazona she was in Kinski-Nosferatu's thrall....|

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@Bluedepth thats cool as hell and makes me wonder what a vampire MRI would look like #monsterdon

Imagine playing dead while Jack Palance drools over you in emotion

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Dracula can only walk around when its blue out

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Palance to his agent

"Do I get to wear a cape?"

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This VanHelsing is way more competent than others we’ve seen recently. #Monsterdon

Stake. It’s what’s for dinner. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon the vampire craze was real for a time. They used to put metal grates on top of freshly interred graves just on the off chance that your dearly beloved came back. Somehow the notion of coming back wrong was from the start. That’s fascinating to me.

Being unable to cross a threshold without an invitation feels like a recessive trait among vampires. #monsterdon

@Louisa I'm loving that actress. She's doing a great job! #Monsterdon #Dracula1974

lucy's dead, bela lugosi's dead, all the best vampires are dead, that's the whole point, where are you even _going_ with this, doctor?!

#monsterdon #Dracula1974

Whoa damn, the first scary moment for me in any of these movies— Lucy at the window 😬

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Actually,...Vampire's hate right angles, it's not the religious significance of the cross.....

#PeterWatts #monsterdon

Arthur is suspiciously well-groomed
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Pubby wanna play! Who's a good boy? Who's the goodest boy?
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Arthur, buddy. your hair. we need to talk about your hair

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Is it just me or does Arthur's hair make him look like Mark Hamill in Star Wars. Love the 70s shag/proto-mullet

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in sure and certain hope of resurrection... in a couple of days. #monsterdon

So this version has no Renfield, killed off Harker, does have the brides, does have more wolves than expected - assuming that we're going to grace those nice doggos with the title "wolves".

I guess it's all on you, Van Helsing.

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I just can't get over Palance-cula's expression that he pretty much has all the time #Monsterdon

Pro tip: try working with clients who do not imprison you in a castle and who do not pick you up by the neck and throw you across the room

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@RobynGoodfellow lol, that'll go well

*Luke Skywalker comes to and there is a dead dog in the room and his aunt refuses to ever speak again

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So what I'm getting here is that the more useless a man is, the more anachronistic his hairstyle? #Monsterdon

That's not a wolf, that's a German Shepard with some long fur glued to it.

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Reading a boring book to stay awake.

This should work nicel...

All of Renfield’s best scenes were left in the cutting room floor… along with the rest. #Monsterdon #DanCurtisDracula

Toshiro Mifune would be a good Dracula I bet #monsterdon

it's only 1974 so this guy doesn't want desperately to be luke skywalker but every time i look at him i think he wants to be luke skywalker

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>Wolf growl
>It's a dog

#monsterdon #mastoween

*character casually pulls out a gun

You can tell Americans made this one...

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"Now stay awake my boy, here's an entire pint of smack." #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "stimulant" here's a big bottle o' cocaine solution

#Monsterdon Every man has picked out a fancy bow tie, every half hour, a new one! Bigger! More spangly! More elaborate! Like a big beautiful flower! Pollinate me! Pollinate me!

"this time i shall make sure we stay awake"
by doing a lot of coke.

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Mea feratu?
Nos feratu, comrade.

#Monsterdon #DanCurtisDracula

Wow that guys haircut is so not 1880s

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I think many of the male characters in this have a drinking problem...or it's jus the 70s...I'm not sure.

The camera operator is drunk, I know that.

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That's a surprisingly realistic blood transfusion scene

#monsterdon #mastoween

#monsterdon the maid looks thrilled

"...blood transfusion wasn't in the job description"

#Monsterdon #Dracula

Well now that he's in England, Drac wants to fit in -- and with those teeth, he will #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #Dracula1974

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Dracula-Parlance going at that woman's neck like a horny teenager round the back of a school dance....

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#monsterdon wow that change in music was a lot

"I won't give you a clue of what's going on in my reasons for my absurd methods, but I'm the doctor so you'll do what I say and like it"

#Monsterdon #Dracula1974

If this were an anime, someone would have heart pupils right now

#monsterdon #mastoween

@RamenCatholic but my 30+ year long study of the subject is far from complete! #monsterdon

the count from sesame street is more intimidating than palance

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Jack Palance's face will expand to fill the space of any frame it's in. #monsterdon

Why don't doctors prescribe garlic anymore‽
#Monsterdon #GarlicTruth

I thought that CARFAX sign was a gravestone for a moment. RIP Car Fox.

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"It's draining me Arthur."
"No, that's Dracula."

#monsterdon #palanceIsDracula

DEMETER ☠🛳

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Maybe Dracula is just a guy who created the perfect potting soil. He has to take the recipe and samples to England with him to win a rose cultivation competition.
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Starting #Monsterdon late 😭 (IRL sportsball got in the way, I got stuck in a traffic jam)

...attempting to engage double-speed

nice aim jackass

interesting that this dracula has manservents

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#Monsterdon It’s be funny if the last tug pulled the potted vine over the edge. And then our erstwhile hero goes splat. Wah. Now he’s just running amok.

#Monsterdon this is the climbing mini-game where you have to use the left stick to avoid obstacles and get back to the next play area

@liferstate lol, at Festivals we have a thing called 'floor drugs'....truly a game for the Brave...

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Dracula's castle this time is giving me very "built after 1800 faux castle" vibes.

#monsterdon #mastoween

#Monsterdon Palance looks like he has a toothache from those terrible fangs 🧛🏻

#Monsterdon “Yeah we can hear you, snack food…”

I hope Jack Palance got to take this painting home after filming wrapped.
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I suppose if you dead live for hundreds of years people would all start to look the same after a few generations, hence his long dead bride turning up again in London. The Simulation only has so many permutations.

Anyway, the coffins are on the move now, guess that ship will get fucked next...

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15th century noblewomen were big on blow-combs and feathered bangs

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These women snarling and running are exactly how I remember the '70s

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Ah, back before they invented the sports bra #Monsterdon

It was the 70s, let those girls bounce free!

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#Monsterdon this polycule has a weird dynamic

Not gay enough, Jack. Back up and do it again. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon A red lined coffin! How gauche! And that frock! Those shoes! Like you only had the sale at Pennys and gave up! Ahhh. The itty-bitty-hissy-titty-committee.