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

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Nice pipe smoking, got any weed in that bowl Mister?

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

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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

Harker's too active in this though, in the novel he's like "Tuesday, time to break out of my room, oh no oh fuck I saw a scary casket ok I'll try doing something after the weekend"

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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.

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#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.

Carfax Abbey isn't real. But the place that it's probably a stand in for is a very fitting looking place for Dracula.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby_Abbey
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Ah, reading Drac's old ledgers, where he mathematically maintains spreadsheets of everyone he consumed, how he consumed them, and a rating.

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I hope Jack got to keep that painting after the filming was over, I mean who else would want that while he was still alive?

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Drinking from a random unlabeled already open bottle in a room that hasn't been touched in years. Great Idea Genius. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974

Bloodgusher 77 not the best vintage
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*extremely Car Fox voice* Just say, “show me CARFAX Abbey!”

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One of the first things I do when staying overnight at someone's place is find their stash of liquor. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon we have meth-addled spiders! I repeat! Meth addled spiders!

Oh THERE are all the creepy old spiderwebs!

So I guess this Count actually pays for SOME staff to clean up his place, but not all of it? Maybe he keeps snacking on his own castle servants?

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#Monsterdon Johnathan is our kept boy. Plied with liquor, everyone massaging his ascots and lusting after his dickies.

the spiderwebs at the Halloween parties I threw in the late 00s were of better quality

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This is hands down the most well lit Draculas castle I've ever seen.

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#Monsterdon "is this even amontillado?"

The stag head is stealing the scene
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Jack is almost as good as the Brit actors
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Carfax is very good for making sure you know about the car's maintenance (and accident) history, yes.

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#Monsterdon Drac is flipping through those pictures like I scroll through house photos on Zillow.

like Kinski is someone you would be scared to be around anyway

I don't think Palance could be scary if his life depended on it

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@Zerofactorial i dunno, man

this Dracula fellow seems pretty well-adjusted

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@jonny I mean, would could try to get Van Helsing (2004) shown or something.

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okay I already can't take Palance seriously as dracula

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★☆☆☆☆ - Uber driver just threw my bag at me and rode off. No tip!
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Slow down! I want to pet all the doggies!!
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Kinda hearse-y stage coach. Also, doggies!

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Lol, carriage driver is like, here's your crap, dumbass!

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I know 'modern life is evil' but all this carriage travel would do me in, and the horses didn't consent to this either

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The stagecoach: ridesharing in ye olden times #monsterdon

"What is your destination?"

"Castle Dracula"

Get out GET OUT!

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Dear Mr. Harker:

We have updated our privacy policy.

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#Monsterdon Germn Shepherds & Drac: The Untold Story

Children of the night looking for their walkies. #monsterdon

just a whole pack of Good Bois there. A+ #monsterdon

Alpo commercial #monsterdon

#Monsterdon puppehs

German wolves. Again. #Monsterdon

Opening with a running pack of wolves, and by wolves I mean German shepherds, is definitely a _choice_. And apparently one that Dracula movies have made more than once...? 🤔

They're all running like somebody just yelled BACON and threw a few dozen sides of it offscreen for them all to chase.

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The creatures of the night make such beautiful music. #monsterdon #palanceIsDracula

I think Palance's face has become the model for much future Dracula artwork, so that's a legacy for him. When an artist draws Dracula, they're drawing Palance.

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In summary, Dan Curtis can have his Dracula back #monsterdon

@moira I think Tim Curry would make for a pretty good Dracula #monsterdon

@JoeWynne @Taweret @cheribaker Oh I totally forgot, I am wearing my #Monsterdon shirt today! It's pretty sweet

i mean the way she absolutely ruled the world in manchurian candidate i'm about 65% serious right now

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The slowly turning doorknob is scarier than the dracula on the other side of it. #monsterdon

i wanna see angela lansbury as dracula

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@SnoopJ Oh for sure

(same Blacula we watched a few months ago?)

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@JoeWynne "A little privacy! Thanks!" #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial
Nobody wants to hear clanging and banging, then having to yell, "Taken!"

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@_L1vY_ That’s Buffy that set that expectation :) #Monsterdon

Here's a citation for anyone wondering about the Carfax they namedropped about twenty-five times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carfax,_Oxford #monsterdon

@SesameSquirrel @rallias @paco Hmm, not bad. I'd be tempted, just to be able to watch the Tour de France every year and nothing else #monsterdon

@CactuarJoe does he even lift? #monsterdon

@Vanalope @Taweret His resting vampire face is good. But he can’t ramp it up.#Monsterdon

So these guys travelled across Europe to confront Dracula, but did nothing to prepare for it?

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@Taweret Yup. Was it trying to be faithful to the book or something? or did they come up with the obsession with canines themselves? #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @rallias @paco I have a $20/yr deal. 🦚 #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #Dracula1974

#Monsterdon Well that was an ending.

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched DRACULA (1974).

See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

@SnoopJ Given the quality of most of our movies, missing it and having high hopes seem to go hand-in-hand

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The railway scene where Mina arrives and is met by Mrs. Westenra is good for Bechdel purposes #monsterdon

@SesameSquirrel @davesdogmaggie absolutely

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This 👆was my finest of the night. #Monsterdon

Oh, to this day it has yet to be disproven, scary.

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And just like that, the movie is over. Night-night, #Monsterdon folk! I will miss next weekend's movie as well but I have high hopes for it

@apLundell @Taweret @strangefour Eh I could imagine it was something like, he's so good in battle that he can't be an ordinary human, he must be the devil. Or something like that.

It's loose but history twists things

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The moral of the story is don't send a television host in to do a Klaus Kinski job #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @rallias @paco Peacock gives both sets of credits #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #Dracula1974

Hey that portrait looks familiar

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And
-Fin-

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#monsterdon Well we knew who got the Demeter on set:

What happened to Mina? None of our business

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Dunno if anyone else caught this, but tonight's screenplay was by Richard Matheson who also wrote I Am Legend. #Monsterdon

Wow. Dracula just kinda wimped out there at the end. "You are in my domain now." [dies three minutes later]
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so right then, one of the d/o/g/g/o/s/ wolves wanders in and laps up some blood and becomes Doggie Dracula

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Um... Dracula does not mean devil. It meant dragon.
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