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.
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?
Drinking from a random unlabeled already open bottle in a room that hasn't been touched in years. Great Idea Genius. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974
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Bloodgusher 77 not the best vintage
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*extremely Car Fox voice* Just say, βshow me CARFAX Abbey!β
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?
#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
This is hands down the most well lit Draculas castle I've ever seen.
#Monsterdon "is this even amontillado?"
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.
#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
@jonny I mean, would could try to get Van Helsing (2004) shown or something.
okay I already can't take Palance seriously as dracula
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ββββ - 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!
Lol, carriage driver is like, here's your crap, dumbass!
I know 'modern life is evil' but all this carriage travel would do me in, and the horses didn't consent to this either
The stagecoach: ridesharing in ye olden times #monsterdon
#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...? π€
They're all running like somebody just yelled BACON and threw a few dozen sides of it offscreen for them all to chase.
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.
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
The slowly turning doorknob is scarier than the dracula on the other side of it. #monsterdon
i wanna see angela lansbury as dracula
@JoeWynne "A little privacy! Thanks!" #monsterdon
@Zerofactorial
Nobody wants to hear clanging and banging, then having to yell, "Taken!"
@_L1vY_ Thatβs 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 canβt ramp it up.#Monsterdon
So these guys travelled across Europe to confront Dracula, but did nothing to prepare for it?
@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. π¦ #Monsterdon π§π» #Dracula1974
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:
@SnoopJ Given the quality of most of our movies, missing it and having high hopes seem to go hand-in-hand
The railway scene where Mina arrives and is met by Mrs. Westenra is good for Bechdel purposes #monsterdon
This πwas my finest of the night. #Monsterdon
Oh, to this day it has yet to be disproven, scary.
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
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 π§π» #Dracula1974
Hey that portrait looks familiar
And
-Fin-
#monsterdon Well we knew who got the Demeter on set:
What happened to Mina? None of our business
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
Any chance the end of this movie (pre-credits) is actually the beginning?
Might we have a time reversal thing going on? (if so there's hope for me to not have watched that in the future)
Movie, βnosferatuβ does not mean βundeadβ, and βDraculaβ does not mean βdevilβ. It means βson of the dragonβ, which is sick as hell.
i started to drift off toward the end there. i'll have to catch up on all the toots after i get some sleep. thanks @Taweret and everyone!
But yeah that movie just kinda... I mean Van Helsing stakes Jack and then just goes, "Welp, what's next." #Monsterdon
@nev They spent all the budget on nice horses and red wall paint.
Cmon, vaporize already!
"You can tell they are vampires because a human wouldn't die if you put a stake through their heart."
Here lies Dracula. Slain by Sam Elliott's mustache.
#Monsterdon #Dracula1974
That's kinda not how proof works. It has also not been disproven that I am immortal. It will be disproven in due time.
casting by "boaty boatwrite baker"
did i just read boaty mcboatface's grandma #monsterdon
Jack really needed to work on his "oh I'm so frightening" faces. And his "oh I'm so angry" faces. And his "oh, that's so disappointing" faces.
Mostly he just looked like he had to fart, or just smelled someone else's farts.
You'd think that someone with as much money as Dracula could afford to coffin that locks from the inside
I can't believe it just ended with themβ¦walking out. Just straight up walking out of the room.
Also this scroll should've been at the beginning no?
Anyway, thanks to @Taweret for hosting again!
amazing, that move was amazing. so close to greatness, and yet so far. so very far. #monsterdon
"Disproved" - that the same as proving a negative, right?
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#DanCurtisβsDracula
@strangefour He scratched deeply across his chest to make it bloody, just like in the book. #Monsterdon #DanCurtisBramStokerDracula
BOATY THE BOATWRIGHT!? #Monsterdon
Cheers all and thanks for a good time as always!
I just learned by looking up Jonathan Harker on Wikipedia that it's apparently more common than I expected that Harker gets vamped in Dracula adaptations. :O
Oh good a history lesson. #Monsterdon
Another #Monsterdon is in the can!
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!
Tonight's feature, #Dracula was from 1974, and was the third of this month's #70sDracula jubilee! Jack Palance had us searching for Curly's blood, and also:
- Best Dracula hair ever!
- Lots of top hats!
- Lots of red ... red walls, red lamps, red clothes. And .. hmm .. seems like I'm forgetting something.
- Casually using the house staff for blood transfusions.
- A lack of bats. There should have been bats.
If this movie had any erotic content it would just be about blood play and not repressed Victorian sexuality
Tigerbeat guy is disturbed by the stakings. #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon welp, that was definitely a movie :D
you're all grand sports everybody, thanks for a good time <3
Kinda wonder what happened to that prop painting. #monsterdon
So ends another #Monsterdon with our heartfelt thanks to @Taweret for hosting. Thanks also to all the posters and lurkers, and remember #Monsterdoners: To this day, it has yet to be disproven.
All someone has to do his take the stake out at night, and he's gonna be right as rain.
they got the brass section saying "drac ulaaaa!"