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.
But yeah that movie just kinda... I mean Van Helsing stakes Jack and then just goes, "Welp, what's next." #Monsterdon
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!
@paco I, for one, plan to live forever. So far, so good.
@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?
#monsterdon
#DanCurtisβsDracula
BOATY THE BOATWRIGHT!? #Monsterdon
@strangefour He scratched deeply across his chest to make it bloody, just like in the book. #Monsterdon #DanCurtisBramStokerDracula
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!"
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How many times have we seen that painting?
#Monsterdon he died as he unlived: next to a painting of himself
Oh no. They took the curtains down and Dracula finally realizes how much of a hoarder's dump his whole castle has become. It's so messy and tacky.
#Monsterdon #Dracula1974
Now you have to cut his head off, and and fill his mouth with holy wafers
Umm...beheading and burning the vampire, fellas. #monsterdon
"Welp, that's done. C'mon, yorkshire puddin' with our name on it back at the coach house." #Monsterdon
like some of that was well shot. this movie just needed a couple tweaks
and now Jackie P can rest well, knowing there will never be another Dracula like this one. fare thee well, old sport, and may flights of rubber bats see thee to thy rest. #monsterdon
I guess they're just gonna leave him hanging then
Van Helsing enjoys his work a little too much
Well, that's that. Time for a latte I guess. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974
I wonder whether modern vampires can tolerate sun if they slather on the SPF 100 lotion #monsterdon
You know, if he weren't pro-slavery, I'd almost feel bad for Dracula, all these people forcing their religion on him, despite how much it clearly hurts.
Some of those who toss Helsing, are the same that burn in sunlight
Wait, that spike was stone wasn't it? So Jonathan should be like writhing and stuck.
#Monsterdon stabs him with a curtain rod
love it
That sun is taking its time to have an effect other than more gas pain expressions.
@Lazarou He would fit right in on the internet of 5 years ago
Well, that's convenient - you knock your vampiric pal into a pit and it's a pit full of spikey stakes.
#Monsterdon "when your quarry goes to ground -- leave them no ground to run to"
this is me when people open the curtains first thing in the morning. much sympathy for you drac. #monsterdon
Drac reacting to sunlight like someone just told him some really bad news.
I mean, this is how I feel most mornings. #Monsterdon
Palance was saving up all his acting for this scene. #Monsterdon
What Dracula-Palance is going through now is how I felt when I did the old alcohol the morning after....kids....do better drugs!
OH YEAH!!!
#monsterdon
I suppose I'll take a high-speed chase by boat and train
Aaaand the movie reaches its climax in a high-stakes game of keepaway #Monsterdon
Has there been any scene in this movie with a woman who was NOT in a bed or a coffin?
it would really make more sense if vampires hated crosses because they had an OCD type compulsion to turn their backs on christ. #monsterdon
Dude you're holding the ax backwards.
Worst vampire hunters ever.
#monsterdon
Palance just has no menace to him at all
#Monsterdon "Youre now in my domain! dot-dracula is for hip sites about the nightlife in Eastern Europe or around the world"
So glad later versions said MEE-na instead of this abomination, MINN-a. Like she's a little fish.
Iron Maiden rulez.
#Monsterdon #Dracula1974
does anyone think vampire!Jonathan is way hotter than live!Jonathan?
it's like how at the end of Beauty and the Beast the Beast changes into a human and you're all like "β¦for THAT??"
@allanb This has me thinking, what about an alternate vampire mythology where instead of staking them you have to sleep with them
I'm sure somebody has made a porno out of that concept
Jonathan died as he lived, making poor decisions with shovel. #monsterdon
Pit And/Or Pendulum #Monsterdon
@plaidtron3000 @diazona You'd expect Pratchett to consider such things. #monsterdon
Guess Johnathan got the point. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974
HEEEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY #monsterdon #dracula1974
"My god. What are they?
"They're vampires. We have to destroy them."
Arthur, have you NOT been paying attention?
@diazona @plaidtron3000 lol, I think I might have heard of that one too! #monsterdon
ah. found him. #monsterdon
really I feel like this just needed better casting in the main role
No one expects the Harker Inquisition!
THERE'S Jonathan!
#Monsterdon fucking useless vampire "hunters" - opening ALL the coffins, instead of open-stake-repeat.
Aha! They did use the Palantir offensively!
In modern vampire movies, staking a vampire is just like stabbing someone with a sword. In the movies we've watched this month, it's more like assembling an IKEA desk. #monsterdon
"My god what are they" Talk about not paying any attention. holy shit. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974
Def no Bechdel pass tonight.
once again, the other wives just sleeping through the other ones being noisily murdered. #monsterdon
"What are they?"
Those are girls, chief. #Monsterdon
@moira oh one of them got the stake all right
@Lazarou @plaidtron3000 Maybe they just shift the extra mass to a parallel dimension temporarily π
(This was an actual explanation for shapeshifting in a fantasy series I really like... it was kind of hokey but I didn't mind)
The amontillado's down here somewhere #monsterdon
too bad these girls didn't have any real stake in the story
yo maybe it's because I ran out of mini cinnamon rolls but these last 20 minutes have just DRAGGED ON. #Monsterdon
They couldn't find a box of flies for Renfield, so they just wrote him out.
Boxes of flies are, in fact, hard to come by.
I wonder if they'll throw big bouncy boulders off the roof like in the other film. #monsterdon
Ah! Scorched earth. Much more traumatic production. #Monsterdon
wish the music was better tho
The only place they know for ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that Dracula will show up is in these ladies' rooms. Yet they keep LEAVING them there. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974
Gotta hand it to them. The horse budget is astounding.
some of this is shot pretty well and he editor knew what they were doing
Well General dracula, where are your armies right now?