The scene ended and I still don't know if Van Helsing and Arthur were enthralled by Dracula's powers or just taking politeness to extremes. #monsterdon

WHAT THE HELL NOISE DID JACK JUST MAKE THERE

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Oh no, not his dirt!

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Ha Ha. Burned up all your dirt. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974

Worst Vampire Hunter Ever. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974

eww eww eww #monsterdon

DOGGIE DRACULA

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These guys are terrible at vampire hunting, but otoh Jack Drac is the least intimidating vampire I've ever seen, so I guess they're made for each other. #Monsterdon

hahaah - whAt BS

JACK WROTE THE SCRIPT

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You know, it's the 70s so I know it won't happen, but now would be a fantastic moment for Dracula to discover he likes men.

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The original hair of the dog.

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#Monsterdon *not* kosher

I'm always surprised that people in these period pieces don't reach for fireplace pokers when the bad guy shows up. An iron poker would be a lot better than cowering in a corner. #Monsterdon

A battle of wits? To the death?!

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Jack's gone full cowboy villain here. #Monsterdon

Wait, has he got an alien parasite in his belly?

And that woman is licking it out?

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WY IS SHE CRYING

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Dracula, speed-walking champ 300 years running

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Doggie (statue)!

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Palance always has the expression of someone who was caught with his mouth open while encountering a very noxious smell. #monsterdon

"Put it away"

And like a very compliant British man , he does!

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because once you paint your walls a primary color like that, you're really boxing yourself as far and furniture and decor options

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@yatsu I honestly loved the "track down where those boxes of earth went!" sequence! It sadly erases Mina's clerical research skill when she figured it out in the book, but at least they were doing work to figure Dracula out! #Monsterdon #DanCurtisDracula

Heeeeeere's Dracky!

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okay, at least this dude doesn't hesitate to fire. #monsterdon

The tilting camera really adds to the tension. And by that I mean it doesn’t add to the tension. #Monsterdon

HAHAHA another tilt-and-roll

Cinematography gone wild

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All the hallways in this film are crooked.

It was neat in Castle Dracula, but why every hallway? #Monsterdon

@ottaross Extended warranty related

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lord, someone has a real problem with doors. #monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow Honestly, it's downright American how many guns they have!

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Ahhh, yes, the old kitchen gun. Useful when the soup makes snide conversation with you.

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The Star Wars neck throttle! #Monsterdon

How many guns do you think were in that drawer in the kitchen? #Monsterdon #Dracula1974

Do ladies always wear pushup bras under their nighties when retiring with their mothers or sisters for the evening?

#monsterdon #palanceIsDracula

#Monsterdon rich people: "i'm sure we're fine here"
servants: "wait were the rich people just gonna fuck off and let the vampire kill *us*?"

This Faulty Towers level is confusing and disrupts the flow of the game

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I think this guy has some explaining to do.
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They are following a trail of dirt... a paper trail of dirt... We are having a momentary Sherlock Holmes detour in this Dracula movie.
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You just GOTTA manhandle that sweet sweet grave dirt

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In 1897 most book covers were red.

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Doctor Doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loam for you.

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Porch Pirates of the Dead #Monsterdon

my gods man, that's the biggest jenga set I've ever seen!

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So at this point Harker is *definitely* dead right? #Monsterdon

i can't tell if they have made the correct decision to confront a vampire in the day or not because in this universe night and day are the same thing #monsterdon

Tracking your shipment in the olden days was just about as bad as tracking your Amazon Market purchase is today #Monsterdon

Dracula is not giving this "respectable hotel" a five star rating on ye olde Yelp.
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That's right kids, go run into traffic #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #Dracula1974

@Ayyyydrew lol, what if they're all called George? Even the guests....

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Jack Palance's walk! 😂

Stumping irkedly through the garden of the cemetary. Not a scrap of supernatural glide to be seen.

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"UPS says they were left on the porch." #Monsterdon

nothing helps pick up a dracula movie more than some good old office zelda about dirt

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#Monsterdon *detective montage*

What happens if you stake a vampire and miss the heart?

Seems risky

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Dracula be like (╯’□’)╯︵ ┻━┻ #monsterdon

@sean Slav Maga

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Outta out of my way, English fops. #monsterdon

the mystery ship, you know, the one on the magical mystery tour

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Dracula doin' a stakeout in his carriage like a proper private investigator

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Jack Palance when he finds that craft services hasn't fished out all of the brown M&Ms from the bowl in the green room...

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"You just can't walk arou—"

Sir, I assure you that Count Dracula can and will

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Use the force, Dracula, the Force.

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A little Darth Vader moment here. #monsterdon

I think Jack's "eww I think this milk has expired" expression really makes this #Monsterdon film

ya know, a dracula that goes around killing all the servants is just kinda rude, not really scary. #monsterdon

"Yes sir the coachman's at the door"

(huge silly smirk)

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🧛 70s Dracula Spectacula Trivia ⚰️

Jack Palance rejected calls to be Dracula in many other movies. In this way, he avoided what we know in Monsterdon as "The Christopher Lee Effect".

Dracula parking his Hyundai Accent on the side of the road with the lights off is very funny. #monsterdon

"This is a respectable hotel, the swingers parties are in the Travel Tavern down the road!"

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...Y'know, we haven't gotten even ONE BAT yet. Of any kind. #Monsterdon

one! One stake! Aahhaha!

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George works at George Hotel
checks out

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this is a coherent and faithful adaptation if only it had any tension or a Dracula with any menace to him at all

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(going to admit to some embarrassing trashy fiction reading)

Literally every time we get the religious symbols all I can think of is Ilona Andrews' "vampires" from her Inn Keeper series where the vampires are just aliens from a similar rootstock to human with a belief that they would have to be cleansed in a very annoying fashion (it maybe involved fasting? I don't recall the details) if they were to kill someone while the person was praying and therefore they avoid fights with people holding religious symbols.

(if you want a well written but trashy online serial it's at https://ilona-andrews.com/innkeeper-chronicles/, though I think the current books are only available as eBooks since all of them are done and there isn't on in progress, they are free to read while in progress)

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@combatwombat exactly i thought that was one of the two major selling points of being a vampire

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Coachman #3! Do NOT look at the camera!
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Oh, here comes the part every literature analysis has gone over in scrupulous detail. The staking of the vampires. 🙄

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Van Helsing is really lucky that vampires sleep like the dead

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Don't make Dracula angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry #monsterdon

#Monsterdon "lord vader it appears... in your anger.... *you* killed her"

DRAC SMASH!

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#Monsterdon big mood

Another flashback for Jack 'drac

...Jackula? Eh. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 15th century lost love flashback

@SesameSquirrel
Coffin Coif

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Oooooo, Dracula bout to be MAD!!!

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lol @ table flip of rage

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Hinged coffins are more dramatic

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#DanCurtis’sDracula

Why is Jack Drac? I mean for him it was a vacation to England, I get that. But who cast him as Dracula? Why?
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Did you mention a box of soil?

(blah blah backstory about a box of soil)

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This version of Lucy does a really good job of legitimately looking mind-controlled, as opposed to last week's Lucy who I was convinced totally wanted to be a vampire

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Now my mind is wandering thinking about a movie told from Lucy's point of view. Sweet now I'm immortal. I can make my boyfriend a vampire too and we can have fun for centuries together!
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huh, blood and soil

vampires are nazis okay

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@brooke the stake in the book is described as being like a yard long #monsterdon

#Monsterdon That is some ornate hair.

"No! You're dead!"
"No I'm not. I'm alive. Open the bleedin` window."
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Movie.

Mo. Vie.

Where. The fuck. Is Renfield.

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Whoa - Magnum PI is quick on the draw with the reflective cross. That's what you're paying the high fees for, right there.

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