lol, what was he going to do to that poor wolf? The guilty look on Dracula-Palance.....

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Here, have a bottle full of stimulants

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Dracula's ladies did the cat teleportation trick where they just walk over somewhere silently while you're not looking. #monsterdon

Doctor: Have you ever heard of ‘Nosferatu’?
Audience: Didn’t we watch it last week?

#Monsterdon #Dracula

This time, we're going to stay awake. For real this time. I mean it

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He's a man of science! I want him going up against the vampire of science, not crepe paper vampire guy.

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DAMN YOU COMFY CHAIR #monsterdon

...So in this version Harker just dies? #Monsterdon

Somehow in three movies this is the first time I picked up on the fact that Jonathan is stuck in the castle for a month

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@Lazarou I guess that's why the nightwatch duo managed to doze off #monsterdon

You can tell we just got through a very silly part because I'm getting 500 errors when faving toots. #monsterdon

Serious but understandable diversion from the plot: Van Helsing actually tells anyone anything

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Lord Arthur Holmwood, useless in EVERY version 😴💤 #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #Dracula1974

some lego scattered on the floor around her bed would keep her from going too far. too bad it hadn't been invented yet

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Umm....can you a hum a few bars of it #monsterdon

Can't give her any of that man blood. Only girl blood will work. It'll effect her humors and drive off her cooties.

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15 minutes in and this version of Dracula just seems like a chill dude

I think he would get along well with Spike (from the Buffyverse)

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If you're familiar with plasma "donation" you'll see here that nothing much has changed #monsterdon #dracula1974

You can't just give her the maid's blood, it's all working-class!

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Doctor -- shes over there and she's been fucked senseless!

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Blood type? Who what now? #Monsterdon #Dracula1974

@nev Also distinctly more yellow than the rest of his teeth, which is a weird aesthetic choice.

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Palance's vamp teeth are worse than Kinski's, and on Kinski's you could clearly see where they were glued on. #Monsterdon

Fantastic job saving your fiance's life. All you had to do was not fall asleep.

Maybe make a cup of coffee or something?

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Lucy: "hooray for socks" #Monsterdon

I love that they clearly focus on the stone pillar that says CARFAX, then do a full screen title, CARFAX ESTATE, in case we missed it five seconds ago.

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urrrgh, there goes the zoom again......

Was that the director's major at Film School?

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It's like a cat. You pet it for a bit and then it bites you.

#Monsterdon #DanCurtisDracula

Palance misses can bites her lymph node instead.

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Count Fuckula

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This is what I want from a Dracula movie: A Dracula Who Fucks

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never seen a dracula suck blood from a tongue before

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Holy cow those Big Eyes! Lucy stepped right out of a Margaret Keane painting. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974

Dracula and Lucy sitting in a tree ...

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That's not her neck

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#DanCurtis’sDracula

KNEEL BEFORE ZOD - Dracula

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This is far too sexualized

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"Mom, Dracula is staring at us from the front yard, again."
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DING-dong! Fifth floor, appliances, underpants and DRACULA #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon day for night bay-bee

It really looks like it hurts Jack Palance to wear the Dracula fangs. Like I'm sure they were hoping it would come off as "his unholy, undead existence is a constant agony to him" but it doesn't.

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I'm sorry, I really can't take Jack seriously as a vampire. That goofy-ass smile :P #Monsterdon

Stand by for mind control #monsterdon

All these day-for-night shots have exactly the same light as western Michigan at 9:30pm in the summer, which makes them the exact opposite of spooky for me. #Monsterdon

Why did directors from the 1970s think that nighttime was so blue?

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Dracula's like that red room is the worst aesthetic crime ever!

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Love a good [Breathing heavily] caption.

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Dude, you're no Anthony Hopkins.

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A watched maiden never sleeps?

#monsterdon #mastoween

#Monsterdon i love that dark red shade on the wall

Solo Bassoon of Dread Mystery (h/t to @srol) does beat Screeching Death Piccolos, so I'll give this week's soundtrack that!

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That was the shortest voyage of the Demeter segment ever.
Well shortest that didn't just skip it entirely.
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also love how 70s horror retconned 70s hairstyles into the 19th century

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Wow. Poor Lucy's giving it her all. No notes. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974

Much creepier dead captain this week. #Monsterdon

Forget house calls, this doctor invites himself to stay over for half a week!

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The director is doing a really good job at having the actors change up which of their fingers they're putting in their waistcoat pockets. #monsterdon

@Taweret and probably a good plan to bring a bunch of backup soil you can change it out now and then #monsterdon

Ah, yes, we just need some bleeding and she will be right as rain! No, don't bother washing my knife, I cleaned a month ago.
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Ot still blows my mind that they made a whole movie about went on during the Demeter voyage and it was good!

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@allanb Thanks! I figured as much, I just subtract the time from 6:00 PT to figure out how far in I should be

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I am a dead seaman who lashed himself to the wheel.

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I don't love that we skipped all the stuff on the boat tho. in some versions that's some of the best stuff

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"Lucy has been walking in her sleep."
"What do you plan to do about it?"
"Put her on a treadmill, generate electricity."

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I see the dramatic zooms are still alive and kicking

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Harker committed the cardinal sin in horror movies - he thought he had Main Character Plot Armor, but didn't.

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That was a hell of a skip ahead, beached corpse ship.

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"Please sit and eat, but also unpack so I can see your luggage. Look, I was your carriage driver and opened the door for you myself. It's quite tiring being an undead noble. Have to do every last thing yourself once you've eaten all your servants. Try to keep up." #monsterdon

*did not actually say any of that

@jonny I think it's twofold. They're a great way to transport grave soil, and also he needs cheap-ass coffins for his thralls. He doesn't want to risk getting ripped off at a funeral home in cosmopolitan London.
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"Five weeks later", like a Spongebob smashcut 😅

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choo choo!!

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DISNEYLAND YAAAAAAY!

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Our main character is getting a lot of shut-eye in this flick. He has spent a good chunk of the time knocked unconscious by various people.

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With how easy he faints, and how many times he's hit his head, I'd be worried about a traumatic brain injury at this point.

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HOW can you miss with an entire shovel at that range 😠 Come on, Jonathan

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He had the spade pointed down, then he thrusts and the handle impacts the coffin? Ooof. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon death by snu-snu

#monsterdon thought this was going to be the shortest version yet for a minute there

Awww, lovely old steam train!

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They have a lot of phlegm. I wouldn’t have expected that of vampires. #Monsterdon

holy shit that headbutt to the bricks has gotta be fatal or like severely disabling for years right #monsterdon

@nev The unrecognizable Billy Campbell is a fun Quincy in Coppola's nutty DRACULA -- a version which I adore since everyone seems to be in a different movie 😆 #Monsterdon 🧛🏻 #Dracula1974

This is one of the better lit Dracula movies we've seen. #monsterdon

"Another oddly decorative cello case? How many cellos must one Count have?"

-- Harker, probably

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DON'T OPEN THAT

Ugh, too late.

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What is it with people in these movies needing to make tactile contact with coffin dirt. #monsterdon

The captive 19th century real estate agent is getting the full tour of the property, crafting his listing as he goes along "Spacious and dank, a real fixer upper."

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Where is Renfield anyway

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Again, it is very English to go poking around somebody's house like the property rights of foreigners are an obscene joke.

LOL @ 'sleeping' Dracula avoiding the spade-chop

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Lol you can carefully test hanging vines for strength before you launch yourself out a window! That's how you get Renfielded

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Turns out that this movie introduced the idea of Lucy as a double or reincarnation of Drac’s lost love. It showed up again in the Coppola movie.

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There's no way that type of vine would actually hold his weight.

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so, a mild push knocks him out, but he's down to climb vines. okay. #monsterdon

I would not have thought to climb the vines UP.

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Never go to Transylvania without your lock pick set.

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@Vanalope
Honestly, you would sort of expect a powerful undead being to keep a decent, well-lit, richly furnished home. Like... er... Highlander! Otherwise, really, what's the point of all that power?
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Jonathan “I’ll do anything for money” Harker gets what he deserves imo.

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Hey those wolves look like COWS. Oh wait.. those are supposed to be cows. #Monsterdon #Dracula1974

#Monsterdon "women growling" - such great subtitles

#Monsterdon somebody call dictonary.com, I think we just found the best gif for the phrase "heaving bosoms"