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."

#monsterdon #palanceIsDracula

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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#Dracula1974

"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.
#monsterdon #palanceIsDracula

choo choo!!

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DISNEYLAND YAAAAAAY!

#monsterdon #Dracula1974

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.

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

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."

#Monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon #Dracula1974

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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#Dracula1974

Never go to Transylvania without your lock pick set.

#Monsterdon

@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?
#Monsterdon #Dracula1974

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"

dracula flashback? flashdrac? #monsterdon

oh he's got one of those capsule beds ⚰

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Wow, that's decolletage that Hammer Films would be jealous of. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Dracula's the kind of guy who takes a lot of time on a special order, then doesn't tip

@Taweret So you're saying he invented the tag line "Don't have a cow, man" #monsterdon

Blurry bra-less jogging scene alert.

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Running with that much chest and no bra? Yikes!

#Monsterdon #DanCurtisDracula

Employ the duress phrase in that letter, Harker!

#Monsterdon #Dracula1974

That's actually a surprisingly good custom-portrait-of-actors-in-the-production painting for a TV production #monsterdon

Best thing about the movie so far is the set design and set dressing. A bit heavy on the cobwebs, but good stuff

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If there is anything that Palance does well is impatience and being pissed off. #monsterdon

The guy playing Harker looks like a low rent Hugh Laurie.
#Monsterdon #Dracula1974

Dracula is not a native English speaker, I'll bet you could slip something by him in those letters. #Monsterdon

holy crap no poise at all, you're staring down the barrel of three snarling broads and you don't try and play it cool for one second and buy time #monsterdon

"What do you want" he says. He's gonna Wicker Man this. #Monsterdon

Prop painter: "You want me to put WHO'S face on it!?"

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I don't know if I would drink out of bottle that'ss so old, the GLASS has melted into a misshapen container
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kinski's Dracula left out better shit for his guests

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Oh thank God, Harker broke out of Count Dracula's clutches, where he was constantly being plied with wine... to go get some more wine

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I'm sorry did Drac circle the newspaper clipping with BALLPOINT PEN in THIS YEAR OF OUR LORD 1897 #Monsterdon

I didn't know they had Magic Markers in Dracula times. #Monsterdon

Gotta hand it to them, they're not overdoing the use of music. Rather spare.

A lot of directors lately seem to rely on music to create the atmosphere in a scene that they're unable to craft otherwise.

#Monsterdon

Heck yeah, we have ✅ Dusty Tomes!

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

Careful dude, Dracula does not drink... vine. #Monsterdon

Is Shelob spinning those webs? JFC. #Monsterdon

Look you're trying to escape, not sampling the liquor cabinet. #monsterdon

i am putting up with tubi ads becaue the copy is so much clearer. wish i didn't care about the image quality haha #monsterdon

"Ah, so _here's_ where he's hiding the real wine."

#monsterdon #Dracula1974

Somebody went crazy with the Silly String #monsterdon

oo, a dutch angle hallway, i think i need one of those in my home. #monsterdon

Avert your eyes. He's got a letter. #monsterdon

#monsterdon and we have cobwebs!

Okay NOW we find the areas that the cleaning staff didn't get to.

#Monsterdon #Dracula1974

@RufusJCooter @Zerofactorial
I mean, yeah, compared to the Klaus Kinski version in Nosferatu (1979), he looks positively homely!
#Monsterdon #Dracula1979

Fuck your tapestry.

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Palance is weird, but he is by far the most normal seeming man to play Dracula. He's just a fancy old noble. Not a weird creepy who only stares at your neck while licking his lips.
#Monsterdon #Dracula1974

Those candles are really cranking out the lumens #monsterdon

Great cobweb FX!

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It's the 70s and all blood is #FF0000 red

(I'll keep reusing this joke till the blood is normal blood colour)

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#monsterdon Carriage fax dot com. Surrey Max.

Dang it. Someone adapt Dracula's Guest! Figure a way to wedge that short story about Dracula telling a female vampire in a mausoleum, "HEY! NO! This one is mine! You can';t have Harker!" Before he ever gets to the castle.
#Monsterdon #Dracula1974

@nev no creepy shadows or anything! #monsterdon

Your shave is looking very tasty indeed.

#Monsterdon

oh no now palance is doing his version of christopher lee's dracula family history speech. no comparison 😬. palance's version comes across like an old relative going on and on with boring stories #monsterdon

Don’t buy the seller… ’s fiancé’s best friend

#Monsterdon #DanCurtisDracula

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how come this dracula got the same plastic surgeon as all the old ladies in beverly hills tho #monsterdon

Jack tried the accent for about 10 seconds then just went "eff it" and now it's just a very special episide of Ripley's #Monsterdon

Also, this castle is NOT decrepit enough. There's no big fake spiderwebs anywhere. No guttering candlelight. Christopher Lee wouldn't put up with this shit

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Palance’s hair is wind tunnel tested. It’s not going anywhere.

#Monsterdon #Dracula

Show us a modern Dracula, only he's a shut in watching HGTV real estate shows, and obsessively "liking" necky women on Insta. #Monsterdon

What accent is Palance doing? Transylvanian? Olde South?

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Yes, these pictures are [heavy breathing] quite suitable

Does this house have an OnlyFans?

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I still can't get over CarFax.

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this is the part of the movie that i missed the last two times, like how come dracula knows about lucy at all. things make so much more sense #monsterdon

Dracula: Please, sit and eat.
Harker: Thank you. (raises fork to his mouth)
Dracula: Ignore the food, show me the photos now
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Did people use to travel with framed photographs everywhere? #monsterdon