Did we watch that Dracula movie with Monsterdon?

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Fucking prank calling vampires.

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All this vampire violence wakes up the mom, who is alarmed that her door is nailed short. The vampire escapes. When the mom gets out, Charlie said that nothing happened and he just had a nightmare, so the mom offers him drugs (a valium), which he refuses, then tries to tell him about her nightmare where she was naked in a zoo or a hockey game or something. Then she goes to bed.

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EVERY time those bats start up when Charley turns on the TV I think Scooby Doo is about to start.

EVERY TIME. I watch this movie at least ten times a year. I've seen it a LOT.

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That's a lot of Scooby Doo confederacy is all I'm saying.

I want a Valium, mom

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loving these 80s special effects, which work!

Ouch with that hand!

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@jsadow by jove you are right i am out of my element.

I think the guy is metalhead nerd. I also think this is the small town subculture effect where all the alternative people and the nerds merge together into a single clique.

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#monsterdon The music score is toying with us. The undead spirit of Roger Corman is all over this "movie”. I've forgotten how absolutely doofy this production is.

The boy dutifully nails his window shut, only to find that his mom has already invited the next door neighbor in, because she's a milf and he's a hot vampire. He says he might come back later whenever he feels like, and his mom accepts. This alarms the main character.

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God that gag phoned ahead and reserved the presidential suite. #monsterdon

8 bucks is $200,000 in today's money.

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Anyway, the boy goes to warn his mom about the vampire neighbor, but she doesn't believe him. He sees the vampire guy trading some shiny package with a guy in the jeep.

The mom thinks he had a bad dream and gives him hot cocoa, which he refuses, out of Foolish Pride. He tells his girlfriend this the next day, and she also think he's being a little bit crazy. He says that he'll go to the police.

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"I don't need a warrant, I have a White Boy instead"

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you blew it, Charley

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@LuluHelle it's an 80s horror movie thing

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Charlie's pompadour grows with his confidence

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Homicide detectives ALWAYS bring the complaining witness with them.... #monsterdon

Did he just eat the apple core? Clearly he’s not human.

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Reposting my general theory for movies that if they show us girl nipples in the first 20 minutes, they're likely to be bad, as if the movie turns out to be bad, the audience might be tempted to keep watching anyway in hopes that there are more nipples.

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Bahahahaha, the lapels on that coat! Wingspan enough for hang-gliding.

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@jonny Your fingers being an extra knuckle longer isn't either, but It's gonna get a second look if you flash them as a warning sign. #Monsterdon It took me FOREVER to figure out what was supposed to be scary about that scene. I finally caught it, because it's not the last time he'll do it.

nice vampire POV cam

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This kid really doesn't know boundaries...

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Explain to your ma what you were doing....

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waking up mom to tell her the neighbor is having sex

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I take comfort in knowing Charlie is going to have a bad time soon

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"I gotta go study, Mom, I'll see you later."

"Study? You??"

Charley just taking the hits from all sides. Though frankly the way he treats Amy and his friend, it's not undeserved, he's a jerk. Perhaps he'll be fanged! Perhaps.

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so she apologized for having boundaries is what just happened. cool

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The TV keeps playing while they're kissing and the TV announcer says that this is "Fright Night", dropping the title of this #monsterdon

Then the girl wants to stop making out, but the boy wants to make out more, and the boy complains that he's not getting any sex, so the girl gives in and relocates to the bed then asks him for sexing.

But then the boy is distracted by random guys outside carrying a coffin and gets out his peeping binoculars. The girl is then mad because she is ignored.

@plaidtron3000 In Charley's defense she IS throwing him a LOT of mixed signals.

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But no, Charley, she actually said no. Pack it in ice, bud.

This movie starts with a moon and a wolf howl, and then zooms to a house where someone is, ironically, watching an old vampire #monsterdon, but this is the 80s so its on the TV. Somewhere where a vampire lady is trying to bite/seduce a vampire hunter.

Anyway, then the camera pans out to a pillow nest by the floor of a bed where two people, probably teenagers, are making out. Damn Gen Xers and their pillow nest makeout sessions.

Nothing is more TERRIFYING than a prudish girl in an 80s teen movie

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Charlie, shut the fuck up. #Monsterdon

ROWDY RODDY MCDOWALL

...wait, that's not right

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So. There's a moon. That's good.

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Anyway, good job team, another movie successfully launched into space

and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting

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@brennen Heavens, I had NO IDEA of the Menendez murders connection! I did see Fright Night Part 2, btw (rented the video tape, back in the day), and it was not great, though it did have some cool artistic rollerblading? vampires. #FrightNight1985 #Monsterdon

Before you can date our daughter you must first go though us, her seven tiny dads.
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@brennen oh wow that is unfortunate

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And another #monsterdon comes to an (explosive) end.

I didn't have a lot to snark about for this one. Might be the same for the rest of October. The calibre of the flicks on the roster are all kinda high.

Regardless, a fun time watching with y'all.

Thanks for the toots, and as always a huge thanks to @Taweret for hosting.

Fright Night: asymptotically approaching a good movie. That was fun!

Thanks @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Until next week... (unless you're sticking around for the double feature)

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@otheorange_tag The movie's conceit is that all the rules the other vampire movies made up are all true. So who knows?
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@diazona If you killed the original vampire then there would be no vampires.

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As I said earlier, "Evil Ed" actor Stephen Geoffreys was also in 976-EVIL (1988) which seems to have a similar level of "whoa" VFX going on based on this still

https://tubitv.com/movies/100007196/976-evil

cc @Taweret if it's not already on the list

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I enjoyed making fun of that movie, and I think the make-ups were awesome.

Thanks, as always to @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo, @ryan for hosting the livestream, @JoeWynne for drinks and trivia, and all of you for making it awesome!

Cheers!

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well that was enjoyably dumb
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Weird. This movie didn't have "stuntpeople" it had "stuntpersons". I guess they were still working out gender neutral titles back then. #monsterdon

Surprise Octaman! And Octaman’s RV!

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According to science (OK, The Lost Boys), you don't go full vampire until you yourself have fed on a human

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yes, an end credits song that reviews the events of the movie, YES

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That was a great start to the season! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting. I hope Octaman was at least able to make rent for the cameo. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants! #Monsterdon #FrightNight

I always got the impression that the thing about faith wasn’t about faith in GOD, but faith in the power of the item of power to repel evil. Faith that the evil is true, is real.

So when Peter faltered in his belief that the vampire was real, the object of power had no effect. You see a cross worked when he first was attacked by Ed, but then when he had doubt because Jerry looked normal… his faith faltered.

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Fast Times at Transylvania High

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Yeah, they could've trimmed about twenty minutes from the first hour or so of the movie and it would've flowed much better, but the third act was *AWESOME* #Monsterdon

Okay that was a riot, I think that was my favorite Monsterdon ever! :)

Thanks everyone for such a fun time, I love Sunday nights!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

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the last act definitely makes up for the sins of the earlier parts. lots of fun, too bad i got distracted by a stupid pedantic discussion about wolves and vampires. my mistake #monsterdon

awww, well that was fun! 😁

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But then... oh no the window is open! is something wrong?

No, they decide to make out more. Then some spooky glowing eyes glare at them through the window.

Then credits. The closing music is very 80s and I like it.

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Having theoretically de-vampired Amy, the next night we are back to full circle and Charlie and Amy are making out on the bed.

Then Fright Night appears on the TV as Peter Vincent announces that he's back on the TV and introducing an alien invasion show, which they decide to turn off to make out more.

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These effects are way too good for #monsterdon

HOLY SHIT IT'S OCTAMAN :D

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Oh wait and then the skeleton bat explodes and then is sucked away to an alternate universe. Presumably where it will menace other teenagers as... Skeleton Bat.

The other teenagers will be like humanoid slug people though, with little eyestalk ears. And also robots.

Dear Venture Capitalists of Monsterdon, please give me 100 million dollars to make this movie...

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The day the fuck music died.

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Count Dracula, from Explodesylvania.

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@bunnyhero @Configures @Newpa_Hasai So, Clumpers vs. Splitters. I'm a splitter on this issue.
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@saucerlost *groan* 😂

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WHY IS THERE A GODDAMN FRENCH HORN IN THE BASEMENT?!

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Man, does EVERY newborn vampire have to visit the Orthodontist?
Dr. Acula must be raking it in $$$$

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What will happen when the police find the dead naked kid in their house.

And latches on coffins. Why hadn't anyone else thought of that.

@bunnyhero @Newpa_Hasai @allanb Yes, he does. That's how Dracula gets off the Exeter? the boat that comes to the English shore -- the news clipping has a thing about the dead ship and the big black dog (wolf) jumping off it in the port city. #Monsterdon #FrightNight1985

Careful, Amy, you're surrounded by a vampire's natural enemy: broken chair legs.

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Charlie Charlie why you buggin' ?

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Why is there a wooden birdcage in EVERY CREEPY BASEMENT EVER

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fruit bat has some teef
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Vampire: Hey baby you wanna live forever

Me: Naahhhh

Vampire: You can turn into a bird and fly away

Me: HELL YES LET'S GO

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Cool bat though!

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Yep, that's a ridiculously fast sunrise.

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you'd think with all those clocks.....

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Frankly green goo is a bit of a letdown after the killer wolf regression sequence. #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai @bunnyhero The Bram Stoker thing had some wolves in the arrival of the narrator, but that's Bram Stoker style myth, which came long after the actual ones

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@saucerlost New fanfic in the making: Amy Adams is actually a vampire

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A-a-and there it is, finally someone jumps through that enormous Chekhov's stained glass window. I thought it would be jumping out rather than in though, nicely played!

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Who wore it better?

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lol, knew that stained glass would get smashed

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chekhov's big stained-glass window

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High school boys should beware the dangers of masturbation.
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the vamp has gone all douchebro now he had Amy is his coffin
Typical
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I'd love it if there were actual consistent lore for what happened to that Renfield.

Cool effects.

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Why is he bleeding ectoplasm?

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I think our plan is to try to kill Sweater Vampire so Amy turns back to normal. Anyway, we wander outside and shoot the Vampire sidekick, then scare off Sweater Vampire with a cross, who says something ominous.

Then sidekick gets up again so the actor shoots him a few more times. He gets up again and lifts the actor, but then Charlie stakes him, and he starts bleeding green goo for unclear reasons.

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That scene with Vincent dealing with the reality of actually killing an undead creature exactly when the audience is being asked to stretch its suspension of disbelief the most was really well structured.

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@ManWithPez It was $3.99 at Pennys

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THERE'S your goo shot!

...yeah, I typed it! I meant it!

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Look what you did to Billy's SHIRT!

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Peter Vincent grabs the improvised stake from the dead vampire nerd, then walks outside to discover that the vampire house is now emitting spooky green smoke, because vibes. He grabs his box of vampire hunting crap and wanders inside, finding Charlie crying over a vampirized Amy.

Charlie makes some noise as a distraction while Peter Vincent breaks the door down.

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House being drowned by smoke machine, quick call the smoke department

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"The bad news? You got termites. The good news? The flood of dry ice from the roof killed them all."

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@CactuarJoe and dog transformations #Monsterdon

Chew that scenery, Ed! Get it! Tear it up! Yeah!!

Evil Ed gone actually evil is a joy. XD

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They're fumigating at the Dandridge house.

Bedbugs.

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