omg the rat street is so cute tho #Monsterdon

The major theme of this movie is people totally unable to perceive immense numbers of red flags. #Monsterdon

Walking around with a coffin in the middle of the night is very subtle.

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@Ayyyydrew Oh what a silly bunt. #MontyPythonDirector #Monsterdon

highly relatable dracula moving all his shit by himself content #monsterdon

Dracula stealing his own coffin off the boat is pretty funny, especially with the actor moving like he's sneaking in a cartoon. #monsterdon

Perfect coffin carrying music

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he's just got a the bones of a human arm mounted on his wall #Monsterdon

#monsterdon There you go. Bootstrapping

#Monsterdon Ah yes we've gotten to the part where Dracula goes "I have super human strength I should just haul my own damn dirt boxes"

Dracula playing hide-the-coffins

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#Monsterdon "Okay, people, people ... please ... we need you to disembark in an orderly fashion before infesting London. You will all get your assignments soon."

well if you need a sweaty dude to tell you not to ship a bunch of black coffins filled with rats and dirt across the sea you might just be the sort to stick your bare foot in a box of wild rats #Monsterdon

Nosferatu, if you keep playing opera on your iPhone's loudspeaker, the whole damn town is going to know it was you.

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Herzog made Kinski carry every one of those coffins off the ship and into the crypt.....

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"I ate the pilot and I STILL got here in one piece! Goddamn, I am the best vampire evar LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO"

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@wohali partner just read it, says there's no plague in the book #monsterdon

honestly these rats are too clean and well-groomed to be plague rats lol but i guess you have to make some compromises when filming #monsterdon

I wonder how hard it was to get the permits to release a thousand rats in... wherever this was filmed.

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Herzog wanted to release 11k rats in Delft, but the authorities naturally thought this a bad idea, so he relocated a few scenes to Schiedam.

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#Monsterdon this was NOT filmed in Alberta Canada

Also there is NO way they wrangled all those rats back into whatever handler was dealing with them.

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All the sweet rattums are washing their little faces!

"Captain's log, stardate 2122.3" #monsterdon

#Monsterdon I'd have a problem with a plague of them, but in general I find mice and rats (and bats) cute

#monsterdon Rats mingling at the intermission.

#Monsterdon Plague ship! “Shut the doors and windows!” The CDC is on the job.

we did all wash out hands after handling the mystery corpse, right?

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Book fans: how heavily is it argued in the book that this is all the cause of the Plague?

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Great little rat actors. But why are none of the characters freaking out about dozens of rats just chilling next to them?
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"Could it be the plague?"

(beat)

OH ! SHIT ! #monsterdon

This London looks so much like Amsterdam #Monsterdon

Back when folks actually feared disease.

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Always sad when your ratio of funeral home space to mourners is this out of whack. #monsterdon

@otheorange_tag @strangefour At first I misread this as "dead retconning"

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Yep not a drop of blood left in him 💀

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#monsterdon Told ya, those precooked meals

#Monsterdon you know there WERE rats in the book, but I never thought Dracula like... literally packed them in his boxes of earth?

I just assumed he could control rats wherever.

I do like the logic of this though

I've never gotten Renfield in most adaptations. Why is this one looney obsessed with a vampire he never met? Is he a deranged psychic? I know some versions (last week?) had him be a previous guest to Draculas castle, but why is he nutty here?
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You just don’t see that kind of work ethic any more. What American would lash himself to the wheel to bring this shipment of Vampyres to its appointed destination? None, I tell you. None.
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These real bats are such an upgrade from last week’s discount fake bats! #Monsterdon

...They brought one of the coffins in to lay him on? Man, I know this is before vampires were well known but *jeez* #Monsterdon

How did the ship get there if none of the crew survived? Telekinesis?

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#Monsterdon Actually, I’m beginning to think the rats were piloting the ship. 🐀

"Captain's log"

<farting noise>
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@apLundell They didn't have a lot of entertainment options back in the day.

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HE MISSED.

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Some of the shots in this movie are such paintings with people motionless and quiet as they look on. #monsterdon

just going to park my oceanfaring boat on the curb by your house #Monsterdon

Was it normal in $YEAR for people to wait dockside to greet coffin-ships with dead helmsmen?

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That kind of weight isn't good on the wheel bearings, I'm just saying.

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@apLundell Life before YouTube

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@springdiesel I love how there's just a hint of Daffy Duck to it.

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So many of the more lackluster #monsterdon films would have been so much improved if they'd just incorporated some manic laughter along the way

plague time #monsterdon

Well you don't see that everyday #monsterdon

"EVERYBODY IN LONDON GATHER ROUND THE MYSTERIOUS DEAD SEA CAPTAIN, FUCK GERM THEORY AND ALL THAT NONSENSE"

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Pretty decent docking, given the whole dead captain thing.

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Yeah, bring your kids out to gawk at the dead sailor! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon dutch? whatever they are

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The silent arrival of the ship is also great

The dogs blend in perfectly with Renfield

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FS: one ghost ship, paint needs minor touchup #Monsterdon #NosferatuTheVampyre

#Monsterdon awwwwww baby germans

Capital is able to flow across vast distances in the form of contracts and signatures, like Dracula's powers that transcend spatial boundaries #Monsterdon

If you want to have fun playing this scene, there is a fabulous mystery game called Return of the Obra Dinn, where you solve a series of ship-board deaths. Pretty much this.
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Shit, that kid's got COVID.

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#Monsterdon are people here just to gawk at the corpse?

(get it? TIED?)

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I have the sinking feeling that Ratmageddon is only minutes away #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Renfield laughs and scares himself. (And me.)

Herzog really loves his sailing boats doesn't he... this, Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde...

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Ominous adorable sneeze. #Monsterdon

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I hope this horsie doesn't suffer the same fate as Little Blackie in True Grit - you have to let him rest, dude.

...Wait, if Dracula's bringing the plague, how come it got there before him? Are the rats, like, running ahead of him on the shore or something? #Monsterdon

um, go home, boat, i think you're drunk-- oh wait. uh... #monsterdon

How well can a dead man steer a ship?
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London looks an awful lot like Amsterdam. #Monsterdon

I might do Renfield's laugh to scare people this year.

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Looks like the ship's autopilot fell asleep at the wheel again..!

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the continuity in this movie is such a mess but i appreciate that it doesn't really matter lol #monsterdon

#monsterdon yeah a ship in full sail glides gently into a canal in the city center sure

“Stop the black coffins.” [Romani: We told you so. ] #Monsterdon

Nosferatu: Black Sea Drift.

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Can Dracula get sea sick?
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#Monsterdon I keep forgetting this is Lucy and not like, Ophelia Hamlet or Lady of Shalott (in a painting I mean) she just looks like she'd be really good at dying

@Sorl stop the violins! (someone can't spell) #Monsterdon

The dogs that belong to the people in the next room are going nuts. I can only assume they're enjoying the movie (somehow despite that I'm using headphones, let's not ask too many questions)

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@strangefour I mean he was trying to serve Harker some kind of taxidermied rooster so he seems to need it.

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"Plague. Eh heee! Hee hee! Oh Garfield you are so funny."
Renfield needs to host a children's show and read the kids Sunday funnies.
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For those too young to remember, Renfield reading the newspaper is basically an exact recreation of Jay Leno's "Headlines" bit on the Tonight Show. #monsterdon

Gonna be hard to steer with all of the wheel bondage gear, Cap

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@jonny @Lazarou Maybe they're sailing up the Volga.

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#monsterdon Herzog music cut

After all the bad vampire movies I've seen, it's genuinely weird to see an *actual bat* in one. #Monsterdon

Nosferatu, why is all your luggage packed in coffins? Just wondering, like, what did you pack? #Monsterdon

Is that... boat... cruise control? #monsterdon

@srol Just think, only an hour to go! #Monsterdon

I'm fine with the pacing of this one, but I've also been watching Twin Peaks: The Return, which I've compared to a meditative exercise.

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To Renfield, it's a Sane Asylum

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