The real villain of this movie. And she's a great movie vampire.
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My ex married someone else, so anyway I started blasting

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From her hairstyle I'm pretty sure Kate was a Replicant anyway, probably sent back in time by Skynet or Weyland.

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Better Count Alucard actor

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when you meet a man that sleeps in a coffin submerged in the swamp and appears to you levitating from a puff of smoke, you put a ring on it
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Better Count Alucard actor

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So the plot of the movie was basically some aristocratic woman got depressed, went on a trip, and brought back a witch and a dracula back with her so that she could steal his vampirism and kill him to live forever with the boy she had been in love with since childhood, and the boy responded by burning her in her coffin before she had even done anything to anyone #monsterdon

why would this movie be called son of dracula when there are no sons and not bride of dracula when there is a bride who is the main driver of the plot #monsterdon

On the other hand, it's nice to see a film where the scenes were actually blocked properly. #Monsterdon

Well, there we have it, the fucking real estate plot right on schedule #monsterdon

this movie is taking the 1943 turn of "if you thought vampires were evil, get a load of women" but it's also going in a sort of goth dommy mommy direction too so i am sort of on board #monsterdon

if you love something, set it on fire

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"It was the way we wanted it: quiet, and alone."

"You see, I am engaged in scientific research."

"We will not have social engagements."

RELATABLE

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what the hell frank? you were going to live forever with your hot goth babe wife being benign landlords that only needed to occasionally drain a sustainable amount of blood from your tenants while they were sleeping but otherwise carry on as respected members of the community providing affordable, clean, safe housing to the downtrodden bloodbags #monsterdon

"The girl was morbid"

They prefer to be called Goths

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oh hey you broke into my house and were snooping around my basement, let me take you into my room where i keep my wife sitting bolt upright fully clothed in bed to tell you everything is fine #monsterdon

HE: "the tree smashed my car"

ME: and is this tree in the room with us now?

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There's something wrong about Dracula using a shovel. Like, you're in eveningwear. #Monsterdon

I'm going to start posting with the #Nodretsnom hash tag and no one will know what I'm talking about.

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this movie is better than i thought. the cinematography is excellent. the script, not so much but it’s got a good pace and it’s lighted like a work of art.

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Filming seemed to have been less boring than the movie.

Trivia: "While filming, Louise Allbritton and co-star Robert Paige were constantly playing jokes on their cast mates. One day, Pat Moriarity and Paige were filming a scene where they flip open her character's coffin. They were astonished upon opening the lid to find Allbritton inside, completely naked."

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#Monsterdon 🦇 #SonOfDracula Cate had THE best dresses 👗... and I'm sure there's no symbolism behind Claire holding that long candle 🕯️

I think someone smarter than me could write a paper about the way Son of Dracula sort of Americanizes the vampire. Changing it from a psychosexual thing to a race science thing. "A young and virile country" and all that. #Monsterdon

"a younger and more virile country"

oh lawd, here we go. the eugenics have entered the chat.

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@jonny @cargot_robbie wait what if the situation is that Dracula owns a lot of real estate in Eastern Europe due to being a centuries-old vampire, BUT it's 1943, so there's also a massive war going on in Eastern Europe at this moment so he's worried all of his property will get wrecked, and so he wants to diversify his holdings to include a manor on a safer continent?

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OMG she’s getting a plantation… that’s now invaded by a vampire. i hope this turns out as if Roger Corman had read Octavia Butler.

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i’ve always wanted one of those metal jugs of milk, for no reason othern that they look cool

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and technically, Dracula fucked off into a swamp. so it’s a solid #Monsterdon movie

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Honestly they didn't ignore that he could hear them talking...

really my major issues with this film are just Lon Cheney Jr.'s acting and a little bit of the premise

it doesn't have to be Dracula, the book

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"He's as nutty as a filbert."
Ah I love hazelnuts and their silly second name.
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"Don't say that word, Frank! The algorithm will demonetize us. Instead call us.... unalive."

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married by this kirby maybe

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Just based on other posts I'm seeing, the Count's accent is a Rorschach test. Everyone hears a different bland US regional dialect.

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this movie feels like the test reel for a film noire involving a detective vampire hunter

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So dracula now gets to live in his legally acquired plantation estate, bury his poor deceased wife, and they put that other guy in prison for murdering the wife. no conflict detected #monsterdon

Harry, calm down. You're Jimmy Stewarting all over the room.

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Frank is doing a bit of a discount Jimmy Stewart in "It's a wonderful life."

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If you can be frightened to death can you also be bored back to life

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Bram Stoker's Gone With The Wind

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#monsterdon Well, that had all the drama of a police procedural.

Actually not a terrible ending. Good job :D #Monsterdon

vampires are like mold. the moment sunlight hits them, they dead.

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Huh, I wonder if Alucard could have prevented this crypt fire by just paying Frank a living wage

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8 minutes remaining and we are still dealing with not all the characters being onboard with the existence of vampires when we should be locking and loading and arranging all manner of stake crossbows and whatnot #monsterdon

"I married him so he'd make me a vampire, so I could make you a vampire. And you can make two friends… and so on… and so on… "

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This is a very funny vampire mythology where you can only be turned into a vampire if you pre-game your goth level high enough.

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make with the fucking SON already #monsterdon

"Katherine is going to help me with my research."

Is *that* what you're calling it now.

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Yeah, Lon Chaney Jr. just can't do a Dracula. He's too soft-spoken, his voice is downright Midwestern. It doesn't work. #Monsterdon

even if he was just a normal guy you shouldn't shoot at him when the woman you're trying to marry is standing directly behind him didn't they teach you that in gun school right after the lesson "never aim the gun just hold it limply by your side" #monsterdon

He's like one of those sprites in old Doom clone videogames where no matter how you rotate around him he's always facing you.

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*Liz Lemon voice* When he says the soil is red with the blood of a hundred races? Uh, that's a dealbreaker ladies!

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Dog all you need to do to protect your town from draculas is to set up a system of state subsidized housing for the elderly and immortal where they no longer need to resort to their usual machinations to acquire cavernous estates and a thrall squad to tend to the grounds #monsterdon

THRILL as they STAND AROUND DISCUSSING PROPERTY LAW

*007 musical sting*

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YOU DON'T SAY

Just in case you didn’t get it, we’re spelling Alucard backwards #Monsterdon

MUCH Better Count Alucard actor

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And that's a wreck! Frank despairingly places his engagement ring on Kay's corpse while a love music theme sounds out. The vampire hunters arrive... to be greeted by a funeral pyre enveloping Kay and the parlor, set by Frank!

Love music wraps up the credits!

Absolutely nobody fucks off into the sea!

Legitimately good horror film end except for that completely mismatched music.

Thank you for hosting, @Taweret ! Thank you for the bingo card, @cherizilla !

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They really oversold the "Son" part of the "Son of Dracula."

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really, the acting ain't that bad either, but the cinematography and score are doing hella heavy lifting. this coulda been a z-movie but it’s a solid B.

well done crew! we picked a good one.

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"Sometimes, a premise doesn't last long enough to sustain its execution. And in that case, your story might have been better told in a half hour... on the Twilight Zone."

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"I'm only the sheriff, I'm not the judge!"

Yeah, sorry, not believable as a small-town southern sheriff. #Monsterdon

she just drank him and he only woke up because she started talking to him. so if vampires are just a nuisance taking imperceptible amounts of blood from us while we're sleeping, just let them do their thing and regulate and tax their real estate empire to pay for a public housing program #monsterdon

Wait? Her plan is to become a vampire and steal Dracula's real estate!? A plantation owning woman is the real villain? OMG that's so dumb I love it.
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Fold your own origami flappy bat! http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-flapping-bat.html

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#monsterdon People always downplay "eternal life" in these films.

Oh yeah, nobody wants that. Nobody would ever make any sacrifices to attain something so trivial as eternal life.

usually you only start suspecting people are vampires once you start finding drained guys around everywhere. the vampire revealing himself before he even feeds is a massive own goal #monsterdon

"His coffin has soil from his homeland. That counts as a grave."

It's all just bizarre little edge cases in real estate law.

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Oh good, the Van Helsing has arrived. #Monsterdon

An empty cellar! A void, where once there were chickens!

Void chickens!!!

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Frank Craven reminds me of Takashi Shimura

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CELLAR CHICKENS

DRINK

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"He just stood there, staring at me"

he ain't a great actor Buddy..

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@jonny You know what a Dracula movie needs? A dispute over the taxation of trade routes, that's what

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To paraphrase Benoit Blanc, a will reading is like a community theater production of a tax return.

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LMAO the day Orbán loses in #Hungary, we’re watching an artifact of old Hollywood that fetishes them

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Wow, what a dick. "Thank god the old women is dead, she was gross." Fucker. #Monsterdon

first the Black porter, now this ambigulously indigenous lady called Queen Simba. representation matters, but not like this.

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"my house guest is late, guess i better go out to the haunted swamp to ask the swamp witch Queen Simba why and also hear about what kind of dead thing she imagines me being in love with"

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welp, i guess that's why this movie had an above-the-fold credit for "gowns"

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Dammit, I was doing taxes and forgot about #Monsterdon. I blame J. D. Vance.

I am still puzzled by the disappeared basement chickens.

Frank!!!

You saved everyone!!! You weren’t charmed. You fooled us all!!!

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That's a new variation on the burning bed. Eet's a tweest! #Monsterdon

Anyway Dracula is going to squeeze Frank to death but then the sun comes up and he melts into a skeleton.

With four minutes left, the audience is left to wonder if Frank wants to become a vampire now too and reign over this plantation with his Goth Vampire GF.

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you have TWO minutes. TWO. #monsterdon

Therefore bingo #monsterdon

Kay's a much more believable vampire than Lon. #Monsterdon

Frank, she is dead. She just hasn't stopped moving yet. #Monsterdon

"It shouldn't be hard to get an Insanity plea, I'll just keep expressing emotions....they don't like that!"

Think quick Frank

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"Kill Alucard for me, Frank."

HA!! It's like BODY HEAT. But without any actual body heat. ⚰️ #Monsterdon 🦇 #SonOfDracula

"He's as nutty as a filbert." Bring this back

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Appreciating how the lady has agency and is coming up with her own plots

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#Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943 vampire gf (upside: hot, immortal; downside: wants you to murder her vampire husband)

That's the thing about vampire reproduction -- humans make heirs, vampires make competitors. #Monsterdon

Ah vampirism, the original MLM scheme.

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*scoffs* "No one could choose a thing so loathsome!"

*thirteen hundred monsterdonians who also watch international news look directly into the camera*

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wait is the adult dracula the son of an even older dracula? if so i am declaring this movie a ripoff i thought for sure the haunted wife and dracula were going to spawn #monsterdon

The cinematography is excellent. Which is nice and all, but some kind of… pacing would be nice. I'm not saying I need balls-to-the-wall action, but balls-to-the-front-porch would be nice.

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