Another #Monsterdon is in the can!
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!
Tonight's feature, #SonOfDracula, from 1943, did not involve awkward parent-teacher conferences. Instead we got:
Queen Zimba!BAT!Tap dance fire suppression!Midnight wedding!Daytime science!Vampire steam!Nutty as a Filbert!Coffin arson!
Heβs either going to marry her or stake her #Monsterdon
And, for the twist ending ... roast Kay!
Oh, wow! I honestly didnβt see that ending.
I don't think it makes up for how stoic the rest of the movie is, but damn if it doesn't stand out more as a result.
Don't do that, you'll get the Stress of Her Regard #SonOfDracula1943 #Monsterdon #TimPowers
Every stake through the heart begins with Kay. #Monsterdon #SonOfDracula
Aww, happy in love music!
Um, wait a sec. Iβm not sure this is supposed to be a happy ending #Monsterdon
This is probably the 40's version of "sexy music" huh
All you had to do was pay us a living wage. #Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943
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Do we need this exposition or what
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Gotta admit that killing the Count by setting fire to his coffin was not an ending I would have predicted.
I know y'all are unimpressed with the bat, but honestly, the effects in this movie are really pretty good for 1943.
this was a remarkably incompetent dracula, thanks for playing
Dude. You threw Frank's body into a pool of water that's RIGHT NEXT to the burning coffin. And you can't figure out how to put out the fire??
I can see why Dracula kicked this "son" out of the castle.
I wonder if I can count (hehe) Alucard's hand turning to bone as "accelerated aging"' for bingo purposes
I do really like older, slower paced movies that let their plots breath. Star Wars is a great example: Compare the pacing of A New Hope to the first of the newest trilogy.
But you need more meat to back that up then this movie has.
Oh, it's the SUN of Dracula, Now I get it. #Monsterdon
Eat sunlight Dracula. And then fall into a puddle and drown. Wow you are so pitiful.
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Hit the flaming thing with more flammable things. That'll fix it.
aw come on that's the ending of nosteratu
1943 is also the year of Return of the Vampire, the legally-distinct Dracula sequel that Columbia made with Bela Lugosi that also had a werewolf and the eponymous vampire being resurrected during the blitz by German bombs.
It's not great, but it is more interesting than this.
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This was before Hollywood knew how to set people on fire for dramatic effect
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Count Dracula is not used to putting out his own fires.
You. Are. In. A. Swamp. There is water frakkin' EVERYWHERE. #Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943
The doctor knows were all the drainage tunnels are. #monsterdon
Frank, Prisoner of Dracula.
so Count Dracula is an undead loathsome thing, but Kay being undead is cool and hot. gotcha.
you're not count alucard, you're dracula tnuoc!
7 mins left!
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It would have been so much better if Frank's middle initial were "N." and his last name "Stein"
I'm just sayin'
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He walked halfway into the room and *between the sawhorses* before he said 'the entire coffin is gone!'
Lesser known Tina Turner song, "What's The Morgue Got To Do With It"
I like how Kay was so drunk with her new power it didn't occur to her that they might be overheard.
Feed a steak to him?
"He said unalive him!"
βShove a steak thru him? Like a porterhouse?β
Remember, every man in this movie was rejected for active duty by the army. #monsterdon
@ramsey The think vampirism is just like money, a simple inheritance. #Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943
'We must prevent Kay and Frank from "doing it" after theyβre dead. That would _really_ be _nasty_.'
Bang Bang
That awful sound
Bang Bang
My baby shot me down..
Truly, Frank has lost his mind. Running around without a three piece suit and a hat. Unthinkable!
βTil death doesnβt do us part.
"An unholy alliance" π
Of course I'm serious. And don't call me Shirley. #Monsterdon #SonOfDracula
What is their problem exactly. They can just turn into steam and waft away. #monsterdon
Kate is very high maintenance! #Monsterdon
@Taweret "The only dates you get are the ones carved into your headstone." #sickburn #monsterdon
Dude. You're a white man in the South. Why are you even still in that cell? #Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943
Nutty as a Filbert.
I am *loving* that she is double crossing Dracula!
I see you called it Macaroni, Claire
Okay, Kate. Respect for the diabolical plan. An independent woman needs a plan in a man's world. #monsterdon
This is a noir, with Dracula the patsy.
The Professor is like, "Dry? Decaying? My home Hungary is!"
Talk about a marriage of convenience #Monsterdon
wat about consent? not cool, Kay.
Don't say the V word! #SonOfDracula1943 #Monsterdon
Don't use the V word!!!! #Monsterdon
We don't like the term V*mpire. Be woke, Frank, be woke. #Monsterdon
WHA WHA WHAT? COUNT DRACULA? BUT THAT'S NOT EVEN THE SAME ORIENTATION OF THOSE LETTERS?!?!? #monsterdon
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So Katherine has everyone in a web of schemes and deceit? What a twist! #Monsterdon
The circle of undeath. And it animates us all.... #Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943
"I don't love him. I never did."
"But you married him."
"OK, let me explain a few things..."
Steam β Bat β
βοΈ [Werewolf?] βοΈ Human
You know there's supernatural shit happening when the theremin starts warbling
Do you doubt these hair lumps?
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@jivens how does their hair know how to go back into that style?
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Katherine definitely got more interesting when she turned undead
never mind that the bar was on the floor
Some people have died. Some people have died and gone on to do really well!
Really liked the seeping-mist and bat-silhouette sequences there.
Further adventures in making film more insteresting by removing one letter:
Kay is in the CoUNTY morgue
@allanb as one does
This is a Smoking Casket.
I'm getting really STEAMED about being in this coffin! #SonOfDracula1943 #Monsterdon
They smokingβ a brisket in there or what?
#Monsterdon de-cade-ent! Well, sure! We can go with that.
We have been spoiled by being steeped in vampire lore since birth. It saves us from all the unnecessary exposition on how vampires work instead of getting to the freakin' action already. #Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943
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well I can attest that morbid grrls also often take unpopular decisions
"Her sister could order her cremation" terrifying glimpse into how the professor thinks families work #Monsterdon #SonOfDracula
STOP CALLING HIM ALUCARD FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST!!!
Thanatophobia? No, this is most definitely thanatophilia.
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"The girl was morbid." Oh, is that what they called "goth" back then?
"Professor, please get my bag."
"Bitch, I have never been here before. How do I know where your fucking bag is?"
Kill him now!! #Monsterdon #SonofDracula π§πΎπ₯πΏ