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.
βWhat manner of a man is this Dracula?β
well⦠he knows how to work a cape
Married!? But I called dibs! #Monsterdon
Whoops, Countus Interruptus #Monsterdon
The music is telling us this will be A Swamp to Remember.
I give #SonOfDracula1943 4 out of 5 stars in the category of Movie Turning out to be Better than You Expected.
It wasn't nearly as dumb as the Alucard gambit lead us to believe. The story did a decent job of following the logic of a vampire coming to a small town. Aside from the rubber bat, the effects were well executed. I liked the cast, they mostly seemed to like each other.
The vampire was portrayed in an unusually understated performance. The doctor and the professor didn't waste much time doubting what was happening. We got a diabolical femme fatale. The weakest character was the lover put through a wringer of doubt that threatened to get overwrought but he redeemed himself in the end.
Thank you #Monsterdon for choosing it, thanks @Taweret for hosting, and thanks @cherizilla for the bingo card!
I award Son of Dracula 3 out of 5 Vampire Chickens.
The real protagonist was Kate with her Evil Plan, and the real villain was Slavery, which created the wealthy plantation that attracted draculas to the plot in the first place.
The best character was the Hungarian Vampire Hotline Guy, who has a fun job. The worst character was probably Frank, the designated hero who was kind of a jerk. The strangest plot feature was the repeating anti-vampire war room sessions.
And so, Dracula fucked off to the solar eclipse until 1999, Frank remained in therapy for life, and the Doctor and Van Helsing sold the movie rights.
Thanks @Taweret and the crew for hosting and remember not to feed your vampires after midnight.
Things Fran needs to be saved from:
* The count
* His own madness
* Goth wife
* Unkempt collar
an unholy alliance, like eggnog and orange soda
Someone should rename "Dark Oaks" to "Sunshine Acres" and they'd be a lot better off.
THERE ARE LESS THAN 15 MINUTES LEFT IN THIS FILM
WHAT THE FUCK IS EVEN HAPPENING
#Monsterdon
I would have declared this to be the best #monsterdon movie ever if when she said "What if I told you Count Alucard's real name was Count Dracula" there was a full-blown, five-alarm orchestral freakout.
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She should be easy to kill.
Just dig up her body after she's buried, and cut of her head and fill it with a recently slaughtered goat's bladder filled with yogurt and live frogs then put it in a sack and set it on fire as the sun rises
βAre you sure weβre not letting our imaginations get the best of us?β
My dearest brother in black and white, you guys are struggling to imagine the concept of a disguised name. Your imaginations could be bested by a stiff breeze.
#Monsterdon
...He's right behind me, isn't he? #Monsterdon
Someone needs to remind this sheriff the name of the movie is "Son of Dracula" not "Sheriff Loudly Tells Everyone What's What"
the flipside to those of you who vote for the oldest films: we have to watch minutes and minutes of 3 pasty guys on screen talking to each other and moving the plot...nowhere
The problem with this movie is the actual plot points are set ten minutes apart, buttressed by scenes of long talky nothing. #Monsterdon
Bram Stoker's Legal Entanglements
Living in Dark Oaks in the dark never to take visitors again.
Nothing going on here
#monsterdon
"I'm very fond of Frank. And wolfman. And the fishman from the Black Lagoon, he's a hoot."
It was that predilection for hearing things in cellars that was the start of a beautiful friendship.
I guess Kay told all the servants to take a few days off.
So is Kay gonna rise again or what?
"The tree smashed my car"
It jumped right out in front of me! #Monsterdon
It even takes off like a helicopter, is it possible Drac's just a drone in disguise? #Monsterdon
"I don't like it, Claire."
Yeah, I'm not a fan of small-town politics of the South, either. Shit's creepy. #Monsterdon
Dracula, master of many forms. Bat, fog, wolf, steamer trunk
the shoulder pads in those dressee scream 1940s
Director: We need MORE Microphones on the fire stomping. I want it to sound like Gene Kelly is Singin' in the Rain in here.
girfrield has some silver dollar pancakes covering her nipples under that dress. i wonder if itβs made of silk chiffon.
no! you can't go into the swamp while being a dainty flowing skirt broad in 1943 your ass is going to get cursed with only bearing daughters or whatever #monsterdon
What sucks is just how cool the premise of this movie was.
A white Southern plantation belle tries to steal immortality in a Promethean gambit from an otherworldly Old World, old money colonizer for the doomed sake of her and her love? Make the love interest nonwhite and this could be a really interesting film about the interplay between clashing systems of power and the struggle within white America between personal connection versus historical possession.
Instead we gotβ¦this.
#Monsterdon
Well, dayum, I was dicking around with old wiring, adding grounds, and missed the start of #monsterdon
This is the problem with going into summer in the northern hemisphere. I've always got something going on and end up working till dark. In the winter it's easy because the movie always starts after dark and I'm usually wrapping things up by then.
*mutes the hashtag*
Oh wow I haven't heard the cliched wolf howling at the moon audio clip in ages. And haven't heard it outside of a comedy in decades.
#Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1974
@diazona #monsterdon #WrongDracula
The equivalent of a goth phase for teenage vampires is:
#monsterdon Not a terrible movie.
But kind of dull and by-the-numbers.
And the last words of the movie: "Everytime a vampire burns, an angel gets his wings"
"Thank you Clarence?" *wink*
[Roll credits].
βWhat a Wonderful Vampire Life
Shit. That was actually a good movie. Thanks @Taweret
#Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943
And that's it for another #monsterdon !
Big thanks to all of you for coming! But especially to @Taweret for organising this every single goddamn week. The others who help organise things - you know who you are, i love you, don't ever change, i gotta go horizontal for a bit.
:blobheartcat:
FRANK NOOOO! Frank you had it all... and immortality too.
#Monsterdon #SonOfDracula1943
ah yes what a menacing final boss, whose finishing move is to advance towards you slowly until you just sort of fall over and drown in a nearby shallow puddle #monsterdon
Yeah, he sounds more like an angry mobster than a frustrated undead. #Monsterdon
dumbass she SAID don't go there until it's daytime #monsterdon
Frank's a master of the 100 meter stumble. #Monsterdon
"let's be sure to repeat everything that just happened in the last five minutes for another five minutes"
say now that you mention it they had like a half an hour long conversation about becoming immortal vampires, killing a bunch of people, exactly where they were going to do it and when, but that's all crazy talk #monsterdon
GRAND THEFT FRANK #Monsterdon
"I'll unlock the cell and bring you a gun."
Opening scene for two decades of uninspired first-person video games!
@jonny It's 1943, she couldn't buy naming rights to the film without access to credit π«’
"Would you think I was losing my mind if I told you I'd talked to Kay?"
...Yeah. Yeah, I would. #Monsterdon
"Perhaps you'll understand when I tell you Count Alucard's name is... Count Dracula."
DUN DUN DUNNNNN
(Come on, that's such a weak cloak. It's not a dramatic revelation, it is a punchline.)
"Wait, you don't want me to call you a vampire?"
"No, don't call me Hungarian." #Monsterdon
is this the first instance in a movie of someone cheating on their partner and then using it as a way to introduce polyamory
Yeah, Vampire is a slur. #Monsterdon
See the thing about Kay is that she was always kinda goth, maybe she's just into vampirism. Maybe this is what she's into, let the girl be who she wants to be. #Monsterdon
Getting out of the coffin without even opening it is such a flex.
"We must find some way to destroy him before..."
Sic the HOA on 'im! Those things are tailor-made for excluding newcomers.
π¬
hard core protestants must have lost their minds with these catholic propagands movies
oh no! a French Horn fanfare!
"Maybe that's why he left his country to come here, to a younger country, stronger and more virile."
...Doc. Please don't fuck America. #Monsterdon
"Let's smoke our conversation pipes..."
If Lon Cheney Jr. doesn't have an accent, neither should this professor. π€
Man, imagine being the kind of vampire that lives in a steamer trunk. #Monsterdon
Every car from the 1940s was a hearse. #Monsterdon
@paco @silverwizard there are two kinds of vampire movies, those about real estate and those about lesbians
this dude's costume is just a wrinkled up trashbag #monsterdon
What the waiter carrying six trays of appetizers sees when he finally staggers towards my table
#Monsterdon
I wonder what the Crites are up to.
Ah, basement chickens. Tradition in the south. #Monsterdon
Ah capes, the great ass equalizer.
"But, I can't give you the vampire. The Vampire is in Sarah's house, and Claire's house, and Judge Simmons. Oh gosh darn"
β Discount Jimmy Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Vampire."
"I drank what?!" - this guy
Now we suddenly have to read the rest of the movie from a book?
I told you before. Just now. Just right now. It was now but now it's before. Before now. When I told you, before.
(car engine roaring) okay subtitles let's calm down
The main conflict in this movie is utterly riveting.
#Monsterdon
@CactuarJoe It's not a real vampire movie until real estate is a major part of the plot.
Bram Stoker's Inheritance Fraud
I am very amused that Hungary in this universe has a professor whose job is to answer queries about vampires via the telephones.
YOUβRE NOT SUPPOSED TO LET THE VAMPIRE IN!
that tap dancing was π₯π₯π₯
Scully you're not gonna believe this
girlfriend is gonna marry a bigot
raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
dried up lizards and elderly chickens
Ever since you met Count A La Carte and Queen Simba you've changed babe #monsterdon
thatβs a fancy wheelchair. only rich white guys get to be fabulously disabled in Hollywood.
They have some pretty strong Mid-Atlantic accents for people who live in the bayou #Monsterdon
"Did the count come?"
Give me a break, Maggie, he's not even here yet. #Monsterdon
A wonderful piece of vintage cinema! Thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and to the Nodretsnom crew for hanging out with me by the old flume.
....wait a minute....
πM...o..n...s..t..e..r..d..o..n!
#Monsterdon π€―
I have to say #SonOfDracula was one of the better #Monsterdon movies.
The effects were quite good for the era.
The era was, er, problematic, but honestly not as intrusive as it could've been.
The story was middling. I was a little surprised by Kate's motivation and choices.
The acting was... what the hell do you expect? There was a war on!
Kay, Bye
alright so all problems resolved now just for frank to become a vampire and live forever with K in their legally acquired plantation estate but it's ok because he's from around these parts #monsterdon
frank, sam, whatever