Hear the high-pitched hammond organ in the background? Nothing strange or untoward ever happened while a hammond organ was playing.

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@floatybirb It's a well-known formula, but thank you. I hope I never have to use it!

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Not eternal life, but a few hundred years until I get bored, is that so wrong Doctor?

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I like it more when Cheech plays the bat

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@CactuarJoe #monsterdon

In Stoker's novel, Van Haling talks some BS along the same lines about why Dracula moves to London.

Katie, observing a fine mist seeping out of Alucard's coffin: "no! What did we _just_ learn about smoking in bed‽"

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@allanb I award you a PHD in Anti-Vampire Tactics.

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ahhh there's that little guy again :3

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The doctor and the professor are about to have a "how do we kill this vampire!" conspiracy session, but then Claire the sister appears and is like "hey I found a child who has some holes in the neck and said he encountered a strange man in a swamp!" and then they example his seemingly dead body and paint some crosses over the vampire holes.

Does that stop him from rising again?

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Tommy won't turn into a vampire, he's too square

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I hope she punches out of that thing like the Terminator

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FLAPPY BAT!

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what the hell was that??? #monsterdon

The mist effects are killer. #monsterdon

So the Housekeeper is also the medical receptionist too? Does she get paid twice?

I doubt it...

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#Monsterdon it’s like General Hospital. She’s alive, she’s dead, sherif is a douche, the lord of the manor is… weird.

ahem In the original novel Dracula, it must be a crucifix (that is, a fancy schmancy cross with Jesus on it) to properly repel Dracula. In later works, a simple cross suffices. This implies Dracula is getting more Protestant over time. In this essay I will

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I back out of the room in the same way when someone holds a cross like that

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lol, kinda how I feel when people are flashing Crosses around....

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Oooohhh. Smokey entrance.

Young and virile?

Quick use of the cross!

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Foolish vampire, unaware that professors are equipped with handy palm-crucifixes for just such moments as these.

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who would have suspected the pushy rich European guy had cards up his sleeve like "a young and virile race"

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@yatsu I do appreciate how the Archive version this week came with subtitles #Monsterdon

It's hard to believe a man of science would give into superstition so fantastic.

Anyway, it's getting late. See you at church tomorrow

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So a collection of cops and other white men in hats go to snoop around and find Kate sleeping in a coffin in a little chapel. And now the sheriff is like "yo Doctor guy why did you say you talked to her she's dead?" But this proves to the Doctor that he's in a vampire movie.

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A VIMpire?
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"a younger country, stronger and more virile" jesus christ these pasty old motherfuckers

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Son of Dracula summary:
A Transylvanian minority flees eastern Europe during WW2 to acquire property in the American south and is harassed by white plantation owners, one of whom shoots his new bride.
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Professor Exposition knows lots of fun vampire facts

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“Undoubtedly a vampire”

Professor did you even meet the subject

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@strangefour

I mean... to be fair, I don't think the Alucard thing has ever completely worked, so maybe they're just smarter..?

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You're really going to snoop in the cellar again? You deserve what you find. #Monsterdon

Professor has a more vampire-like accent than Dracula Jr.

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Coffin scene that feels vaguely inspired by the novel

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Is that dude the only man allowed to have emotions in this movie?

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Every time a man or group of men tentatively enters this mansion, I hear Robotnik from the Snapcube dub "I'M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN"

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@steggy #monsterdon

Yo there's been a marriage! And a shooting!

you can tell frank has lost it from the disheveled jacket

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Aaaahhhh - they're going to walk through the whole scene again just to pad the movie out.

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@rebeld

This film could use a Drac-ball!

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I think this is a film about mental health awareness.

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I've been trying to think of something funny to say about those judge robes, but they just look like shit.

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The little pink guy married them? That is insane

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You see kids, when a vampire man and a vampire lady love each other very much they conduct scientific research... #Monsterdon

We have coffee!

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Mama already told all your friends not to come

That ain't no way to have fun, Son (of Dracula)

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@MatthewTitus88 #monsterdon
similar to a trance, but more of a doze

I like to rest impishly

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"And even if it did seem that Lon Chaney would make an unlikely Hungarian, even an undead one, makeup genius Jack Pierce would at least make him look the part. This was quite a blow for the career-challenged Bela Lugosi, who was cooling his heels at Monogram until Universal’s inevitable resurrection of Dracula, only to lose the part to a young rival. His grudge against Chaney would last for years. (According to Reginald LeBorg, Lugosi was still stewing over Son of Dracula when he costarred with Chaney in The Black Sleep in 1956.)" - Universal Horrors, Tom Weaver #monsterdon

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"A tree hit my car!"
Uh-huh. Not this guy's first time with a DUI.

@saucerlost oh that could also make sense!

but it might imply that he is actually vulnerable to bullets, unless he is consciously misting to avoid them?

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Called it, he's Making Fay...

(My wife like Vampire Romance, I'm familiar with the terms)

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Son of Dracula has been brought to you by Tupperware™

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@Lazarou Well he does have one facial expression

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#Monsterdon 🧛‍♀️ 💞 🧛‍♂️ = 🧛 🦇 🩸 😱
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OK but none of this would account for your silly half-outiness of your handkerchief

A tree smashed my car?
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Ow! Light through a cross! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I guess "Son of Dracula" was the thing that cursed all Vampire in New Orleans properties to be very pretty, but absolute garbage*

* The first _n_ seasons of True Blood excepted of course. Fight each other over the value of _n_ in the doogaliedoo

a lawfully wedded husband who transforms into a squeaky puppet, horrors

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Vampires: also persistence hunters

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i wonder if anybody can identify the model of square watch the jilted fiance in this scene is wearing

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"Kay! I told you dodge all my bullets when I get in a shooty mood"

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Amazing how his accent as a "foreigner" sounds totally American. That must be why all the Hungarians are like "Nope, not one of ours."

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Why did Dracula have to make it a weird race thing?

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In the original Dracula movie, Tha Count hires a lawyer.

Dracula wanted to marry this lady to inherit the sword familiar.

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Katie has accused our floaty bat-boy of looking like a knock-off Clark Gable.

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A stormy wedding!

Alcuard still carries Kay over the threshold.

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Least believable storm ever. #Monsterdon

He looks like Count Paul F. Tompkins

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"Don't mind me, I'm off to my vampiric swamp tryst!" - Kate, probably

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Alucard must be very, very wet in his sunken coffin. Materialized from fog, and now drifting over the bayou as the music swells ...

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"I followed you tonight"

"oh cool, that means you really care, not a warning sign at all!"

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SOUL STEAL

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The effects are pretty good for 1943

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And now Alucard gets in a fight with Swamp Thing! Yeah! #Monsterdon

Kate's sister and an old dude decide to break into Alucard's stuff and discover that he didn't bring any clothes.

I guess this is because if you can transform at will between a naked bat and a clothed count, you don't need to carry extra clothes? But wait, could your count clothes ever get dirty? Or are the count clothes some kind of illusion?

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"The soil is red with the blood of 100 races"

"Oh you say the most romantic things!"

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"You make it sound as if I was in some kind of danger."

Why? Just because you're alone in the backwoods with a strange man you don't know?

WHY WOULD THAT BE DANGEROUS?
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@bstacey YOunLO

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implausible bat action, plausibly 1940s infantilization of the entire racially-othered subset of the cast...

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@jonny it's authentic Dracula now

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Claire gets all of the liquid assets? The taxes will kill her!

Too soon? #monsterdon

@floatybirb lol, true. What a bleak time the world before Anime was! #Monsterdon

All the subtlety of a brick. #Monsterdon

lmaao he's from the Bensonhurst part of Hungary

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@jivens 💯

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“Tod Browning’s Dracula? Oh yeah, I’m a big fan of the bat special effects. Best bat in the business. That bat deserves its own movie.” —The director of this movie, apparently

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The servants break out into a ritual tap dance around the fire due to the Colonel dying. (yeah, it's cringe)

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Personally, I didn't vote for Senator Man Field, preferring his counterpart Lady Lake.

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@bunnyhero His sons Appy and Tizer. #monsterdon

That tapdancing is the worst I've ever seen. #Monsterdon

"Count Alucard is a fake!"

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count a la carte?

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Are we 30 or 40 year olds the last folks who will remember cautions against ever smoking in bed or at bedtime?

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Queen Zimba was actually Neeuq Abmiz the whole time!

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I get all my news from Farmhands

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Disrespectful to swamp witches

Again, a Mastodon tribe

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This movie isn’t lampshading tropes because a lampshade is far more subtle than…whatever the fuck “character A warns character b by reading directly from the movie summary” counts as.
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Does Count Alucard need to be invite in? Or invited out?

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