Vampire Circus
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allanb

I'm a bit confused about what era this is supposed to be - Victorian or Dark Ages?

Floaty Birb
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Her husband naturally objects to having her locked inside as the Boob Fortress burns down, saying "but she's pregnant!" but the angry mob is unmoved.

Inside the basement of the boob fortress, the lady wanders around and meets some cool skeletons, then drinks blood from her dead rockstar vampire boyfriend to I guess become a vampire, then the castle burns down I guess.

Bluedepth

Financially destroy the count in a series of loan-default swaps and subprime mortgages!

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This concludes my thread for , a movie where a circus full of vampires comes to resurrect a dead vampire rockstar for some reason, and then is killed by an angry mob and the power of religious geometry.

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Ben Zanin
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gnomon

*circus himbo is shot in a rather shockingly kinetic fashion, then beaten to death by the townsfolk with torches*

F in chat for the perforated villain

saucerlost

Fun fact: Strongman is David Prowse, aka the guy in the Darth Vader suit

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Okay, so Doctor Mustache is back from the Capitol and he thinks this is rabies and not vampires. Dora is recovered from her kidnapping but doesn't remember exactly what happens; I guess her and twink boyfriend are the "good" wholesome couple and the village girl and the circus fuckboy are the "bad" horny undead couple.

Nazo
Nazo
nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social

Wait... The Mirror of Life tent is like 10x10 on the outside and like 10x that on the inside.

Is this Romana's own TARDIS?

Why did she turn to the dark side?

#Monsterdon

Bluedepth

Her arterial spray was going the wrong way. Down to his feet. So, I guess, what? Vampire Line Dancing?

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Literary Hot Take:

This is strange, because its both Pro-Moral Panic (in that the angry mob that wants to persecute the strangers is pretty much always right all the time), but also Pro-Showing-the-Audience-Lots-of-Tits, which is generally a thing that Moral Panic people like to... um... panic about.

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It's interesting how this mirror sequence plays on the trope of vampires not appearing in mirrors by having them first appear in the mirror (but not real life) but then not appear in the mirror.

Anyway, the vampires are Rockstar Guy and Village Girl from before, and the mirror teleports the boys to the Boob Fortress basement, where they eat the boys; the voiceover says "ur children will die to give me life!" so I guess the Vampire Rockstar is getting more alive.

Nazo
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nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social

I feel like if they want to restore him to unlife after him being stabbed with a wooden stake, wouldn't removing the stake that can re-(re-)kill him maybe be the thing that should be done first rather than I guess apparently last?

#Monsterdon

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Later that night, the village girl and her twink boyfriend are visiting the circus and getting a live demo, where one of the circus girls lets a tiger bite her and then shows that she has no injury, proving that the animals are harmless, or that she is a vampire.

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So another village man, whose job I forgot, wanders into the circus and casts Speak with Dead, or at least Speak with Circus spirits. A disembodied voice says something ominous in reply; just imagine your own ominous reply here because it was probably more interesting than whatever the movie said.

Like "Beware! I am the skeleton king!" or "im gonna eat ur face u losers!" or just "Mwahahahaha!"

Then the village guy is kidnapped by the circus people or something.

Ben Zanin
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gnomon

*Rosa shows up naked in the next scene* OK I would like to double down on my theory about the stitching in the town of Stetl being catastrophically unreliable

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The Roma lady announces the main act, in which a tall hobbit battles naked woman in tiger striped body paint. By battle I mean "dance erotically with", giving this film Additional Nudity. She rips some clothes off of him, kisses him, then pretends to be strangled, to the delight of the probably horny villagers.

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We then go to the circus people doing a circus, in which the strongman lifts the short man in clown makeup. The strongman is bare chested, meaning this movie technically has two genders of boobs in it.

Nazo
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nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social

@overholt I guess, uh, living in some tiny village out in the middle of nowhere and quarantined with the magical vampire plague pre-Internet I guess I can't blame them for being bored out of their skulls.

#Monsterdon

Ben Zanin
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gnomon

*villagers toss a torch at lines of black powder leading to literal powderkegs*

I see these villagers learned their craft at the ACME School Of Evil Castle Demolition By Way Of Mob

Ben Zanin
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gnomon

They're not really making it clear whether the village is intent on killing Anna because they think she's a vampire or because they think she's a libertine.

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Outside the Boob Fortress, a teacher or somebody is trying to organize an angry mob of village men to burn the boob fortress down because the vampire rockstar who lives there is abducting their wives and daughters, for sex and eating (respectively).

He passes his charisma check and an angry mob invades the Boob fortresses, finding a the dead little girl, and interrupting a vampire makeout session.

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SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event.

This week we watched VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1972).

It has both of the things the title promises (although neither is compelling), a surprising amount of boobs, and cute lil fruit bats. Some pretty good VFX and a muddling plot, right down the middle for Monsterdon fare.

See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128