"If they got in, I can get out."

Yeah I wouldn't want to stick around for that corny tourist trap either. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon
My wife

#monsterdon Why have you come? To steal the money from dead men's eyes.. HAhahaha
WUT?

fingers crossed for Chekhov's flock of geese

#monsterdon

I am fucking ROOTING for this panther.

#monsterdon #vampirecircus1972

"Circus of Nights"

Is the panther a were? Quick cuts suggests so.

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus1972

That's a heck of a... jump cut montage? With the panther? Whatever that was. Neat!

#Monsterdon

What was that nonsense with the leopard? Is there a shirtless man in that leopard? Is he in its tummy?

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

So it took Anna 15 years to find the Circus of Delights? #Monsterdon

Is that the leopard from Cat Girl? #monsterdon

How'd the circus get past the roadblocks? Oh...
Is that Jeff Goldblum?

#Monsterdon
#VampireCircus

The town is blockaded but sure they'll let the circus on.

#Monsterdon

According to this movie, all musicians play shirtless with oiled chests. #Monsterdon

"WELCOME TO THE CIRCUS OF VALUE!"

#Monsterdon #WhoopsWaitWrongGame

"HA HA HA HA we're not kidding..."

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🧛 🎪 😱

I'm gonna have to find out about that black panther she's a great beauty!

#monsterdon Oh sure. Nothing suspicious about a circus train in a village that's been completely sealed off and quarantined.

Whoops, lost the film for a good while there. Going to have to skip ahead.

Hope I didn't miss much.

Wait, I missed the boobs? Aw man!

#monsterdon

The town of Shtetl is a weird name 🤔 #Monsterdon

#monsterdon
A decent use of editing for lack of SFX

Beefy.

hah.. an organ grindr

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

this guy's vampiric power is triggering seizures

#monsterdon

Oh hello. #monsterdon

"Woman! What year is it?!"

#Monsterdon

@nev Angry guy, ignorant guy, doctor guy, and, uh, other guy.

#Monsterdon

BIG CAT
#monsterdon

Uhoh the circus has arrived...y'all are doomed! DOOMED!! #Monsterdon

WERE-PANTHER

(i assume it's also a vampire but yknow. werepanther vampire!)

#monsterdon

The absolute scenery chewing going on 🤣

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

Fuck yeah circus music!

#monsterdon #VampireCircus

Love some good organ grinding

#monsterdon
#VampireCircus

That’s Dave Prowse who is shirtless and playing the music box thing for the circus.

#Monsterdon

I believe the modern term is “spongy woman”.

#Monsterdon

KITTY! #monsterdon

#monsterdon Wow, glad I had subtitles. You'd think your crier would enunciate better.

I hope we're not expected to be able to tell all these white guys apart because I definitely have lost track

#Monsterdon

"Vampires are only a legend! Now I'll just sit back and wait for my entirely deserved ironic death!" #Monsterdon

Medieval entertainment

#monsterdon

I love Hammer films because the acting is often on par with your local High School's drama club, but with an impressive Budget.
#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

The Circus of Nights is the new term for #monsterdon

Me at work next year (with head in hand): "Do you still say there isn't a curse on us?"

#Monsterdon

"Vampires are things of legends"... and circuses!

#monsterdon
#VampireCircus

#monsterdon Guys, vampire bats come from South America. They're not vampire bats.

Blah blah blah blah.. no vampires only science.. blah blah #Monsterdon #VampireCircus

Oh, the circus is a Gypsy caravan

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

Human trafficking, but with bats for a change #monsterdon

Movie... what are you doing to that vampire's thrawl?
Oh just a whipping. Well that sucks yes but yall were leaning in a weird way there.
#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

so far

it sounds like the REALLY EASY SOLUTION

is to finish torching the dang castle...

#monsterdon

Oh! A little person in clown makeup! I'm sure that this will be handled careful... #monsterdon

YES! The circus has come to town!

#Monsterdon

(yawn) more bitey less yappy, please and thank you.
#Monsterdon

I think the white-haired guy played Watson

#Monsterdon

The guy sitting at the desk is totally not at all wearing a silver wig, at all

#Monsterdon

It'd be funny if stakes didn't work but steaks did, and it was the town butcher who saved everyone

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

It's been 15 years? Everyone looks pretty good, still. o_o #monsterdon

Tonight's body count:
1 "dead" vampire count
1 dead child
Some dead rowdy villagers
#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

#monsterdon the bad guy from Star Blazers?

#monsterdon I wonder what's happening at the circus..

Fifteen years later ...

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Wait is this about COVID? #monsterdon

@Louisa I am VERY MUCH enjoying this font, especially combined with that nice humanist sans serif for the smaller words! A+

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

@hollie The new standard adventuring party

#Monsterdon

even in 1972 i think you could shorthand that entire opening sequence by just having some of the characters be like "we killed the vampire awhile ago but we let that one broad who was stealing kids for him go" to be able to spend more time doing circus things #monsterdon

"It's a disease! Something that can be stopped."

*stares bleakly at the last five years of applied global-scale epidemiology* big oof

#monsterdon

@Wynter Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem. *Thud*

#Monsterdon

That priest’s hat… isn’t that a Russian orthodox hat?? #Monsterdon

And now...the interminable credits.

#Monsterdon

I spent that whole cold open with this running through my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXxztZs82yE

#monsterdon #VampireCircus

Guy gets back from one mountaineering trip and now he can't stop putting his leg up on everything. #monsterdon

@floatybirb Hopefully her vampire self will murder all of the guys.

#Monsterdon

THE FIVE BEATLES

#monsterdon

So is it a curse or a disease? Because those are two very different kinds of vampirism

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

...Oh, it IS a plague cart, never mind >_> #Monsterdon

Bring out yer dead!
#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe jinx, coke xD

#monsterdon #VampireCircus

Bring out yer dead! Bring out yer dead!

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus1972

Holy shit, Dave Prowse as in the guy who played Darth Vader (body, not voice)? YES. YES IT IS. He apparently plays a strongman in the circus.

#Monsterdon

BRING OUT YER DEEEEEAD

BRING OUT YER DEEEEEAD #Monsterdon

#monsterdon
bring out your dead

So, I'm clearly a few minutes behind but... I'm still sitting here in awe. #monsterdon

Likely just my copy, but the sound volume is all over the place.

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus1972

it is a compact setup to have the credits roll be "10 years later" though #monsterdon

This is confusing. Did the whole movie just happen before the title card and opening credits? Plot wise a whole #Monsterdon did kinda happen at least

Movie didn't waste time cranking the dial up. #Monsterdon

I feel like they keep trying to get us to feel for them, but like - they opened with devouring a child's life force?

#monsterdon #vampirecircus1972

@SRLevine I'm too afraid to check

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

If that's the David Prowse I'm thinking of, he was the original Darth Vader. #Monsterdon

@nazokiyoubinbou I haven't seen it since I was a kid & don't remember.

#Monsterdon

At least they're not torturing a bat for this one. (So far!)

#Monsterdon

Welp, that was a short movie! Fun while it lasted.

There’s more???

#Monsterdon

@Louisa no, no it's fine, the... tapestries catch... or something... #monsterdon

I guess this is a tasteful sex scene by 70s standards? Man that is a cool evil fireplace. I love the Count's interior decorator.
#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

"by couresty of billy smart's circus."

so there will be actual circus-ry in this movie at some point???

#monsterdon

that was.....a long but informative(?) intro scene

#monsterdon

We have some Doctor Who cred via Lalla Ward (Romana II) #Monsterdon

It would be great if the cousin of our glamrock vampire would be a hillbilly
#Monsterdon #vampireCircus

@jsadow I wonder if #Monsterdon has done Plan 9...

Points for set design of all the past non-vampire brides in his crypt. More attention to detail than I was expecting.

#Monsterdon #VampireCircus

So many problems. They didn’t stake the corpse of the little girl. They didn’t burn or behead the corpse of the count. They didn’t kill the vampire’s accomplice, so she’s gonna bring him back again. Don’t these people know anything? GOSH.

#monsterdon #vampirecircus