Where are the vampires? I was promised a circus of vampires.

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@saucerlost 😆
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This is straying into Orgy Of The Dead territory

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This doesn't seem very appropriate for children. Zalman King's Vampire Circus. #monsterdon

Is that the dreidel song?

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#monsterdon Hey kid, you missed a naked lady pretending to be a tiger.

Wait. The #VampireCircus is a sex show? #Monsterdon

That chimp ain't laughing, he's upset....

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Is it sex?

Is it interpretive dance?

Yes!

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As it's otherwise known, another episode of the writer/directors thinly disguised fetishes

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I'm pretty sure boobies were required in all 1970s movies. They had to compete with Deep Throat. #monsterdon

Do boobs count if they are covered in body paint?

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Have they got a lady MC, because that's pretty progressive......wow, naked painted lady!

Her bald head looks like a watermelon, brilliant!

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Clearly full-monty

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Ladies and gentlemen, Citizens of shithole. I commend to you...

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This circus is like a free guest amenity at a Motel 6. #monsterdon

@Lazarou #monsterdon

The rest of the circus is emptying anything of value from their houses.

@_L1vY_ deep discount circus #monsterdon

This claim makes Doctor Mustache mad, because he doesn't believe in vampires, and he instead blames the villagers for abandoning the Boob Fortress and/or not burning it down hard enough, thus letting disease fester there.

Then this argument is disrupted when a circus arrives in town, led by a small person in clown makeup and including a strongman, some wagons, a panther, a Roma girl that the boys holler at, and some geese (I think).

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oh man, that's the worst case of sharpie I've ever seen

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#monsterdon The Puma has a dudebro existence hiccup.

#monsterdon That kid must have been SUPER drunk if he couldn't tell the difference between a lounging dude and a panther.

lol, this is going to be very 'Papa Lazarou' League Of Gentleman vibe, isn't it?

I can sense these things......

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KITTY!

(were-panther?)

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Hm. Darth Vader is in this.

Ok I admit it; I don't know anything, but if I could just get past the roadblocks I'd know for sure. Yeah, that's it.

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All you need to do is drink your own urine, gents. I read that on the new CDC website. #monsterdon

"They're frightened of catching the illness." god i wish that was us

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this town is not down with the sickness

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Ooh, the bat out of the skull eye is a nice touch! #Monsterdon

Bat crawling out of a skull? 💯

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I’m guessing the little girl was playing the role that would go into be played by Kirsten Dunst in Interview With A Vampire. All cuz they didn’t stake her. #monsterdon #vampirecircus

Dave Prowse! OMG Darth Vader is in this movie!!!

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The nice thing about this movie so far is that every 10 minutes you could call it the end, and leave the theater.

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The Count looked like an evil Noel Fielding

You may get that reference...

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Wait, that entire 20 minute sequence was pre-title card? HOW LONG IS THIS MOVIE!?!?!

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Credits being haunted by a pissed-off Vulcan. #Monsterdon

Ooo, David "Body of Darth Vader" Prowse is in this...

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Circus font!!!!!!!! You fabulous bastards you did it

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NOW

The title & credits

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Dayum that was a loooooong cold open for a movie made in the 70s. #monsterdon

hot damn we even get a bunch of fucking explosions wasn't expecting that from a vampire movie
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looks like a combo cellar and crossfit facility #monsterdon

should they LOOT the castle first?

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Well THERE'S the Patriarchy....

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Can't wait to see how the next Count they pick is somehow worse

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Movie's done, then, yeah?

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This, ladies and gentlemen, is how one looks after a full night of disco. You have to pace yourself. #monsterdon

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My wife

Cool vampire sex where you lie at a 90 degree angle from each other and play steamroller

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Castle needs a disco ball to complete the look #monsterdon

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@SordidAmok #monsterdon

he should have told them it was a queue...

@allanb Vampire Orthodontist lost like $20 million at the box office, we're not getting another one.

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@AnarchoNeighbor Not a question to be embarrassed about, by the way! This is an important piece of information that everyone needs to learn

...um, I mean, everyone who watches #Monsterdon 😛

So... .... .....

We're just going to act like him just magically appearing like that is totally normal stuff then?

Right, ok, just so long as I understand the rules.

(Also wow, entering creep territory.)

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#monsterdon And suddenly, DOINK. Vampire. Total Hammer.

Hammer!

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It's hammer time - says everyone

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Okay - we're rolling with the Rank Organisation presentation of Vampire Circus.

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@YsengrinWolf Haha that makes perfect sense. The Count was drinking blood through his skin! #Monsterdon

now can I have my ram chip, joel?

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@bunnyhero @Taweret
Yeah, it wasn't bad. Lacked the heavies to make it one of the better ones like #Gorgon, but it took itself seriously to the end. I got a bit lost with all the characters, but I definitely liked the setting and story of being trapped in a town plagued by... uh... a plague, and then preyed upon by a circus of vampires.

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i actually kinda liked that one, but i'm a sucker for most hammer horror of the era. thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting! and to everyone for the commentary #monsterdon

@SordidAmok And the Count that thinks.

Well, maybe not. #Monsterdon

@goinfawr FIVE YARD PENALTY AND REPLAY THIRD DOWN

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anyway, good job as always team, another movie successfully launched into space - and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting!

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@diazona @Terencio @ramsey I didn't get enough sleep last night so I kinda ... slacked off for a while. definitely not my usual numbers

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"Frank N Furter, it's all over.
Your mission is a failure;
Your lifestyle's too extreme."
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Elvira!?
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@moira @_L1vY_ The only thing that makes sense to me is that it got snapped off by the bowstring of the crossbow somehow, too bad soo sad #monsterdon

@moira Yeah, wasn't really rooting for anyone or hoping for particular villagers to become unalive #monsterdon

@floatybirb @diazona @Terencio @ramsey ~2400 so far, not that much less than the rest on https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev, but on the lower end. #monsterdon

@SnoopJ @cd0 I am intrigued

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@Terencio @ramsey Hmm yeah, I guess it's hard to know for sure until people run the analysis later but there do seem to be fewer posts than typical this time

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@moira @APBBlue This. It wasn't the worst #monsterdon but it had slightly more boring than interesting elements.

Some fun aesthetics for this one, I’m on board for a modern remake with a budget, or at least a bishounen anime adaptation. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting and @ryan for running the stream, see y’all next week!

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This movie is massive Christian propaganda! Somebody was making a bundle with tie-in crucifixes! 🤔

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Not gonna lie, I was rooting for the vampires in this one. Oh well, at least fair number of annoying villagers died.

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@Terencio I went into my Sidekiq queue and killed a bunch of dead jobs, and now I see all the posts for the hashtag. 😅

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Some films just cannot be un-seen.
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I think Frank ‘n Furter gets a lot of his strutting style from this count #Monsterdon

#monsterdon That woman gets carried around a lot.

Lmao. Prowse is just an evil human strongman. Or a werewolf? He's probably a secret werewolf.
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See?!?! Removing the stske helped his recovery tremendously.

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Bat knocks away the cross. Cross-species strategies! #Monsterdon

Holy crap, what are they firing from those guns? #Monsterdon #VampireCircus

I'll be honest, I thought Vampire Circus was a real bore-o snore-o when I first saw it ten years ago, but that kicked ass. I think I was just too immature and unsophisticated back then for *checks notes* rubber bats heckling naked leopard girl dances. #monsterdon

Will that bat turn into a mummy?
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@cd0 yeah clearly, according to this movie

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I like that the cross got its own hero leitmotif in the score

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Well that was a lot of terribly horny vampire stuff mixed with a bunch of terribly horny circus stuff to make a pretty terrible movie with some surprisingly effective moments! Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants! #Monsterdon #VampireCircus

I wonder why the cross things get hot when the vampires look at it.
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One Bat was preserved, for sequel purposes.

And that concludes this week's #monsterdon ! We watched Vampire Circus (1972)

it was forgettable, I've forgotten most of it already.

He is too sexy not only for his shirt, but for that puny cross. #Monsterdon #VampireCircus

The moral of the story is that even if you name your little town Shtetl misfortune can still befall you, who would have thought so? #monsterdon

#monsterdon If a vampire looks at a map of Manhattan, does it turn to dust because all the streets form crosses?

*gull sounds

THE END

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@Lazarou @RamenCatholic Harambe would agree?

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