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

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The lust... for #MONSTERDON !!!

@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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He likes Nosferatu. As in, the band

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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

@SordidAmok it was. the practical effects stunt crew were working it for reasl

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@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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So what the heck happened when Anna died? She got young again?

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

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.

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?

@Lazarou @RamenCatholic Harambe would agree?

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*gull sounds

THE END

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I wouldn't say it was a classical "sudden end" #monsterdon. More to a ended at last. What a slooow movie.

And they probably properly killed the count this time.

And eventually the survivors will get vaccinated.

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Wait I am still watching because there were a lot of Trivago commercials.

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WE DID IT!

wow I wasn't sure I was gonna make it through that one, what a circus

Thanks everyone and thanks to @Taweret for hosting! :)

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Ah, Count Schmetterling or whatever is awakening again. Of the metal-choker vampire clan.

Aaaand there's his head gone, already.

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So, did they all fuck off into the afterlife, or something?

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That was a strange episode of Dora the Explorer.

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So why did nobody just yoink the stake out of the vampire earlier in the movie?

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So if removing the vampire's head keeps him from coming back why didn't they do that to begin with???

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That wasn't even a crucifix. Or a cross. IT WAS JUST A PLUS SIGN

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I had no idea bats were so flammable.

now the brother and sister can kiss

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Ohhh! A CROSSBow.

This movie makes me tired…
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that was...a genuinely novel way to off the vampire. the movie gets a point for _that_.

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#monsterdon Did you know a crossbow could do that? I wonder if it can slice cheese too.

Stop, drop, and roll!

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That crossbow was never properly foreshadowed #monsterdon

decapitation with a crossbow, pretty fuckin metal

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Oh to be poked and teased by Romana. If only we could all be as lucky as the Doctor.
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Surprise! Head's up! #Monsterdon #VampireCircus

Huh, didn't know you could behead a vampire. Whatever works!

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@caban4 vampire protection pro tip: Always keep popsicles in the freezer. it’s easy to make crosses from popsicle sticks. learnt this in sunday school #Monsterdon

some of this is nicely shot tbh

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Improper use of x bow

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Sorry, not buying that crossbow bit. The ammo was a stake enough even if it had an arrow tip on it.

Elvis lives! #monsterdon

You know when the director says CUT that guy is grabbing his hand and screaming and asking for salve

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man, couldn't someone have gotten the Count an clean shirt, at least?

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That death scene just gave me OG Buffy movie Paul Reuben’s death scene realness
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Oh the twin's mom is still just a vampire thrall and not a vampire? Huh.
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Hey ya'll I'm back from the dead. What'd I miss? #Monsterdon #VampireCircus

#monsterdon Crosses in the stomach: death. Arrows in the heart: no problem. Now I don't know how crosses or stakes work.

With the very same stake that killed his cousin. Of course removing it from Mitterhaus leaves open one last jump scare in the final minutes here. #VampireCircus #Monsterdon