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Off to a very promising start for #Monsterdon.

Day for night
German Shepherds and Rottweilers standing in for wolves

Jonathan Harker looks like he's at least 35

edit: the actor was 33 when this was filmed lol

Jack Palance has a nice Dracula voice, so there's that.

Yet again, another movie that patches the plot hole where Dracula just *happens* to find and vampirize Lucy and Mina. I wonder if this movie will also have Renfield somehow connected to Dracula too? #Monsterdon

Also, this castle is NOT decrepit enough. There's no big fake spiderwebs anywhere. No guttering candlelight. Christopher Lee wouldn't put up with this shit

@nev no creepy shadows or anything! #monsterdon

THERE'S some good spiderwebs. Aw yeah.

Still looks kind of like a nice historical site-turned-museum though. #Monsterdon

I'm sorry did Drac circle the newspaper clipping with BALLPOINT PEN in THIS YEAR OF OUR LORD 1897 #Monsterdon

Dracula: [bisexually] until **I** finish with him

Has anyone put together a list of all the Dracula adaptations that actually keep the cowboy #Monsterdon

THE SHOVEL! GIVE HIM THE SHOVEL!!! #Monsterdon

(Another scene from the original book.)

wow we just skipped the _Demeter_ just like that huh? Well, whatever, at least we get a shot of the captain. #Monsterdon

So far this is indeed pretty true to the book, just, you know, without any passion or horror. You win some, you lose some.

Who knows less about Dracula at the start of _Dracula_? (All apologies to @jonny)

@nev fuckin wrecked and i deserve it #monsterdon

@nev can't believe i lost #monsterdon

@jonny or won, depending on how you look at it

Someone, possibly On Here, possibly in YouTube comments or whatever, noted that Dan Curtis's _Bram Stoker's Dracula_ did "female character reminds Dracula of long-dead wife" before Francis Ford Coppola's _Bram Stoker's Dracula_. Somehow it's less bad in this film???

Serious but understandable diversion from the plot: Van Helsing actually tells anyone anything

The Man Who Staked Jack Palance. is this anything? i'm workshopping it #Monsterdon

In the book, Arthur is the one who stakes Lucy. This kind of takes the emotional weight out of it #Monsterdon

Okay, this scene with Dracula finding out Lucy's been staked is pretty good though. And works much better than the Coppola version where it's Mina instead and so she never gets killed. #Monsterdon

Ah, I see, they've moved Carfax to Whitby…because they got rid of Seward and Renfield and had no need for an asylum. RIP my boys :(

couldn't anyone come up with anything original or is every movie for the rest of time going to be "guy trying to sell a house to dracula, but then something happens and his wife or something ends up getting drained by dracula and then he dies somehow." now i admit i haven't been paying close attention to the last two dracula movies but it seems familiar #Monsterdon

@jonny they're all based on the novel

@Taweret yeah but how come the events in the novel are the same every time #monsterdon

@nev i'm getting the gist #monsterdon

this movie is also actually getting into the real estate deal and explaining what is going on with that. this might be the first dracula movie that i can actually follow #monsterdon

how come this dracula got the same plastic surgeon as all the old ladies in beverly hills tho #monsterdon

it should be a way bigger tipoff that this guys name is literally "count dracula" like havent this guy ever watched a movie before #monsterdon

@jonny hilariously the kiddo asked that at the start (when Harker read the letter) and it's hard to explain that in this story they didn't know about vampires or that Dracula was a baddie. I did not go into the weird central European political history that created the title.

holy crap no poise at all, you're staring down the barrel of three snarling broads and you don't try and play it cool for one second and buy time #monsterdon

even tho it's the same book this movie is makin a lot more sense than the other ones, like i'm actually gettin "character motivations" and "backstory" and whatnot #monsterdon

i like a good thinker movie like anyone else when i'm actually watchin a movie, but when it's a #monsterdon movie i like it when they just tell me what stuff is happening because i am always at about 50% word comprehension

my headcanon for what is going on with all the villagers around draculas castle is like dracula is manufacturing and exporting coffins and i don't think that's right but it's what has stuck #monsterdon

I like the solo dracula in herzog's version that gave us the montage of dracula having to drag all his own coffins around tho that was a better vibe #monsterdon

also it's not clear to me what he has actually got in all those, like are those other vampires or is that just how he movies his stuff around because he just had a bunch around for other reasons and hey might as well reuse a box #monsterdon

holy shit that headbutt to the bricks has gotta be fatal or like severely disabling for years right #monsterdon

you cant be telling me english people are unironically naming a place Hillingham #monsterdon

so they know about vampires but not about dracula ya sure like that makes sense. even i have seen a vampire movie that says dracula is one #monsterdon

they made van helsing have a bunch of vials of speed in this one and that's not a character trait i saw coming #monsterdon

my cat just bit me and so now i have little dracula fang wound on my hand and i'm sippin #monsterdon

lucy is just vibing you have to give her some personal space #Monsterdon

lucy has just been taking some of whats in vanhelsing's vials its perfectly fine you dont need to bury her about it #monsterdon

@Taweret and probably a good plan to bring a bunch of backup soil you can change it out now and then #monsterdon

@plaidtron3000 @jonny If I recall correctly it was a big deal that he had to rest on his native soil.

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