@dermudetude.bsky.social
Mostly livetweeting, plus the occasional random comment. #Svengoolie, #TheLastDriveIn, sometimes #BMovieManiacs, sometimes other things. If you want me you already know how to find me.
Right here: archive.org/details/drac...
15.02.2026 06:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Cuckoo on the Choo-Choo” if memory serves; and god, how I wish it didn’t.
15.02.2026 05:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm really tired, kids. Time to lay down in a box filled with my native earth.
Night!
#Svengoolie
The first movie vampire to wear fangs was
Atif Kaptan, who starred as the Count in Drakula Istanbul'da, a Turkish film from 1952.
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It's not entirely the movie's fault that it's so stagy—it's based on a stage play which ran successfully for quite a while before filming. Oddly enough, the same happened with the play's revival in the 70s and the Frank Langella film.
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"To die, to be really dead--that must be glorious!"
"Uhhh, yeah, Count—IS THAT THE TIME? I HAVE A BABYSITTER WAITING!"
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"May I present the two dull girls who no one is interested in, and the boring stick who can't decide which one he wants?"
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Fortunately for Dracula, he travels with a lighting crew.
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Not on MY ship!
15.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Anybody who still hasn't read Bram Stoker's novel? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Well--do something about that. It still holds up. In fact, it's still fantastic.
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I think you are. We leave off the final e.
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Nope. :) Just the King's Spanish.
15.02.2026 01:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the reasons #Dracula is so interesting is its odd combination of seriously cool, effective, atmospheric and scary moments mixed with indifferent direction, some dire performances, and overall creakiness.
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Aw, I'm teasing. We know you love us.
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Rave, you're two-timing us. On Valentine's Day, yet! 😂
15.02.2026 01:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Rootin'. As well as tootin'.
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Well, it's right there and it's free--jump on it!
15.02.2026 01:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's not generally known, but between the stage play and this movie, Béla learned a lot of his dialogue phonetically... which to some extent explains Béla's... Lugosiness.
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I mean, putting Castle Dracula in Texas would be NOVEL, but...
15.02.2026 01:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0😂This one more than most. It's thought to be the worst short they ever made--even by diehard Stooge fanciers.
15.02.2026 01:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And, of course, the armadillos.
Which are not native to Romania, or anywhere near it.
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I never understood what Browning was doing here. The coachman IS supposed to be Dracula, but the novel has him completely disguised, to hide the fact that he has no servants.
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And you can find it here: archive.org/details/drac...
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Raise your hand if you've never seen the Spanish version of Dracula, shot simultaneously with a completely different cast.
Actually, don't bother with the hand, just see if you can see the movie--which in some ways is better than this one.
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I wonder what would have happened if Tod Browning had been able to cast Lon Chaney Sr. in the title role. (He died the year before #Dracula was released.)
Would Lugosi have happened? Would anything that we know as the Universal Classic Monsters have happened?
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That's one magic word three times, Phil.
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What in the what-the-what is going on with this goddamned short?
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Come to think of it, that's what they called him in MAD's Moby Dick parody.
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In the Stoogiverse, nobody just proposes to someone and marries them. There's always some elaborate plan, deception or con game attached.
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