RIP Dracula

A weird story really. I'm a bit sad that his pop career didn't get off the ground.

RIP, his four World Snooker Championship victories in the 70s will live long in the memory

out

great revive

Fake news.

Blecchula lives!

I, Vlad, voievod and lord, hereby confirm my unceasing existence.

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fucks sake van helsing is yerwan oh how witty

Died on 9/11 iirc

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Gonna be some year.

not really

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, Thursday, January 2, 2020 9:38 AM

Just watched the first part of the new BBC series. What to make of this v.laddish dracula?

ironically, hes the only one id not burn actually

thats unfair. nun is good.

Bang was okay, CGI was bad, Dolly Wells (yerwan) was great, three ninety-minute episodes on three consecutive days is absolutely insane scheduling

Will probably watch the rest of it but my main problem with it so far is that Bang is just not creepy enough. Would rather they’d gone for chilling over charming, this guy is more bad James Bond than the photo-sensitive phantom of yr nightmares. Similarly they’ve promoted violence over terror, at times it felt like watching a fox in a hen house and tbh its kind of hard to identify with chickens

Violence is easier.

SPOILER ALERT.

That was wank.

END OF SPOILERS.

I knew it wasn't gonna be worth watching when the words Mark Gatiss appeared in the credits

I sat through the first hour and a half and couldn't face any more. Like all Moffat stuff, it was way too pleased with itself.

Holy shit that last episode was awful

worse than ep.1? seriously I've never heard so many forced/apparently humourous lines on TV ever but haven't, to my knowledge, watched any of their previous programmes.

I mean Dracula emerging from a wolf and saying to Nuns, "I dunno about you ladies but I love a bit of furrrr.....!" - this passes for humour these days and people actually enjoy it?

It was all far too camp for me and I love a bit of that normally - but each episode got even more so and the last part was just so... Hollyoaks, as I've seen it described on twitter.

every version of dracula, including the book, has a shit second half. except possibly Love At First Bite, which is still the most successful adaptation.

thats it

we need a muppets dracula

*ahem* Nosferatu

nosferatu is so good it actually improves on the book imo

...is that yr swedish chef nv

oh yeah nosferatu is good too, and doesn't have the crap ending.
I still prefer to watch love at first bite though

*ahem* Nosferatu

otm x2

the classic 1931 version is the starkest difference

first half = wildly atmospheric set design, mesmerising performance from bela lugosi

second half = lamest, most stupid white bread country house drama ever with a bunch of terrible actors reciting stilted dialogue, also dracula is in the garden

It's time to hang the garlic
It's time to grab the knives
It's time to kill the undead
On the Muppet Show tonight

dammit in my head now

I was wondering who would be The Count, then

Would love the count getting his head bitten off.

I had nightmares about that pointy browed fuck for years

My ex had a childhood fear of Guy Smiley

fps all round for sesame st-ing the muplets

the best muppet movie has several sesame st characters in it

.......

gwan?

Erm all of the puppets on Sesame Street were called Muppets per Henson. Most of them were just not part of the show or the movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD0dOLqZzYc

let me be clear

this derail is better written, plotted, conceived and executed than the bbc dracula aired this week

best muppets movie is muppets most wanted, then christmas carol btw

What about Muppet Treasure Island?

second ep was great fun. stop there and imagine your own five minute ending rather than carrying on further.

It was motoring along fine in episode 2: I love anything on a ship, and anything haunted on a ship in particular (although the do-you-see Inside Number 9 stuff was SO ANNOYING). All those standard BBC costume-drama actors are great and can make any old guff believeable, so that was all fine. I was even on board for the time jump, and I liked the first part of the last episode with Dracula learning about modern things. I also enjoyed the new buried-alive stuff, because being buried alive is one of my absolute major fears, and it's a huge part of the vampire myth, so that was all fun. But then, somewhere along the line, it seemed like the lads remembered the modern remit of crowbarring some yoof and wimmin into it, and instead of going back to square one and integrating those things naturally, they just, as Alan says, wrote half an episode of Hollyoaks and shoved that in there, killing every bit of momentum they'd built up to that point.

I am another big fan of Love at First Bite, to the extent that I'm afraid to go back and watch it in case it's dreadful.

The 2-part 1977 BBC version in full right here. This one is pretty highly thought of iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u36VjXirmlY

Also, as much of Who Twitter has pointed out, Moffat *really* has a fear of cremation because there's a whole routine in Dark Water/Death In Heaven (with Chris Addison) where the cremated dead are heard screaming in pain because they can feel it and it's somehow wrong.

In keeping with the tone of the thing feel like they really wanted to cast Walliams as Drac.

can't believe Dracula died

again?

Being ‘undead’ is a Chekhov’s gun that tells you they’ll get killed in the end.

'77 version is greatest after Nosferatu (Murnau)!

Or there's this:

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

f

new adaptation (ep1) filmed in the same castle as the murnau (i learnt from watching the documentary that was on shortly afterwards)

just watched the new one, part 1 good, part 2 better, part 3, er... spent the first half hour wondering where i knew the nun from (noel fielding's luxury comedy)

also in the documentary there was a bit with the lead actor in full nosferatu makeup. did i miss that bit?

(also watched WWDITS film after loving the series)

watched the BBC Dracula on a whim and actually quite enjoyed the first two episodes, especially since I read the book only late last year.
Dolly had all the best lines and Claes had the worst, but I forgave those. Thought Harker was pretty great with some stomach-churning make-up and special effects. Last episode though... such a terrible let down.

Yeah, really didn't stick the landing. I like how the second ep ends like Monty Python & The Holy Grail.