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[Megaroad 2012]

Well, Briggs hosted Things last week and it doesn't matter if you're familiar with it through RLM, that movie is... something every man should experience for himself.

 

[FrickinFrackinFruckin]

 

[BrunoMattei]

I love this movie. Flaws and all.

 

[FernandoPooTragedy]

I also love this movie like crazy. When it's good it's very good and when it's bad, it's better.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I also love this movie like crazy. When it's good it's very good and when it's bad, it's better.

Now that I think of it: it's EXACTLY like a big budget Italian horror movie. Imagine if Mario Bava came to Hollywood and had 50 million to make a Dracula movie and it would be this. And Italian horror, the very best of them BTW, all have those moments that didn't translate very well and don't make a lot of sense. And that's this movie for sure.

 

[Mola Ram]

Allow me a moment of snark: Today I learned RLM doesn't know what an epistolary novel is.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of those weird movies that I fully acknowledge is flawed, but it provides so much from its great special effects, its set, its music, and its great portrayal of Dracula that it entertains in that way, but then its flaws manage to keep the movie entertaining too with Keanu's bad performance and some of the screwball moments that happen.

Its a rare case of a good movie that legit entertains me, but also gives me the joy of a bad movie. Its a rare breed, but they exist.

 

[Thomas Highway]

Dracula episode was on point. Couldn't disagree with much.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of those weird movies that I fully acknowledge is flawed, but it provides so much from its great special effects, its set, its music, and its great portrayal of Dracula that it entertains in that way, but then its flaws manage to keep the movie entertaining too with Keanu's bad performance and some of the screwball moments that happen.

Its a rare case of a good movie that legit entertains me, but also gives me the joy of a bad movie. Its a rare breed, but they exist.

Case in point: exactly like Italian horror (it should count as Italian horror considering Coppola's Italian). Take for example Suspiria. It's repeatedly praised as one of the greatest horror films ever made, one of the most beautiful looking, one of the best soundtracks, critics love Suspiria. But Suspiria has scenes like this:

 

[I.B. Niggin]

Helps that Gary Oldman gives such a fantastic performance that it's honestly able to overshadow the shortcomings of Keanu and Winona.

 

[Thomas Talus]

"Dracula was pretty good but it wasn't quite as gory and violent as they said it would be."

-Michael Stipe, "Funtime (live)", Strange Currencies (Maxi Single)

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Will watch in a few hours but idk always dug the Dracula movie for its creativity. I can see worts but the craftsmanship in every department from score fx and costume wins me over.

 

[FernandoPooTragedy]

Helps that Gary Oldman gives such a fantastic performance that it's honestly able to overshadow the shortcomings of Keanu and Winona.

Lol I think it emphasizes them to glorious effect.

 

[Brain Problems]

Can't believe we didn't get a single line about Tom Waits!

 

[Travoltron]

I saw this in the theater somehow, as I think I was underage. I paid for these two hot sisters' tickets I knew (like a real simp) too.
We loved this movie a lot. I was too young and ignorant to know that Keanu's accent sucked.

For some reason, I'm very afraid to revisit movies I enjoyed as a teen. Something like Keanu's accent would drive me nuts now, I think. I also worry that something I thought was cool at the time might seem.. angsty or emo now.

 

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I also really like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that came out a couple years later.

It's not as good, but it's pretty enjoyable. I always think of it as like a companion piece to Bram Stoker's Dracula in a way.

 

[Thomas Highway]

I saw this in the theater somehow, as I think I was underage. I paid for these two hot sisters' tickets I knew (like a real simp) too.
We loved this movie a lot. I was too young and ignorant to know that Keanu's accent sucked.

For some reason, I'm very afraid to revisit movies I enjoyed as a teen. Something like Keanu's accent would drive me nuts now, I think. I also worry that something I thought was cool at the time might seem.. angsty or emo now.

This film is fine to revisit. It holds up.

 

[Ndnd]

I also really like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that came out a couple years later.

It's not as good, but it's pretty enjoyable. I always think of it as like a companion piece to Bram Stoker's Dracula in a way.

Was that the one with Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter? I remember really liking this as a kid. Thanks for reminding me about this forgotten gem!

 

[Brain Problems]

Was that the one with Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter? I remember really liking this as a kid. Thanks for reminding me about this forgotten gem!

It's not bad but unfortunately one of the parts that sticks with me is the silly scene where Branagh is slip-sliding around trying to hold up a naked De Niro monster fresh from re-animation. I haven't seen it in years but my memory of the scene is that it went on forever in this absurd montage.

 

[Ndnd]

It's not bad but unfortunately one of the parts that sticks with me is the silly scene where Branagh is slip-sliding around trying to hold up a naked De Niro monster fresh from re-animation. I haven't seen it in years but my memory of the scene is that it went on forever in this absurd montage.

LOL I remember that scene! I just really enjoyed the whole resurrection sequence. The lab was so weird and delightfully over the top, especially with that tank full of electric eels. It's on Netflix at the moment so it might be time for a rewatch.