ME: Kevin, I need to ask you for something, and I know it might be a struggle. KEVIN: Oh? ME: I’m working on a thing… KEVIN: Oh Lord. ME: Fire up Bram Stoker’d Dracula, we’re gonna have to do a goth movie night. KEVIN: 😍 KEVIN: …well, if we must. - ThreadSky

tkingfisher.com • 2 days ago

ME: Kevin, I need to ask you for something, and I know it might be a struggle.
KEVIN: Oh?
ME: I’m working on a thing…
KEVIN: Oh Lord.
ME: Fire up Bram Stoker’d Dracula, we’re gonna have to do a goth movie night.
KEVIN: 😍
KEVIN: …well, if we must.

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brookass.bsky.social•1 day ago

I loooove that movie so much. unironically! Winona is luminous. Keanu is hilariously miscast. Gary Oldman is great as Dracula. the scene where he crawls up the outside of the castle wall like a lizard is embedded in my brain. the cinematography is incredible, and Sadie Frost as Lucy is smoking hot!

aetherograph.bsky.social•1 day ago

Second fav adaptation of Dracula after the og Bela Lugosi film!! My aunt Anahid was the researcher!! :D

369enthusiast.bsky.social•1 day ago

wholesome

madamehardy.bsky.social•2 days ago

IIRC magnificent costumes by Eiko?

valymonahan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Did not adore that movie, but, have to say Tom Waits as Renfield is something I love about it. Right up there with Ben Foster as "Renfield" in 30 Days of Night.

octobermystic.bsky.social•1 day ago

I love Dwight Frye's Renfield--that maniacal laughing and his crazed smile when the rescuers look into the ship's hold gets me every time.

sagenatural.bsky.social•1 day ago

...I may have to watch it now.

*has the soundtrack, has never seen the flick*

vaguepariah.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tom Waits was a great Renfield

coyoteblue.bsky.social•2 days ago

I watched this movie again recently for the first time in probably 25 years and it was just as goofy and weird as I remembered.

noblehunter.bsky.social•2 days ago

This seems like bad news for the coping butter futures

tkingfisher.com•2 days ago

Keanu Reeves does not look old enough to shave in this movie.

sfkissinger.bsky.social•2 days ago

Keanu Reeves taught me Shakespeare sounds better in its original California surfer dude.

wolphin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Has Keanu ever been old enough to shave? I'm sure he stopped at Ted and just changed his hair.

tkingfisher.com•2 days ago

Good god, I forgot Cary Elwes is in this movie. And Hopkins, of course can chew scenery like it was going out of style.

slcpgh.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hopkins and Oldman are clearly competing to see who can chew the most scenery.

productivityalchemy.com•2 days ago

And then we have Tom Waits...

aetherograph.bsky.social•1 day ago

Second favourite role Tom Waits ever played. First one being the Devil in Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Tom Waits was MADE to play The Devil tbh.

productivityalchemy.com•1 day ago

For me Renfield has the top spot, and second place this The Man With the Bunny is 7 Psychopaths

slcpgh.bsky.social•2 days ago

Tom Waits is just having THE BEST time.

valymonahan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Love him as a musician AND as an actor. Mystery Men, Down by Law, Short-cuts.

valymonahan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tom Waits as Renfield is amazing IMO. Right up there with Ben Foster, as "Renfield" in 30 Days of Night. As a "far" Northerner, 30 Days makes some mistakes, but the Stranger, when he arrived: conspiracy type, vampire-glamoured off-grid local dude? Old parka little recent dentristy access. Tracks

valymonahan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Literally complained about the whole "it's bright sunny with light up until the 30 days of night", which, no! But then the Stranger, looking like any number of dudes I have seen/know in similar towns.

scifantasy.bsky.social•2 days ago

What's he waiting for?

slcpgh.bsky.social•2 days ago

Boo. Hiss.

sotsogm.bsky.social•2 days ago

To get off work and see his baby; even though he can't, he has to because somebody has to sweep up over by the cigarette machine.

productivityalchemy.com•2 days ago

WILL NO

errantdreams.bsky.social•2 days ago

How did I not know he was in there???

slcpgh.bsky.social•2 days ago

So in my case, when I saw it in the theater, I had no idea who he was. It wasn’t until years later that I discovered his music and realized he was Renfield.

sharrow.bsky.social•2 days ago

And Richard E Grant :)

tkingfisher.com•1 day ago

“We’ve all become God’s madmen,” remains one of the greatest movie lines of the last fifty years, FIGHT ME.

jdzed.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ohh, no, I ain't nearly as green as I am cabbage-looking.

I bet you fight *dirty* too!

irisblue.bsky.social•1 day ago

You know she'd throw one rabbitty punch, then a horde of bone-creatures would slitherscurry from the undergrowth/between the walls and finish you off. S l o w l y.

ripperelse.bsky.social•1 day ago

*punches you* YOU ASKED ME TO *is destroyed by god's madmen* nooooo

octobermystic.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can never get past Lucy's bridal gown and old Drac's exaggerated hairdo.

captempestcomic.bsky.social•1 day ago

I didn't realize until extremely recently that Billy "The Rocketeer" Campbell plays Quincy P. Morris in that movie!

johnniemonkey.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cary Elwes turns up in the oddest of places.
Comedy? Thriller? Action movie? Sitcom? Video Game? Holiday TV movie? Animated feature? Adventure series? Historical romance?
He's done all of them, plus a bunch.
It's like he's collecting every possible genre.

pomodoro.bsky.social•1 day ago

The X Files

scifantasy.bsky.social•2 days ago

I would ask when he does look old enough to shave, but then, by John Wick, he clearly is.

(I recall hearing somewhere that the wedding ceremony between Reeves and Ryder might have actually been legally complete under Romanian law...)

baconwrangler.bsky.social•2 days ago

There are worse things that can happen to you.

mashfanficchick.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does he now?

ellyzoe.bsky.social•1 day ago

He barely looks old enough to shave now TBH.

jacklint.bsky.social•2 days ago

There's that scene where Keanu spots Dracula in London and it comes out like, "Whoa! It's the dude himself!"

jenlucy.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was a teen when this came out and so it’s deeply imprinted on my brain. Hmmm. Need to watch it again.

drlarrymitchell.bsky.social•1 day ago

sunsinegrrrl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mmmm that soundtrack. And Gary old man.

polyculeofone.bsky.social•1 day ago

True Story: that movie was my first "real" date (we'd done coffee already) with my One Great Love/One Who Got Away.

In the theater, which is how long ago THAT was.

She was not a horror fan, as it turned out, and spent most of the movie hiding her face in my armpit. 😂

pauljessup.com•2 days ago

That movie rules so much

jdhobbes.bsky.social•2 days ago

I legitimately love this movie, warts and all.

lasrina.bsky.social•1 day ago

A good movie, could’ve been a great movie if they’d included the cowboy.

ancuninbrainrot.bsky.social•1 day ago

Every version of Dracula that doesn't include Quincy is cowardly!

bdclarke.bsky.social•1 day ago

How do you not include the cowboy? Like, *that* was the one step too far.

capetrov.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't know what movie you two are talking about. Bill Campbell (The Rocketeer) played Quincy!

lasrina.bsky.social•1 day ago

… do I need to watch this movie again? Because it’s been a long time but I really feel like I would remember the cowboy.

capetrov.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, he's there as one of Lucy's suitors in the beginning.

capetrov.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think it's probably fair to say his role in the movie is a little subdued compared to the novel, but he's there until he dies in the finale.

shiftercat.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ah yes, Lucy's reaction to his big... Bowie knife.

cmraman.geek.org•1 day ago

I still maintain that Quincy is not a cowboy, but rather an oil wildcatter. First oil well in Texas was in 1866, and the first production field was in Corsicana in 1894. Plenty of time for someone to get rich in the oil business. (The first refinery in Texas opened in 1899, just two years after the

foolish-mortal.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not sure what Quincy is SUPPOSED to be - besides Texan. Though I do love how many assume Stoker never met a real cowboy or American and was just writing a caricature. But turns out he did meet Americans - Teddy Roosevelt and Wild Bill.

So Quincy makes so much sense.

cmraman.geek.org•1 day ago

publication of “Dracula”.) He carries a Bowie knife because he’s from Texas (stereotype much?) but is also responsible for supplying the group with Winchester rifles which prove rather useful. (Possibly the Browning-designed Model 1892 - .44-40 would be quite effective on wolves or vampires.)

mnemex.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ah, yes, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. We watched it when @drcpunk.bsky.social was drugged on cold medicine, which seems like the best approach to a delightful operatic mess which does NOT resemble what Stoker wrote.

Apparently, Coppola took his plot from the 1974 film with Palance

drcpunk.bsky.social•1 day ago

I saw it the first time hopped up on cold meds, in a theater -- if you weren't with me then, I was drug free and it was my second viewing.

mnemex.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, I saw it with you on the small screen.

mattfnwallace.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can see his little face light up so clearly in my mind

victorbjohnson.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think the hubby is gonna “make me” go to Francis Ford Coppola’s winery to see the costumes. Anybody want to cat sit?

metafrantic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Saw that typo and thought "You just got Stoker'd"

robbiemackay.nz•2 days ago

Can we get a full movie list and follow along at home?

random-rust.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think you may need to check out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZNGDj-b3DE

Three little vampire maids are we...

meredyth013.bsky.social•1 day ago

That was absolutely fantastic! Why haven't I seen this before? Thankyou.

menageri.org.uk•1 day ago

I was waiting for this to show up. Thanks.

thekarlapacheco.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who Framed Roger Rabbit had already made tiny karla bisexual, but Bram Stoker's Succubi (ft. Lucy Being A Stone Cold Freak) really put the stake in that coffin.

franzferdinand2.bsky.social•1 day ago

My first exposure to Monica Bellucci

thekarlapacheco.bsky.social•1 day ago

Salma Hayek completed the "Awoooogah" trifecta

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