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#71
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by ER - October 14, 2025, 12:23:50 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on October 13, 2025, 08:05:01 AM
Kind of a trancey/noisy thing. Not bad.
I'm a fan. Sounds like the weather inside my head.
#72
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - October 14, 2025, 08:43:36 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on October 14, 2025, 08:02:10 AMKind of bland.
That makes it a good Hallmark poster 😀
#73
Good Movies / Re: Chainsawmidget and the Uni...
Last post by chainsaw midget - October 14, 2025, 08:36:10 AMSon of Dracula
There's been a lot of debate as to whether Lon Chaney played the actual Dracula in this movie or not. While they do refer to him as "Count Dracula" and say Alucard is not his name, to me that says nothing. Of course Dracula would be his name if he was the son of Dracula. Dracula is a last name. Plus I have a hard time seeing this guy as the same character Bela Lugosi played, and most importantly, this movie is called "Son of Dracula." It's not Dracula Returns. It's not Revenge of Dracula. It's not Dracula is Back-ula.
Now as for the movie itself, the plot is that "Count Alucard" has been invited to America by the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner. The day he arrives, the owner dies and leaves the plantation to her. Soon after, she married Alucard, much to the dismay of her actual boyfriend.
Seems she planned on using Alucard for immortality, and then planned to have him finished off so she can live forever with her boyfriend, which is an interesting plot. Things go wrong however when he boyfriend tries to confront Alucard and shoots him multiple times. The bullets go through Alucard and kill his girl instead and he flees and eventually confesses to her murder.
And of course while this is going on, we have people investigating that highly suspect Alucard is a vampire.
The special effects in this movie take it up a notch from what we typically expect. We actually see Lon Chaney turn into mist and back again, as well as transforming into a bat. Even the bat is a lot more advanced the previous rubber bat on a string effect.
There's a lot of people that don't like Lon Chaney's portrayal of the vampire. Admittedly there are a few times where it seems like they wanted him to have a Bela Lugosi style sense of dread and foreboding, and he can't pull that off, but there are also moments when he gets to play things a different way. Lon Chaney was a big guy, and Alucard the vampire often comes off as physically imposing with a monstrous brute strength. For that, he does good, but as somebody that's supposed to be foreign royalty, he seems awfully American.
One of the bigger problems I have is that they seem to play their hand much too quick in allowing people to figure out who or what Alucard really is.
There's been a lot of debate as to whether Lon Chaney played the actual Dracula in this movie or not. While they do refer to him as "Count Dracula" and say Alucard is not his name, to me that says nothing. Of course Dracula would be his name if he was the son of Dracula. Dracula is a last name. Plus I have a hard time seeing this guy as the same character Bela Lugosi played, and most importantly, this movie is called "Son of Dracula." It's not Dracula Returns. It's not Revenge of Dracula. It's not Dracula is Back-ula.
Now as for the movie itself, the plot is that "Count Alucard" has been invited to America by the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner. The day he arrives, the owner dies and leaves the plantation to her. Soon after, she married Alucard, much to the dismay of her actual boyfriend.
Seems she planned on using Alucard for immortality, and then planned to have him finished off so she can live forever with her boyfriend, which is an interesting plot. Things go wrong however when he boyfriend tries to confront Alucard and shoots him multiple times. The bullets go through Alucard and kill his girl instead and he flees and eventually confesses to her murder.
And of course while this is going on, we have people investigating that highly suspect Alucard is a vampire.
The special effects in this movie take it up a notch from what we typically expect. We actually see Lon Chaney turn into mist and back again, as well as transforming into a bat. Even the bat is a lot more advanced the previous rubber bat on a string effect.
There's a lot of people that don't like Lon Chaney's portrayal of the vampire. Admittedly there are a few times where it seems like they wanted him to have a Bela Lugosi style sense of dread and foreboding, and he can't pull that off, but there are also moments when he gets to play things a different way. Lon Chaney was a big guy, and Alucard the vampire often comes off as physically imposing with a monstrous brute strength. For that, he does good, but as somebody that's supposed to be foreign royalty, he seems awfully American.
One of the bigger problems I have is that they seem to play their hand much too quick in allowing people to figure out who or what Alucard really is.
#74
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 14, 2025, 08:17:46 AM
#75
Off Topic Discussion / Re: And I quote...
Last post by ER - October 14, 2025, 08:14:27 AMQuote from: pacman000 on October 13, 2025, 07:43:24 PMJeremiah 29:11 (American Standard Version)
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
I find I have no defining talent for belief or for unbelief in God, and had I one or the other, my life would have been simpler.
#76
Bad Movies / Re: Invent A Bad Movie Title P...
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 14, 2025, 08:04:19 AMHow the Littlest Mummy Saved Halloween
#77
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 14, 2025, 08:02:10 AMKind of bland.
#78
Bad Movies / Re: Invent A Bad Movie Title P...
Last post by zombie no.one - October 14, 2025, 07:57:53 AMPumpernickel Massacre
#79
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - October 14, 2025, 07:34:28 AMcopilot
#80
Off Topic Discussion / Re: This is a very hard post f...
Last post by Trevor - October 14, 2025, 07:30:18 AMMy X tribute to her: she was a major part of my life for 36 years.
https://x.com/ZombieTNinja/status/1978041360356700290
https://x.com/ZombieTNinja/status/1978041360356700290