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Bad Movies / Re: Cast a Dracula Movie: The...

Last post by chainsaw midget - December 13, 2025, 07:20:33 PM

With apologies to Chainsaw, I don't have strong feelings about most of those so I will take a cue from the Reverend and just go where the juice is. This seems like the most interesting/combustible collection of actors to me:

Dracula: Klaus Kinski (NOSFERATU IN VENICE)

Lucy: Isabelle Adjani (NOSFERATU) (Ah hah, loophole!  )

Renfield: Tom Waits

"Von Franz" (let's face it, Van Helsing): Willem Dafoe

Seward: Donald Pleasance (I think I prefer Richard E. Grant though Pleasance is great and works better here.)

Director Tod Browning (notorious for being a bit of an edgelord) convenes this cast for his new production, already controversial for featuring live birds and rodents in Renfield's scenes and authentic victims of human trafficking to play the Brides. Pleasance is nervous about working with Kinski again (after the criminal fiasco that was ...IN VENICE) but is unaccustomed to turning down work. He advises caution to Adjani, but she knows what Kinski is like and anyway after POSSESSION nothing fazes her. Kinski is constantly abusive to everyone as usual but Waits is just taciturnly amused for the most part, and Dafoe is indifferent because he digs working with Adjani so much, devising new scenes to add to the script where they can riff off each other.

Kinski finally loses all control when Dafoe and Adjani improvise a scene where Van Helsing inspects Lucy's entirely nude body for signs of vampirism, and Van Helsing is also naked for no clear reason. Kinski flies into a rage and begins strangling Waits, who remains more or less cool with it.

Pleasance goes to Universal HR and thus Browning is forced to recast the role of Count Dracula. Udo Kier arrives in costume, but Kinski won't leave. Waits finally puts his hat on and strolls away from the set. Kinski declares he will now play both Dracula and Renfield. Browning starts shooting the climactic scene where Kier tries to put the final chomp on Adjani and Dafoe rushes in to save her. Kinski also busts in front of the camera and repeats all of Kier's lines, just much louder than Kier says them.

Everyone begins to improvise. Pleasance weeps for his craft. Browning keeps the cameras rolling. It's a real mess in post so Universal hires Kinski's COUNT DRACULA director Jess Franco to do reshoots. 500% more Brides!

This sounds like one of those movies where the making of is just as entertaining as the flick.  Bravo.

#52

Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...

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#53

Bad Movies / Re: Cast a Dracula Movie: The...

Last post by M.10rda - December 13, 2025, 04:59:36 PM

Or the Joker!

...Though Frank N. Furter is kind of Dracula crossed with the Joker.

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happy birthday Indy 

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Off Topic Discussion / Re: strange dream depository

Last post by chainsaw midget - December 13, 2025, 01:47:01 PM

I had a dream where I fell asleep on an airplane and when I woke up, about half of my fingers had just fallen off because I hadn't been keeping on my diet. 

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Bad Movies / Re: Cast a Dracula Movie: The...

Last post by Alex - December 13, 2025, 01:41:07 PM

Aah, if only Tim Curry had ever played Dracula.

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