{"id":4469,"date":"2014-06-28T22:05:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T03:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2014-06-28T22:09:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T03:09:29","slug":"bad-vampire-movie-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/bad-vampire-movie-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Vampire Movie Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px 4px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006ADDA\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00006ADDA&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rpglibrary&#038;linkId=7IISGSIX7WE4C6JG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px 4px;\" title=\"Zoltan, Hound Of Dracula\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61Kwz4slTjL.jpg\" alt=\"Zoltan, Hound Of Dracula\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tonight has been Bad Vampire Movie night. We started with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00FUABJJQ\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00FUABJJQ&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rpglibrary&#038;linkId=N75N44BX4WMUTJVV\">Dario Argento&#8217;s Dracula (2012)<\/a>, starring Rutger Hauer, who apparently got lost on the way to the movie and only showed up about a half-hour before the end. This was a more or less straight adaptation of Dracula, but I could not shake the feeling that it was a spoof of badly-dubbed Italian horror movies. The worst thing I can say about it is that it&#8217;s just kind of dull. It&#8217;s not too bad, though: I have certainly seen far worse vampire movies.<\/p>\n<p>The second movie was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000BX4J6C\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000BX4J6C&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rpglibrary&#038;linkId=F4TE6MAKCKFRJVB5\">Dracula&#8217;s Widow (1988)<\/a>, starring no one. This was a late-1980s feature, filmed in widescreen, which is unusual for this kind of movie from that era. This, too, almost felt like a spoof, but it wasn&#8217;t. I bet Larry Blamire\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf and cohorts could make a fantastic movie in this vein (so to speak). Again, it&#8217;s not a great movie, but I have seen much worse.<\/p>\n<p>The final movie in our Bad Vampire Movie night is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006ADDA\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00006ADDA&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rpglibrary&#038;linkId=7IISGSIX7WE4C6JG\">Zoltan, Hound Of Dracula (1978)<\/a>, starring a spectacularly well-trained Doberman and Michael Pataki (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00008DDI5\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00008DDI5&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rpglibrary&#038;linkId=4UCXZIGTBOE7W2GY\">Sidehackers<\/a> fame) and Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Ferrer (winner of the Academy Award and numerous Tony Awards, and the first actor to receive the <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.gov\/honors\/medals\">National Medal of Arts<\/a>). I am not sure how to describe this film. It&#8217;s the best-made movie of the three, in my opinion, but the plot is&#8230; strange. The first half-hour is literally the dog&#8217;s journey from Soviet Romania to Los Angeles (spoiler: he takes a boat). The second half-hour is a relatively uneventful camping trip (certainly no more terrifying than any of the camping trips I&#8217;ve been on). But if you like vampire movies, and you like dog movies, this is your movie: in addition to the title character, it features two German shepherds in prominent roles, and a fair number of canines in supporting roles. And you know, it&#8217;s nice seeing German Shepherds with healthy hips, before they got so inbred to please dog-show ghouls. Warning, though: a puppy dies about 45 minutes into the film. It&#8217;s not gratuitous or sadistic, though: it happens off-screen, and it&#8217;s not played for laughs or gore. If a softie like me can cope with it, small children and pregnant women should be able to handle it just fine (spoiler: the puppy shows up again later in the film). Oh, and there is a beautiful late-1960s Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible that Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Ferrer drives around Los Angeles. Truly a beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldcarandtruckpictures.com\/Oldsmobile\/olds-1960-1970.html\">classic American car<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight has been Bad Vampire Movie night. We started with Dario Argento&#8217;s Dracula (2012), starring Rutger Hauer, who apparently got lost on the way to the movie and only showed up about a half-hour before the end. 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