I had just dropped the book a few issues earlier, so I’m basing this opinion on what you told us in the podcast. I bet that guy with the knifey knuckles at least was, I dunno, a guest in one of those streaming shows. Heck, what’m I saying, superheroes are every-dang-where now. Wonder if these X-Men characters ever made it into anything bigger. A blue-footed booby flock overcomes Dracula at the end of that movie, but only because Van Helsing monologues early on about the little-known weakness that vampires have always had to the hypnotic sight of a blue-footed booby high-stepping.Īs for the comic … well, for a first taste of X-Men anything, I didn’t hate it.
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In the next movie Van Helsing and Dracula were feuding truckers, then they were the humans in a Muppet collaboration with Hammer, then there was one of those nature-fights-back films centering around the Dracula characters. I give Hammer credit for trying to remix their horror IP into the spy space and the Shaw brothers space, and in an alternate timeline, they kept in business by continuing with these mash-ups. Just dumb Satan shows up every single time. Man, I never can manage to resurrect Dracula when I do Satanic rites, or even Grundy for that matter. Stern is perhaps among the least petty and contentious comics guys around and seems to be universally loved and respected by damn near everyone in the industry.
Honestly, I think I prefer his earlier to his later, more experimental and abstract work.Īnd one more thing: while there was indeed a great deal of pettiness among comics creators back then (and not just then, I suppose), I’m pretty that can’t be pinned down as the reason Roger Stern wrote the ‘abolish all vampires’ story. Otherwise, though, I have to say that as much as I disliked the story, I liked Sienkiewicz’s art. It kind of reminds me of an episode of What We Do in the Shadows, in which the main characters, all vampires, scoff at the idea that ghosts exist… Mainly, that pertains to what you both also noted, i.e., the fact that they initially don’t believe Kitty about vampires – in the Marvel universe, that’s silly in general, but the X-men in particular had a run-in with big-time magic and the supernatural in Annual #4 two years earlier (wherein we learned, among other things, that Nightcrawler was in fact raised by a sorceress). And I thought this story was particularly poorly written – as you guys observed, it seemed rushed, and there’s also some silly aspects that just seemed to be there for plot’s convenience. As you can probably guess, I’m not a big fan of this story or the annual in which it was basically concluded. Well, I figured that, *heavy sigh*, you would eventually get to the X-men meet Dracula books. Or… maybe I should stop overthinking the Hammer Dracula franchise. was an actual rich recluse that Dracula was able to take the place of? That would explain a lot. Seeing as this film takes place not long after AD 1972, how do you think Dracula put this whole conspiracy together in such a short time? Do you suppose D.D.D. Also… if you’re still looking for a certain Jeff Rovin encyclopedia) (Chris, drop me a line if you ever decide talk about the movie outside Super-Mates! I could talk about the movie all the time. I guess I didn’t step in any toes when I covered it on my own podcast. Mixing it with the popular spy movie genre didn’t work so the moved into the Kung fu craze next.Ĭ’mon Cindy! Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires is AWESOME!!! I love that movie. The Dracula franchise was dying, and they were trying to infuse it with some new blood. You figure Hammer was aware Lee was soon to be the next Bond villain in The Man with the Golden Gun. It’s ultimately The British Secret Service vs Dracula. I’m right there with you in feeling this movie was an attempt to turn Dracula into a Bond villain. “The House of Franklinstein” by Terry O’Malley, of Stop Calling Me Frank
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Theme from X-Men The Animated Series by Ron Wasserman and Shuhei Endo The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) directed by Alan Gibson, Music by John Cavacas
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