starring: Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNicol
genre: Comedy
year; 1995
format: DVD
This is a spoof by Mel Brooks, and one of the funniest vampire comedies I've ever seen. It's just so crazy. Peter MacNicol does the second best Renfield, I think ever. Mostly because it's a straight up tribute to the one Dwight Frye created in 1931
And again, this version of Dracula mixes the characters and losses others completely. Mostly because it's based more on the 1931 Bela Lugosi movie then the actual book by Bram Stoker.
One of the jokes that always cracks me up is when Dracula first meets Renfield and there is a bat that is hovering around them, and Dracula goes to utter what you think is the classic line of "children of the night, what sweet music they make" but instead says "the children of the night, what a mess they make" and then the camera focuses on a large clump of bat poop.
And of course, there is the blood bath scene when Johnathan Harker has to stake Lucy. I've seen this movie close to twenty times in the last 18 years and that still cracks me up.
It also pulls a lot of ideas from the 1992 version of Dracula as well as the Roman Polanski film Fearless Vampire Killers. (mostly the large ball room scene)
what do i think i learned from this film?
When staking a vampire always remember to put newspaper down on the floors first.
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