#WATCH VAN HELSING SEASON 2 EPISODE 4 MOVIE#
That movie and Stargate were the two big films from 1994 that were a rite of passage, making me realise that movies could be horrible nightmares of awfulness. I saw Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein once in the theatre in 1994, during a time when, as Andrea said, I was a BIG Kenneth Branagh fan, and hated it so much I haven’t gone back, and will not be going back. What’s Hopkins’ excuse for being so bloody awful? But he’s a young actor trying to pull off something far outside what’s familiar. Bloody wolves chasing me through some blue inferno!” Sure, he’s bad in this.
This effect did allow for one of Keanu’s greatest line deliveries: “I’ve seen many strange things already. There are some blue fiery rings when Harker is on the way to Dracula’s castle, which are clearly a superimposed optical effect, not CGI, and it was so brief it’s not even worth mentioning. None of the bad acting bothers me in the slightest, except Hopkins, who I want to get the hell off screen every time he appears.īy the way, what “super shitty CGI sequence” of green concentric rings were you talking about? I think you’re flat out wrong about this. (Does anyone even remember that Dracula Untold exists?) Since the worst crime a movie can commit is to be boring, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is still a powerful success. And the relative integrity of the narrative makes the Hollywood horror movies of today burn into nothing in comparison. The glut of CGI in the intervening years helped renew appreciation for the in-camera trickery. I saw Bran Stoker’s Dracula five times in the theatre when I was twelve, a few times on video, then didn’t see it again for twenty years until revisiting it in 2015, whereupon I bombastically declared it even better than I’d remembered. I plan to rewatch both tonight after having listened to this episode, and see how they both stack up for me.īut yeah, excellent episode as always, cant wait for the next one! Looking back, I think you hit it on the head, with Dracula being such a visual treat on top of whatever else it might be looking at it with adult eyes, and Frankenstein being almost joyless in its execution. My parents were pretty open with the movies they allowed me to see, so I saw both the 90s Dracula and Frankenstein when they came out (I was 10 and 12 respectively), and I remember being terrified of yet fascinated with Dracula, but not understanding and barely remembering Frankenstein.
Just wanted to say thanks to you both for being awesome. I really dig the academic analysis from both modern and contemporary cultural points of view, on top of just being a celebration of horror. After that quality rollercoaster I went looking for analysis of the series, in general or at least just the first two and came across your Hellraiser episode, and have been hooked ever since.
#WATCH VAN HELSING SEASON 2 EPISODE 4 SERIES#
I found Faculty of Horror after having decided to watch the entire Hellraiser series (having only seen the first two) last Halloween. Ive been listening for a little while and finally decided I might as well start commenting after the announcement about a comics-based episode (comics are my heart and soul), as well as you two delving into The Babadook next month.
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