Forbidden Cinema 105 - Bram Stoker’s Dracula - Going Deeper

Welcome back everyone!

We hope everyone had a great October / Halloween / Spooky Season.  As we head into the holidays Zack and Jenny follow up with the questions nobody ever bothered to ask about our coverage of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

We threw a little bit of shade by omitting Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in our main episode, so we make sure to give him some love in this one.  We talk about the Spanish language Dracula filmed at night on the same sets as the Tod Browning version.  Have you ever heard of that, we hadn't?

We go through the films for Francis Ford Coppola.  From nudie flicks, to possible the first slasher, the Godfather, to Captain EO.  This guy has done it all.

We pause for a moment to look at a movie ratings site to try to determine the most forbidden film we have covered.  Spoiler alert, Dracula is pretty low on the list because there is no cursing.

We go over how the trippy special effects were created, and how they were mostly parlor tricks that would have been available to the makers of the original Dracula.  We also talk about the 2nd unit director, Roman Coppola, and his influence on one of our favorite filmmakers.

We dig up a 5000 year old fart joke, ponder the Steven Segal film Under Siege spending 4 weeks at #1 in the box office, dig into a newspaper from the day of release, and even find a copy of the motorcycle magazine Easyrider at an estate sale and try to figure out what was going on when this was released.