Let's discuss here any Dracula or Frankenstein adaptations for film we have seen including spoofs and parodies. Searching for these movies on Netflix, I found that there are SO many! So many actors have played these characters!! Feel free to include your favorite vampire films, as these were likely influenced by Dracula's influence as well.

I just watched "Young Frankenstein" for the first time. I have never seen this movie in full, although I have heard about it my entire life. I'm not sure how well the humor held up--it was a little silly to me, but I still enjoyed the amazing performances. Many differences from the novel, of course. In the first scene, Young Frankenstein (Gene Wilder as Victor Frankenstein's grandson) travels to Victor's old home in Transylvania! Which we all know was where Count Dracula lived.

Anyway, this was a fun spoof and I'm glad I saw it. I think it was actually meant to be more of a spoof of the old Frankenstein black/white movies. But, overall...cute.

My favorite vampire movie HAS to be The Lost Boys as it just made being a vampire look so cool in such an 80's kind of way. I remember watching it at sleepovers. And it's still pretty scary to me! And for bonus points, it has Rory's grandad in it!

Oh my goodness -- I loved The Lost Boys because of Edward Herrman in it -- and my daughters who were instrumental in my seeing that one were also responsible for being sure I saw Young Frankenstein -- and then the younger one got me to Gilmore Girls -- I do believe I detect a pattern.

My favorite Dracula film has to be the funny but fun George Hamilton and Susan St. James film Love at First Bite -- hey, what can I say? It's just a silly, fluffy fun Dracula movie.

I've seen others of both Dracula and Frankenstein but very, very old ones -- late night TV viewing in the early days of television in good old grainy black and white.

OK you wanna know a good one? Abbot and Costello Meets Frankenstein. :-) My ALL TIME favorite Frankenstein movie. Plus it also has Dracula and the wolf man in it. :-) How can you go wrong with all of that?
I also like Young Frankenstein. It is a classic. :-)

Jessica: Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein is in my netflix queue. I hope I get to see it this month. I agree that Young Frankenstein is a classic.

Hmmmmmm...Love at First Bite. Isn't George Hamilton perpetually tan? Can a vampire be that tan? Haha.

I found this related to Dracula...

"An estimated 160 films (as of 2004) feature Dracula in a major role, a number second only to Sherlock Holmes. The number of films that include a reference to Dracula may reach as high as 649, according to the Internet Movie Database."

What are some films? I can only think of Bram Stoker's Dracula. I am going to check out that movie Young Frankenstein. Any other suggetions of what I should watch? I am also going to check out the ones mentioned above.

I've seen Bram Stoker's Dracula and a parody of it, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, starring Leslie Nielsen and Peter MacNicol (from Ally McBeal). It was silly and fun.

The Frankenstein movie I watched was the one directed by Kenneth Branagh, with himself as the starring role, Robert DeNiro as the creature (I totally forgot it was him!) and Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth. I gotta say there was a clever twist in the storyline which to my surprise was not in the original book.

Alison: I agree Love at First Bite is great. Totally silly, but fun!

Love the Lost Boys. That is a great vamp movie..but don't watch the sequel...yep that bad!

My favorite Vampire movie (not Dracula, Russian vampires ; ) ) is Night Watch, the movie they made out of Night Watch: A Novel by the Russian science fiction author Sergei Lukyanenko. It is pretty scary and I think the dark version of Moscow that dominates the movie ties up quite nicely with the vampires theme.

My 2 favorite Dracula actors are the classic Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee (who always is the bad guy, just think of Saruman).

What is the November movie?

We had talked about "The Good Girl" as it has many references to The Catcher in the Rye. There are also some good Thanksgiving movies out there (Home for the Holidays, Pieces of April).

Feedback, please. :)

The Good Girl sounds great to me! Especially since it kinda goes with the book!

Okay! The Good Girl for Nov.

So I watched Bram Stoker's Dracula last night. All in all, I thought it was a GREAT adaptation--very imaginative, very creative, especially what was done with Count Dracula. And it was very true to the novel, many times directly quoting the book (which is always fun when you've just finished a book). The only thing that bugged me (O.K., Keanu bugged me too but he was hot--at least until he got the white hair which looked like that fake snow spray to me) was the story line where Mina is supposed to be Dracula's re-incarnated lost love. I mean, if you're gonna call it Bram Stoker's Dracula...I'm up for a little re-imagining, but don't change an entire story line! Otherwise...good, scary...gory. The scene stealer to me was the actress playing Lucy.

Alison, that part bugged me too. I watched the movie first and was expecting to find the same storyline in the book but it didn't turn out to be so. Mina being a reincarnation of Dracula's wife seems to me to take away an important element in the book: her love story with Jonathan and their devastation in the impending fate after she was "turned". In the movie I felt she was only thinking about the Count all the time.

Thinking about him...making out with him...yuk! Especially at the end when he's in full "tales from the crypt" form. Although the young Drac with the long curls and blue specs wasn't too shabby. Amazing how much sex was added to the movie version.

I wasn't that impressed with The Good Girl when I saw it. Maybe Catcher will give me a new perspective on it? Halfway through the book already! it's a short read though.

oh also have to highly recommend Pieces of April for Thanksgiving! it's one of my favorite and a holiday tradition for me. :)

Yes, The Good Girl is a film which takes some real concentration/participation on the part of the viewer, I think. In other words, I can understand your being underwhelmed a bit. It took me a couple of times through it to appreciate it as I do now. I am looking forward to picking up on and having a better understanding of the references to the book this time around.

Sorry, but I won't be joining you in watching The Good Girl. It is an extremely rare occasion that I walk out on a film - three times in my life to be exact (well four, once my mum made me, along with all the girls from my slumber party, leave because it was "inappropriate" - thankfully it was the second in a double feature!), but I did walk out on this one. This time for excessive boredom and being really annoying as a result!

Well I just got my copy of The Good Girl so hopefully I like it better then whichwaydidshego! We'll see...... to be continued.

Angie -- your post reminded me that my copy of the film is not in the entertainment center drawer so I have to dig it out of one of the already packed boxes -- at least there is only one box of films to check -- I don't have a huge collection but this one is one I do own -- for several highly superficial reasons -- and only a couple related to the quality of the story and film. Tsk.

I just watched Young Frankenstein. It was OK. Not as funny as I thought it would be. Probably the humor was too old fashioned for me. Though I do love the song "puttin on the ritz" is this where the song originated?

No no, Puttin' on the Ritz goes much farther back than 1974. I saw that movie years ago and thought it hilarious! But then... I was young. LOL

So I looked up the song:
"Puttin' on the Ritz" is a "pop" song written and published in 1929 by Irving Berlin and introduced by Harry Richman in the musical film Puttin' on the Ritz (1930). The title derives from the slang expression "putting on the Ritz," meaning to dress very fashionably. The expression was inspired by the swanky Ritz Hotel.

Interesting!

And -- if you haven't seen the classic black and white film Puttin' on The Ritz with Astaire and Rogers then you really must remedy that because -- it's Fred and Ginger and lots of glamour and dancing and it's ... well, it's classic, okay?

OK I am going to rent it.. you have forced me Dottie!

I thought Puttin on the Ritz was the highlight of Young Frankenstein. Otherwise, I think some of the humor has become a little dated.