Showing posts with label dracula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dracula. Show all posts
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Trailer: The Last Voyage Of The Demeter
Click below (Ugh, that song at the end [but it looks great])...
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Haunted Eve 2022: Classic Horror Movie Monsters
The Draculas have ever been the heart's blood, the brains, the sword of our people.
Friday, September 23, 2022
The Wrenfield
Revenant Manor left the recipe below in a blog comment on an earlier post. This man has a gift for booze reviews and for making really tasty cocktails.
He wrote:
We used regular Rye Whiskey, and not the grave varietal.
Jack O damage may or may not be related to the cocktails.
The following is a take on the old-fashioned that will surely inspire the purists to break out their torches and pitchforks, or if they are on the other side of the grass, spin in their graves. (I am OK with this)
Ingredients:
-2 ounces Graverobber Unholy Rye Whiskey
-2 or 3 dashes black walnut bitters
-¼ ounce Not-So-Simple™ syrup (**see below)
-1 blood orange wedge (plus, additional for garnish, if desired)
-1 Luxardo cherry (plus, additional for garnish, if desired)
-Truly Massive Ice Ball
Concoct the drink (and enrage The Traditionalists):
-Add Not-So-Simple™ and black walnut bitters to a rocks glass
-Rim glass with blood orange wedge, then add blood orange wedge and Luxardo cherry
-Muddle into a bloody pulpy mess (pause to admire this crime scene and aroma)
-Add Truly Massive Ice Ball
-Pour Graverobber Unholy Rye over ice, and stir gently (preferably with a skull-head cocktail skewer to truly enhance the flavor)
** Garnish with additional orange peel and / or Luxardo cherry (also preferably with a skull-head cocktail skewer to make it look totally metal)
Not-So Simple Syrup™:
-1 cup sugar
-1 cup water
-2 whole cloves
-1 star anise
-1 strip blood orange peel (and / or zest of same)
You know the drill; combine, boil, etc...after all, it's just simple syrup with extra goodies ;)
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Thursday, March 24, 2022
EXCLUSIVE!!!
Kidding.
But I'm on board with Nicolas Cage playing Dracula in the upcoming film Renfield.
Click below...
Saturday, December 4, 2021
Oh, 90s
I remember seeing Dracula when it opened in 1992: A packed movie lobby with a line of ticket holders snaking around and filling every available and empty space (fire hazard). So we had paid already and were now waiting for the theater to be cleared for us to enter. Keep in mind this was back before tickets were for a specific seat in a theater. And you were painfully aware of this Lord of the Flies situation unfolding. And also keep in mind that over 70% of the waiting patrons were dressed in Victorian garb (lots of blood red and black and purple velour). I missed the memo, thankfully, and left my stovepipe hat home (I don't really own one [but wouldn't mind if I did]).
So this giant intestine of patrons filling the lobby began to move, and it was bedlam. No one respected the order of arrival:
Lots of pushing and polite shoving, with a dash of panic due to being in a giant mass of wall-to-wall human beings... and the Victorian garb made it feel like being in a blurry faded photograph in a history text... about The Great Theatre Fire of 1992.
Thankfully, no fires erupted, and the film turned out to be pretty freaking great. I still love the practical effects, and the score by Wojciech Kilar is in the top three film scores of all time. It just IS.
Click below for the musical track that totally should have accompanied the moment the crowd began to move towards that theater door...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Willow Cove Haunt Halloween 2017
31 October.—Still hurrying along. The day has come, and Godalming is sleeping. I am on watch. The morning is bitterly cold; the furnace heat is grateful, though we have heavy fur coats. As yet we have passed only a few open boats, but none of them had on board any box or package of anything like the size of the one we seek. The men were scared every time we turned our electric lamp on them, and fell on their knees and prayed.
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
The Power Of The Crucifix
Despite the miscasting of Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the film was pretty cool and looked amazing. And it was packed with practical effects, and an awesome score.
Click below for a favorite scene:
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
The Un-Dead Become Themselves Un-Dead
They cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world.
Image source.
Monday, August 18, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Castle Dracula, Wildwood, NJ
Fun home video of some folks visiting this old boardwalk spook house.
Click below:
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Wojciech Kilar (1932-2013)
Just learned that film composer Wojciech Kilar passed away on the 30th of December. His Dracula score is an annual favorite, and I have a feeling parts of that film score will be lingering on Haunters' Halloween playlists for decades to come.
Click below for the Dracula soundtrack:
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