Here's one of my favorite quotes from the inimitable Brother Theodore: "Once I stared into the Abyss...and the Abyss stared back at me. Neither one of us liked what he saw".
Beat me to it. It's kind of weird that a guy with such an expressive face wound up doing as much voice acting as he did. You'd think they'd want that mug on screen.
Lon Chaney Jr has the line "at midnight I become a wolf" in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Lou responds with "you and ten million other guys". Good tombstone stuff!
I actually saw this movie in the theatre when it first came out. (I was once younger, and, younger, I was more foolish.) As I recall, leaving the theatre, the muffler on my car fell off. I had to "borrow" a wire coat hanger (Remember those?) from a service station attendant (Remember those?) and, unbending the coat hanger, crawl under the car, in the rain (for it was raining), and bind up the muffler well enough so that I could limp the car home and bind up the muffler better so as to be able to drive the car to a muffler shop. And I thought, "Someone is punishing me for paying real money for having watched this movie." And I thought, "And I deserve this punishment" because, though younger and more foolish, I was not stupidly foolish. "What horror movie quote would be your epitaph?" "Sometimes Dead Is Better" from the original "Pet Sematary," a line spoken by Fred Gwynne, who of course plays Herman Munster to Yvonne De Carlo's Lily. "Sometimes Dead Is Better" certainly matches my feelings after the overall experience of viewing "Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula" (a movie so bad that even the Dark Corners' review got a bit tedious around the five minute mark, though I do not blame the Dark Corners' staff; a major problem with "Nocturna" is that disco was pretty much over in 1979, the final nail in its coffin pounded by 1980's "Can't Stop the Music," an unfortunate feature film directorial debut for the very fine comedic actress Nancy Walker). There is another magnificent epitaph but from the Kurt Vonnegut novel "Galapagos": "Oh, well-he wasn't going to write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway." I may actually put that one on my tombstone.
I'd like to have "The first thing I am going to do when I get back is get some decent food" from Alien on my tombstone. That or "Why don't we freeze him?"
The disco group featured in this movie review is uncredited, but their song does remind me more than a little of that Seventies classic "The Love I Lost" by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.
Nai Bonet also produced the movie and came up with the story as well as starring. Last heard of she was running a religious supplies shop in Bosnia. On my tombstone? 'We Belong Dead' of course. Just to cheer up any visitors...
Nai Bonet - i say Nigh Bonay not Bonnet - is still living in NYC. The songs aren't that good but this did precede Love at First Bite - the blond dude Anthony Hamilton (?) has an interesting backstory.
I was at the world premiere of this one, with Nocturna herself in the audience. We had a ball ripping it to shreds from our balcony seats where she couldn't find us.
@@brucefritzges8759 I used to live in Hollywood and the day she passed her star on the walk of fame was covered in flowers and candles. One of a kind she was
Ha the werewolf is one of the creepy Neighbors from the Tom Hanks movie The Burbs. Dude doesn't look like he aged 1 day between this movie in 70s and The Burbs in 1989
ajivins1 omg, I haven’t thought of the movie the burbs in decades. I do remember brother Theodore in that movie. I also remember him making a couple appearances on David letterman.
Without even reading the description, I had a feeling this movie was from 1978 or '79. If I were to have a horror movie epitaph on my tombstone, it might be "Only God Has No Fear" from Brides of Dracula.
Does anyone else find it FACINATING that John Carradine played Count Dracula more than Bela!?! Oh... & MY Grave Quote, 'YOUR GRIEVING IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE REMAIN ON THE GRAVE & YOUR BERIEVEMENT WILL BE HANDLED IN THE ORDER IT WAS RECIEVED.'!
This is the kind of film I would have seen on Hollywood Blvd. in the 1980's, before Redbox. John Carradine always plays his parts seriously, like when he says "She's an astro-zombie!" in that movie.
Another review of a lost "treasure". I guess it shows how all-encompassing disco was right before it disappeared. You may, if you haven't already, want to give "Love at First Bite" a look.
Hmmm, tombstone horror film quote...is it cheating to steal from the ad campaign instead of actual dialog? Because i think I like "SCREAM!!! Scream for your lives!" from Vincent Price's "The Tingler" promos. There's one that's probably safe from Hollywood Remake Syndrome. Aside from the lawsuit potential of all the live in-theater shenaningans (which the film really needs for proper impact) there's also the difficulty of it being named after a middling-popular range of sex toys these days.
John Carradine played Dracula in House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, and Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula. He might not have been Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee, but you gotta give him credit for making a go of it in no less than four films.
Oh, thank you, thank you! I'm sorry, but I have a soft spot for this one. It is the perfect drive-in movie on those nights you bring something to eat and a cooler of drinks and just want to sit under the stars and turn your brain off for a while. This is a movie that doesn't require a lot of attention but delivers plenty of nudity, celebrity cameos, lots of music (I actually own the soundtrack). I actually think this movie would benefit from less plot. Just have Nai Bonet walk around in her skimpy outfits and taking baths. Pass the popcorn. I'm entertained.
My tombstone choice: "I said jog right, you a**hole!" Spoken by Harry Dean Stanton in "Escape From New York" (1981). It's kind of sad to see John Carradine and Yvonne DeCarlo having to do a film like this, but I guess a check's a check. That is cool to find out that John Carradine still had his Dracula cape from "House Of Dracula". I wonder if he wore it in any other vampire role.
Brother Theodore was one step away from sliding right into full-on GOLLUM mode, emulating his turn from the Rankin-Bass animated HOBBIT film of 2 years prior. He should have done it.
My vague memory is that "Disco Saves" had some currency as a slogan for born-again devotees of Christian Disco for a brief moment. This movie is that slogan in action! It's actually a potentially interesting idea, like the purity of dance can help redeem a vampire who wants to turn away from evil.
I wondered if you would do this one after you mentioned it on Vladvent. You know, it's a shame there's no dubbed version of Las Vampiras with Mil Mascaras and John Carradine as a vampire who spends most of the movie in a cage. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
Imagine this film would've been done properly with Patrick Swayze as boyfriend, walking up Dracula at the end and telling him "my baby belongs to me" right before ramming a wooden stake in his chest and escaping with his girl into the dawn.
Think it was a gentle sendup of the genre, with the having of Carradine IN the flick as a bonus bit of fun. Nai WAS, imo,supposed to be a bit, er, spaced out or ditzy.
EDIT: Question, was there some mix-up or error with the video's release? I first noticed it on my 'recommended' list at around twelve-thirty-ish AM Monday morning Pacific Time (which would have been eight-thirty-ish PM Monday evening London time). I watched it, and started commenting. But when I started editing my comments I got an 'error', then the screen said the video was private. Didn't see it listed on your channel the next morning after I woke up and only spotted it again now almost 24 hours later. Maybe it was accidentally released a bit too early IYO and you took it back after a moment, or maybe it was some odd glitch on my end? 0:52 these words are rarely spoken, but... Adam Sandler did it better. 1:34 guest-starring the bad guy from The Princess and The Frog 6:41 Freeze-Frame just before she starts to burn up in the sun? Overall it looks like this movie had a few decent ideas, and just executed them as poorly as possible... I suppose that's how it is with MOST bad movies though, right?
RE: YVONNE DeCARLO: I like subtextually analyzing classic TV shows from the Fifties & Sixties. You know what I'm talking about---probing through the story layers to unearth possible hidden meanings. As an example, I've come to interpret THE MUNSTERS as a metaphor representing the domestic violence and family dysfunction lying just under the surface of so-called "normal" middle class life. Their friends and neighbors can clearly sense that something is seriously awry, but no one is so tactless as to bring it up in the presence of the Munsters themselves. Meanwhile the rumors are making the rounds of gossipy afternoon coffee klatches, they're lighting up backyard fences all over the neighborhood. As for the family itself: the girl puts on a pretty face to fit in. The boy is too young to grasp what's going on; he simply wears the ghoulish mask of his family. The weird grandfather who skulks about in the Dracula cape & make-up is really a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who's been in & out of mental hospitals for years. Repeated electro-shocks combined with a thorazine regimen have done little to quell his delusions. The mother's sunken eyes and wan pallid expression tell her story. And the father? Don't even go there. The possible levels of denial in this particular case are positively bone-chilling.
...so are we just not going to talk about the fact that this is a movie where Dracula is running a hotel literally named "Hotel Transylvania" in modern times and one of his offspring falls in love with a mortal man?
Brother Theodore was in this mess of a movie? Hahahaha.....He was a regular guest on David Letterman's Late Night Show on NBC during the 1980s. He appeared on The Merv Griffin Show in 1966 where he was ridiculed by Jerry Lewis.
Here's one of my favorite quotes from the inimitable Brother Theodore: "Once I stared into the Abyss...and the Abyss stared back at me. Neither one of us liked what he saw".
Brother Theodore the first actor to voice Gollum for animation. he was also in Last Unicorn
Beat me to it. It's kind of weird that a guy with such an expressive face wound up doing as much voice acting as he did. You'd think they'd want that mug on screen.
He's actually one of my heroes.
😁
I'd never seen his face before, so I didn't know him by sight, but his voice was immediately familiar.
Any movie with Yvonne DeCarlo, John Carradine, AND Brother Theodore can't be all bad.
i loved brither theodore. he was on the merv griffen (sic) show a lot
John Carradine did a lot of schlock films in his later years.
Disco Dancing is now what keeps her alive? So, when Disco died, so did she?
@The Wandering Fool Not to mention Disco Duck on 45
Put this on my tombstone. "You gotta be fuc**ing kidding." From THE THING.
Lon Chaney Jr has the line "at midnight I become a wolf" in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Lou responds with "you and ten million other guys". Good tombstone stuff!
Tombstone: *"...I hate you all so much."*
Vincent Price's last words as a dying millionaire in the 1976 episode "Black Magic" of The Bionic Woman.
Is the episode any good or just recommended for VP completionists?
"No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering!" I'm sure nobody would think this in poor taste for a gravestone.
I love that Hellraiser line!
"To die, to be really dead... that must be glorious!" to my tombstone.
from Bela Lugosi's Dracula
"Their eating her and then their going to eat me." From Trolls 2.
Hopefully someone will correct the spelling on your tombstone.
@@VonWenk Hopefully someone will tell you how to treat people with respect.
I actually saw this movie in the theatre when it first came out. (I was once younger, and, younger, I was more foolish.) As I recall, leaving the theatre, the muffler on my car fell off. I had to "borrow" a wire coat hanger (Remember those?) from a service station attendant (Remember those?) and, unbending the coat hanger, crawl under the car, in the rain (for it was raining), and bind up the muffler well enough so that I could limp the car home and bind up the muffler better so as to be able to drive the car to a muffler shop. And I thought, "Someone is punishing me for paying real money for having watched this movie." And I thought, "And I deserve this punishment" because, though younger and more foolish, I was not stupidly foolish. "What horror movie quote would be your epitaph?" "Sometimes Dead Is Better" from the original "Pet Sematary," a line spoken by Fred Gwynne, who of course plays Herman Munster to Yvonne De Carlo's Lily. "Sometimes Dead Is Better" certainly matches my feelings after the overall experience of viewing "Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula" (a movie so bad that even the Dark Corners' review got a bit tedious around the five minute mark, though I do not blame the Dark Corners' staff; a major problem with "Nocturna" is that disco was pretty much over in 1979, the final nail in its coffin pounded by 1980's "Can't Stop the Music," an unfortunate feature film directorial debut for the very fine comedic actress Nancy Walker). There is another magnificent epitaph but from the Kurt Vonnegut novel "Galapagos": "Oh, well-he wasn't going to write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway." I may actually put that one on my tombstone.
I'd like to have "The first thing I am going to do when I get back is get some decent food" from Alien on my tombstone. That or "Why don't we freeze him?"
On my tombstone: "Don't let them bury me! I'm not dead!"
Horror movie epitaph: "It always ended with screaming" (From Beyond)
A slightly altered line from Night of the Living Dead: "He's dead; he's all messed up."
At the wake we had to beat 'em and burn 'em
The disco group featured in this movie review is uncredited, but their song does remind me more than a little of that Seventies classic "The Love I Lost" by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.
Tombstone: I should have died decades ago. But I ended up carrying the weight instead
On my gravestone? *"They're coming to get you, Barbara !"*
Nai Bonet also produced the movie and came up with the story as well as starring. Last heard of she was running a religious supplies shop in Bosnia. On my tombstone? 'We Belong Dead' of course. Just to cheer up any visitors...
All I hear is Brother Theodore's Gollum voice from the Rankin Bass Hobbit cartoon. Love it
This actually looks like campy fun. It reminds me of the disco song "Soul Dracula"
Oh my God. It’s Uncle Rubin Klopek from ‘The Burbs’. Love that guy.
I didn't know this movie existed. Now I feel weird that I named my cat Nocturna....😬
Brother Theodore plays Rukh the Hunchback in The Last Unicorn.
Nai Bonet - i say Nigh Bonay not Bonnet - is still living in NYC. The songs aren't that good but this did precede Love at First Bite - the blond dude Anthony Hamilton (?) has an interesting backstory.
Disco is so evil, it is even more powerful than the curse of the undead!
I thought Brother Theodore was actually pretty decent in the old Tom Hanks movie The Burbs. Which you should also probably review on this channel
I was at the world premiere of this one, with Nocturna herself in the audience. We had a ball ripping it to shreds from our balcony seats where she couldn't find us.
I'm a big fan of Dark Corners, I'm even a Patreon supporter, however you will respect Yvonne DeCarlo. No one ever made a bat necklace look better.
I always have a soft spot for DeCarlo. A long career in movies, fans in her later years as Lilly Munster. and a great, clear voice. A class act.
@@brucefritzges8759 I used to live in Hollywood and the day she passed her star on the walk of fame was covered in flowers and candles. One of a kind she was
I actually saw this at The Acme Drive-in a hundred years ago. 😳
That Gloria Gaynor track kicks ass.
Disco kicks ass and she was a big part of it.
"Watch the skies!" -- as my epitaph. Brother Theodore was pretty good in "The Burbs." Diss'go away.
Ha the werewolf is one of the creepy Neighbors from the Tom Hanks movie The Burbs. Dude doesn't look like he aged 1 day between this movie in 70s and The Burbs in 1989
I just saw that Theodore bloke in The Burbs! I wondered who the Hell he was...
ajivins1 omg, I haven’t thought of the movie the burbs in decades. I do remember brother Theodore in that movie. I also remember him making a couple appearances on David letterman.
Glad I read this comment his face was familiar but I couldn’t place it
check out the video of him and Jerry Lewis on the Merv Griffin show
@1:52 as Booger would say, " we got bush"
The quote I want on my tombstone is: "Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
Without even reading the description, I had a feeling this movie was from 1978 or '79. If I were to have a horror movie epitaph on my tombstone, it might be "Only God Has No Fear" from Brides of Dracula.
Tombstone:
Somebody
(Sometime to Sometime)
He Tried
--Kurt Vonnegut
Ah yes, the unofficial softcore prequel to DRACULA SUCKS with John Holmes, Annette Haven and even SALEM'S LOT vampire Reggie Nalder!
"Reality's not what it used to be." - Sutter Cane, In Mouth in Madness
"Who'll Be The Next In Line?" - on my tombstone -- with apologies to Ray Davies
I’ve always liked Willard’s last line to the rat horde “...tear’m up guys!”
Pretty cool! Thanks for the wild review Dark Corners! 😁
Does anyone else find it FACINATING that John Carradine played Count Dracula more than Bela!?!
Oh... & MY Grave Quote, 'YOUR GRIEVING IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE REMAIN ON THE GRAVE & YOUR BERIEVEMENT WILL BE HANDLED IN THE ORDER IT WAS RECIEVED.'!
Did Carradine forget to put his false teeth in?
And then, Kevin, Nephew Of Dracula.
From the film comedy of terrors..as basil rathbone..says..what place is this..
"You see, You see. Your stupid minds. Stupid. Stupid."
This makes Zoltan: The Hound Of Dracula look like Dracula: 1931. John Carradine must had been desperate for money.😧
I read the novelization, Dracula's Dog, without even knowing there was a movie. I was just attracted by the cover.
Ye gods, this one. Didn't we do this already? I feel like I've seen it torn to shreds a thousand times. Which is still not enough.
So... Is she Dracula's granddaughter, or what?
I was left very unclear on that whole point.
Yvonne DeCarlio and John Carradine sell this one. The "actress " playing Nocturna was actually a good dancer.
This is the kind of film I would have seen on Hollywood Blvd. in the 1980's, before Redbox. John Carradine always plays his parts seriously, like when he says "She's an astro-zombie!" in that movie.
"To be really dead, that must be glorious"
Another review of a lost "treasure". I guess it shows how all-encompassing disco was right before it disappeared. You may, if you haven't already, want to give "Love at First Bite" a look.
On my tombstone? 'I have something to say! It's better to burn out than to fade away!"
Clearly the inspiration for Saturday Night Fever.
Hmmm, tombstone horror film quote...is it cheating to steal from the ad campaign instead of actual dialog? Because i think I like "SCREAM!!! Scream for your lives!" from Vincent Price's "The Tingler" promos.
There's one that's probably safe from Hollywood Remake Syndrome. Aside from the lawsuit potential of all the live in-theater shenaningans (which the film really needs for proper impact) there's also the difficulty of it being named after a middling-popular range of sex toys these days.
"Vampire Hookers is a better film in every way."
Oh crap!..... 😦
I was equally horrified by that thought.
John Carradine played Dracula in House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, and Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula. He might not have been Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee, but you gotta give him credit for making a go of it in no less than four films.
I can't believe I voluntarily sat through this one.
Oh, as for the tombstone, I'm going with Richard II: "I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."
Oh, thank you, thank you! I'm sorry, but I have a soft spot for this one. It is the perfect drive-in movie on those nights you bring something to eat and a cooler of drinks and just want to sit under the stars and turn your brain off for a while. This is a movie that doesn't require a lot of attention but delivers plenty of nudity, celebrity cameos, lots of music (I actually own the soundtrack). I actually think this movie would benefit from less plot. Just have Nai Bonet walk around in her skimpy outfits and taking baths. Pass the popcorn. I'm entertained.
This looks like the disco version of Suspiria!
My tombstone choice: "I said jog right, you a**hole!" Spoken by Harry Dean Stanton in "Escape From New York" (1981).
It's kind of sad to see John Carradine and Yvonne DeCarlo having to do a film like this, but I guess a check's a check. That is cool to find out that John Carradine still had his Dracula cape from "House Of Dracula". I wonder if he wore it in any other vampire role.
i believe he wore it in Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula.
@@calebleland8390 That would make sense. Thank you.
@@RavenHouseMystery Pleasure to be of service!
Brother Theodore was one step away from sliding right into full-on GOLLUM mode, emulating his turn from the Rankin-Bass animated HOBBIT film of 2 years prior.
He should have done it.
When someone out acts John Carradine, that's impressive!
My vague memory is that "Disco Saves" had some currency as a slogan for born-again devotees of Christian Disco for a brief moment.
This movie is that slogan in action! It's actually a potentially interesting idea, like the purity of dance can help redeem a vampire who wants to turn away from evil.
I think you put more thought into that comment than anyone put into that whole movie!
The purity of twerking and grinding lol
Is there any musical genre that has not been sullied by someone putting "Christian" before its name?
This channel is criminally undersubscribed and I don’t get why.
Criminally unsubscribed....good name for a youtube channel!
Without this movie, we never would've had Hotel Transylvania! So there is 1 saving grace! Also, Yvonne DeCarlo and John Carradine are
"Sauvignon...it's very good..."
I wondered if you would do this one after you mentioned it on Vladvent.
You know, it's a shame there's no dubbed version of Las Vampiras with Mil Mascaras and John Carradine as a vampire who spends most of the movie in a cage. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
Imagine this film would've been done properly with Patrick Swayze as boyfriend, walking up Dracula at the end and telling him "my baby belongs to me" right before ramming a wooden stake in his chest and escaping with his girl into the dawn.
You should check out Tales of Frankenstein for lockdown reviews. :)
Think it was a gentle sendup of the genre, with the having of Carradine IN the flick as a bonus bit of fun. Nai WAS, imo,supposed to be a bit, er, spaced out or ditzy.
EDIT: Question, was there some mix-up or error with the video's release? I first noticed it on my 'recommended' list at around twelve-thirty-ish AM Monday morning Pacific Time (which would have been eight-thirty-ish PM Monday evening London time). I watched it, and started commenting. But when I started editing my comments I got an 'error', then the screen said the video was private. Didn't see it listed on your channel the next morning after I woke up and only spotted it again now almost 24 hours later. Maybe it was accidentally released a bit too early IYO and you took it back after a moment, or maybe it was some odd glitch on my end?
0:52 these words are rarely spoken, but... Adam Sandler did it better.
1:34 guest-starring the bad guy from The Princess and The Frog
6:41 Freeze-Frame just before she starts to burn up in the sun?
Overall it looks like this movie had a few decent ideas, and just executed them as poorly as possible... I suppose that's how it is with MOST bad movies though, right?
3:06 Logan Paul cameo
Thank you
Wait did i miss this 🎉🎉
Ah yes Brother Theodore,voice of Gollum.
...and almost every trailer for an Al Adamson movie.
6:43 is she a "day walker"?
Oops, this one was uncensored.
So Alucard's daughter or niece?
RE: YVONNE DeCARLO: I like subtextually analyzing classic TV shows from the Fifties & Sixties. You know what I'm talking about---probing through the story layers to unearth possible hidden meanings. As an example, I've come to interpret THE MUNSTERS as a metaphor representing the domestic violence and family dysfunction lying just under the surface of so-called "normal" middle class life. Their friends and neighbors can clearly sense that something is seriously awry, but no one is so tactless as to bring it up in the presence of the Munsters themselves. Meanwhile the rumors are making the rounds of gossipy afternoon coffee klatches, they're lighting up backyard fences all over the neighborhood.
As for the family itself: the girl puts on a pretty face to fit in. The boy is too young to grasp what's going on; he simply wears the ghoulish mask of his family. The weird grandfather who skulks about in the Dracula cape & make-up is really a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who's been in & out of mental hospitals for years. Repeated electro-shocks combined with a thorazine regimen have done little to quell his delusions. The mother's sunken eyes and wan pallid expression tell her story. And the father? Don't even go there.
The possible levels of denial in this particular case are positively bone-chilling.
I saw a Klopek!
*Brother Theodore was in the Burbs.
I love this show!
I woonder is this where hey picked the idea of dancing to regain humanity for the Computer game Vampire the Masquarade: Bloodines.
Grand daughter of Dracula is from Brooklyn?
Somebody forgot to flush!
This movie looks like a lot of fun! If only the actual picture didn't look so grimy.
It's hip, what more can ye ask for :-)
He just gave off the incel motto. Is she ever going to invade or at least say hi to me.
'Blood dealer R.H. Factor' is quality.
"Nocturna: Disco is undead!"
...so are we just not going to talk about the fact that this is a movie where Dracula is running a hotel literally named "Hotel Transylvania" in modern times and one of his offspring falls in love with a mortal man?
After this, I had to go listen to Abba and Village People to get this music out of my system.
John Carradine was born 70 years old.
This is all the worse for having Yvonne de Carlo & John Carradine in it. What were they thinking ?
1:51
Brother Theodore was in this mess of a movie? Hahahaha.....He was a regular guest on David Letterman's Late Night Show on NBC during the 1980s. He appeared on The Merv Griffin Show in 1966 where he was ridiculed by Jerry Lewis.