Thank you! I loved your James Bond Movie Poster review and I hoped you would make another review of that kind, even though it must be ONE HELL of research to do. We appreciate the effort tremendously ☺
My vote would be for Godzilla/tokusatsu films. Lots of fun to be had as the German posters often renamed Godzilla as “Frankenstein” and the Thai poster have some of the most bizarre “English” tag lines I’v seen.
*Nosferatu* is incredible * wicked cool one of my favorites for its design & I agree the posters are there w/ the movie. Those two sharp front teeth side by side are unforgettable
I’ve just recently started watching your channel to learn more about classic black and white horror films. I must say I am very very interesting I’m seeing what you do next
My favourite variant of the Coppola Dracula poster is actually the teaser of the snarling gargoyle face half shaded in darkness with the single word 'Beware'. Another spectacular video!
The "La Fiancee du Vampire" that you showed the poster to was not the film you describe, but actually the French dub of "House of Dark Shadows," the first feature film sequel to the Gothic TV series "Dark Shadows." I instantly recognized it from the image of the beautiful actress Nancy Barrett, who appeared in the series and the two sequel films. IIRC, is was Dark Shadows that originated the trope of "Vampire falls in love with woman who looks just like his old love" that has become so standard since the 1960s.
Bravo Robin & Graham, truly a well-executed repackage of what was already an amazing series 😎👍🏼 Also, im tickled that “Love at First Bite” gets a look-in ( 0:22 ), i loved that movie as a kid 😁
Great video. The most interesting part was how Robin changed over time. BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE is a film worthy of review for DARK CORNERS. The back story of what happened to the film's Producer and Director is more interesting then the movie. There are two versions of this movie floating around out there; one with a werewolf and one without.
100 years of Dracula? I'm interested... I'll be expecting a 100 Years of Frankenstein video next. Whether it be Universal, Hammer, modern, or exploitation, you can't have one without the other 😃
Just subscribed, and looking forward to exploring the rest of your catalog. These Advent calendars combine a number of my favorite things,and your enthusiasm for the subject matter is infectious. Um, in a good way. FWIW, your documentary on Lon Chaney is what brought me to your channel.
I don't know if Dracula looking like Batman makes him look unfittingly heroic. As comic writer Denny O'Neill said, what's interesting about Batman is that his image is essentially vampiric. He looks dark, scary, even evil. It's this in contrast with his heroic mission that makes him interesting. And of course he was inspired by the similarly sinister Shadow who came before him.
You have some of my more favored content in videos on here. Well done. I often find things which I was previously unaware of reflecting to the subjects you cover. It's also not overly rare you touch on either something I haven't seen or have not seen in a long time. I truly appreciate your videos. Thank you for making them.
Dark Corners. La Fiancée Du Vampire is a French poster for the American Film, “House of Dark Shadows” a 1970 film starring Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins. The film is directed by Dan Curtis. I believe you may have confused the poster with director Jean Rollin’s film, “La Fiancée Du Dracula.” Having that said, I follow you and really enjoy your reviews. Great work always. They’re entertaining and informative. Bravo. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Yeah, you're not the first to point this out. What's most irritating is that people pointed it out when we did our 2019 Advent Calendar and we forgot to correct it for this. Our bad.
EPIC Vid! Of all the omissions to this SPLENDID retrospective, I'm really surprised at two of them: * Nosferatu , The Vampyre by Werner Herzog has GOT to have one of the most beautiful posters since the original Nosferatu. * Dracula (1979) was the biggest budget MOST mainstream since Bella Lugosi .With a budget over 12 Million dollars, a HUGE mainstream marketing campaign, getting made after a Tony nominated Broadway run of the play - with stars like Sir Laurence Olivier, Frank Langella & Donald Pleasence. I LOVE Hammer, but "Horror of Dracula" was NOT this big, only surpassed when Hollywood was out to double down on EVERYTHING - when they made Coppola's for example. Their absence is a loud statement. - BONUS FEEDBACK!!!- Dracula Untold was a deliberate attempt to make a superhero movie disguised as existing IP, so the poster is really great at appealing to that crowd, and it was the later entry The Mummy that put the nail in the Universal Dark Universe's Coffin.
Bonus points if you did the Spanish version of Todd Browning's Dracula. I can't remember the poster to that, just a videobox. . . but it *musta* been cool.
A tremendously entertaining review of Our Favorite Vampire's appearances in motion pictures... Could this have been the fastest hour on RUclips? Thank you for this extremely entertaining and informative review of these one-sheets!
I saw "Horror of Dracula" at the theatre in '58. I was 6yrs old and hadn't seen the original "Dracula" on Chiller Theatre" aired every Fri night. When I finally saw the Universal original I was a little disappointed. Christopher Lee had out done Lugosi. Still like Lugosi and the movie. But I had been spoiled. Good thing the the movie had Dwight Fry.
I love these critiques! Please do more of these (there are so many amazing horror posters out there). You're bringing 2 of my favorite things together, horror and art. :D I have to ask: Why do you dislike Dracula Untold so much? Understanding, it has little to do with the source material but I thought it was an entertaining film. It's a big budget, effects driven vampire movie and nothing more. I feel like you're holding this film to standards it was never intended to meet.
Interesting how, in the first poster, the hair makes way for seeming horns, while those same shapes help define a widow's peak. The former suggests a demonic being while the latter is a signature feature of our titular vampire.
I have a VHS from Rhino Home Video called "Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook," a collection of trailers, commercials, and assorted trivia. Some of the adverts are better than the films they advertise.
When are you going to review Count Yorga Vampire and it's sequel ? It was a big hit at the time and convinced Hammer to bring their Dracula franchise into the 20th century.
Thinking of Dracula related titles, Stoker's novel must be the famous book with the most adaptations and spin-offs named after secondary characters. I can think of: 'Jonathan" (1970), 'Van Helsing', both the 2004 movie and the streaming series and 'Renfield', both the 2010 obscurity and the upcoming Nicolas Cage movie.
You were genius in this video: " a film so relentlessy awful that it feels as if mankind must have commited some terrible atrocity to have this unleashed upon them..." - genius! A perfect description, and I doubt anyone will defend that movie!
Fracchia vs Dracula was made by a famous and important italian actor, Paolo Villaggio. Fracchia is a sort of alter-ego of another Villaggio's character, Ugo Fantozzi, but I don't know if you can find some of his movies dubbed in english.
TS 19:00 I like that poster w/ the figures around the center image & TS 29:23 a good lookin' poster & 37:55 is an interesting poster w/ all that metal element to it
Sir Christopher Lee alone makes him almost overshadow Lugosi. The Spanish version starring Lee and Kinski (who played Dracula in Phantom Der Nacht 1979) is probably the most faithful to the story.
ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA had a wonderful poster in France. Udo Kier had it on his wall in his flat when he sill lived here in Cologne/Germany. And I'm a little bit disappointed that you forgot NOSFERATU (1979) which also had a most beautyful poster (done as far as I know by great French artist Roland Topor who also played Renfield in the film).
Do you think you would like "bram stokers Dracula" if it didn't have the authors name in the title? Because I really love the originality and aesthetic.
I love the DC review of the Coppola thing. I agree totally that the film isn't all that bad, even though it's as over the top as a Christmas panto, but it's the title that sticks in my craw. Just call it Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula (based on the novel by Bram Stoker) and it's no worse than lots of other adaptations. Given the choice, however, I would watch the Jess Franco Dracula instead; it may be kind of dull, but Christopher Lee LOOKS like Dracula and doesn't suffer from terminal angst.
Several I want to check out... I have many favourites depending on my mood, there are some obvious, but I like very much the second nosferatu version with kinski
I know you didn't show it because Dracula's name wasn't in the title, but I would have liked to see the poster for Love At First Bite. That being said, I intend to watch Dracula in Istanbul at some point.
My favorite Dracula films are the ones with Christopher Lee (no surprise there!), plus the Louis Jourdan (BBC) and Frank Langella versions. I am tempted to watch Dracula's Fiancee just to find out why the poster features Nancy Barrett from House of Dark Shadows, but baby eating ogres are rather off putting. I should watch Dracula's Daughter again.
I remember a Dracula movie I watched in the cinema in the early 80's that isn't on your list. It depicted a romantic handsome, seductive vampire, with romantic, seductive dancing scenes. I'm sure it was an american movie.
I hope you see my movie Dracula's Bride of Horror. Shot in Venice and Santa Monica and now in post production. Like Adamson, there are kill scenes with Dracula beneath the pier.
Was Brides of Dracula the first use of "dracula" as a common noun as opposed to a proper noun? As in "Many tourists avoid Transylvania for fear of being chased by draculas." Another good subject for a series like this might be movie trailers. It's always interesting to see how these movies were originally sold.
To be fair to Dracula vs Billie the Kid, Dracula in the book does get stabbed to death by a cowboy....so Wild West Outlaw sort of /is/ his natural enemy
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These specials are just the cream of the crop. Always feel like I’m n a really fun enjoyable history class. Excellent work fellas
Dracula looking trapped and upset in a poster for a film Christopher Lee felt strong-armed into isn't lost on me.
A nearly one hour video devoted to movie posters - for one character! I'm impressed.
This is a glorious review. The few, the proud, the film nerds. We are lucky to have you, sir. Thank you.
A fantastic tribute to a century of Dracula films.
One more Universal: the 1979 remake with Frank Langella.
Yes...I was surprised NOT to see the 1979 version poster in this countdown as it's really rather good...
1:37 This Dracula image looks the closest to Romanian/Hungarian/South Slavic depictions of vampires.
This is an excellent video. Learned a lot and had some laughs. Well done.
Thank you! I loved your James Bond Movie Poster review and I hoped you would make another review of that kind, even though it must be ONE HELL of research to do. We appreciate the effort tremendously ☺
My vote would be for Godzilla/tokusatsu films. Lots of fun to be had as the German posters often renamed Godzilla as “Frankenstein” and the Thai poster have some of the most bizarre “English” tag lines I’v seen.
*Nosferatu* is incredible * wicked cool one of my favorites for its design & I agree the posters are there w/ the movie. Those two sharp front teeth side by side are unforgettable
The teeth look like a rat. This is undoubtedly one of the things that they could point to and say "See, it's not like in the novel at all!"
I would love to see you do Frankenstein posters next.
Clearly alot of research goes into these, and they give a great deal of pleasure, especially to me. Well done lads. 👏👌
I’ve just recently started watching your channel to learn more about classic black and white horror films. I must say I am very very interesting I’m seeing what you do next
Another good reason to include Blacula: It has Dracula in it.
Also, Scream Blacula Scream is VERY solid.
Almost one entire hour of Robin and Graham? What a glorious day!
My favourite variant of the Coppola Dracula poster is actually the teaser of the snarling gargoyle face half shaded in darkness with the single word 'Beware'. Another spectacular video!
That poster made into our 25 greatest horror movie posters ruclips.net/video/_cQXvxvaiao/видео.html
As usual entertaining and interesting... your channel is always a treat , thanks !
The "La Fiancee du Vampire" that you showed the poster to was not the film you describe, but actually the French dub of "House of Dark Shadows," the first feature film sequel to the Gothic TV series "Dark Shadows." I instantly recognized it from the image of the beautiful actress Nancy Barrett, who appeared in the series and the two sequel films. IIRC, is was Dark Shadows that originated the trope of "Vampire falls in love with woman who looks just like his old love" that has become so standard since the 1960s.
Bravo Robin & Graham, truly a well-executed repackage of what was already an amazing series 😎👍🏼
Also, im tickled that “Love at First Bite” gets a look-in ( 0:22 ), i loved that movie as a kid 😁
This video is considerably shorter than is claimed in the title.
This is a 56 minute gift. Brilliant stuff, thank you
Nice! Love the poster thing, thx
Very well done! Keep it up!!!
Great video!
Great video. The most interesting part was how Robin changed over time. BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE is a film worthy of review for DARK CORNERS. The back story of what happened to the film's Producer and Director is more interesting then the movie. There are two versions of this movie floating around out there; one with a werewolf and one without.
100 years of Dracula? I'm interested... I'll be expecting a 100 Years of Frankenstein video next. Whether it be Universal, Hammer, modern, or exploitation, you can't have one without the other 😃
That's already passed, Frankie got his first go on the big screen wayyyyy earlier
@@christopherwall2121 Fair point. Let's make it "111 years of Frankenstein" 😃
I really enjoy your poster reviews, combining my interest as a graphic designer and classic horror buff. Thanks for the information and entertainment.
Just subscribed, and looking forward to exploring the rest of your catalog. These Advent calendars combine a number of my favorite things,and your enthusiasm for the subject matter is infectious. Um, in a good way. FWIW, your documentary on Lon Chaney is what brought me to your channel.
This should really have at least a half million views.
I don't know if Dracula looking like Batman makes him look unfittingly heroic. As comic writer Denny O'Neill said, what's interesting about Batman is that his image is essentially vampiric. He looks dark, scary, even evil. It's this in contrast with his heroic mission that makes him interesting. And of course he was inspired by the similarly sinister Shadow who came before him.
the Nosferatu the Vampyre poster is excellent and whilst the poster is fairly average the 1979 Dracula is a favorite of mine.
"Hammerhead James Carreras" sounds like a Dick Tracey villain, or WWE heel.
I really love this video. Please make another similar poster video.
We have one coming next Saturday
You have some of my more favored content in videos on here. Well done. I often find things which I was previously unaware of reflecting to the subjects you cover. It's also not overly rare you touch on either something I haven't seen or have not seen in a long time. I truly appreciate your videos. Thank you for making them.
Dark Corners. La Fiancée Du Vampire is a French poster for the American Film, “House of Dark Shadows” a 1970 film starring Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins. The film is directed by Dan Curtis. I believe you may have confused the poster with director Jean Rollin’s film, “La Fiancée Du Dracula.” Having that said, I follow you and really enjoy your reviews. Great work always. They’re entertaining and informative. Bravo. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Yeah, you're not the first to point this out. What's most irritating is that people pointed it out when we did our 2019 Advent Calendar and we forgot to correct it for this. Our bad.
@@robinbailes5236 Thanks for writing back. You have my admiration and respect for you and your work. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Boy do i LOOOOOVE your channel!!
Love those wonderful old painted posters!
EPIC Vid! Of all the omissions to this SPLENDID retrospective, I'm really surprised at two of them:
* Nosferatu , The Vampyre by Werner Herzog has GOT to have one of the most beautiful posters since the original Nosferatu.
* Dracula (1979) was the biggest budget MOST mainstream since Bella Lugosi .With a budget over 12 Million dollars, a HUGE mainstream marketing campaign, getting made after a Tony nominated Broadway run of the play - with stars like Sir Laurence Olivier, Frank Langella & Donald Pleasence.
I LOVE Hammer, but "Horror of Dracula" was NOT this big, only surpassed when Hollywood was out to double down on EVERYTHING - when they made Coppola's for example.
Their absence is a loud statement.
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BONUS FEEDBACK!!!- Dracula Untold was a deliberate attempt to make a superhero movie disguised as existing IP, so the poster is really great at appealing to that crowd, and it was the later entry The Mummy that put the nail in the Universal Dark Universe's Coffin.
Bonus points if you did the Spanish version of Todd Browning's Dracula. I can't remember the poster to that, just a videobox. . . but it *musta* been cool.
An absolutely amazing video. Loved it!
A tremendously entertaining review of Our Favorite Vampire's appearances in motion pictures... Could this have been the fastest hour on RUclips? Thank you for this extremely entertaining and informative review of these one-sheets!
Thoroughly enjoyed this! Very insightful and entertaining as usual :)
I saw "Horror of Dracula" at the theatre in '58. I was 6yrs old and hadn't seen the original "Dracula" on Chiller Theatre" aired every Fri night. When I finally saw the Universal original I was a little disappointed. Christopher Lee had out done Lugosi. Still like Lugosi and the movie. But I had been spoiled. Good thing the the movie had Dwight Fry.
Well done! This was a great watch.
Thank you for talking about "Drakula halála". The screenplay remained. László from Hungary
awesome...thank you!
Genius, especially the Mexican Dracula entry. You, sir, made my day.
Great review! Keeps me coming back for more.
Brilliant work! Thank you!
I love this. Can we also get a 100-year history of Frankenstein and Wolfman posters?
Great work as always, tnx!
It’s funny I agree with you on most movies except for Dracula. But that’s perfectly fine. We both love Dracula just for different reasons
I love these critiques! Please do more of these (there are so many amazing horror posters out there). You're bringing 2 of my favorite things together, horror and art. :D
I have to ask: Why do you dislike Dracula Untold so much? Understanding, it has little to do with the source material but I thought it was an entertaining film. It's a big budget, effects driven vampire movie and nothing more. I feel like you're holding this film to standards it was never intended to meet.
😄 without a doubt, the best thing about this is the way the host’s appearance keeps changing.
Interesting how, in the first poster, the hair makes way for seeming horns, while those same shapes help define a widow's peak. The former suggests a demonic being while the latter is a signature feature of our titular vampire.
Where's the 1979 Universal Dracula with Frank Langella?
Honestly? We shot it but something was wrong with the audio (also why I'm not onscreen at the end). The poster's pretty awful anyway.
thanks for the response - it just "nagged" at the completist in me haha
Love ❤️ the review! Keep them coming.
What about Universal’s 1979 Dracula with Frank Langella?
That is a definite oversight.
@@greenmonsterprod absolutely
Thanks for this ,my mind and heart are expanded with joy and knowledge 💖
I have a VHS from Rhino Home Video called "Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook," a collection of trailers, commercials, and assorted trivia. Some of the adverts are better than the films they advertise.
I love the Herzog/Kinski film's poster.
Dracula untold is Awesome
What a fantastic review. My hat off to you. 👍🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great episode - Dracula 2000 at least had a cool plot twist at the end 😂
that was excellent, thanks
3:50
The Lagosi poster has 2 left hands.
One is holding the cape, the other on the throat.
When are you going to review Count Yorga Vampire and it's sequel ? It was a big hit at the time and convinced Hammer to bring their Dracula franchise into the 20th century.
Thinking of Dracula related titles, Stoker's novel must be the famous book with the most adaptations and spin-offs named after secondary characters. I can think of: 'Jonathan" (1970), 'Van Helsing', both the 2004 movie and the streaming series and 'Renfield', both the 2010 obscurity and the upcoming Nicolas Cage movie.
You were genius in this video: " a film so relentlessy awful that it feels as if mankind must have commited some terrible atrocity to have this unleashed upon them..." - genius! A perfect description, and I doubt anyone will defend that movie!
Hello there dark corners review. Excellent review.
Will you be doing the same with frankenstein posters 💜💜💜💜
Love this❤
Your Hammer docs were great. Can you do their rival, Ambicus. Maybe even do a series on Mexican Horror.
My favorite poster is the one with Dracula on it.
No joke!
Fracchia vs Dracula was made by a famous and important italian actor, Paolo Villaggio.
Fracchia is a sort of alter-ego of another Villaggio's character, Ugo Fantozzi, but I don't know if you can find some of his movies dubbed in english.
TS 19:00 I like that poster w/ the figures around the center image & TS 29:23 a good lookin' poster & 37:55 is an interesting poster w/ all that metal element to it
No Palance or Langella?
Dracula! Hell yeah.
What sticks out to me about the first poster is the widow's peak I thought that came later. J.
Great overview, although I don't agree about Dracula Untold. I really enjoyed the film.
Sir Christopher Lee alone makes him almost overshadow Lugosi.
The Spanish version starring Lee and Kinski (who played Dracula in Phantom Der Nacht 1979) is probably the most faithful to the story.
Lugosi is classic Dracula though
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ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA had a wonderful poster in France. Udo Kier had it on his wall in his flat when he sill lived here in Cologne/Germany. And I'm a little bit disappointed that you forgot NOSFERATU (1979) which also had a most beautyful poster (done as far as I know by great French artist Roland Topor who also played Renfield in the film).
William Bodine was known as ‘one shot Bodine’ because he rarely shot more than one scene during production.
I reckon the vampire on the Brides of Dracula poster is still the Baron, but he is also in his human version on the left side.
Do you think you would like "bram stokers Dracula" if it didn't have the authors name in the title? Because I really love the originality and aesthetic.
I think he'd hate it less. "Like" would probably be overselling it.
I love the DC review of the Coppola thing. I agree totally that the film isn't all that bad, even though it's as over the top as a Christmas panto, but it's the title that sticks in my craw. Just call it Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula (based on the novel by Bram Stoker) and it's no worse than lots of other adaptations. Given the choice, however, I would watch the Jess Franco Dracula instead; it may be kind of dull, but Christopher Lee LOOKS like Dracula and doesn't suffer from terminal angst.
Several I want to check out... I have many favourites depending on my mood, there are some obvious, but I like very much the second nosferatu version with kinski
Nice one this is going to be cool
I know you didn't show it because Dracula's name wasn't in the title, but I would have liked to see the poster for Love At First Bite.
That being said, I intend to watch Dracula in Istanbul at some point.
Good Fellas had a short snatch of that Nilsson track.
I will now forever review posters as their own distinct artform. Thanks!
My favorite Dracula films are the ones with Christopher Lee (no surprise there!), plus the Louis Jourdan (BBC) and Frank Langella versions. I am tempted to watch Dracula's Fiancee just to find out why the poster features Nancy Barrett from House of Dark Shadows, but baby eating ogres are rather off putting. I should watch Dracula's Daughter again.
I remember a Dracula movie I watched in the cinema in the early 80's that isn't on your list. It depicted a romantic handsome, seductive vampire, with romantic, seductive dancing scenes. I'm sure it was an american movie.
What do you think about Nicolas Cage as Dracula in Renfield? Doesn't he look a bit as Bela??
Great video by the way, as allways, thanks!
I hope you see my movie Dracula's Bride of Horror. Shot in Venice and Santa Monica and now in post production. Like Adamson, there are kill scenes with Dracula beneath the pier.
Was Brides of Dracula the first use of "dracula" as a common noun as opposed to a proper noun? As in "Many tourists avoid Transylvania for fear of being chased by draculas."
Another good subject for a series like this might be movie trailers. It's always interesting to see how these movies were originally sold.
No, I would say the title is simply a lie!
Boy, I wish this one WERE more widely available.
English matters.
Love the tee shirt..
Now it's not often you see Pob's mother in a Dracula film.
Whats with "Nosferatu The Vampire" the 1979 film by Werner Herzog?!
this is where the fun begins
To be fair to Dracula vs Billie the Kid, Dracula in the book does get stabbed to death by a cowboy....so Wild West Outlaw sort of /is/ his natural enemy