Bad Movie Review: Doctor Dracula

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  • @ThatJohnKillion1970
    @ThatJohnKillion1970 2 роки тому +42

    I swear John Carradine was born one of those Benjamin Button babies, except he kept getting older.

    • @blueberrypanquakes
      @blueberrypanquakes 2 роки тому +6

      ... so literally nothing like a Benjamin Button baby?
      I swear, this umbrella is just like a can of soup, except you can't eat it, and if you open it over your head, you stay dry...

  • @williamcrowe2576
    @williamcrowe2576 2 роки тому +9

    A reincarnation of Svengali? He's hardly even a reincarnation of Svengoolie!

  • @TheMadAfrican1
    @TheMadAfrican1 2 роки тому +32

    That moment you realise that the best parody adaptation of Dracula is still Count Duckula.

    • @ashleys9397
      @ashleys9397 2 роки тому +1

      I thought "Count Duckula" was the brand name given to one of those sugary-sweet breakfast cereals for kids. Or rather, was it "Count Chocola" instead? It's so long ago it's hard to remember; as a child I was very much a "Cap'n Crunch" kinda kid.

    • @TheMadAfrican1
      @TheMadAfrican1 2 роки тому

      @@ashleys9397 I think it was chocula? Duckula is an animated series from the 80s starring David Jason as a vegetarian vampire duck. It's available on UA-cam, if you wanna check it out.

    • @orinanime
      @orinanime 2 роки тому +1

      I love Count Duckula. I wish that series got a complete DVD set release

    • @Charlesputnam-bn9zy
      @Charlesputnam-bn9zy 2 роки тому

      Not David Niven's 1974 "Old Dracula" ?

    • @richmcgee434
      @richmcgee434 2 роки тому +1

      @@ashleys9397 Count Chocula ("I van to eat your cereal) and Franken Berry were the original cereal mascots in 1971. Boo Berry the ghost came along a couple of years later, then we got a werewolf named Fruit Brute in 1974. In 1987 they added Fruity Yummy Mummy. These days the "Monster Cereals" are generally only available in stores around Halloween, although I don't recall seeing them this year. Then again, I wasn't looking.
      Let me just state for the record that it is a shocking display of amphibian erasure that the Creature From the Black Lagoon has never gotten his own cereal. Also be nice to get the Bride of Franken Berry into the mix so the lineup isn't a total sausage fest. Their signature marshmallows could be little webbed hands and lightning bolts (or perhaps her head with that trademark hairdo) respectively.
      None of them have anything to do with Duckula, although there's another fairly popular vegan vampire in the Bunnicula kids' book series. It's a rabbit, of course. Sucks the juice out carrots.

  • @buzzawuzza3743
    @buzzawuzza3743 2 роки тому +22

    This movie makes total sense to me. Especially when I'm hanging upside down like a giant bat in my castle alcove.

  • @wondercub
    @wondercub 2 роки тому +42

    John Carradine played an awesome villain on an episode of Wonder Woman called Gaults Brain. He was a disembodied brain with telekinetic powers.

    • @danielsweet858
      @danielsweet858 2 роки тому +6

      He was an amazing actor when given the proper role. Poor guy evidently had to take EVERYTHING he was offered.

    • @JPMM316
      @JPMM316 2 роки тому +6

      He was good on The Twilight Zone as brother Jerome in the Howling Man.

    • @wondercub
      @wondercub 2 роки тому +2

      @@JPMM316 oh yes he was

    • @havareriksen1004
      @havareriksen1004 2 роки тому

      That sounds a bit goory for Wonder Woman, but it's right up Carradine's alley.

    • @mborok
      @mborok 2 роки тому +5

      I remember that. “Get rid of Diana Prince. And make it look like an accident.” So his henchmen stuff her in a metal barrel and throw her into a river.

  • @reapercushions9372
    @reapercushions9372 2 роки тому +15

    I don't know if I heard it right. But a Doctor Dracula movie with the line: "You're exhausting my patients!" would be brilliant. If it's actually what was said in the clip, well, then thumbs up : )

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 2 роки тому +6

      That was taken from a Marx Brothers movie. A gangster tells Groucho, "You're trying my patience." Groucho, a fake doctor, responds, "Thank you, you should try mine sometime."

    • @richmcgee434
      @richmcgee434 2 роки тому +1

      @@nedludd7622 I've heard a variant in some old B&W flick where a mobster says the same line and the private dick he's talking to responds with "You're not a doctor, and I'll leave it to the DA to see who goes on trial out of this crew." Not bad, I thought, although Groucho's is better.

  • @darkangel076
    @darkangel076 2 роки тому +16

    Tomb of Ligeia is absolutely my favorite (sort-of) reincarnation story. Come for Vincent Price in another brilliant Roger Corman adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe, stay for the brilliant performance of Elizabeth Shepherd, one of relatively few leading ladies who could keep pace with Price's ravenous scenery chewing.

  • @wimvanderstraeten6521
    @wimvanderstraeten6521 2 роки тому +7

    Wainwright's beard is 100% convincing and epic.

  • @glenmcculla6843
    @glenmcculla6843 2 роки тому +9

    Somehow my dad got me into a cinema screening of 'Dead Again', even though I was only ten or eleven at the time, and it made an impression on me. I think it was his revenge for me having made him sit through a showing of 'Drop Dead Fred' earlier that afternoon. He refused to go home until he'd seen "something less shit".

    • @teammeteamus.8315
      @teammeteamus.8315 2 роки тому +4

      I agree with your dad. Drop dead Fred was a terrible waste of Rik Mayall!

    • @ashleys9397
      @ashleys9397 2 роки тому +3

      Your dad sounds like a really swell guy. Really!

  • @BigSlimyBlob
    @BigSlimyBlob 2 роки тому +4

    "I can't believe you were the vampire all along, Dr. Acula!"

    • @richmcgee434
      @richmcgee434 2 роки тому +2

      ...said Alucard facetiously.

  • @danielsweet858
    @danielsweet858 2 роки тому +11

    Well.... with Carridine you have to choose a bad movie or not enjoying him chewing the scenery.
    They cut OUT the original soft core scenes?😭

    • @ashleys9397
      @ashleys9397 2 роки тому +1

      But Why? Oh Why Why WHY!?!

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 2 роки тому +6

    So I'm assuming he got his PHD at the University of Transylvania🧛‍♂️

  • @richmcgee434
    @richmcgee434 2 роки тому +1

    The MD stands for Medical Dracula, of course. It's all very Bond-esque. "My name is Dracula, Medical Dracula."

  • @chuckmesser2202
    @chuckmesser2202 2 роки тому +10

    One of my favorite reincarnation movies: DEAD AGAIN.
    !!!Possible spoilers!!!
    No one in that movie is who they seem to be, sometimes twice over. Great uncredited performance by Robin Williams. It's on Prime, if you want to see it.

    • @chuckmesser2202
      @chuckmesser2202 Рік тому

      I kept my description very general so as not to give away any specific plot points. I did insert a spoiler warning just in case.

  • @AquamentusLives
    @AquamentusLives 2 роки тому +3

    I enjoy Carradine in the Twilight Zone Episode ‘The Howling Man,’where he’s a monk that has the devil trapped in a monastery.

  • @colleencrouch4346
    @colleencrouch4346 2 роки тому +7

    Dead Again with Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson and Derek Jacobi is a really superior reincarnation murder mystery movie. I don't know if it's available to stream anywhere, but if it is, you should consider reviewing it.

    • @jamstonjulian6947
      @jamstonjulian6947 2 роки тому

      That movie is bonkers

    • @billmurray7473
      @billmurray7473 2 роки тому +1

      Weren't Kenneth and Emma
      married when making that movie?
      I read they were quite a pair once.

  • @RavenHouseMystery
    @RavenHouseMystery 2 роки тому +1

    In response to Robin's question of the facts being cleared up, I have to reply, "Clear as mud to me."
    Obviously, I cannot speak for Larry Hankin, but if I got a call that I was needed to help "reshoot a new plot" and my co-star was John Carradine, I'd be ecstatic.

  • @sarahcoleman8479
    @sarahcoleman8479 2 роки тому +3

    John Carradine was in an episode of The Green Hornet. He was excellent and to be honest, out-shone pretty much everyone else. The Green Hornet was the first TV role in the US for Bruce Lee. He played the Hornet's assistant Kato. I think the series is still on UA-cam

    • @richmcgee434
      @richmcgee434 2 роки тому +1

      Most of the episodes are, anyway. I binged a fair few back in 2020 out of nostalgia's sake. Had really forgotten most of the details, or maybe I just didn't see as many of them as a(very young) child as I thought I had. Enjoyed it more than Adam West's Batman (which had a guest appearance by GH and Kato as well).

  • @stillhuntre55
    @stillhuntre55 2 роки тому +4

    I see DCR, I click and I Like.

  • @williamblakehall5566
    @williamblakehall5566 2 роки тому +3

    I'm just glad Al Adamson made something slightly better than that "weirdly colored Filipino vampires from outer space" movie. Love the Vlad Dracula T-shirt! For a good reincarnation movie, I recommend 2005's The Skeleton Key, and for sheer fun, 1991's Dead Again.

  • @ashleys9397
    @ashleys9397 2 роки тому +4

    I once read or, more likely, heard somewhere that the legendary Ed Wood penned (or was going to pen) a script for a film he was going to title "Dr. Acula". But the future project got placed on Mr. Ed's back burner , where it remained. Such a loss for bad movie devotees like ourselves! Does anyone else out there know anything about this?

    • @Bigbadwhitecracker
      @Bigbadwhitecracker 2 роки тому +3

      the completed project was titled Night of the Ghouls with Criswell, Keane Duncan and Kelton the cop. It's my favorite Wood film. My understanding that the film was completed in '59 but Ed couldn't afford to pay the film processing company so there the film sat for 25 years until Wade Williams bought the rights to all of Ed's films.

    • @ashleys9397
      @ashleys9397 2 роки тому

      @@Bigbadwhitecracker You are 100 percent totally correct. At the time Wood was in such desperate pecuniary straits that he couldn't even cough up the five hundred dollars (!) to cover post-production costs such as film processing. I've never previously heard of this Wade Williams; I should learn more about him because he sounds like a positive godsend.

  • @shannondore
    @shannondore 2 роки тому +3

    My favorite reincarnation movie has to be "Audrey Rose" Anthony Hopkins was fantastic in it.

  • @markditoro8836
    @markditoro8836 2 роки тому +2

    A far better reincarnation movie with John Carradine is The Mummy's Ghost. But The Mummy of 1932 is the champ.

    • @paulforder591
      @paulforder591 Рік тому +1

      I totally agree, Mark. Who says you need a big budget for a horror movie? In 1932, they got by with the performances. The part where the archaeologist is surprised by the mummy and screams is the highlight!

  • @LaDracul
    @LaDracul 2 роки тому +3

    You had me at Larry Hankin.

  • @thrashpondopons8348
    @thrashpondopons8348 2 роки тому +2

    Happy Halloween Everyone!

  • @GatorGirl
    @GatorGirl 2 роки тому +1

    There was a film called Dynamite Brothers that Cinematic Titanic riffed under the name East Meets Watts. I'm bringing that up because there's a car explosion in it that looks EXACTLY like the one at the end of Doctor Dracula. Considering they were both made by Al Adamson I'm guessing he just reused the footage, but I'm not sure which was the original.

    • @ashleys9397
      @ashleys9397 2 роки тому

      That's usually pretty much the case with Al Adamson.

  • @cherylsmith4826
    @cherylsmith4826 Рік тому

    "Red flag, RED FLAG" made me laugh 😂

  • @paultapner2769
    @paultapner2769 2 роки тому +3

    I think that one with the hero called WIllie had a more coherent plot than this. Still, as long as John Carradine got paid, then all was right with the world. I would say Wainwright looks like he was possessed by Al Pacino. A restrained version of the latter, that is.

  • @Oppeldeldoc1
    @Oppeldeldoc1 2 роки тому +1

    It probably gets a bad rap, but THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD has some good moments.
    So does THE REINCARNATE.

  • @markiangooley
    @markiangooley 4 місяці тому

    The original Trilby was an insanely popular novel, adapted into an insanely popular play. A style of hat worn by the male lead in the London production became popular and known as… a trilby. (The fedora hat has a similar origin.)

  • @williamtsutherland8240
    @williamtsutherland8240 2 роки тому +1

    Reincarnation? Kenneth Branagh's "Dead Again"! Spectacular!

  • @cujoedaman
    @cujoedaman 2 роки тому +1

    My fav reincarnation movie is Robo Vampire. The main character is resurrected multiple times. It's also another cinematic hack job just like this, but even less coherent :D

  • @UlshaRS
    @UlshaRS 2 роки тому

    That edit cut
    *sound of one hand clapping*
    🤣🤣🤣

  • @toybugcarl
    @toybugcarl 2 роки тому

    Did Stifflers Mom get her acting inspiration from Regina Carol?

  • @cord113
    @cord113 2 роки тому +5

    I'm not sure if it's what you mean by a "reincarnation movie", but another childhood favourite of mine was "The Wraith" which was a Charlie Sheen movie from 1986. I'll leave you look into that one yourself if your interested.

    • @julietfischer5056
      @julietfischer5056 2 роки тому

      Yeah, that one wasted an interesting premise.

    • @cord113
      @cord113 2 роки тому

      @@julietfischer5056 I was about 10 when I saw it, so hadn't seen anything quite like it before and really enjoyed it at the time.

    • @melanieszelong4664
      @melanieszelong4664 2 роки тому +1

      Loved that cheesy movie so much. Not exactly reincarnation as coming back in another form. More like the Crow than like straight reincarnation

    • @cord113
      @cord113 2 роки тому

      @@melanieszelong4664 The was another movie I liked from the same year called "The Vindicator". More a resurrection than reincarnation movie, but still worth checking out if you don't know it. It had some similar ideas to Robocop but came out about a year before it.

  • @euansmith3699
    @euansmith3699 2 роки тому +1

    What a fantastic title for a film, "Doctor Dracula"!

  • @mboucher1567
    @mboucher1567 2 роки тому

    Great channel, great variety, witty commentary.

  • @rynehall9990
    @rynehall9990 2 місяці тому

    Is that the guy who played Kramer on The Jerry Sienfeld Show?😮😅🎉

  • @varanid9
    @varanid9 2 роки тому

    1974, eh? That explains it. On the plus side, Robin's got a new book out.

  • @MBlacklaw
    @MBlacklaw 2 роки тому

    @Robin - any plans for audiobooks?

  • @skylx0812
    @skylx0812 2 роки тому

    I'm guessing the soft core explains the feather boa in the poster. _"I'm just a sweet Travesty from Tranquil Transylvania."_
    The closest I get to reincarnation is the Wes Craven tv film, "Chiller" starring Beatrice Straight and Michael Beck. A woman's son is reanimated from cryofreeze.

    • @DarkCornersReviews
      @DarkCornersReviews  2 роки тому

      In honesty, this is the poster from Lucifer's women - the poster for Doctor Dracula is such garbage I could not make it look the tiniest bit interesting. ua-cam.com/video/DBIRF3-JImc/v-deo.html

  • @TheJohnnyCalifornia
    @TheJohnnyCalifornia 2 роки тому +1

    Should’ve called it Dr. Acula.

  • @mnky75
    @mnky75 2 роки тому +1

    Is Stephanie played by Susan McIver (Susie Ewing)? She looks and acts like her.

  • @FreihEitner
    @FreihEitner 2 роки тому +2

    Doctor Dracula? I think I'd rather watch the fictitious independent film from the TV series Scrubs, titled "Dr. Acula".

  • @Lurvy1963
    @Lurvy1963 2 роки тому

    John Carradine. The uncrown king of schlock horror films. Two of my all time favourite, bad movies starring Mr. Carradine were Billy The Kid Vs Dracula. Carradine plays the evil Count who flies and walks around in broad daylight. Satan's Cheerleaders. A devil movie with a disco soundtrack for its opening theme.

  • @johnkirby8939
    @johnkirby8939 4 місяці тому

    My second favorite Dracula knock off, only surpassed by Colonel Dracula Joins the Navy.

  • @paulforder591
    @paulforder591 Рік тому

    I suggest you review Lucifer's Women in its original form. Just an idea, Robin. Hey, thanks for the intro review to Dr. Dracula.

  • @ashleys9397
    @ashleys9397 2 роки тому

    I'm so pleased that the sinister hypnotist Svengali turns up as a character in this otherwise emetic barf bag of a movie. Because it provides me an opening to laud the noteworthy 1931 pre-Code SVENGALI, starring the legendary John Barrymore in the title role and Marian Marsh as his doomed love object Trilby. Barrymore's performance here is nothing short of mesmerizing, with him effectively portraying Svengali as a nuanced individual and not simply a stereotypical movie villain: a malevolent Rasputinian schemer certainly, but also an innately tragic figure whose villainy is rooted in a longing for love denied. If you were never to see another John Barrymore picture (perish such a thought!), you would nevertheless pronounce him an incredible actor solely on the merit of this one movie.
    I must add some mention of Anton Grot's striking set design which , with its haunted ambience and distorted perspective, was clearly inspired by the German Expressionist cinema of the previous decade. Both his work and Barney McGill's atmospheric cinematography were acknowledged by Oscar nomination.
    The character Svengali has certainly gotten around. The 1931 Warner Bros. release was actually preceded by four versions of the same story, including a 1927 German picture starring Paul Wegener as Svengali. There was a subsequent 1954 British MGM remake with BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE's Donald Wolfitt in the lead part. There's moreover a 1983 made-for-TV SVENGALI that paired Peter O'Toole with Jodie Foster. But as I have yet to see any of the aforementioned, you'll blessedly be spared--at least for the time--any further expositions of my pedantically stuff-shirted commentary.

  • @thhomasppp
    @thhomasppp 2 роки тому

    7:30 Former movie star Don "Red" Barry on the right

  • @ralphyetmore
    @ralphyetmore 2 роки тому

    John Carradine appears to be the patron saint of Dark Corners, and Larry Hankin appears to be dollar store Frank Zappa here.

  • @fletchkeilman2205
    @fletchkeilman2205 2 роки тому +4

    Have you thought about putting out audiobooks for your books? I think we all would appreciate hearing you read it, to be honest. I am purchasing your book(s) regardless if you do. I just think it would be a neat bonus.
    Any Al Adamson review is worth watching, especially if it is done on this channel. Hope all is well. Super happy to see you guys grow through the years

    • @robinbailes5236
      @robinbailes5236 2 роки тому +1

      I have but it's expensive to do properly and I'm not convinced it would pay for itself.

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 2 роки тому

      @@robinbailes5236Would a review of old radio shows be cheaper?

  • @joerogers9413
    @joerogers9413 2 роки тому +2

    Well....he does kinda look like Svengoolie. : )

  • @daffyphack
    @daffyphack 2 роки тому

    Did you ever watch Blood & Flesh, the documentary about Al Adamson? Not to be confused with Flesh & Blood, the documentary about Hammer.

  • @docthemetalfreak
    @docthemetalfreak 2 роки тому

    I learned a long long time ago to never ask a woman for her soul on the first date. wait til at least the 3rd to do it.

  • @scumskimmer
    @scumskimmer 2 роки тому

    Robin where did you source the great tee? It's not one of yours

    • @DarkCornersReviews
      @DarkCornersReviews  2 роки тому +2

      This one we picked up at HMV in the UK. Others come from Last Exit Nowhere.

  • @billdufour1630
    @billdufour1630 2 роки тому

    Paul Thomas was also Peter in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar which I suppose is another reincarnation movie....

  • @lakrids-pibe
    @lakrids-pibe 2 роки тому +1

    My name is Sven, Sven Gali from Sweden.

  • @alexashbourne6496
    @alexashbourne6496 2 роки тому

    I wish that film should have called it as DR. Acula.

  • @TheRealNormanBates
    @TheRealNormanBates 2 роки тому

    As far as reincarnation movies go, the only ones I can think of that were fairly well done are *Audrey Rose* and *The Reincarnation of Peter Proud.*

  • @thribs
    @thribs 2 роки тому +1

    That’s a real thing? I thought Dr Acula was a Scrubs joke. :)

  • @kaykutcher2103
    @kaykutcher2103 2 роки тому

    Carradine's death scene did it's job. It made me cry albeit of laughter but still.

  • @MrYTGuy1
    @MrYTGuy1 2 роки тому +1

    I always preferred Dr. Acula myself

  • @thrashpondopons8348
    @thrashpondopons8348 2 роки тому +1

    He looks more like Rasputin!

  • @danddoty3981
    @danddoty3981 2 роки тому +1

    It was like watching DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN , expect not as good. A PPI production ...

  • @annnichols3091
    @annnichols3091 2 роки тому

    So, are you saying this movie's old and new threads were woven into a hideous plaid?

  • @davidromeroblaya7920
    @davidromeroblaya7920 2 роки тому

    Why killing Dracula with a stake when you have plastic explosives?

  • @havareriksen1004
    @havareriksen1004 2 роки тому

    I believe you miss spelled the doctor's name. His name is Acula. :-D

  • @myrecreationalchannel7181
    @myrecreationalchannel7181 2 роки тому

    The movie might not make sense but that was one heck of an explosive ending

  • @johnkirby8939
    @johnkirby8939 4 місяці тому

    Proto Goth Chick alert at 3:15.

  • @sgtprestonoftheyukon2423
    @sgtprestonoftheyukon2423 Рік тому

    I love al Adamson movies !!!! I wish you'd do a special about his Strange death !!!! It was almost like something out of one of his own movies !!!? 😮

  • @Jim0i0
    @Jim0i0 2 роки тому

    Dr. Acula?

  • @carlosyamara
    @carlosyamara 2 роки тому

    Dead Again, best reincarnation movie

  • @johnrussellpelt9091
    @johnrussellpelt9091 2 роки тому

    For all you SCRUBS fans, this DR. DRACULA... not DR. ACULA.

  • @todddivel769
    @todddivel769 2 роки тому

    Doctor Akula

  • @donaldporr9682
    @donaldporr9682 2 роки тому

    Seven days!

  • @ianmcnulty799
    @ianmcnulty799 2 роки тому

    Dead Again is a fun reincarnation movie.

  • @ViaFerrataCH
    @ViaFerrataCH 2 роки тому +2

    Wow I am viewer#10, not sure if that's a good thing with this movie...

  • @johnrussellpelt9091
    @johnrussellpelt9091 2 роки тому

    Favorite reincarnation movies? There's actually do m.j e good potential in Roger Cirman's THE HNDEAD. I also like the first two MUMMY movies with Fraser. And while zi can't remember the name, there was a movie with Steve Martin where a women's spirit partially possessed him, and that's kind of like reincarnation, right?

  • @alandhopewell
    @alandhopewell 2 роки тому

    This is absolutely the WORST Al Adamson I 've ever seen, and that's saying something. Adamson 's films, while certainly cinematic trainwrecks, usually aren't boring; DOCTOR DRACULA is boring to the point of offense. This wound up on the "free" table at the Laundromat the day after it arrived from Amazon, a record.
    Jerry Warren 's INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD was more interesting .

  • @dbsommers1
    @dbsommers1 2 роки тому

    Damn, an odd one.

  • @comentedonakeyboard
    @comentedonakeyboard 2 роки тому

    Dracula MD

  • @annnichols3091
    @annnichols3091 2 роки тому

    Did you ever see the old Mighty Mouse cartoon, "Svengali's Cat"? (Given what the cat did to the cops, I find his basic plan much too limited.) ua-cam.com/video/1OMBnEHA2zI/v-deo.html

  • @mephosto
    @mephosto 2 роки тому +4

    i'm not sure if i'm proud or disappointed that they didn't use Dr. Acula, and play the reveal straight.

  • @BlueFieldGamer
    @BlueFieldGamer Рік тому

    It a old joke

  • @Al_NERi
    @Al_NERi 2 роки тому

    Dr. Dracula looks terrible but I'd be genuinely interested in seeing Lucifer's Women

    • @thribs
      @thribs 2 роки тому +1

      I wonder why. :)

    • @Al_NERi
      @Al_NERi 2 роки тому

      😉

  • @theproplady
    @theproplady 2 роки тому

    This movie reminds me of "The Terror" with Boris Karloff. An incoherent mess loosely tied together by the filmmakers, who were hoping to turn some random Karloff footage created without a script into a workable movie. This kind of thing almost never works well.