John Carpenter's Vampires: The Movie Vs. The Book

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  • Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
  • Get ready to have a little mahogany, Dumpster Dwellers! We're back in the car with Daniel Baldwin and James Woods to hunt down some blood-sucking vampires, but this time we've got C.B. Smith with us to tell us all the differences from the book. What did John Carpenter keep for his adaptation and what did he change from John Steakley's 1990 novel, Vampire$? And why exactly is the book named Vampire Dollar Sign anyway?! Find all that and more, as we go Book to the Movie™!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 132

  • @TheGhostOfJohnWicksBeagle
    @TheGhostOfJohnWicksBeagle Рік тому +32

    In another Timeline they made a Snake Plissken/Jack Crow Team Up called escape from Transylvania.

    • @leesimmons5453
      @leesimmons5453 6 місяців тому

      This needs to exist.

    • @EddieBloecher
      @EddieBloecher 3 місяці тому +1

      I'd buy that for a dollar!!! Definitely would watch that!!!!!

  • @dereksmith6033
    @dereksmith6033 Рік тому +9

    There are only a handful of Underrated JOHN CARPENTER Films,,,,This one is the Best of them in my Opinion 😃🤘☠️

  • @gildacosta3185
    @gildacosta3185 Рік тому +17

    Vampire$ truly does sound like a horrible straight to video where Bruce Campbell appears and dies within the first 10 minutes of the movie

  • @jonnydisaster
    @jonnydisaster Рік тому +5

    THIS WAS GREAT! ALWAYS A FUN TIME WHEN CB IS ON THE SHOW!

    • @CBSmith-js9yl
      @CBSmith-js9yl Рік тому +2

      Thank you for the kind words Jonny!

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +2

      Thanks for the support, dude! 🙏💚📼

  • @flashback4588
    @flashback4588 10 місяців тому +1

    This was one of my favorite vampire movies as a child i never even knew it was based on a book 😂

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  10 місяців тому +1

      Neither did we until C.B. told us a few years back! 🤣

  • @BMN667
    @BMN667 Рік тому +2

    MOVIE DUMPSTER Reviews & Videos, along with hakthamoovys... are like a warm blanket, they always put me in a better mood and I'm down to watch them as soon as I see that bell. Also congrats on the growth, I could be completely wrong but the sub count appears to be growing at a faster pace

  • @brenair4480
    @brenair4480 Рік тому +3

    Another great Movie vs. Book guys! Love it!
    Not that you're already busy enough but I have a recommendation for a Movie vs. Book! Slimer aka Proteus. I wore that vhs out in the 90s and would love to see you guys get your hands on the novel of it woooo

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +2

      We are already talking about it! We need to tackle Proteus first, which we’ve been planning on doing for a while.
      Thanks for watching and we’re glad you enjoyed it! 🙏💚📼

  • @jmanclan
    @jmanclan Рік тому +8

    I loved this movie when I first saw it, not as much 20 years later but its still worth a watch

  • @johnnyblu84
    @johnnyblu84 Рік тому +5

    I am rocking full Redwood!!!

  • @KingBoxer119
    @KingBoxer119 Рік тому +3

    Ah hell yeah! Been a long time coming, I can't wait!

  • @johnwalsh4857
    @johnwalsh4857 Рік тому +4

    yah I love it, one of my fave Carpenters. James woods is the king in Vampires. Love his lines

  • @thrrax
    @thrrax 4 місяці тому +2

    30:42 Actually, that sounds like what an ex-military would try, especially if they were trained on old school communication lines. Up until the late nineties, the military used special cables that would literally work if two severed ends would just be tied in a knot. You didn't need to make metal on metal contact, as the signal would pass through the coating. We used to do that a lot in training.
    Of course, you'd need to have some level of intelligence to realize that civilian lines are completely different.

  • @Dino83
    @Dino83 Рік тому +8

    Mahogany. Solid.

  • @ed_carnby3431
    @ed_carnby3431 Рік тому +4

    I've waited for so long for you guys to do more of these books to the movies, especially Vampire$. I might want to give the book a read. I would hope maybe one day they will remake this movie. Because I just love the beginning of the film. Plus, 1998 had two big vampire slayer flicks, of course, John Carpenter's Vampire's and Blade.

    • @guyvizard549
      @guyvizard549 Рік тому +2

      Back in the day, I always added "From Dusk Till dawn" to this 'trilogy.' I accepted and believed that Seth Gecko, Jack Crow, and Whistler were all the same person at different times in their vampire hunting career.

    • @ed_carnby3431
      @ed_carnby3431 Рік тому +1

      @guyvizard549 now that be a be awesome.

  • @guyvizard549
    @guyvizard549 Рік тому +2

    I actually kind of prefer what JW did with the character. Best anti-hero in years.
    They should have left in all the stuff about using Rock n Roll to scare out the Vampires. That's great!
    If I had known 1/3 of the book was just gonna be Anne Rice, I'd have skipped that part.
    -Side note: As a Texan, I appreciated the small reference to "The Church of the Sub-genius." Always good for an insane laugh, especially if you can get THAT book.

  • @pupbuckboom1412
    @pupbuckboom1412 Рік тому +3

    Ernest and goofy should be it's own genre. The book sounds great like in a 2000AD comic kinda way. Gotta check it out 👍

  • @hdervish2497
    @hdervish2497 Рік тому +5

    I freaking hated the movie after I read the book. It's missing so much. Steakley is pretty awesome and you should give Armor another shot.

    • @CBSmith-js9yl
      @CBSmith-js9yl Рік тому +2

      Being a soldier unfortunately means most military movies/books are ruined for you especially if the author never served.
      I’m glad you enjoyed armor, I may give it another go around

    • @orinanime
      @orinanime Рік тому +1

      Armor is great

  • @MrFilbot
    @MrFilbot Рік тому +1

    I liked the book, certainly more than the movie. You forgot to mention the overcast “stormy day” when they get ambushed. That scene was legitimately scary..

  • @countorlokdx1
    @countorlokdx1 Рік тому +1

    I rewatched this movie for the 1st time in OMGawd 20+ years. I forgot about the Mahogony talk...makes me wonder was James given those lines because his last name is Woods? Great episode gentlemen!

  • @snacklactus6703
    @snacklactus6703 Рік тому +2

    Deep cut with the are you afraid of the dark?
    reference ❤

  • @HinderYourGeneral
    @HinderYourGeneral 11 місяців тому +1

    The Pope hitting Jack with the Hakai is epic 😂

  • @Flanavision
    @Flanavision 7 місяців тому +3

    I thought I was the only one who ever read that book.

  • @tony7713
    @tony7713 Рік тому +1

    This is gold 👌 thanks guys

  • @Bill_198
    @Bill_198 Рік тому +1

    One of the few John Carpenter movies I haven't seen yet.

  • @17siggs
    @17siggs Рік тому +3

    I got some mahogany when i saw this comeup

  • @daviddodson8922
    @daviddodson8922 Рік тому +5

    Gonna miss the premier. But you know I'm gonna have to catch it after I get a chance. Have a great week dumpster dwellers.

  • @deanmccullough7967
    @deanmccullough7967 Рік тому +4

    You guys deserve at least half as many subs as Tony.

    • @Tyrgermanic
      @Tyrgermanic Рік тому

      The movies aren't as trendy. They sacrifice a solid subscriber count so we can hear a pod about actual awesome movies. Unlike the soulless motherfuckers only subbed to Tony, living their life by 30 year old ad campaigns.

    • @Tyrgermanic
      @Tyrgermanic Рік тому +1

      Every episode with CB is good. Frankenstein Unbound

    • @Tyrgermanic
      @Tyrgermanic Рік тому +1

      The movie is 1000% a western. The reason anybody does anything is to fit the kind of western John Carpenter wanted. He was inspired by westerns very much and this is the only time he got to make one.

    • @Tyrgermanic
      @Tyrgermanic Рік тому +1

      James Woods and these guys VS. Bill Pullman the Near Dark Outlaws

  • @chyannaturner9110
    @chyannaturner9110 Рік тому +3

    I loved when you did the Valentine one! Have you ever considered doing I know what you did Last Summer??!! Btw I may have bought the Valentine novel after your episode lol

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +2

      We’ve talked about it! Might be fun to do next year. Glad you enjoyed the show! 🙏💚📼

    • @chyannaturner9110
      @chyannaturner9110 Рік тому +2

      @@MovieDumpster hopefully you will it's pretty different from the movie.

    • @CBSmith-js9yl
      @CBSmith-js9yl Рік тому +1

      Definitely something we d be interested in doing. Hope you enjoy the Valentine novel.

    • @chyannaturner9110
      @chyannaturner9110 Рік тому +2

      @@CBSmith-js9yl oh it was interesting lol, not terrible though I could see it working as a movie

  • @dreamlandnightmare
    @dreamlandnightmare 4 місяці тому +2

    The fatal problem with this movie is that it takes its hokey premise and silly elements way too seriously. Carpenter should have treated it like Big Trouble in Little China. There is a painful dearth of irony and wit. It feels like a SyFy Channel movie of the week with a big budget.

  • @justaguy7230
    @justaguy7230 Рік тому +5

    Yesssss!!!! This going to be some goooood shit! 🥳

  • @kamenrangerzeo8251
    @kamenrangerzeo8251 Рік тому +3

    The title of the book Vampire$ should have had a sequel called Vampire$: Blood Bank. And Jack Crow should have had a brother that he never knew about and he would have look like Bruce Campbell in appearance and attitude from Evil Dead.
    I will say about one thing from the film John Carpenter's vampires is that it is fun and entertaining at the same time with James Woods as he gives his own unique Flair on being a vampire hunter.
    And just a little quick fun fact about the thing in the novelization called "who goes there?" there are in fact three survivors (McReady, Bennings, Barclay) and not just one. And the one that de-thaws the thing is Blair that releases it.

  • @louis-charlesrainville9703
    @louis-charlesrainville9703 Рік тому +3

    this rock, but the 1h30min add on god and the bible that poped in the middle was almost if it was on purpose hahaha
    thanks for what you do!
    from a fan in canada

  • @praetorianle1988
    @praetorianle1988 Рік тому +2

    By the way if you want some of the original lore, like OG vampire story you can find a translation of Milovan Glisic's story - eng. after Ninety years. Serbian vampire, there is even a movie Leptirica which is here considered to be a horror classic.

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +2

      Definitely want to check it out! Thanks for the recommendation!

  • @TheMajorBlazer
    @TheMajorBlazer 10 місяців тому +2

    Steven Segal was "John Crow" in Marked for Death...

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  10 місяців тому +2

      They’re brothers-confirmed.

  • @8strauss6
    @8strauss6 11 місяців тому +1

    I also might be repeating myself but I think them cutting off the heads of their own vampire hunting crew is just an extra security measure because if they were turned even in the slightest they would have intimate knowledge of every thing

  • @Kantohammer
    @Kantohammer Рік тому +2

    Don’t forget Annabelle from Eek the Cat

  • @ryanpowell2540
    @ryanpowell2540 Рік тому +2

    Aw$ome video, guy$! I certainly got $ome pine my$elf. It's alway$ cool when C.B. $mith come$ around for the$e epi$ode$.

  • @iammatthart
    @iammatthart Рік тому +1

    The arsenal reminded me of the Nocturne video game.

  • @praetorianle1988
    @praetorianle1988 Рік тому +1

    This movie was awesome when I was a kid.

  • @ZombieWilfred
    @ZombieWilfred Рік тому +2

    Rockin' some ironwood over here 😂

  • @NoMastersNoMistress
    @NoMastersNoMistress 9 місяців тому +1

    Sheryl Lee as a vampire... that's all. What more could you want?

  • @nickducharme5104
    @nickducharme5104 Рік тому +1

    vampires 2 movie has a hunter that uses a shot gun with wooden bullets.

  • @patrickobrien3342
    @patrickobrien3342 Рік тому +3

    Shit I almost missed this! Lol

  • @Emulous79
    @Emulous79 Рік тому +1

    C.B. Smith reminds me of Tommy Lee Wallace. Looks and sounds like him a bit.

  • @hitmanmonaghan6633
    @hitmanmonaghan6633 Рік тому +2

    Guns, guns…………GUNS!!!

  • @Kenshiro3rd
    @Kenshiro3rd 3 місяці тому

    Just wanted to let you know, Jack wasn't trying to stop Mexican Marijuana Smugglers. He was trying to stop a Cuban Heroine Cartel moving through Mexico. He met Felix, who WAS a Marijuana Smuggler... planning to get out of the game because the Cubans were killing all the small time "amateur" smugglers that wouldn't move their product.

    • @rebeccayoung7898
      @rebeccayoung7898 20 днів тому

      Exactly. I know he said he read it four times but yeah, man they were selling brown heroin not weed lol I'm happy you mentioned it.

  • @johnwalsh4857
    @johnwalsh4857 Рік тому +4

    the best van helsing is PETER CUSHING...

  • @BoltVanderhuge3000
    @BoltVanderhuge3000 4 місяці тому +1

    It just....beeps.

  • @eddyspaghetti90_
    @eddyspaghetti90_ Рік тому +2

    Holy shit, y'all got stipe miocic on the podcast?!

  • @nickducharme5104
    @nickducharme5104 Рік тому +1

    I like both the first and second movie. some of the best vampire hunter movies. a t.v series would be nice but you can watch one like this called firebite.
    maybe a vampires 3 when the black cross has day walker blood hidden inside the cross itself from the first vampire hunter priest. the real first vampire patient 0 who was infected but others who got infected and turned could not walk in daylight and burn.
    scientist working with the hunters and church who are attempting a cure only have the pills that hold back the turn for so long but findout the secrets of the black cross and need to find it to hepp with a cure before the vampires find it and use the blood to walk in daylight.

  • @sriotstarter
    @sriotstarter Рік тому +1

    Loved the movie. Great show

  • @zevenenzeta
    @zevenenzeta Рік тому +2

    Was the opening bit just a dick joke? If so that was hilarious 😂

    • @justaguy7230
      @justaguy7230 Рік тому +3

      Reference to Woods’ line from the movie, which is what he asks the priest 😂

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +1

      100% 😆

  • @8strauss6
    @8strauss6 11 місяців тому +1

    I would love to see you guys do arachnophobia and for some reason I always think of the movie fallen with Denzel Washington which I also think is very entertaining. even though I'm not a religious person, I must have saw them close together as a kid or something because in my head they're linked. I mean John Goodman is a character in both. maybe that's why. and I watched Roseanne as a kid because my mom loved the show so who knows

  • @emperortrevornorton3119
    @emperortrevornorton3119 Рік тому +2

    Did you get a little wood from this review I seriously don't understand why people hate this movie

  • @ojar91
    @ojar91 2 місяці тому

    Is the audiobook available anywhere?

  • @breakercassidy6946
    @breakercassidy6946 Рік тому +2

    Cherry Cat

  • @bwy553
    @bwy553 3 місяці тому

    I love the end of the movie. Even though it set it up for a sequel that never happened. The dollar sign would make sense if you did a modern blackrock kind of vampire organization where they sucked the resources and the blood out of everything

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  3 місяці тому

      Now that’s a movie I would pay to see! -Sean

  • @bluedogrocks
    @bluedogrocks Рік тому +1

    I have love this book and the other by the same author and have read them each dozens of times. The movie version of Vampires was disgusting and an attack on the source material.

  • @vf1skull1
    @vf1skull1 2 місяці тому

    There is an anime called Jojo's bazaar adventure, and I s*** you not. It actually has a vampire named Dio!! Who is actually named after Ronnie James Dio. So, coincidentally enough, that's a thing that actually exists.

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  2 місяці тому

      Dio’s nuts, don’t let him near your dog! 😆 -Sean

  • @orinanime
    @orinanime Рік тому +1

    First time watching this series.
    Is that Sean O'Rourke's actual voice? Or is he doing a bit?

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +2

      Just my voice. ✌️

    • @orinanime
      @orinanime Рік тому +2

      @@MovieDumpster I was just wondering because it shifts several times. So I thought you were putting on various voices for effect.

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +2

      Ah got ya, yeah my voice range is all over the place so I get what you mean haha.

  • @TomRichardson-et2qx
    @TomRichardson-et2qx 2 місяці тому +1

    Never read the book

  • @cc-vd3oq
    @cc-vd3oq Рік тому +1

    Guns? 😂
    Like all this time it didn't dawn on them to use guns. Rock n roll.

  • @Highdra212121
    @Highdra212121 Рік тому +1

    rock and roll

  • @freemovies3524
    @freemovies3524 Рік тому +2

    😉👍

  • @wretchardkimball9049
    @wretchardkimball9049 Рік тому

    Frankenstein$ Unbound

  • @batfreak1981
    @batfreak1981 Рік тому +3

    This was the 1 carpenter movie that I had never seen at first. Having seen it in full last year and yup....it was awful. Definitely bottom barrel of carpenters movies.

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +3

      As far as Carpenter movies go, it’s def not the best. There are some great scenes, but the production problems really hurt it overall.

    • @batfreak1981
      @batfreak1981 Рік тому +1

      Facts on that. Could have been great but....yeah noooo

    • @justaguy7230
      @justaguy7230 Рік тому +2

      Probably his weakest 90’s movie. A fun watch, but in a bad way. Woods really saves it

  • @RetroView66
    @RetroView66 6 місяців тому

    The title VAMPIRE$ pretty much explains why there's a dollar sign. It's not that oblique guys. And you keep trying to show you're smarter than everybody as you keep getting checked. The one who read the book knows what he's saying. Definitely a bro-dude book. The book is a comic book and so much more fun than the movie.

  • @h.b4219
    @h.b4219 8 місяців тому

    Its a great movie you guys are not qualified movie critics you just random silly guys on youtube talking $hit and being disrespectful to a great movie director

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  8 місяців тому +2

      That one dude who watches a single episode and has no context for the show, the in-jokes, or blatant sarcasm.

  • @666soso
    @666soso Рік тому +4

    When you guys mentioned vampires in Texas it reminded me of that X files episode with the trailer park and the old lady living under the bed or something like that.

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +2

      That’s a classic, Patrick Renna is a vampire in that one! One of the best comedy episodes too. -Sean

    • @justaguy7230
      @justaguy7230 Рік тому +2

      Yeah the old mutant lady living under the bed is from “Home”, the inbred family episode that got banned. The vampire episode was hilarious

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +1

      Oh yeah that episode is great too! The Texas Chainsaw family haha.

  • @stuppittyhed
    @stuppittyhed Рік тому +2

    I was super interested in the subject matter but the two side hosts are awwwful.

    • @MovieDumpster
      @MovieDumpster  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for watching!

    • @wretchardkimball9049
      @wretchardkimball9049 11 місяців тому

      ​@MovieDumpster congratulations, you've been demoted to side hosts. CB is the star of this show😂

    • @RetroView66
      @RetroView66 6 місяців тому

      They keep trying to prove they know more than the author but it comes off as typical geeks thinking they're smarter than they are. Great topic tho!

  • @AngelXSantana
    @AngelXSantana 4 місяці тому

    Great movie

  • @666soso
    @666soso Рік тому +3

    I’m a fan of Cherry or Rosewood. maple too. Ebony is the best