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Dracula Kept Wolves, Bats and ...Armadillos????

11/1/2013

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Tod Browning's 1931 DRACULA is certainly a film classic.  Bela Legosi might be the oft parodied Dracula with his creepy hand gestures and thick Hungarian accent, but he's also the Dracula that has been indelibly imprinted on the world's psyche when it comes to the most famous of vampires. 

On the flip side, there's also much to make fun of in this film.  Jump ahead in the video clip to about 1:40 to get a gander at some of Dracula's Transylvanian pets...it's okay, I'll wait for ya...

...Are you going what the f*ck, too?  Armadillos???? In Transylvania???? And in Dracula's castle??? Seriously Tod Browning?  Did you really think the movie-going public would mistake them for giant rats?  You'd have been better off hiring a possum wrangler for that scene.  At least the Virginia opossum looks like a giant rat.  Armadillos look sorta like a mutant rat/kangaroo wearing armor. 

Maybe the possum people were on strike when this movie was filmed.  Maybe Tod Browing told his props people to get him giant Norway rats and someone misread his scribble for Texas armadillo. I mean the words rat and armadillo look so much alike.  Who the heck knows?  It's one of those movie-making mysteries for will forever plague me.

Happy Day of the Dead!

An hour later: okay, a writer friend of mine just told me that Universal Studios used armadillos in this scene because they thoughts rats would be too creepy.

Huh? 

As if a movie about a dead guy who sucks the blood of the living isn't creepy?  And what about vampire bats (which are obviously fake)?  I mean, why stop with substituting armadillos for rats?  Why not pigeons for bats?  Maybe poodles for wolves?  And maybe reindeer to pull Dracula's coach?  Hey, why not just scrap the whole horror movie idea altogether.  Lordy, lordy, lordy.

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Ten Funky Ways to Celebrate Halloween

10/27/2012

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Looking for fun ways to celebrate the season?  Read on.
(This post originally appeared on Fangtastic Books
http://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com/search?q=Ten+Fun+Funky+Ways+to+Celebrate+Halloween&x=21&y=7)

Ten Fun Funky Ways to Celebrate Halloween 
 
1. Buy a stash of your favorite chocolate for the big day
and then eat it semi-immediately as your resolve to save it for Halloween night crumbles.  Repeat as necessary.  

2.  Organize a “Thriller” flash mob at your local mall or university.  Boil up a head of cauliflower ahead of time and during the flash mob, take a bite out of it, and then throw it on the floor and moan, “Braaaaaiiiins!”

3. Buy or make a costume. Wear it out in public weeks before
Halloween.  When anyone tells you it’s not Halloween yet, whisper, “I can see dead people.”

 4.  Pull out your decorations from the attic and garage and then leave them up all year.  When people tell you Halloween was five months ago, look baffled and say, “Really? I didn’t know that.”

 5.  Play a CD of organ music at 3 AM and crank it up as loud as it will go.  When the police arrive, answer the door with a mask over half your face and speak only in French.  
 
6. Throw a scary movie party and show The
Ring
.   Just before the end, excuse yourself to go to the bathroom. Call your home phone (if you have one)
or a guest’s cell phone.  
 
7.  Make festive ice cubes for your party by placing a dead fly or bug of your choice in each section of an ice cube tray and adding water or Coke.  Don’t tell your guests the bugs are real.  They’ll just assume they’re plastic.

8.  Bake a spider web cake.  Instead of decorating it with candy spiders, use real ones.  Fuzzy tarantulas work best. 
Don’t tell your guests about your big switcharoo.  
 
9.  Set up a bowling alley right in your very own front yard for the big night.  Use two-liter soft drink bottles for bowling pins and small pumpkins for bowling balls. Or dress up as Marie
Antoinette and use severed heads instead of pumpkins. 
Shout, “Let them eat cake!”every time you roll a strike.

10.  Whistle the theme music to The X-Files at work, at home, on the bus, on the train, or in the car pool until a screaming mob bearing torches and pitchforks hunts you down.

HAPPY HALLOWEENING!

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