This week’s Dracula sketch features Louis Jourdan as the titular Count from the 1977 BBC television film “Count Dracula”. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
This week’s Drac is Al Lewis in his role as “Grandpa” aka Count Vladamir “Sam” Dracula from the classic 60’s TV series “The Munsters”. As always, the original is being shamelessly pimped in the Studio Store. Was Grandpa actually supposed to be Dracula, you say? I was surprised to find that out myself. Of course everybody knows he was Lily’s father, not Herman’s, so he was never “Grandpa Munster”. He was referred to twice in the original series as “Count Dracula” as well as “The Count” and was known by his full name Vladamir Dracula in the 1980’s short lived reboot series “The Munsters Today”.… READ MORE
By popular demand, a study of George Hamilton as Dracula from the 1979 film “Love at First Bite!” As always, the original is for sale in the Studio Store! READ MORE
This week is a look at Hollywood’s stab (or bite?) at “sexy Dracula” played by a young Frank Langella in the 1979 film “Dracula”. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
They can’t all be serious. Here’s Leslie Nielsen as the Count from the 1995 Mel Brook’s film “Dracula: Dead and Loving it”! As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
Better late than never this week… here’s another Dracula sketch: Jack Palance, from the 1974 TV movie. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
No doubt I’ll get a few arguments that Max Schreck did not “officially”‘ play Dracula in the 1922 film “Nosferatu”, since the character was called Count Orlock, and all the other names were also changed from the Bram Stoker story. However, it’s widely accepted that this was an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, so much so that Schreck is in many lists of the greatest screen Draculas ever. The courts seemed to think it was Dracula as well, as they ruled against the filmmakers in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the Stoker estate and ordered all copies of the film destroyed. Like a good vampire,… READ MORE
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