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thethirdromana · 2 years

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Ten Dracula covers, rated

The original first edition cover. Reminds me of Aubrey Beardsley's controversial Yellow Book, which I'm guessing wasn't a deliberate choice. There would have been a paper cover as well, which I can't find an image of. I enjoy the lack of information this cover is giving me. It's Dracula by Bram Stoker, what more do you need to know? 5/10.

IN HIS LIZARD FASHION. Points to the illustrator of the 1919 edition for choosing this iconic scene. Minus points for the gravity-defying cape and an oddly stout, comfortable-looking Norman castle. 9/10.

It's Whitby Abbey! When you think about it's a bit odd that Dracula is so strongly associated with Whitby when not all that much of the action actually takes place there, isn't it? I think I will deduct points for Dracula standing on top of the Abbey like Jack Harkness in Torchwood. 6/10.

The first of the Lucy covers, from 1927. I have so many questions about this. Why are her boobs so pointy? Why is her arm... like that? Why does Dracula have a Hitler haircut? 4/10 but thank you for trying.

More Lucy from Arrow Books, 1974. The most important thing to know about Dracula is that Lucy has shapely legs, apparently. The low quality isn't helping, but I have further questions about this one. Is that supposed to be a stone circle in the background? What is the lump on Lucy's right-hand side? Definitely in the wrong place for a boob, but I can't see what else it could be. Further minus points for the fact that Lucy appears to have a perm. 3/10.

Dracula the dandy! From the Modern Library, 1932, though the illustration is originally from a 1928 edition. I am deeply disappointed that they didn't include the straw hat. 2/10.

The 1933 Irish language edition. The yellow eyes! The cowboy hat! The cute bat ears! The fact he seems to be standing at an 80-degree angle! The adorable wolves! The tufts of hair implying a decidedly wacky haircut! It takes the Modern Library idea and makes it BATSHIT. 12/10.

It's never a good sign when you can't tell who a book cover is supposed to represent. I mean, I'm guessing it's Dracula given the bat-cape, but I'm not sure why he's gazing out from the top of some kind of deeply troubled tree like Caspar David Friedrich meets 80s romance novels. And what, exactly, has happened to his feet? 1/10.

Dracula as St Peter? 3/10, mostly because of its fascinating theological implications.

(yes I know they intended to imply Satanism but this is more fun)

YES YES YES. I don't know where this cover comes from but it's the most book-accurate by far and I love it. The hairy hands, the fingernails, the moustache - why settle for less?! The knowledge that this Dracula is about to be walloped in the face by a shovel-wielding solicitor at this precise moment seals the deal. 100/10.

#dracula daily #dracula #cover art #edited to replace images so they're a consistent size

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beevean · 10 months

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On the topic of the Shahra/Erazor relationship in Secret Rings, it seems to be weirdly common for fans who are okay with Gerald being executed (albeit offscreen), the edgier aspects of ShtH and '06, and the zombot arc, to say THIS is somehow crossing the line and too weird for Sonic. I wonder why that is?

I thought both Storybook series are generally well loved for their stories? And both of them deal with pretty dark themes, one implies an abusive relationship and the other grapples with the fear of death...

I don't know how common it is for fans to draw the line at SR, but if I have to guess, it's not about the darkness/edginess: the theme of abuse is... probably more personal, than a criminal getting executed or a zombie apocalypse? It's like in the Dracula book: the most unnerving parts are not about the supernatural, the vampire being uncanny and crawling down the walls in lizard fashion, but the scarily accurate depiction of abuse Dracula subjects the protagonist to.

Then again, Erazor and Shahra's past relationship is left up to interpretation, so I don't think it would be severely triggering, just more uncomfortable.

#sonic the hedgehog

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lonespektr · 7 months

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SEPTEMBER 10TH HORROR WATCH

The Invitation (2022) specifying 2022 because it's a BUNCH of horror movies called the invitation and they are good but we don't want to confuse anybody

Okay

Old timey days fancy lady

Locked in the house, they chasin her

She kills herself off the fancy stairwell

"it ends here"

Clearly not because this is min 5 of the movie

party server women camaraderie over being groped by men

It's a gala thing for a DNA kit company

They snag a kit

Protag mails it in

English cuz is in NY wants to meet up

He's apparently the whitest man alive

Bestie says hell naw he's going to take her kidneys

She meets him he says she's a family scandal

One guess why

That's right their girl had a baby with a black staffer presumably the old timey woman that offed herself at the start

Black staffer raised her kin on his own

Eventually they moved to America

But homeboy told everybody about her 🤣🤣🤣

Now the whole family wants to meet the black american cousin 🤣🤣🤣

There's a big wedding this makes it a plausible reason for her to visit

Protag bumps the help and drops of bunch of shit the help are woc

The head butler of whatever tells her to to clean it up

Not very tall dark (obviously fucking white why do white ppl call themselves dark cause of black hair) hansom says no shes a vip

Protag like okay so it's ok talking shit to the help??

I realize this is a plot hole because she's fucking American he would know she probably wasn't the help not in a uniform and talking shit

Anyways the house has a bunch of gawdy art sculptures like animals

Is this maid welsh? Can i accurately identify welsh accent?

Fancy room maid says the fancy wrought iron bars are on the windows because of demon shrikes

The bars match the decor there's wrought iron shit and marble shit and carved shit everywhere

Former lady of the house??

Doesn't say yo mama

She know she fuckin dying she crying implying it's about the dead lady of the house it ain't she knows about the set up!!!

Bro y'all not related?? You talking about the home owner.

Nightmare lady of the house

Monster in the hallway

Very elaborate ritual just to see who has a cleaning assignment for a creepy locked room they look nervous

Mostly woc

Maid says not safe out of her room

Head host literally chanting

Wired headphones in the year of our lord 2022?

Got her

Everyone is too happy almost relieved that she is there

Mean girls

Short one doesn't travel much

Fancy pants stole her drink and pulled her into a live performance on a moments notice how romantic

Cuz is kikiing with mean girl constant she was supposed to be the whatever she now it's protag

Confirmation he's fully in on it

Clearly they need a female heir but why

Second? Third?? Time on that sword

Oh shizz monster in the room

Dude is in the room? 🧐

Made another glass mess for maid

Lots of sharp objects being set up

Dude not subtle

Protag not fucking around

I'm poor i want money to do shit bro

He's playing it obviously fake

Excellently done tension with the manicure scene

Keeps breaking shit

Seeggs he proposed because they are already doing a wedding so

She literally juz said yes and he didn't laugh wtf

Lol she checked like bruh I'm nawt serious

Friggin venician masks now

3 families

She's literally all the head of the table with home boy

Hes playing it so greasy

Shes physically repulsed yet she keeps saying yes

He announced they marriage at dinner

Another one bites the dust

Exposition speech teach people made a deal with the devil

Count Dracula (literally numerology obsessed 🤣)

Talking about 3 is the magic number of brides

So thought they were all vampires but it's just ones dude hoarding power

The bridesmaids drank blood??

Wait who's got fangs?

She's expecting the rich people who sell their daughters for infinity to help

He's delusional

Maid is VERY distraught

More exposition

3 is that magic number they all get to be immortal if they cross the three blood lines

Apparently all fangs are day walkers

Lots of screaming begging and crying

Maid rescue

They guy is literally from dowton Abbey righ?

First house trouble

Name dropped the family

Not very smart but observant

Back in

Wedding day

That was always the play

Wild AF the change being instant

Stakes him already

Miss

Girls fight to the death

Show down count v protag

She's already unvamped with the palace buying around her nice and tidy

Daughter surpases the mother in that too end it

You don't maurder yourself you kill the baddie you survive

Lol she goes after cuz later w bestie

#the invitation #2022 #graywatchhorror23

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starfirebird · 6 years

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It has been nearly 3 years since I discovered that Lestat: the Musical existed, looked it up on Youtube, and decided to watch the video of the San Francisco version first because it was longer. Even though I have a pdf of the Broadway sheet music, I’ve only referenced it for specific songs and just now finally got around to watching the whole video of the Broadway version. I’m kinda glad because now it’s ‘new’ stuff for me, but also, I tend to have Opinions to release, so my play by-play reactions are beneath the cut (yes, this is just how I am about musicals, but I usually don’t have the opportunity to write immediate responses)

-Wow the intro lyrics are way more dramatic

-Why did they change ‘In Paris’ like that? SF version was more book-accurate

-So /that’s/ how the lullaby song is supposed to sound (I had looked at the sheet music for it)

-There are some slight changes that explain why the sheet music doesn’t mesh with how I learned the songs by listening-like the added stuff at the end of ‘The Thirst’

-The Nikki and Gabrielle dialogue?

-What is this extra song before ‘Make Me as You Are’ (and why did I never notice it scrolling through the sheet music)? This version really goes for the Nikki/Lestat angst apparently and I love it

-Did they cut twenty minutes just by making everyone talk faster? Otherwise what is left out later?

-The transition into the slower part of ‘Make me’...why is it like that?

-Scene transitions were revised to less clearly resemble melodies, mostly by changing rhythms, and it feels weird but only bc I’m used to the other version

-They cut the kidnapping? /Why/? That was literally like one line of dialogue...

-Ugh who thought the choral echo in ‘To Live Like This’ was a good idea? It was not.

-Oooh more slightly different lyrics

-Oh they added in the line about Allesandra!

-Oh /now/ we have the kidnapping-oh, huh. Huh.

-There’s so much more intro to the theatre scene now

-Oh wait they changed this /completely/ I liked the overly cheerful ‘hacking and stabbing’ what the fuck is this metaphor stuff where is the simplified backstory

-Why...have they changed the plot just enough to be deeply annoying IT WAS FINE THE FIRST TIME YOU GOT IT (mostly) RIGHT THE FIRST TIME

-Okay at least the mixture of gayness and hatred is there

-Nikki goes with them?!?

-It was a “quest to cure Nicolas”?!?

-Literally WHY is Nikki the reason Gabrielle leaves in this one? No one asked for this! You got it right the first time who rewrote this show!?

-At least the ‘Crimson Kiss’ is the same…(but I knew that bc it was one I actually sang from the sheet music in voice lessons two years ago and it was the same as the SF version)

-Reprise of the previous new song-well scrambling the plot does give you some more Nikki/Lestat angst, so I suppose it’s not all bad...I mean it’s bad but...in a good way y’know

-No WHY? That is so OOC and also just why, and also why was there a fire there without the whole coven sabbat explanation implied, like, the plot scrambling makes NO SENSE

-And Marius is still bald (sigh)

-The percussion parts in ‘Welcome to the New World’ are quite nice and hearing the different version just feels refreshing. Overall, the song is more cheerful and less problematic, I think I like it alright

-Nice, same music for Louis’ turning

-I have /seen/ The Magic Flute and I still have no idea what part of it that quote is from, but glad to see it kept

-They literally just accelerated the tempo again on ‘Embrace It’ like, this is allowed to be slow and angsty was the director just really pushing for a shorter runtime or were they trying to make the show more upbeat and like, not well?

-‘I Want More’ seems the same, since it was up-tempo already- oh wait, more added drums. (I learned this one as a possible solo in high school, too-although it can technically be spun as a small group for Thespians, as I once had the misfortune to witness (the Claudia was decent, the Louis and Lestat were utterly unenthusiastic, anyhow, I digress))

-Ah the Dracula scene, lol, anyway the second act seems to have survived more intact than the first

-‘I’ll Never Have That Chance” was unchanged, too, but this video is definitely better quality-not bad for a camera 12 years ago

-I just realized they made an entire musical about vampires with no fake blood and I bet every single person working on that show was very happy about that because fake blood is a NUISANCE

-Yep, ‘Sail Me Away’ is the same, I will hesitantly posit that the second act was untouched (Also this is probably the one I can sing best these days)…oooh, but the ending /is/ up instead of down

-The dialogue is a bit switched around, but not much

-It’s in both shows, but ironically the only reason “Until you have been forced to live forever in the body of a child” makes proper sense as a line is because they! refuse! to! portray! Armand! properly! (since musical! Claudia is turned at 10) (although honestly I like the casting of musical! Armand and I think the actor could’ve been made up to look somewhat younger if the show hadn’t decided to go with the movie aesthetic) (OK obligatory rant over)

-“’To Kill Your Kind’ creepy and tragic as ever, no apparent changes

-Did they cut the ‘Embrace It’ reprise?

-Finally lost my vague dislike listening to ‘After All this Time’ that I developed after practicing it to death a couple years ago (it became my go-to performance piece for a bit. I wound up singing it during karaoke at a cousin’s wedding, and at the orientation week talent show my first year at college. It’s kinda sad but I’ve not touched it for long enough that I can like listening to it again) Okay, where were we…

-New angsty dialogue…I feel fandom pain

-Added the ‘Sail Me Away’ reprise

-Huh the ending is very different but I kinda guessed since they cut the origin story song

-The ending is a ‘Crimson Kiss’ reprise before going into “From the Dead’? Okay

-Noooo they got rid of all the closuuure, you can’t get rid of the closure that’s mean! No! Come on I thought you were just getting rid of Akasha! That thing with Gabrielle and Marius was not enough to dissolve the angst!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed my commentary. Also here Are links to the recordings:

Broadway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQOsZsCTmxs

San Francisco:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCv7D56O_w0

#vc #lestat the musical #musicals #i have Opinions #you should've heard me go on after seeing Love Never Dies tho it was like this but in person #but out of order since it was all saved for the ride home #at least this is in order

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wahbegan · 7 years

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GATHER ‘ROUND CHILDREN WHILE I HYPER-ANALYZE EVERY LITTLE THING IN THE IT (2017) TRAILER

1. First of all, Bill doesn’t stutter at all during the trailer. Now, i know in the book he stutters a lot less around his friends and his little brother, and there’s only him saying the one thing at the beginning to his brother and in the middle when he’s talking about the sewers, but i just hope they keep it intact cause it’s actually semi-important to the plot

2. You can see GULF WAX on the table of shit Bill is building the paper boat out of, not much to see here, it’s just what he waterproofs the boat he gives Georgie with BUT it’s just really nice how much attention to detail they’re clearly putting into this

3. The brothers have a tender moment after Bill makes Georgie the boat, which one of the things the miniseries didn’t make super clear but it’s almost bizarrely tender like they’re saying goodbye like they both on some level know they’re never gonna see each other again and that looks to be the same here

4. The street names and sawhorses with DERRY PUBLIC WORKS on them are another cool little detail reference to the novel

5. The bit where Pennywise pops up is very interesting to me because okay bear with me here he has blue eyes in that shot, right? Just Bill Skarsgard’s natural eye color i’m assuming. Later when Pennywise jump-scares the fuckitty shit out of Bill in the basement (more on that in a second) his eyes are a weird spooky yellow-green color and in most promo images his eyes are just straight-up yellow. This is significant just because, and idk if they put this much thought into it, but in the book when Pennywise first pops up in the storm drain he has yellow eyes and when Georgie looks again they’re blue, specifically the same shade of blue eyes that his mom and brother have. It’s implied to be a deliberate ploy on Pennywise’s part to gain Georgie’s trust. Anyway, that’d be cool if that made it into the movie.

6. The big sweeping shot of Derry is nice, we can clearly see the canal off to the right side of the screen which is important to a lot of the action, being where Ben first sees Pennywise and where minor character Eddie Corcoran meets his death by Creature from the Black Lagoon (Eddie’s little brother Dorsey was brutally killed by their abusive stepfather, an act of violence which starts Its feeding cycle, of which Georgie is the first victim and Eddie is one of the last; more on Its life-cycle momentarily)

7. The boy on the missing poster, Patrick Hockstetter, is a fairly minor character from the book, a creepy sociopath who believes he’s the only real thing in existence and other things exist solely for his amusement. He killed his baby brother when he was 5, tortures animals to death for fun and keeps their corpses in a fridge, and barely registers fear or even physical pain. He does, however, have a deep revulsion of leeches (relatable tbh) and Pennywise sends like an appendage of Itself in the form of a swarm of leeches with fly wings and mosquito suckers, flesh-colored leeches by the way that turn pink and then dark red as they suck your blood isn’t that lovely, to hide in his animal fridge and exsanguinate him before the main part of It shows up to drag him off and eat him. Interestingly, Pennywise, since Patrick doesn’t really fear anything, seems to be unable to decide what form to adopt when It takes him, and appears as a sort of running, melting wax type of figure a scene which is scary as fuck and i really hope makes it into the movie in some way, particularly since that’s really the only reason to include Patrick Hockstetter at all and we already know he’ll be making a physical appearance in the film since someone’s been cast as him.

8. Ben in the library, probably writing the poem that he later gives to Bev. Oddly enough, I don’t think Pennywise actually appears to him in the book during this part, so it’ll be interesting to see how much he makes his presence known. Is it just gonna be the balloon or will he pop out in Dracula form like he does when Ben re-visits the library as an adult? WHO KNOWS

9. When Eddie Kaspbrak finishes Bill’s thought “....clown. Yeah, I saw him too.”, it flashes to him outside the infamous 29 Neibolt Street. This is of course where a syphilitic homeless man propositions Eddie for oral sex and Pennywise later takes the form of the same man in a clown suit, the disease advanced to the point that it can be more accurately described as leprosy. Later in the trailer (right after THIS SEPTEMBER) we get a microsecond-long flash of what appears to be Eddie running away from the Leper, shot in such a way that you can’t really see him, but production shots of him exist and it’s confirmed that Javier Botet (Mama, Crimson Peak) will be playing him, so that should be an amazing scene i’m already calling it as being one of the most iconic of the film

10. Now for the real show-stopper, the slide-show bit. Now, besides the obvious, the timeline of the movie has been moved up such that these kids aren’t kids in the ‘50s, but rather the ‘80s, right around the time IT was actually released. The slideshow freaking out appears to be a technologically updated version of/at least a scene analogous to the old picture book from Mike Hanlon’s father coming to life (the projector does appear to be Mike’s,as he’s the one who immediately starts inspecting it when it starts doing its thing)

11. Henry Bowers and the red balloon. This i believe is the part in the book, based on where the shot is set up, it looks like a front yard or something, where Bowers finds a balloon tied to his mailbox and a package inside from “Bob Gray” (another common alias of It, along with Pennywise) containing the switchblade he uses to murder his abusive father (what is it with King and parents who are fucking jackasses?) and attempt to kill the Losers in the sewers.

12. This appears to be the climactic encounter with Pennywise in the House on 29 Neibolt Street. If you watch, you can actually see Pennywise’s fingers growing out of the clown gloves and morphing into werewolf claws, which is really cool because their plan hinges on trapping It in werewolf form so they can shoot It with silver, but It initially appears to them as amorphous (It usually does when It appears to multiple people at once until one of them, i’m guessing whoever has the strongest concrete fear, says what It is and then It settles into that form) until Richie ,who had previously seen It as a werewolf in the same house, screams out “It’s the werewolf! The teenage werewolf!” so this is probably right after that

13. One of my favorite shots from the trailer because if it’s what i think it is, it indicates some BRILLIANT adaptation-work on Andres Muschietti’s part. Basically, in the book, there are a lot of “interludes”, little bits and pieces of Derry’s troubled history that are inserted into the story to help explain Its life-cycle and would be, in the form they are in the novel, basically unfilmable. It just wouldn’t work pacing-wise and would serve only to confuse the audience. One of said interludes is the fire at the Black Spot, an integrated but mostly-Black club where Mike Hanlon’s father worked that was burnt to the ground by a white supremacist group with people trapped inside. Pennywise, in the form of a giant bird with balloons tied to Its wings, is present and is temporarily sated by this display. (a massacre or otherwise hideous act of violence has to be committed to wake It up, and another must be committed to put it back into hibernation. It’s usually active for about a year before going back into hibernation for about 27). The firelight and burnt hands/door seem to imply that Muschietti has worked this interlude in by having Pennywise taunting Mike Hanlon with a vision of the people who died in the arson/massacre which is BRILLIANT.

14. The sink scene. Of course, the shit coming out of the sink has been ratcheted up a LOT from the miniseries, but is actually fairly close to the book where it first coughs up a single bubble of blood and then belches forth a geyser, coating Bev and the entire bathroom, as well as her father who can’t see it. My only gripe is the blood seems to have been replaced with a black liquid of some kind? I hope that’s just for the trailer and it’ll be red in the movie, cause it just doesn’t have the same traumatic appeal as everything and yourself and your dad being covered in blood and him not being able to see it

15. Pennywise partially obscuring his face with a balloon is something he does at least once in the book to indicate that he’s about to change forms, as the Mummy on the ice that Ben sees. Now this appears to be in front of 29 Neibolt Street, so i don’t think it’s Ben, but probably as he’s about to transform into the Leper for Eddie. But that’s just my guess

16. The final scene. The basement. Now this is a scene that isn’t in the book at all, there’s a similar one towards the end but it’s in Its lair and the rest of the losers are there so i don’t think it’s that. Anyway, even though there’s no way of knowing what basement this is, it’s possible that it’s actually in the Denbrough bothers’ house because, going all the way back to the first part of this post, Georgie so remember that whole bit where he goes into the basement to get the GULF wax, that’s the only part of the book from his POV and he talks about how he’s terrified the whole time of a monster being in the basement, and it’s mentioned that it’s flooded from all the rain Derry’s gotten recently. I’m not sure where this scene would fit in, chronology-wise, but i’m willing to bet it’d be some kind of ironic echo of Georgie’s earlier sentiments or a replacement for Georgie’s scene entirely where Bill is the one who has to go down into the basement and face his fears instead. It also might occur instead of/along with Georgie’s school picture coming to life, but once again this is all pure speculation i have no basis for this other than the location

ANYWAY THAT’S ABOUT ALL FOR NOW wow sorry that was super long i really needed to get that out of my system i’m done now i’ll have mercy and put this under a read more

#stephen king's it #it 2017

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