 Welcome to today's special edition of Frightfully Forgotten, but to start things off, what are you drinking today? The Dark Crystal, Munich Dunkle. It is October time, so we're going to be doing our special batch of October Halloween-style episodes. Countdowns and top fives. General theme this year is going to be the Universal Monsters. To start things off, our first episode is going to be five underrated Dracula movies. Number five on our list, Dan Curtis' 1974 Dracula with Jack Palance as Dracula. The best thing about this movie is that Jack Palance doesn't play it like that. Yeah, exactly. He kind of underplays it and doesn't, Jack Palance helped the rule too much. I really like the fact that he's kind of more of a tragic Dracula. He's not so much a monster. He's not really monstrous in this. And he's lonely. Yeah. Like you get that sense that he just kind of wants like his old love back, right? And that painting of him too. He's all on that horse. It all looks exactly like him. The atmosphere for this movie is really good. There are lots of fog and dungeons in the castle. In Dracula's castle and they got to like fight a couple of vampires and they got to fight Harker too, which is kind of neat. Harker's there as a vampire. Yeah. Protecting Dracula's lair. Yeah, yeah. And it's kind of cool. A little bit of a different spin on that. They sort of stick to the general timeline, I guess, of the original book. They don't follow it all that close. Yeah. Like the story itself. It deviates, but where it deviates kind of makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, I like it. Yeah. So just for you there grumpy Andrew, we know you're asking for more jack talents and it didn't make number one and I. The next on our list, number four, 1974's blood for Dracula, also known as the Andy Warhol Dracula. He could have been Dracula. He's all... He's like... He's all gone to the pale. He looks undead. And now he is dead. This is probably one of the only movies on our list that isn't serious. This is kind of like a dark comedy. Yeah. Yeah. And it's very... It's done in sort of a subtle way, but you get the comedy. Like the comedy comes through. Yeah. It comes off as tacky, but really it's almost purposely campy. Yeah. And it doesn't follow the usual Dracula story. Yeah. Just the plot alone. It's funny where Dracula needs the blood of a virgin, but this farm guy keeps having sex with all the virgins and then Dracula's got nothing to drink. Yeah. And he's... He keeps getting duped as well. Yeah. Like the girls keep telling him, oh yes, I'm a virgin, I'm a virgin, and he, you know, samples the blood and he gets all sick and blah, blah, it's like super overdone. And he's puking in that tub and all that, blah, and Udo Kira's Dracula, how can you go wrong? German accents helps with the comedy too, because they're just normal lines, but when you give that German accent, yeah, a little bit, I can't eat this food. He said to remind you of Tommy Wiseau, Udo Kira's before. Yeah, yeah, almost exact. And that's the thing about this movie. It is just fun and funny. And the gore is really good in this movie too. We also have a VHS Tales episode on Blood for Dracula, if you want to check that out. All right, number three on our list, the 1931 Spanish Dracula. It was shot at night after they shot the original Dracula with Bella Lagosie. So they would utilize the exact same sets at night, bring in Spanish actors, do the scenes again. I do think that the Spanish Dracula is actually a better film. Shots are different. There are different angles and certain things happen in different ways. And it has actually, it's longer, makes more sense. The pacing is better. As much as I love Dwight Frye, I like the Spanish Ren feel better and actually find the sound better because the Lagosie version is very hissy and I find the Spanish one is a little bit easier to listen to. Still no soundtrack though. No. That was the one thing that's missing from that movie was music. Next one on our list. A polarizing movie because some people think it's just complete garbage. But we look at it at a different light, Dracula AD 1972. The movie starts off in the old days, late 1800s, but then it quickly fast forwards to 1972 London. The movie is about one of the kids is into all this occult stuff and they end up bringing Dracula back to life. Van Helsing's Descendant, which is played by Peter Cushing, has to hunt him down and be rid of him. And as cheesy as the movie is, I think it's a breath of fresh air because how many times has Hammer done that Dracula movie in the 1800s? All of them. The same type of movie score, the same settings, you know, there's old taverns and the old castles and this one's like, okay, just something different. The soundtrack is different. It's that 70s. I really like the music. It's really fun. And as much as I think they tried too hard to make it contemporary, it's still a lot of fun. You have to take it for what it is, right? I like the kind of last battle between Van Helsing and Dracula. Van Helsing's chasing him through that kind of tower and then he's all old and out of breath and everything. I like how they do that too, where like he is old, you know, and so then they kind of use that in the movie, right? And they don't try and hide it. And it leads us to the last one, the 1979 Frank Langella Dracula. Yeah. Yeah. This one's a masterpiece. But the pacing of this movie is really what sets it apart from the rest because it knows where to take the source material and to use it and when to disregard it. Starts off super action packed with the storm, the ships in the storm and that guy's tied to the steering wheel of the boat. The hand comes out and rips that guy's neck like, oh, yeah. And I saw that, I was like, ooh, baby, come on. You got Donald Pleasance in there. Oh, fuck yeah. Laurence Olivier. Yeah. It's like just incredible Van Helsing. Dirty and dreary looking like that era would look. It makes you feel like you're in that time period too, right? Yeah. And it's almost like a black and white movie. A lot of the night shots look black and white, even though it's actually not. Yeah. Which is a really cool way of doing it. And then there's that crazy sex scene where it's all psychedelic and all the red lights and everything. The music is really good, it's big contemporary orchestral score. They made Van Helsing and Seward related to the girls neat spin too because these characters have a real vested interest in killing Dracula. Yeah, more so than in the book. Langgila as Dracula is great and he's probably the first guy to play Dracula, maybe besides Udo Kier, who you can believe as being like a seductive person, you know, because he's actually a good looking guy. The women will want him. Yeah. As opposed to like Bella Lagos, he's like, oh yeah, you're a very attractive, old creepy bastard. Yeah. You need to use your mind powers, you know, with him, he doesn't have to use his powers. You just come a call and... That's our top five underrated Dracula films. A couple of honorable mentions because we did a lot of research and we watched a lot of shit. We sifted through a lot of garbage to get to these top five and there are a couple that didn't make the grade. The one I watched and I told Adam not to bother was the 1977 BBC Dracula. It's really good, but it's really fucking long too. It's like two and a half hours long. It sticks to the story perfectly, like almost like you're reading the book. If you haven't read the book and if you want to watch a movie that's close to it, fine. But it's like, oh, two and a half hours long of the story that we already know everything about. It's like, no, I just can't do it. And the one I watched, which I told Justin don't bother watching, was the 1970 Count Dracula, also known as the Mustache Dracula. On paper, it looks like it should be fucking amazing. It's got Christopher Lee as Dracula, playing Dracula a way he's never played Dracula before. It's more like the book in less of a monster. And he was excited to do it. Klaus Kinski's in it as Ranfield. It's like, okay, how can you get any better casting than that? Herbert Lohm plays Van Helsing as, okay, Herbert Lohm is great, but the movie fucking sucks. It's like, it's okay in the beginning, because the beginning is some cool sets and this cool cast. Okay, I'm really digging this. And then they get to London as they always do. And it just gets so boring and it makes no sense. And the guy who you want to say something, Klaus Kinski as Ranfield, has no lines. They gave this guy no lines. Like that part with Herbert Lohm, where they like, they couldn't defeat Dracula the first time. He's sitting at some desk and he looks to the, looks to the camera and he's all, this suddenly he's just in a wheelchair in the next scene and he's like, what happened to him? Did he have a stroke or a lot of potential, but shitty, shitty product. That's too bad. Now that we're done our underrated Dracula movies, we're going to talk about some of our favorite Dracula movies. We might as well if we're on the subject. So what's one of your favorite Dracula movies? Of course you got to mention the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola one, right? We were kids when that came out. That's kind of our generation Dracula casting with counter eaves and went on a rider. It's not the best call on that, but still overall movies pretty good. Almost no CG. I don't think there's any CGI in the movie probably not at that time. It's all practical effects. They're done very well. And fucking Gary Oldman's Wicked Dracula. Yeah. And you know, some of my favorites, I think yours too are a lot of the hammer ones. The original ones with Christopher Lee, like horror of Dracula, Dracula, Prince of Darkness. Christopher Lee brought Dracula back from the dead. So that's our special Dracula episode of Frankly Forgotten. Let us know some of your favorite underrated Dracula movies or just favorite Dracula movies in general. Yeah. Until next time, keep drinking.