Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula
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The Cinema Snob: Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula
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A new review! just what i've been waiting for! Thank you!!!
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Billy The Kid should of just stole Dracula's credit card and bought a crapload of steak sandwiches.
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Fuckin love it Snob.
You MUST do Pieces some time soon... I crave for the day.
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Yeah, that would (almost) make my internet connection seem worth the money!
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HAHAHHAHHAHAHHAA, Nice.
Mine too.
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Great review, as usual, Snob. Very entertaining.
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Finally, John Carradine not in a catatonic state. Still, seeing that wrinkled visage always makes me think of Crow's line from Red Zone Cuba "Is he always a hundred years old?"
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Hey Brad, my grandfather (who died last October, shortly after my 19th birthday...) once told me about how he saw this epic disaster in a theater back in the 60's, and I remember he even ordered a copy of the movie (in 2002) so we could both watch it.... now, I'm not sure how much of this is bullshit, but he told me that the audience hated the movie so much, that several people were throwing not only popcorn, ice cream, and other snacks, some people were actually throwing MATCHES at the screen. How fucked up is that?!?!??! Apparently the manager of the theater came out to clam things down, and was hit in the face with a fudgesicle for his trouble. ha ha ha ha.
Either way, with him, you never really know what was completely accurate (he was an alcoholic in his younger days) but this movie certainly could bring people to such violent retaliation, if you ask me... ha ha!!!
Funny review, man.
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Underhill reminds me of the fake name used by Frodo in LOTR.
Thanks CS, love you funny reviews.
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I remember seeing the cover of this movie in Hollywood Video(back when it was H.E.B Videos) when I used to live in San Antonio, TX. I was getting over my fear of going to the horror section in video stores.
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Looking forward to next week, I have that movie (thank you 99 cents store) but have never been brave/ desperate enough to watch it
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This was a pretty epic episode XD
My dad Actually met John Carradine and his sons, said he was a pretty nice guy.
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Well, he never had a sweatheart, and he never had a home... well atleast that's what the song says.
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I fucking loved how ridiculous it was. The weird thing is that they never actually call Carradine "Dracula". He steals the name of "Mr. Underhill" from the people he killed in the coachride. As a vampire, he didn't have any problem going out in the daytime. At least he wasn't sparkling.
Carradine is hilarious in this! His freaky-ass facial ticks totally made worth at least renting this. Thank the maker his kid would turn out to be just as weird and creepy when he needed to be.
Major kudos on the Red Zone Cuba subreference!
BTW, they recently did a story where Billy The Kid is turned into Frankenstein in the Classics Mutilated anthology.
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Actually in the original novel, Dracula didn't have a problem with daylight. The whole "vampires don't like daylight" thing started with Nosferatu I think.
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Actually actually, it's sunlight that kills him at the end. The way this is described is that he was weak, wheras before in the times he'd gone out in the daytime he'd been extremely powerful. Quincey Morris (if I remember his name right) stabs him with a bowie knife, as well, meaning he was in an awful state. That's why the sunlight was able to kill him. It's not immediate walking-into-light-means-death, but it certainly didn't help him. Another thing; he lost his powers in the daylight. He was a normal person.
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Nice to see the Cinema Snob going into the Weird West territory! Great episode, btw. Talk about historical and fictional characters that are out of place and character... At least John Carradine's acting was good and his vampire stare was badass.
Course the best Weird West movie of all time has to be The Valley of Gwangi. Pitting cowboys and dinosaurs against each other is simply genius. XD
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Great review as always. Other Carradine movies you should check out are The Boogey Man and The Tomb.
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I can't decide whether or not this is weirder than Batman vs. Dracula (yes that also exists).
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Good old John Carradine. There was barely a low budget film made between 1950 and 1984 he wasn't in.
When he wasn't working in the US, he traveled the world looking for films to be in. He even went to New Zealand to be in Scarecrow. I like to think that if my parents had been home movie buffs, John Carradine would've been to at least one of my birthdays.
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It's so weird looking at John Carradine's filmography on one end you have things like The Shootist with John Wayne, Lauren Becall, James Stuart, Ron Howard & Richard Boone then at the other end you have all the exploitation and z grade horror like this and Astro Zombies.
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Another great review..What I've noticed is that John Carridine was the actor to go when making a low budget movie.Just like they do now with Christopher Walken..This movie was on a double bill with Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter back then..
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Oh you have to do “Dracula vs. Frankenstein”. It’s done by the same folks that did one of your favorites “Blood of Ghastly Horror”!
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Was john carradine was in Night of the Demon. That's one the snob should do. It's got everything. Monster rape, castration and a man being beaten to death with his own entrails and my god is it low budget!
It's fantastic.
And the snob should do Pieces. This a serious contender for the best "bad" movie ever made. The director.J.P. Simon died recently and the snob did do his other great movie,Slugs
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Man, thanks to Brad I now buying for 7 bucks each; Catacomb of Freakshows & Decrepit Crypt of Nightmares (both with 50 films each.)
100 extremely low budget extravaganza. I seriously lost respect for my own mind.
Besos desde Puerto Rico, Brad!
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THANK YOU, eBay!!!!
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hahaha! santorum. ah. good times
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John used to be a pretty serious actor. Check out "Grapes of Wrath". Another aside, one of those older ladies played "Mrs. Folgers" in some old Folgers coffee commercials, and was murdered by Charles Mansons group along with Sharon Tate.
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Virginia Christine died in 1996, almost 30 years the Manson family killigs. Why would you even post something like that without checking your facts?
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All through this review I was thinking "Is he going to review 'Jesse James Vs Frankenstein's Daughter'?" Then you announce that its your next video! Can't wait!
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John Carradine himself put it best when he said, "I've been in some of the greatest films ever made...and a lot of crap too." It sums up perfectly a guy who was a member of the stock companies of both John Ford AND Al Adamson.
The reason was, if memory serves me correctly, that from the 1960s onward, Carradine's major passion was his Shakespere company and to support it, he took any film at any price. Unfortunately, that meant for every decent flick he did like "The Howling," he did six "Red Zone Cubas" or "Astro-Zombies" or Jerry Warren flicks.
Nice to see "Jesse James vs. Frankenstein's Daughter" is next on the list. I hope the Snob spends some time discussing the director of both that and "Billy the Kid vs. Dracula," the infamous William "One Shot" Beaudine, one of the most prolific schlock directors of all time (so nicknamed because re-takes were something he'd never heard of). I believe both of these flicks were his last directorial efforts. You can say this, he went out true to form.
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I loved the Red Zone Cuba opening. You probably could do a John Carradine month and if you ever do, I hope you use that opening. Although I'm sure you have a million movies on your agenda, the Red Zone Cuba reference did get me thinking that maybe you could review some of the un-mstied versions of movie they did on MST3K. I shutter to imagine what Red Zone Cuba is like without Mike and the Bots.
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Month? You could do several John Carradine months. If you alternate between John Carradine and Dick Miller you could do an entire year of reviews.
I always refer to John Carradine as "America's most washed up actor." If the notion that Hollywood chews you up and spits you out is true then John Carradine looks like Hollywood can actually pick you up off the floor to chew you again and again.
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Or The Starfighters. I think the MST3K writers admitted they had trouble writing jokes for it because hardly anything happens in the movie.
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Snob, if you want a good western about vampires then I recommend From Dusk till dawn 3: The Hangman's daughter.
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You should review "Dracula vs Frankenstien" not the Al Adamson* one, but the Italian one fro 1972. Was originally in color and called Assignment Terror, but the vhs release was litterally a camcorder pointed at a Black and White TV playing the film!Does tha mean it was "Converted" to shitteo?
* Okay, do that film and the Jess Franco Dracula prisoner of Frankenstin. Call it a 3 parter!
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Awesome as always...but not even a single mention of BloodRayne II: Deliverance where Billy the Kid IS a vampire!
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Hehehe... "Santorum"... Bravo, my dear Snob, bravo.
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Just little technical stuff about nightshooting in old movies - every old movie was filmed at daylight with blue filter, because of light sensitivity of filming materials was very low. You can actually see it on some of the shadows and light because light comes from up (like bright fullmoon night) but old filming materials couldnt even shoot at bright fullmoon night...
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The. Best. Review. Ever.
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Billy the Kid vs Dracula, and not a single reference to the second Bloodrayne movie?
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Great review of a... weird looking film. The opening with Night Train to Mundo Fine was hysterical. And man, that psycho-stare was the most soul-piercing thing I've seen in a long time.
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Young (okay, at least middle-aged) John Carradine looks a bit like Ed Glaser.
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Dracula can go outside during the day. Read the Book.
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That is AWESOME! Except he's not playing Dracula in this.
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I love Night Train to Mundo Fine...
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Love the "Night Train to Mundo Fine" opening. Red Zone Cuba, be damned!
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Excellent review. Cant wait for the next one.
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Did...did you just say santorum? The frothy mixture of lube, semen, and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex named after homophopic Senator Rick Santorum!? That was hilarious.
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Good grief, Snob. The "Latino" woman is Eva, the German woman who lost her daughter to Underhill. Did you actually watch the movie or are you pulling an Ebert on us? ;p
PS In the novel, Dracula could walk around in the daylight. The convention of the sun killing vampires was basically created by the silent film Nosferatu.
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John Carradine was on David Letterman and said this was the worst film he made, to which Dave replied "well that was a true story wasn't it" LOL.
Agree with other poster you have to do Dracula Vs. Frankenstein with Lon Chaney Jr.
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All of your reviews are funny! Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula. What's next Ghandi Vs. Leprechauns? Wonder if a movie like that exists?
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Hey Brad, Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula "John Carradine" actually considered his Worst film he ever did. but to be honest he's done far worst films. i have a copy of this film. & it's a decent film if you choose not to take it serious.
the guy who directed this & Jesse James vs Frankenstein's daughter were made at the same time actually. & the director who's name i can't remember at the moment. is actually a well known director who's last film these 2 films were. a little bit of trivia for you.
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You'd think with that kind of title it'd be an awesome movie. I say they remake it with historical accuracy for a great and strange versus tale.
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Wait a minute. We have a movie with John Carridine hitting on a woman in a stagecoach and you didn't think to make a reference to the John Wayne movie Stagecoach? For shame Brad, for shame.
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