Stocking Stuffer Dracula On Binge-Watchers Podcast

As the holiday season approaches, we're all looking for a little festive cheer. However, if you're tired of the traditional holiday classics, our latest podcast episode offers an unconventional twist: a deep dive into the world of vampire films, with a particular focus on the classic "Bram Stoker's Dracula". The episode features a lively discussion with fellow vampire enthusiast, Jordan Savage, and explores how these movies, with their unique blend of romance, horror, and fantasy, can perfectly complement your holiday mood.

Vampire movies offer a captivating alternative to traditional holiday films. Their unique blend of horror, romance, and fantasy can provide a refreshing break from the typical holiday fare. Our guest, Jordan Savage, shares her insights on why films like "Bram Stoker's Dracula" are the perfect holiday watch. We also delve into the upcoming release of Nosferatu in 2024, hinting at the continued appeal of vampire movies.

The discussion doesn't stop at vampire films. We also touch on other holiday movie recommendations. Brace yourselves as we shift gears into the realm of unconventional Christmas movies and thrilling new projects. Ever heard of "Krampus," "Rare Exports," or "Fatman?" Well, we're here to provide the lowdown on these unique holiday films.

"Bram Stoker's Dracula" takes center stage in our episode, with a deep dive into its mesmerizing world. From its unique visual style and unforgettable performances to its captivating plot, this film is a treat for any movie buff. We particularly discuss the film's use of practical effects and unconventional cinematography, as well as the impressive physical transformations of actor Gary Oldman. Additionally, we touch on the film's costume design and the romantic storyline between Dracula and Mina, further highlighting the film's distinctive appeal.

The episode concludes with a reflection on our journey so far, the privilege of interacting with our wonderful listeners, and our anticipation for what's to come. Our podcast is more than just about movies; it's about building a community of film lovers. So whether you're a seasoned cinephile or a casual movie-goer, our podcast offers a space to explore, discuss, and celebrate the world of film.

In conclusion, this episode serves as a reminder that the holiday season can be about more than just tinsel and Christmas trees. Whether you're sinking your teeth into a vampire film like "Bram Stoker's Dracula" or exploring other movie recommendations, there's always a way to add a unique twist to your holiday cheer. So why not take a break from the usual holiday classics, and embark on a cinematic journey that offers a chilling, yet captivating, alternative? 

Transcript

Speaker 2: 0:29

Now that, uh, that music you heard in the beginning, that whistling mistletoe. Oh my gosh, it's that time of the year, tis the season for a podcast. You're right, usually that's not how Johnny rolls this thing out. I sometimes say blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Instead of that blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, i'ma say this you stumbled into a stocking stuffer show. Let's see what we got sent to watch this year. Let's let's take a peek here.

Speaker 2: 1:00

Bram Stoker's Dracula. I believe it came out in 92. It's Francis Ford Coppola, and I just want to say, like this could be almost like December is for Dracula, volume two. I almost said volume dose, volume two. Let me remind the audience what that is.

Speaker 2: 1:17

We had a classic episode where we covered the Hammer Horror movies involving Dracula, and it happened to fall at like a seasonal time of the year. So but I've come. I've come to believe that vampire movies are the most holiday thing ever and I love it. I'm not the only one who believes this. I think Hollywood agrees with me, or marketing professionals agree with me, or people that are paid to market movies must agree with me, or some filmmakers agree with me. Robert Eggers, the Nosferatu is set to come out Christmas 2024.

Speaker 2: 1:54

So if you needed more than just John speculating or making shit up like there's proof in the pudding right there that I just didn't pull it out of my hat, unlike the DVD that I just pulled out of my freaking evil Santa hat, that I have my ball humbug Santa style hat. It's black and red. More gothic Santa, if you will, the what's the name of that store that has all the chains and hats and hot topic, baby Hot topic where the topics are hot. This is like you know, if you got that hat from there, this is your hot topic you would have. The year is kind of winding down. However, jordan's here for it, as she likes to say. Jordan Savage, the Savage scream queen. Actually should call her the seasons queen.

Speaker 2: 2:40

I don't know what's the holiday version I missed. I guess I could have called you pumpkin spice queen in friggin during the Halloween season, and now is the season. I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 3: 2:53

We'll workshop it, we'll figure it out the next time All right.

Speaker 2: 2:57

Yeah, as I said, things are winding down. This year we actually are pulling our first decade. I just literally dropped the best of decade episodes on our website. You guys can go see that list the best of 10 years freaking 500 episodes, 40 million downloads. Let's go. I'm stealing all Jordan's catchphrases.

Speaker 3: 3:15

I love it. I can rub it up on you, you know what? Just get them out of the way so that I don't say them.

Speaker 2: 3:23

A spoiler alert. An American cowboy killed Dracula.

Speaker 3: 3:28

Crack open a cold box of wine or pour something cold on ice, because it's the binge watches podcast.

Speaker 2: 3:59

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Speaker 3: 4:58

Johnny.

Speaker 2: 4:59

I'm jumping and talking to you, johnny Discord. I've created a holiday playlist. Here's three films. I can recommend that.

Speaker 2: 5:08

If you're looking for something and you're like, what am I going to watch? Am I going to watch Casper? Am I going to watch Christmas Vacation? If you're looking for something a little bit different and that's why you turned this show on you want to know the films you should be watching.

Speaker 2: 5:21

How about Krampus, in which Adam Scott fights Krampus? You might know Adam Scott from Severance. You might know him from Parks and Rec where he played Ben Wyatt for so many seasons. You might know him from Stepbrothers where he was the other brother, the third brother that the other brothers didn't like. But he provided plot points and had a funny MC Hammer slash Vanilla Ice. I think it's a Vanilla Ice song. Anyway, he did a 90s white rapper thing in the movie. It's pretty funny. Or you might know him from Party Down. That was his first breakout thing. I think Such a good show.

Speaker 2: 5:56

How about Rare Exports, which is a Finnish horror movie comedy, where Santa and the elves are basically like gulm creatures. They live in this mountain and there's a bunch of them. Santa's like the main monster and then he has all the elves. They're basically monstrous bearded, naked men running around Finland. So a reindeer farmer and his son have to grapple with all the Santa monsters.

Speaker 2: 6:23

Last movie on my list how about Fat man, where Mel Gibson plays Chris Kringle and Walter Goggins, who you might know? He was in Hateful Eight as the sheriff. He was in Django Unchained as one of the bad guys. You might have seen him in Vice Principles as one of the vice principles, or the rights to gemstones, where he plays a funny character called Baby Billy. Or he's going to be in the new Fallout show, but you can't really recognize him because he's a weird mutated radioactive whatever something from that game. It's an app on a phone, I don't know. Anyway, but in Fat man it's about a rich kid on the naughty list that hires a hitman to go and kill Chris Kringle. So there you go, line it up, krampus, rare Exports and Fat man. You'll have a great time.

Speaker 2: 7:07

What's going on in the world of TV and movies? Lionsgate is going to acquire Stephen King's novel the long walk. This book is actually really good. It's one of the books he wrote in the pseudonym or pen name, richard Bachman. But this is like in the future, when the population is out of control. We can't feed everybody Like you can enter this contest and that's literally like walk you till you either dropped it or it's like an excursion test and I don't know. I remember it being pretty good. It's like a Hunger Games type deal before the Hunger Games.

Speaker 2: 7:49

Timothy Oliphant has joined the cast of Noah Howley's FX series Alien. So we had heard about that again on an Alien TV show. And now it's got Timothy Oliphant, who you might know as a salesman that they're trying to. Well, there's a he's in the office. He's a bit he's a he's a bit character. He's like the best salesman in the state and they try to recruit him. But they set him up like first they're surveilling him right To see what his salesman style is. What else is he in? He was in a zombie show with Drew Barrymore on Netflix. Uh, thanks, he's in a lot of stuff. Guys, I didn't write down his catalog, I'm sorry. Here's filmography. Now, here's okay.

Speaker 2: 8:32

Jason Hawke is supposed to come back as the grabber in the sequel to the former movie, the black phone. Here's the thing, though. I'm pretty sure he died in the movie. So I'm like, what are they going to remember? Well, cause he collects a bunch of children and those children's ghosts try to help the main character survive, being launched in the students basement. However, where do you go with the sequel? Like, it's obviously going to be a sequel, prequel, right, cause if you notice this, like, if I have beef with modern movies is they they have a very finite ending in the very first movie and they go oh, we got two more sequels and so now they're prequel sequels, right, you know what I mean. Or side quests, anyway, um, ooh, we've arrived at tonight's movie, which I kind of spoiler alerted, previewed in the beginning, when I said I just want everybody to know that American cowboy killed Dracula. Um, we're watching Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Speaker 2: 9:32

Centuries old vampire count Dracula heads to 19th century London in search of human love. When he meets Mina, a young woman who appears as a reincarnation of his lost love, the two embark on a journey of romantic passion and horror. The cast includes Gary Oldman, renona Ryder, anthony Hopkins, keanu Reeves, richard E Grant, terry Ellways, tom Waits and Monica Belushi. Belushi, okay, I'm trying to make it as Italian as possible, let's see. Oh, all, right, now let me let me. Before we get into savage stats, I will back it up and tell you some of my favorite movies from these actors. All right, gary Oldman, of course he's Dracula. That being said, you might have seen him in the fifth element is Zerg. Or how about Lost in Space, where he plays Dr Smith, or in Leon the professional as Stanfield, but I know Jordan loves him as Sirius Black from the Harry Potter movies. You got that right. And he also might be the bad werewolf in Red Riding Hood, which we've both seen. He's in there. He's in there.

Speaker 3: 10:41

Currently you can watch Harvey Dunn.

Speaker 2: 10:43

Silver Horse is. He plays this character, jackson Lamb, who's like a MI5 or MI3. He's the British version of like the CIA or something and he's like in part of a team of like Misfits. But then the Misfits start doing good and then it's like, oh shit, you know what I mean. That's going into like its third or fourth season on Apple. You can take a look at that thing If you like espionage and drama. Runinal Rider One of my favorite things that she's in is Alien Resurrection, where she plays an android named Cal or Call. Did they call her Cal or Call, I don't know. Anyway, she's the android which might be a plot point. It might have just spoiled a major plot point for Alien Resurrection. Whoops Bro. I know everybody's seen her in Stranger Things is the mom Joyce Byers.

Speaker 3: 11:35

I mean one of my personal favorite holiday movies, edward Scissor Hands.

Speaker 2: 11:39

That's next on my list. Sympathico yeah, kim is in Edward Scissor Hands or Veronica in Heathers, and of course everybody knows her as Lydia in.

Speaker 2: 11:49

Beetlejuice. The reason I wasn't going to say Lydia first was I love Beetlejuice but I always found her character kind of annoying. However, I do want to give her credit because she may have started the goth scene among teenagers. I think maybe it's from Lydia in Beetlejuice is why that whole goth movement even exists right up into 2023, where we get goth only fans accounts Like goth juicy 3033 people are like is that real? No, I made that one up. It's like I made up goth baby 6969, xxs, triple X and we can make a whole show about fake only fans.

Speaker 2: 12:28

Anthony Hopkins His best performance is probably Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's Dracula. However, he does a great performance and Transformers the last night. Actually, if you've seen Noah 2014 and he plays Methuselah, have you seen that Noah movie? All about the magic. There's so much magic in that movie. Well, I mean, obviously it's biblical, but when I have referenced that movie, I don't ever talk about the politics or the religion, but I do talk about how magical the movie seems like. There's some crazy stuff going on in that movie, anyway. Or you might have seen him as Sir John in the Wolfman from 2010, where he plays the bad daddy who's also a war wolf. I am spoiler heavy tonight, folks.

Speaker 3: 13:17

Yeah, you are left and right and in the mouth.

Speaker 2: 13:21

Yeah, keanu Reeves plays John Harker in Dracula. However, you might have seen him as Kay and 47, ronan, come on. Or the Ted of Bill and Ted Are you with me? Or John Constantine in Constantine, where he fights demons in that movie and evil too, or this is probably something that you didn't even think he was in Everything's got to give is Dr Julian. That's a rom-com. Who else is in the cast that?

Speaker 2: 13:49

He's, oh, richard E Grant, super British dude. He was classic locally Loki in the Loki show. You might have seen him as with Nell and with Nell and I, which is about actors, starving artists, actors and they go to hang out in the countryside and kind of lose it. Also the villain in Hudson Hawk. And he actually played Dr who in one of the Dr who TV movies which I didn't even know. Harry Ellway's obviously he's Wesley and the Prince is Bride. He's also Robin Hood in Robin Hood, men and Titans, tom weights. We watched him in Domino. He actually played a bit character in that show. He's in down by laws, one of the guys that escapes. I think he's one of the conflicts that escapes in that drama Comedy. Yeah, it's more of a comedy, but his run field is epic. I wrote that down. We just had a movie with Nicholas Holt and Nick Cage. Nick Cage's Dracula Cool Renfield is name of that movie. However, the superior Renfield is Tom weights in Brom Stoker's Dracula Challenge me, fight me, don't listen, I don't care.

Speaker 2: 14:53

Monica Belushi I'm saying Belushi because it's so close to word. Belushi, belle, belaluchi, I don't know, I'm having a hard time because it's not the same as Belushi, but it's coming out of my mouth as Belushi. Um, she was in Brotherhood of the Wolf. She's Mary Magdalene and the Passion of the Christ. I Know her from tears of the Sun, where she plays Dr Lena. Like the military guys have to evacuate her out of a hot area in that movie. That's like where I know her from. Also, she's in this notorious movie that has a crazy reputation because the movie is crazy, called irreversible about abuse. Uh yeah, I love this episode because we can talk about dark things, but it's holiday theme. This is hilarious to me.

Speaker 3: 15:37

I'm having Real dark with it.

Speaker 2: 15:48

I love it. I've seen some trees that are pretty dark. They only have dark like school.

Speaker 3: 15:52

You know, skulls a nightmare before Christmas, ornaments and everything else, you know you can get a really just a black one, you know, for a fake tree. That's pretty lit. I think that'd be so fun. So cool.

Speaker 2: 16:05

So If you got Christmas tree money, y'all you're richies out there, you fucking tree buyers. I know Jordan has that tree money. I've seen her tree.

Speaker 3: 16:14

Yeah. Facebook stories, shit that's been up for like a month.

Speaker 2: 16:20

Oh man, you got that tree money. You're doing good. You're out there right now. It's not about coffee money, not about fixing those tires on your car. You got tree money dog. You got tree money dog got that tree money got that tree money, tree money honey. Oh, that should be a holiday movie at Hallmark Tree. Money, honey, right that down. Jordan just created another movie another movie.

Speaker 3: 16:44

She's killing it this year.

Speaker 2: 16:47

One after the other. It's her turn to be savage with them stats. Cool stats about brand Stoker's Dracula.

Speaker 3: 16:55

Yeah, I got some fun ones for us tonight. So, starting us off, producer and director Francis Ford Coppola explains on the DVD commentary which I wish I Could rewatch this with coppola coppola, with the DVD commentary that Mina and Harker's wedding was a reshoot done at a Los Angeles Greek Orthodox Church. They had an entire ceremony with the genuine Romanian Orthodox minister.

Speaker 2: 17:27

Oh, is this why Keanu Reeves and a writer are technically married? Married yes, so Not as I'm stepping on your stats.

Speaker 3: 17:35

Yeah well, they like, they realize that like, although not in a legal sense like, that was a legit, like wedding, so Technically, under the eyes of God, they could potentially be married. So writer and Reeves will often message each other you know hello husband or hello wife, and are both completely fine with it, which I think is it was super funny. Yeah, then Just some stats, straight up with it. The film one best for best makeup. It was praised for its visual effects.

Speaker 2: 18:16

They. The effects are off the chart. It's 1992. It's outdoing every movie that's come out in the last five years.

Speaker 3: 18:23

For real, though, and it's because they had employed innovative techniques like practical effects. So they're actually using in-camera tricks versus going through the row of, like, computer generated effects. So I think that's super impressive just using unconventional Cinematography, employing old-school techniques such as using miniatures and shadow play, which is obviously a big part in the like visual parts of the movie and just using unique styles with filters and multiple different types of exposures actually looks like when they have it from the monsters point of view or whatever, when he's in one of his beast modes.

Speaker 2: 19:03

Oh, we'll get into that when we get to the bits, baby. But it's not just speeding up the camera, it looks like they actually removed like frames of the film footage. So skipping frames and also speeding up. You know Crazy stuff, but really cool.

Speaker 3: 19:21

Parts of this is a little bits, and in stats, just Gary Oldman undergoing Remarkable physical transformations to play all the different like age ranges and like health every version of Dracula ever written basically pretty much, and so with the, with the exception of appearing as other people, which is actually I Ran.

Speaker 2: 19:42

At a time I almost had Jordan watch also the BBC Dracula on Netflix, because the Dracula in that movie is the only one that I think is on par with Gary Oldman as Dracula, because I even put Gary Oldman over and People are gonna, yes, roll over in your graves. Whatever you take my binge watching license away, I Think Gary Oldman is better than Bella Lugosi as Dracula and I think the guy in the BBC Netflix is like it's a very like. It'd be like we'd have to go to the the playback, or we'd have to go to the the finish line photo to see, yeah, which Dracula edges ahead, because that dude is pretty good and in that version they show you that he can appear to you as other people.

Speaker 2: 20:28

Yeah as others. Yeah, so good super important. Yeah, you know not the totally the reality episode in the middle of us that I Love it though you know it's what we're here for.

Speaker 3: 20:39

We're just we're here. We're here for it. More costume design. So Akiko is Ishioka. The costume designer created stunning and unconventional outfits for the characters, of course, winning best costume design, you know. It also still just reflected the film's overall visual aesthetic. So you know, costume design and then, of course, it went super operatic with all the armor.

Speaker 2: 21:05

I mean they have the blood armor or. That initial blood armor.

Speaker 3: 21:10

Yeah, that initial armor is so cool because it's the way that you would see, like all the striations and muscles and stuff. I'm like man.

Speaker 2: 21:17

That's the next level stuff, yeah.

Speaker 3: 21:20

Some box office stuff. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics of film, was a commercial success grossing over 215 million worldwide. Its unique visual style in star studded cast attracted audiences. Capola originally was originally considering why say every time?

Speaker 2: 21:43

Forget about me dissing Bella Agosius, dracula Coppola.

Speaker 3: 21:48

Coppola considered Michael Jackson for their role eventually for Dracula. It just wouldn't have been the same. Obviously, gary Oldman had delivered a memorable performance. So, yeah, I just Chef kiss. I don't think Michael Jackson could have done it. Obviously would have been an interesting thing to see a Michael Jackson as a Dracula, but you know we got to stick with it so.

Speaker 2: 22:19

And now here's our favorite bits from Bram Stoker's Dracula Jordyn's always by the savage scream queen herself, jordyn Savage and Johnny's spoiler. I'm proud of everybody that clicked the link and decided to take this holiday ride with us. Here we are Bram Stoker's Dracula favorite bits. What do you got?

Speaker 3: 22:37

I would say that my favorite bit start with Lucy. I love her character. Lucy is Mina's very wealthy young lady. She's rich, she's got a lot of men who are trying to, you know, swoon her quarter, become her husband. And I would say my absolute favorite part is when Lucy is starting to be swayed by Dracula and she and Mina are like running through this garden. I just felt like that was such a cool scene and of course, Lucy falls victim to Dracula's sway and I just think that Lucy's transformation to you know, obviously she gets sick and Mina's at her side trying to care for her and she's turning Nosferatu, right, she's turning into a vampire and you know, she like finally dies and they bury her and then when she comes back and she's just like dressed in this like very interesting costume gown and she's pale and she's terrifying and she's coming down the mausoleum or the crypt like holding a baby and then, of course, you know, everybody has to essentially lay her to rest by chopping off her head and putting a stake through her heart.

Speaker 3: 24:16

I'd say, yeah, Lucy did it for me, Loved that right in the middle of the movie. So so, so good, and I loved the romance. I mean, Gary Oldman like sells it. You know he thinks that and Mina also thinks that she's like his love from many, many, many ancient moons ago. And I mean it was just done so well with the romance. So that ending scene, when they look up and there's that painted, you know, portrait of them lying together, oh, tear coming on the face.

Speaker 2: 24:55

Well, that's another trope in vampire lore is that the vampires have lived long enough to run into people that remind them of people they care about. Right, They've outlived their lovers and they run into them and are haunted by the fact that they're still alive.

Speaker 3: 25:07

It's almost like a little bit, but can't repeat the same life.

Speaker 2: 25:10

It's like alluding to like almost yeah, you know, and then like and that's Dracula's weakness, he still has a heart, even though he's lost his humanity. He's regaining his humanity on some level and he's like I don't want to give you the burden, the sickness, the trauma, the condemnation, the what do they call that damnation. You know there's a lot of lines that are crossed and blurred in here, but also you know John Harker's out of the country and you know he hooks up with some vampire brides. So I mean.

Speaker 2: 25:40

I mean they're mixing fluids. I mean Dracula wants to bang his betrothed and Dracula let him have his bride. So you know, to the sharing share, like you know well, little swapsies. Yeah, 19th century they had it really going on. They didn't eat, only fans, it was all in real life, irl. Yeah, I got a little bit of a bulleted list here. Dracula's transformation in the beginning Okay, we got the blood vessel, armor, we got he first sakes, everything Christendom. He's like blah, blah, blah, I'm not your warrior anymore. And then, like his little nerve is a breakdown, you know, after he loses his, he like stabs a cross, Like it's obviously supernatural, it's also metaphorical, it's also visceral. He stabs a giant cross with his sword and it bleeds.

Speaker 3: 26:31

You know what I mean. It's a stone, it's a stone cross, yeah.

Speaker 2: 26:34

Yeah, and then oh, the simanograph. So he wants to take a tour. Well, part of the seduction is he wants to go to the cinematograph and see, like the constructing the cameras and like the first kind of like film technology that's being shown to the public, and they made that scene or sequence look like they were part of the cinematograph, which is really crazy. And Francis Ford Coppola's company is called zoetrope, which is zoetrope is the thing that you would spin it and it would look like images were moving. So there you go. Um, then, how about Beast Dracula? I mean, this movie has like every rumored version of Dracula that I think's in the book or has ever been on any screen. So you got, you have old man Dracula, you got youthful Dracula, you got Englishman Dracula, like English aristocrat Dracula. You got cat-faced Dracula, which is what I think he looks like when he's in his coffin or tomb or when he wakes up he looks more like like feline features In his weakened state. But then Beast Dracula right the story. Like people the uninitiated are probably like dude was never aware of, was Dracula, we're off. I could see them complaining about this movie if they have no history, no records, haven't read the book, like no, he could turn into multiple different types of animals. One was a what right like rats, yeah. So this thing is like these, the old half-man wolf thing. And then, obviously, he has that spicy scene with the friend you're talking about, seduces the friend, turns her to vampire, all that. So now we know how he makes his brides. But that's my favorite version of Dracula I think I've ever seen is the Beast deal Dracula I just call him Beast Dracula.

Speaker 2: 28:17

And then, of course, the hunt for Dracula when, like I said earlier, or you may have heard it in the preview of this episode or if you're what listening or watching to the whole thing, whatever you heard me say, an American cowboy killed Dracula. Hello, and it's historically accurate to the freaking novel man. Look, you know, I mean, like you know, this great English story about a Transylvanian Night that's condemned, or Prince, condemned to walk the earth eternal and set up all this vampire mythology in modern terms. And who takes out Dracula? I Mean, well, you know, I mean John Harker does, does help out, he gets his in after the, after the death blow, you know, cuz like Quincy Morris, the cowboy stabs him through the heart and then I think John Harker jumps in and like slashes his throat. But I Feel like where the movie deviated was I don't know.

Speaker 2: 29:13

I don't remember reading in the book that Mina Harker Still was swooning over him or like is With him when he expires. I don't, you know anything. I think the love affair stops Way shorter than that. It is cool, though. The movie follows the book where it is. That's the other thing that was like groundbreaking about the novel is not just turning this whole story. Take a little bit of real history and then turning into this whole Fantastical classical novel.

Speaker 2: 29:42

Right, that started like a genre is the fact that was journal entries. It was first-person journal entries of all the major characters. So like the doctor has a section, mina has a section, john has a section. I don't think. I don't think Dracula ever spoke, he was all, but that probably helps. Great, the legend like he's only talked about he doesn't have his own entries. Dang, yeah.

Speaker 2: 30:07

Anyway, you know what's cool is coming back to this movie is I Watched this movie in probably five years. I think we talked about it last year On the show, but I don't think I've actually watched it a while and it's like one of those things is the movie gonna hold up and my gun like it again. I actually love watching it. This time, yeah, like I'm super into it and so Perfect timing the year to watch it. Folks, I've already explained the rules. How are we gonna rate the movie on our show? We always say binge now, binge later, binge never. I don't think we ever came up with a holiday version of that. We have one for our horror movie version, but I don't know if we ever came up with a seasonal version of that or whatever. So, oh Jordan, this stocking stuffer of rom-sorber Dracula, how do you rate this one?

Speaker 3: 30:52

Bench now. It could be enough. Unwrap now. Unwrap now. Unwrap later, unwrap never. It would be an unwrap now for me. It's actually something I would put into my like annual roto, to be completely honest. Once a year watching once a year watching. I think I could. I could do it that frequently so I was wonderful stacked cast costumes are I?

Speaker 2: 31:19

Made yourself conscious, because usually when she likes a movie, she goes. This is the best thing we've watched all year.

Speaker 3: 31:24

I know, but now I can't say that. But no, seriously, it's definitely one that I'm like it's gonna be in the mix hmm, for Like a frequent mix. Yeah, so, but what would you read it, john?

Speaker 2: 31:39

Hmm, good question. I mean, almost every scene in the movie can be a favorite bit from, it's true, from this movie, the, as you said, the way it's shot, the way it looks, the way it feels, has to be a bench now. Because, because, honestly, I can think of my who my favorite Dracula's are and and I gave a pretty good read of Nick's cage Dracula for being a little bit like Bella Lago see and then after after that, doing his own thing. However, as I said, you know, with the exception of a Dracula I wasn't expecting, in the BBC mini series on Netflix, gary Oldman ranks up there, you know, and I I had so much fun watching this again. I like, I think I like it more now than I did before. So it's good, I mean, it's, it's fucking good folks, I don't know what else to say. Anyway, we would love to tell you all about more movies. We'd love to have more experiences with you again.

Speaker 2: 32:47

The best of the decade is up on our blog. It's ready for you to view. Here's Something that's really funny is I mentioned at the top of the hour that we have like 40 million downloads and counting growing to continue, and the top episode is called swamp ass summer and it has a million downloads by itself essentially, which is really funny because we're just making fun of the catchphrase and To be head and have to put that on like a marketing report or like a potential report for advertisers or sponsors when they're like hey, we can tell us what some of your best episodes are.

Speaker 2: 33:21

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Speaker 3: 33:34

Makes me laugh so hard. I love it for us.

Speaker 2: 33:37

Oh man, oh dang. Look, listen, it's been an Incredible. I don't maybe now I don't say this enough what a privilege it is To have people listen to me or watch our reviews of movies and how we react to movies, the rating system that we created, the adventures that we've had, binge watching, getting Jordan to come out of her shell and like really analyze these movies and break my mind a few episodes ago when she's like there is no such things, a binge, never. If you really look at it from an analytical perspective, I was like oh yeah, that's kind of crazy, you're right.

Speaker 2: 34:17

So who knows we'll? We'd be here for another 10 years. It's not up to me, but you can stuff anybody stocking with this movie with this podcast. Enjoy the season, folks. And you know, you don't have to be winning every day, you just have to have a reason to get up every day, or one thing in the day that keeps you going. And I'm glad that this podcast has been here for some people that were going through some tough times. They could just click on binge watchers and come visit their old friends. Johnny spoiler I only spoil the movies I love. Johnny's always by Jordan Savage, the savage scream queen herself.

Speaker 2: 34:59

I said Queen with like a K, w and multiple ends there and sound a little bit different, and I mean that's it. Yeah ho ho ho. Time for some hot chocolate. Bring the marshmallows, bring the and we'll bring Dracula are rated with nudity, violence, blood and all those long feelings you associate with the holiday TV that is holiday. Oh, oh, oh, oh oh.