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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979)

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 2d

📽️ Tonight at the indoor drive-in: Universal monsters old and new

A “marquee” in refrigerator magnets made to look like Scrabble letters:

STAR LITE DRIVE-IN

SATURDAY

THE MUMMY

WOLF MAN

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 6h

Miss working nights for this reason!

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 9h

Hate when that happens. I’m a sucker for the type of story this turns out to be, love trying to keep that stuff straight, so destined to see it to the end haha

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve seen many bad movies taking place at haunted island hotels and renovation properties and mansions, where someone found a location and tried to think of 90 minutes of excuses for actors to walk around in it. This has more modest effects than the Hollywood version would, but it’s not one of them

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 9h

All I’m going to say is that some movies avoid getting too complicated and this dives right in; it could have been a lot less ambitious for something whose basic horror requirement is that half a dozen characters get kacked by an axe murderer in a mask

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 9h

A group of friends on a private boat trip are swept up in a storm, and think their luck has turned when a slow ocean liner comes by as they clutch a capsized hull. But the cruise is strange and empty and old without being aged. The food isn’t even bad

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 9h

This is one of those faux American movies where the production is British and the locations and almost all the cast are Australian (there’s a Hemsworth!), but the dialect coaches there are great so “Florida” it is

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 9h

Tonight’s horror movie is TRIANGLE, a 2009 Australian production of the type where one day you stumble across it and shrug and say “why not,” and then it turns out to be twice as good as you thought

A quad (wide-shaped) poster for TRIANGLE (2009) shows a medium-close Melissa George on the deck of a boat, back to a wall and looking around a corner, face reflected in a nearby bloody porthole. Behind her, a man in a burlap sack mask holds an axe. A breathless pull quote from a five-star rave (or press junket) promises that “IT WILL TWIST YOU AND TERRIFY YOU OVER AND OVER!”

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 10h

Did you get to the part about how young people may not know

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 11h

I could write the SNL parody myself, there’s such an obvious elephant in the room during The Affordability Election. You just can’t believe gay rights are why these guys are boosting Cuomo. Not with the kind of investments they must have going

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 11h

showed this to my man for a laugh

still can’t get over how conspicuously Upper Side wealthy they are—the piano, those upkept faces—and the way the ad depicts them as only interested in a single civil right about themselves. No way was this ad for queer voters, but I feel like it’s also just bad?

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 15h

Cuomo did a “gays love me” ad with a cis white married couple so palpably wealthy their grand piano is in the background. Who can’t relate. New Yorkers, don’t ya hate it when your piano guy

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 13h

one of my favorite facts about art is that the cheaper a movie is, the better a fashion/environment time capsule it is later. Amazing documentation of ourselves to be found in stuff that got zero stars in the local paper and a back end on a double bill

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 13h

Ha!

You can definitely say interesting things *about* it though, sounds like you did

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 14h

oh no come on, that book is illiterate. The movie is so immeasurably better and it’s not even that great

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 18h

sworn rival of Bret Weston Ellis in the longest-running water polo feud of all time

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 21h

Who the fuck is Bret Easton Ellis? Wrong answers only.

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 14h

NIGHTHAWKS playing in Staten Island in 1981!

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 14h

and what is the point, anyway?

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Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 14h

Mergers are destroying the entertainment industry, the job market, and culture as a whole. The monopolization needs to be stopped.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 14h

Warner Bros has been having an incredible year. Sinners, Weapons, Superman, One Battle After Another...

But if Paramount buys Warners, it could all be over. And theaters could be even more starved of content.

I asked @lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social to break it down.

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 15h

HAHAHA amazing

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 15h

I do mean “gays,” because other than these rich dudes thanking him for SSM there’s not much mention of anything at all. Certainly not trans people. Big contrast to Mamdani’s desk video

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 15h

Cuomo did a “gays love me” ad with a cis white married couple so palpably wealthy their grand piano is in the background. Who can’t relate. New Yorkers, don’t ya hate it when your piano guy

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 17h

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 17h

we have seen this like half a dozen times, no needle drop can defeat that cast

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 17h

I will be so pleased if the next Kamala Harris book tour heckler holds up a sign saying “NICE TRY, I VOTED FOR YOU” mid-clapback

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Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 17h

thanks for the motivation here, did end up doing it!

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17h

Mike and the bots after Pearl turned the Italian filter a bit too hard on MST3K

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