Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
My family, along with millions of others, has watched Dracula: Dead and Loving It every Halloween since its release. We happily wore through our VHS copy and have since replaced it with a DVD, and even though we have every joke memorized, we laugh until our sides hurt every year. It’s just as much of a Halloween tradition as carving pumpkins.
Every minute of this vampire spoof is hilarious, from the opening to closing credits. Mel Brooks’s genius talent made careful and tasteful fun of all the previous versions of Dracula, and his attention to detail is wonderful. From the obvious (Gary Oldman’s wig) to the ridiculous (Donald Pleasance’s constant eating) to the unexpected (“scheduled?”), the combination of constant humor makes this one of the highlights of the year. How many funny lines do you and your family quote throughout the year as you anticipate the annual viewing? There are too many for me to list here, or even count, but it’s a sentimental favorite that never gets old. As was usually the case with Mel Brooks comedies, I saw this movie before all the others it spoofed. When I finally got around to the original Dracula flicks, I couldn’t stop laughing. And though the original opening scene of Not as a Stranger isn’t supposed to be funny, I always crack up when Broderick Crawford announces, “Gentlemen, this is a corpse,” before making his audience of students faint as he performs an autopsy. Thanks Mel Brooks for making Halloween so special!
More Anne Bancroft movies here!
Every minute of this vampire spoof is hilarious, from the opening to closing credits. Mel Brooks’s genius talent made careful and tasteful fun of all the previous versions of Dracula, and his attention to detail is wonderful. From the obvious (Gary Oldman’s wig) to the ridiculous (Donald Pleasance’s constant eating) to the unexpected (“scheduled?”), the combination of constant humor makes this one of the highlights of the year. How many funny lines do you and your family quote throughout the year as you anticipate the annual viewing? There are too many for me to list here, or even count, but it’s a sentimental favorite that never gets old. As was usually the case with Mel Brooks comedies, I saw this movie before all the others it spoofed. When I finally got around to the original Dracula flicks, I couldn’t stop laughing. And though the original opening scene of Not as a Stranger isn’t supposed to be funny, I always crack up when Broderick Crawford announces, “Gentlemen, this is a corpse,” before making his audience of students faint as he performs an autopsy. Thanks Mel Brooks for making Halloween so special!
More Anne Bancroft movies here!