We've been re-watching Dracula movies to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Bram Stoker's Dracula and it's impossible not to notice some recurring... I'm going to use the word tropes since cringe-inducing-cinematic-choices seems rude. 🤨😉
While we were watching the Christopher Lee's 1970 Count Dracula, I found myself thinking, 'This would be a fun drinking game...' and, well, you don't have to drink to play Dracula Movie Bingo but, trust me, it helps.
Fog, Endless Fog - It's actually illegal to make a Dracula movie without buckets of fog. I don't make the rules... Oh, wait...
Quincey Who? - Have you ever noticed how few Dracula movies actually acknowledge badass American, Quincey P. Morris? He's important enough for Mina and Jonathan to name their kid after, but not enough to squeeze into a movie...
Children of the Day for Night - Ah, yes... those early horror movies that were clearly filmed in the middle of the day. Hey, Drac, we can see your shadow!
Mina... Or was it Lucy? - Why? For the love of the gods and all that is sacred, why?! What happens when making a Dracula film that short circuits a director's brain and makes them forget who's supposed to be who?
Hissing Fit - Gotta show off those fangs somehow...
Blood of... My, that's bright blood! - It would seem most Dracula movies were made by people who were obsessed with blood - but had never actually seen any.
Everybody was kung fu biting - Because becoming a vampire also turns you into a ninja, don't cha know? And to think, I spent all those years in karate...
Bat! (On a String) - Maybe I've seen too many episodes of What We Do In The Shadows, but I can't help shouting "Bat!" every time a rubber bat flops pitifully in front of a window on screen - which is surprisingly often.
If you're playing along, that's a shot for each space, a chug for each line, down it if you hit all four corners, and I hope you don't get hangovers if you fill the card. 😉
