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Van Helsing · The Art of Costume Podcast

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Gary oldman's really carrying the torch.
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So then when the Van Helsing came along ago, like, how are we
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going to do this? And it kind of came up with this
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like, rock and roll Dracula and my eyes are kind of My Chemical
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Romance e badass. Black Parade.
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Hello, and welcome to the Arctic.
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Ocean Block, Pastime lazuli, glass and I'm Spencer Williams.
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What's up a Lizabeth? Oh, you know, just Livin Life
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starting to kind of figure out what I might do for Halloween.
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Okay. I actually have a piece one to
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my costume. Oh, really?
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Yeah. I'm not going to tell you this
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year. We even gonna be a Halloween
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unless you decide to come visit me, right?
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But last year, you kept your costume a secret till the very
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end when you literally were in my house.
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I blew it and like August doing that this year.
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Okay, okay, well, I'm saying it, I like gosh, this is green hard
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to keep a secret but yeah hmm. No guesses, nothing.
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I'm not giving you anything. Okay, well, anyway my I actually
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tell you what, I think I'm gonna do.
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Okay, we're flipping the tables because I thought about it
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during my interview with Danny glicker, there's this phenomenal
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costume at the end of Angeline and I was, I said I was like,
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you know, I kind of feel like I want to do this for Halloween.
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The Earth Girls Are Easy. Same It's at the very end.
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Okay, I'm gonna have to go back and watch it now.
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I haven't finished a show but now I'm gonna watch it.
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It's a great. It's like a Sci-Fi throwback to
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like, it's like, it's like alien queen Barbie but Angeline.
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Right? And it's amazing.
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I like one it. Well, I'm so glad.
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We're talking about Halloween. The means that is September.
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Or hopefully it's not as hot anymore and that means Halloween
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is around the corner and we could just put summer behind us.
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I'm over it. I'm not over summer.
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You know me I was summer girl but spooky season.
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It's one of them is like my second favorite season, right?
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And we're excited because spooky seasons on the way, but we're
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not ready to jump into full spooky season.
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So we're kind of doing our Soft spooky season, a triple S the
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soft launch of spooky season. Yeah, we're going to give you
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our spooky Classics that you would never show at a Halloween
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party because people have questioned your insights.
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People would rightfully question your choices if you shows the
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majority of these films at a Halloween party.
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Yeah. Spencer on the probably tippity
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top of the list of what people would.
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Question. If you showed this at a
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Halloween party, what should we watch this week?
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This week, we watched one of my all-time favorite films and no
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one's going to ever talk me away from it.
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Van Helsing starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale.
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I love this movie too. I even Iraq because I, this is
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like childhood Nostalgia. I remember this growing up and I
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remember even as a kid Recognizing that this is not a
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particularly good movie, but loving it, because it's fun
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because you have fun watching it because it brings you Joy.
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I don't even know if I could relate.
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I feel like I always thought this was a impeccable movie.
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I don't even know what you're saying right now.
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You know what I'm saying? Spencer, it's so cheesy.
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It's so cheesy. That's part of what makes it
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incredible. Well, it's definitely cheesy but
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really has like some strong moments in it.
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So strong moments, and a lot of strong, costumey Spencer.
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Well, you start us off with a summary will do the famed
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Monster Hunter, Van Helsing is sent to Transylvania to stop.
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Count Dracula, who is using dr. Frankenstein's research, and a
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werewolf or shall we say nefarious purposes?
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Very Van Helsing that is Van Helsing, very nefarious.
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If you haven't seen Van Helsing, I don't know what to tell you.
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Yeah. You're it, come on her,
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childhood missed, something. What's wrong with you?
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Yeah, you should all. Have a VHS and DVD and Blu-ray
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of this so either way you should have it.
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So yeah, pull it out. Dust it out.
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It's time to watch Van Helsing now that you've dusted off your
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VHS and Watched Van Helsing. Let's go behind the Wardrobe.
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Wait, before you we go behind the Wardrobe.
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Oh, really. Don't forget to rewind your your
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VHS. Oh, yeah.
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Right, right. Right.
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You don't want to spoil them before you even?
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Yeah, no. Yeah.
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Rewind real. So, I bet you there's some bomb
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trailers as we gain of that VHS at there are that is one thing
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we miss was like some of this streaming is like good trailers
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at the beginning of movies but then you look Back your old
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movies, they only see like old trailers and they move.
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Yeah, so some of my own. Oh, oh, not great.
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But now let's go behind the Wardrobe.
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We have director, Stephen Sommers and costume designers
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Gabriella Pascucci and Carlo. Fagioli, you will know Gabriella
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from The Adventures of Baron. Munch on, we're going to go with
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that. She got her first Oscar
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nomination that one. You actually might not know her
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from that one, but I put it in there because Oscar nomination
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will have to check it out. Okay.
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The Age of Innocence, her first Oscar, when The Scarlet Letter
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dangerous Beauty, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory be one
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with Johnny Depp another Oscar nomination, The Brothers Grimm
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which is another fabulous movie that I need to watch.
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I've seen it but I need to re-watch it because it's just
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been a long time. It's a great movie.
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Beowulf Agora the Borgia TV show from 2011 to 2013 and our
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favorite show Penny Dreadful, twenty fourteen to sixteen.
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Brilliant. Brilliant.
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Brilliant actually. Ali Gabriella was one of the
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first costume designers I ever featured on the Arctic costume
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was for her work on Penny. Dreadful fun fact.
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Yes, that's, I can't get enough of that.
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I am about to re-watch that show and I'm so excited.
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Like, I can't it's a good one. Outweigh also did not know that
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there is a The Scarlet Letter movie.
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Oh yeah. I'm gonna have to watch that.
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There's at least one. There might be multiple
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adaptations, but I forgot to put the year in there.
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Sounds like another VHS, I gotta look for, yes, definitely.
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You will know Carlo from The Brothers, Grimm, Doom the right
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Divergent tut. The young Pope and the new pope.
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You might just know him from those last two, if you are me
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and watch random HBO shows. But hey, there are two very very
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strange, but very, very good shows should check them out.
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Thanks. So Because this movie came out
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in 2004. Shocker shocker, really not a
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lot of behind the Wardrobe facts.
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So I have a few in the episode, however, this kind of blew my
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mind. And some of the like behind the
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features Gabriela says, this is her first time working with
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special effects. Wow, which is just so wild
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because it's like, oh yeah. Well before that special effects
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bird likes very few and far in between.
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So, In this movie is a trip to. So, those special effects must
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have been a little bit hard to handle at first.
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Yeah, well, we'll get into it a little bit later, but everybody,
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we are going to take, oh, oh, Spencer, before we take a break.
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Remember last week, when we talked to a brought up my Van,
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Helsing had all apples. Oh my gosh.
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Is this why you went to your mother's?
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House this weekend? No, no, I don't know where it
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is. I don't think I have it anymore,
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but I found pictures on the Google machine and just some
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kind of this little castle Dracula.
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Playset was, I probably was too big that have one honestly.
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And I now that I'm looking at him, like he was not very big,
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it's not really a castle, so I don't know what you do with it,
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but like, there's a little window that broke and you can
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throw Hugh Jackman out of it. I love, oh my gosh, I miss it
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water. Break away, Windows fly-in.
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Oh my gosh! Two feet.
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Tall is not quite big. I don't know why that's an
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achievement. Who knows it?
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I don't know. They can walk on the walls.
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I feel kind of sad and I didn't know that you missed, you missed
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out on some stuff. Spencer.
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Now, I really need to take a break.
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So I could go have a quick quick cry.
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Okay. Well, everybody go crime or near
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childhood toys that you did not take full advantage of when you
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have them. Also go get like this is like a
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good movie to have a hot toddy with go get one of those and
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we'll be right back. Hi.
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A are you ready to talk about my favorite fictional villain of
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all time? I think so.
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Like I'm kind of realizing now that my entire life has been
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leading up to this moment. It seems so I'm ready to go.
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All right Lee apparently I'm learning this too but Is Richard
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roxburgh as account thatís? A lot of Dracula.
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Oh my. This Dracula is fine.
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He is a fine Dracula. Well put together well dressed
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and none of that like old nonsense.
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Yeah, great accent. Nice hair, nice skin.
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Fantastic food. Nice boots.
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Those are some really love the Booty.
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Like what are those are? Those Belen Tiago has or maybe
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they're like, just like those like old-timey booths that were
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like made like crafted on to his foot by hand.
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Yeah, it's probably someone who's like a hundred years old
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and has made two million pairs of shoes.
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So of course, they're perfect. I'll Jokes Aside though.
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I really love Dracula's costume because to me this is, you know,
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kind of a different iteration of Dracula.
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I would think at this point Gary oldman's really carrying the
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torch. So then when Van Helsing came
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along to like, how are we going to do this?
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And it kind of came up with this, like, rock and roll
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Dracula and my eyes? Yeah, kind of My Chemical
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Romance the badass. Oh my gosh.
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This is so Black Parade. I don't even know the timeframe
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of that, but make sense. So, yeah, well, because this is
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like Bully or what is this taking place in like, the late
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1700s? S-sorry sometime in the 1800's,
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I think something like that. They have a date at some point
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on the screen, but in reality, it really doesn't matter, right?
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Um, but you should wear this anyways, he would wear this
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whenever but is it is this just like fantastic military jacket
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like everything's in black and it just like, it makes him look
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so cool. When you're right, this is
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definitely just like the rock and roll version of Dracula and
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Van Helsing. Yeah.
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Makes it wild but like perfect. Yeah, smooth.
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And like, you know, Dracula supposed to be kind of alluring
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to MMM. So like, you know, we see him
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throughout the film, like, at the ball or just even talking.
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Like, I don't know, he's kind of a smooth guy.
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I wouldn't mind getting coffee with him.
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You're like, not surprised, but he has three Brides.
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That's a good way to better. Yeah, yeah, I get it.
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Speaking of his Brides. And I was obsessed with them.
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Yeah. How could you not be?
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They are stunning. I tried multiple times to
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convince people to dress up with me to like be the brides of
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Dracula. No, one ever took me up on this
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but I tried. It's ridiculous.
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How beautiful they are. It's a kind of makes me sick.
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There are stunning and our costumes are so detailed.
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Yes, intricate Gorgeous show-stopping.
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Yes, I'm running out of you know adjectives but all the
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adjectives, all the adjectives and they reminded me of some of
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our other favorite Brides. Spencer, the bride's from Bram,
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Stoker's Dracula. Oh my gosh, when you show me
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this picture earlier, I kind of thought that was them.
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That's so weird. Now this they I'm like she must
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have taken inspiration from that film because it's almost like a
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neon Version, right? Bram.
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Stoker's Dracula what she did for the bride's an electric
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retelling of the Van Helsing story.
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Yeah, we have all the lovely Brides.
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Um, it makes sense. Stuff, she did kind of borrow
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from the idea of Bram Stoker's Dracula, because when I think of
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Dracula's Brides, They are really wearing like long flowy.
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Gowns kind of like not ancient. But definitely older garments
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Fabrics but still looks really put together, lots of tradition
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and culture in it. So I get it.
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They just look stunning. I love them, too.
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I love, they're all kind of like Eastern European influence but
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like zero specificity, right, like zero specifics as to where
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their front when or where they're from, right.
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My favorite bread was the one that looked like Share with the
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long brown hair. I was like whoa, she's hot.
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But when the other bride I shouldn't say brides are not
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Brides or wives when the other wife showed up in those pants,
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though. I like I like a good pants
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number. Yes.
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Yes. I'm like.
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Oh, does she like go like travel in time and take some
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inspiration inspiration from Jasmine?
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Like, that's what those pants remind me of.
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Yeah, no, I love that. And they're just so like the
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brides are really just there to look pretty.
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And I feel like Gabriella was like, oh okay we'll just make
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them pretty then yeah. Easy what wasn't so pretty was
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when the bride's would turn into their vampire bat form, so which
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by the way, still hot interesting.
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You say that for the Prides bat for I'm they wanted to create
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something that was both beautiful and gruesome and they
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ended up using a combination of blue screen, motion capture and
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visual effects to create their bodies and then makeup and
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Prosthetics for the actors face and hair.
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So it's like because I'm like these, it's early 2000s, special
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effects, like it's not great, but there is something just like
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Like weirdly like still very real about them and I think it's
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because they use their faces, right?
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It's really interesting to like thinking back.
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I never once watch this movie and was like, you know, the
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visual effects of the suck like to me, always felt like, really
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like ahead of its time. I will never be dramatic, but to
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me, always just felt really cool.
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I always, I always felt it with the dr.
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Jekyll and mr. Hyde.
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Yeah, he does have a A moment. Yeah.
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But I never thought about the bride's like when I stumbled
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upon like the behind the scenes of the visual effects, I was
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like, oh this is really interesting or when Dracula
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turns into his vampire form to. I was the werewolves are really
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cool to speak into werewolves. A speaking of werewolves, we
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have the titular character Van Helsing played by are one of my
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favorite actors Hugh Jackman. I did not know that what he was
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the perfect person to play this role, right?
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And if you were to say like we need a Van Helsing type, I would
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never really think of him. So this casting to me feels kind
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of risky and it was a risk paid off because he kills this role.
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I mean, to me this Hugh Jackman is super badass.
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This Hugh Jackman is Super Bass and I'm really kind of upset.
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They didn't make more Van Helsing movie with him, just
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like During monsters, right? But I love he just has.
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This must be the 1800's, where they're placing this just like
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the leather, the leather duster, the cable knit his just like
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gent. He has the appearance of someone
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who doesn't care but it looks so good.
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Yeah. It's very rugged.
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And I also love how I'm the costume designer.
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Like, really let the clothing. Get dirty too.
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It's covered in mud. You know, he's been wrestling
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with Dracula's wives the whole time so he's always covered in
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dirt. I always loved his cool mask and
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hat to look. He, he knows how to accessorize
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mr. Van Helsing mr.
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Van Helsing does know how to accessorize.
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And I love his his mask with the little because it's like this.
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I with like a Sunburst coming out of it and I'm like, just
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kind of like reminds me of the Illuminati or something?
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Yeah, that's what she basically does work for, right.
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Because he works for this. Secret organization.
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Yeah, at another reason. I wish there had been more
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movies is they like, don't fully explain who Van Helsing actually
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is. And I think he's supposed to be
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the angel Gabriel. I think that's, they say that,
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do they? Yeah, it's Dracula says
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Gabrielle like 100 times. Yeah.
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Like I know, I know Dracula basically tells him who he is,
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but I'm like there was no like closure with Part of the
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storyline or whatever. And then he would have if he's
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an angel, he should have a bunch of cool powers that he could
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explore and other movies. Yeah, but he had a real cool
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crossbow, which I thought. Yeah.
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He's like the James Bond of Monster hunting.
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Yeah. Monster hunting has not been the
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same since honest now. No, it hasn't.
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But he also have some friends to help him along the way.
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We have the friar Carl played by David Wenham, which he's the
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pert. Most perfect part of this movie.
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I think AKA our boy faramir from The Lord of the Rings.
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I always forget. This is him, it's one of those
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things where you start watching the film and you're like is that
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faramir? Because I always think of David
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being so like proper and put together and this character is
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like a hot mess, you know. Yes, it's really funny but he
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does such a great job. He does such a great job.
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Also does a great job is a Cheryl Hensley who plays
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Frankenstein's monster, and for Frankenstein's monster.
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The director really wanted to keep the iconic neck bolts.
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The Flathead of, you know, the Frankenstein monster from like
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the Universal horror films but he also wanted the character to
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Keep the actors facial features. So in the pine, the scenes, they
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kind of talked about how they built, didn't feel like around
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his head. His face, they built from his
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face and like back and up so that it kept like a sense of
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being natural. And then they just kind of like
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went crazy with the rest of it. One of the concept artists say
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they took a lot of inspiration from the 2000 Leagues Under the
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Sea Ship the Nautilus. Oh was a huge inspiration for
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Frankenstein, which nothing looking at it?
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Yeah, that's right, right on, yeah, yeah.
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I loved his costume. Loved the Friars costumes.
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Also, I love the fabrics and the textiles all works really
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beautifully. Gabriela of really knows how to
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work with fabrics and textiles and that also goes into
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Dracula's Little Helpers are running around the Castle.
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These was so freaked out when I watch this movie again, because
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I'd forgotten about them. And I was like, what are these?
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Little Shadows, like crawling all over the place very scary
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and the unmask one of them and you see their horrifying face.
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And I have a little bit of a story for you.
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Elizabeth do tell. Yeah, I mean, you know, because
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I love Van Helsing but I also hate being scared.
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You know this, if you remember you and I hate being scared.
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Real life, like I can watch scary movies all day long.
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You know, play scary games, what not scary books, podcasts blah,
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blah. It comes to real life though.
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I guess I like super jumpy. So you and I went on that
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Walking Dead ride at Universal Studios where you walk around
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and zombies poke out. Yeah.
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And I just attached myself to a Visa and close my eyes.
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Yeah. And then everyone just kind of
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watch as I was basically on the verge of tears sometimes.
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Yeah. Well before it was why.
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Walking Dead. It was Dracula's castle way back
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in the day. Yeah, it was a long time ago.
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And my mom was like, oh you like Van Helsing so much while you're
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going to go on the ride and I was like, no way Mom.
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I was eat little my best friend came and my mom was like you're
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gonna do it. Stopped being a punk.
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We go on the ride and like it was cool, but it was very scary.
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And there was like dark Corners were, like, giant fuzzy,
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werewolf Clause, would come out of the Else and try to pot you.
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Well, I didn't know is that they like hired actors to play
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Dracula's servants? Those masked things.
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And I was like, I was already crying.
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I walk around a corner and one of those little servants runs by
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me and like, literally kind of, like, nudges the side of my body
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broke into, like, full on screen crying.
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That's not okay. Scared.
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That's hilarious. Oh my gosh, that made it to the
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end but I was not a. I was changed after that.
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I was a changed person. I'm sure it's probably when I
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broke in life, you know, probably probably that's so
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funny. I don't think my, I don't think
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my mom would have, let me go on that even if I wanted to.
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That's like, that's wild. Realize we were raised very
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differently. Yeah.
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It's on YouTube somewhere like that.
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So right. Anyways, I would love to see
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that. Yeah.
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What I also loved to see is we have Anna lead by Kate
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Beckinsale, the Queen, the absolu, scary monster, movie,
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Queen Gabriella talked about Anna, a little bit in the
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special feature saying that her character is so daring and sexy
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in a way that she felt it freed them from the period because
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let's be real. All this is not a
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period-appropriate. No passed you in any way, shape,
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or form. I do love it though because we
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have that like Eastern European kind of like embroidery that we
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just saw in mid-summer, right? I like into like it's really bad
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ass but you could tell like this isn't practical.
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She's wearing this really tight like steampunk corset almost,
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you know, Like, oh yeah, I would want to rip that off.
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If you're fighting Dracula's wives, the way it's, she is, you
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can't breathe. You can't breathe in that.
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But her fabric choices though are like super Stellar.
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I love so many different uses of red and her costume is so
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attractive, so beautiful, it was so beautiful.
27:35
I also love her coats, the fur-trimmed one like, oh yeah,
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perfect in the behind the scenes about her kind of, you know,
27:45
Ridiculous outfit that she is wearing.
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Kate Beckinsale said and the behind the scenes, you know,
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they're not necessarily entirely practical because I had to do a
27:56
lot of running around Andhra in rather High spindly heels and
28:01
courses and swim in a massive ball gown and all that stuff.
28:06
So I always think of if a woman gets through an action movie,
28:10
she's way tougher than the boys. Are, you know what this Actually
28:16
saying is, she's like this is some bullshit at a run around
28:19
with a corset and y'all were crying on set.
28:22
I don't know if she was in love with.
28:23
This was like, I don't know she I doubt she was in love with
28:26
this. Look, she I mean she talked a
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lot in the special features that like she did like the look but I
28:33
don't think she enjoyed acting in the look.
28:38
I love Kate Beckinsale and I feel like her career is having a
28:40
Resurgence right now and I'm like you deserve that because I
28:44
feel like people didn't After all, like the underworld movies.
28:48
And this, I feel like she wasn't taken super seriously as an
28:52
actress because I feel like she just kind of disappeared for a
28:54
while. Yeah.
28:56
You're talking to someone who's never seen an Underworld movie,
28:59
but I agree with you. They're so good.
29:02
They're so good. I love.
29:05
That's a conversation for another time, but I do love the
29:10
underworld movies. I've seen all, but the last one,
29:13
but yeah, her character is Cool. And so in high school, I was
29:19
obsessed with black thigh-high, suede boots like high heel,
29:26
boots. That look exactly like this and
29:29
I had no idea why, but when I was watching it the other day, I
29:34
was like, I think this is why I was obsessed with thigh-high
29:37
ding Ending by wanted to be Kate Beckinsale.
29:44
I have this This came back and settled all with my little
29:47
Dracula Castle to Lucky. Yeah, well, it's that they had a
29:52
Barbie. I wish I'd had that problem and
29:54
it. Anyway, anyway, Spencer when
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we're going to take a little break, but when we get back, are
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you ready for our favorite movie activity?
30:05
Are you talking about a ball? Talking about a ball, Spencer
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everybody, put your dancing shoes on.
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Spencer, Elizabeth this ball, this vampire ball.
31:29
Oh my goodness. How was this film?
31:33
Not nominated for an Oscar in costume designing this ball
31:36
isn't same, right? The academy snobby, I just from
31:46
the very first view of the singer in this black and silver
31:51
Ensemble to every single person you see in the crowd.
31:57
It's just, it's wild. Yeah, it's beautiful to the
32:00
orchestra on the back, then you have faramir running around in
32:05
adjuster uniform Van Helsing Keven, looks all nice.
32:09
Nice and done up. But this is so many costumes,
32:12
and this is definitely like an underrated costume moment in
32:16
film. It's just lately.
32:18
It's good stuff. So much.
32:20
Good stuff. Especially Kate.
32:22
Beckinsale's. Red dress.
32:25
Spencer. Yeah, we have the return of the
32:29
red dress. We haven't had a red dress in a
32:31
while. Have that?
32:33
We went too hard and season one and season two was like we're
32:36
done with the red dresses. Yeah.
32:38
But Kate beckinsale's. Not um, I love this look so
32:44
much. It's like because I love that
32:46
they take like the red from all her jackets and put just put it
32:49
all in this ball. Gown.
32:51
Yeah. And it's just like also funny
32:54
cuz he's like, hey, look what you could have if you're my
32:57
bride, I know which by the way would work on me because at this
33:02
point, I'm sold, where do I sign?
33:04
Yeah, but what I love about the scene is that Anna's wearing
33:07
this bright red again, Down and she's in a room full of vampires
33:11
where their colors are mostly like blacks and Golds and
33:14
Silvers. So to me this is just saying
33:16
like she's just this blood that everyone's you know yeah yelling
33:21
at this moment. Dancing around a bar room
33:22
because she looks at the mirror and she's the only person in the
33:25
crowd. That's not a vampire.
33:27
So I love that choice of color. I think it's really brilliant.
33:32
Me too me too. I also love how they didn't
33:37
change Dracula's outfit. Just gave him this incredible
33:40
cloak, which works, by the way it works, it works.
33:46
And I love when you see it up close.
33:48
It's all these different fabrics and textures and he's just like,
33:53
yeah, I'm Dracula. Oh, if he knows how to party.
33:58
Wow, look at the detail on that. Red Dress, it is stunning,
34:02
beautiful. It is so beautiful.
34:05
I think I found this on like an auction website.
34:08
Uh-huh. Yeah, it's really beautiful.
34:12
So if you use of color, was just so deliberate in this scene and
34:17
this film deserves more credit. I just can't say it enough.
34:20
It's such a good movie. The costumes are out of this
34:23
world costumes are out of this world.
34:26
It is an out-of-this-world movie and I just like, watching the
34:32
end of this. I was really just like wish
34:34
there were more. I love the last fight between
34:38
Dracula and Van Helsing when they're battling Leah, vampire
34:41
versus werewolf. That's like really good monster.
34:44
Fight scene. It is.
34:47
It is, this is just has a lot of good fight scenes in it.
34:50
Yeah. Well, I'm so glad we talked
34:53
about this, but I'm even more excited to play our favorite
34:55
game. Elizabeth, what about you?
34:57
I am so ready. Spencer, Hey, that Daniel so one
35:02
costume to rule them all. All right, Elizabeth, I think
35:11
I've made my choice. It's kind of, I don't know if
35:14
it's what you expect because I love all of Anna's.
35:18
Looks I especially love the vampire, bride looks, but I have
35:22
to go with just a typical Dracula costume that he wears
35:26
throughout the film. This man is just rock and roll
35:30
badass, goth Vibes, he knows he's at the top of the vampire
35:37
team. And he just knows any rocks, and
35:41
he just has such a Dracula swag to him, and his costume to me,
35:44
just really spells that out for an audience when he come in.
35:48
So I love that costume. Good choice fencer, good choice.
35:52
Although, I have to say the one costume to rule them all.
35:57
In this film is Hugh Jackman's the Hat, the leather duster, the
36:04
cool mask. It's like, I feel like this
36:08
created. And my like childhood idea of
36:12
what a monster hunter looked like and like what can beat
36:18
that? That's true.
36:20
It did really create a silhouette that like really kind
36:23
of spelled out the narrative for what monster hunters look like.
36:26
So actually, when you say that, that makes a lot of sense.
36:29
I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying, Count Dracula
36:32
looked real good. Hmm.
36:37
And it's kind of like, wow, That's kind of why.
36:40
I, like, we love this movie. It's like, it's like, it's just
36:42
so cool, but also Goofy and fun. Mmm.
36:47
And I feel like it's it's this weird Jean.
36:50
Like, 2000's genre of doing a like monster action movie that
36:59
was made purely to have like good fight scenes and look
37:03
really cool because it's like you know, you have Brothers
37:06
Grimm you have Hansel and Gretel like There were a whole bunch of
37:10
movies like this at the time, and I feel like they've kind of
37:12
died out and I miss them. Yeah, no, I totally hear what
37:17
you're saying. Start us is not too far from
37:20
this point either. Hmm.
37:23
And he, you know, and Van Helsing suit had all these tools
37:25
on it. Removes the like spinney saw
37:28
things he had, and so many gadgets on it.
37:32
So I see what you're saying. It's a very good one, it is an
37:36
excellent choice and if you want to Tell me why I am right.
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Spencer. What are we watching next week?
37:55
Well, I'm pleased to say that our soft spooky season gets even
37:59
softer next week. That's, that's what does with a
38:03
spooky classic that takes place on Spooky Island?
38:07
I should say. We are watching.
38:11
I can't believe we're actually doing this episode.
38:13
We're doing the 2002 film, a classic Scooby-Doo.
38:19
We are watching Scooby-Doo. If you haven't seen Scooby-Doo,
38:24
what's wrong with go watch it. I think it turns 20 this year go
38:29
watch it. Oh that's why we picked its have
38:31
an anniversary. Oh yeah.
38:33
Right. Right doing this because we're
38:35
big Scooby-Doo fans which we are what?
38:39
Yeah, you definitely. This was his choice for Finer,
38:43
Things Club, when it was his birthday.
38:46
So you all just keep that in mind.
38:50
Um, keep that out. Yeah, 20 years, keep that in
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41:05
And three, two, one step. Let me, oh my gosh.
41:13
It was so annoying. When I started to share my
41:15
slides, I had to like, reopen the share twice because it
41:20
wasn't picking up my Google Chrome windows.
41:24
So embarrassed like that, sir, it happens.
41:28
It happens. At least you didn't have the
41:30
thing. When I interviewed Megan cast
41:33
for like the first time in my mic, just decided it was not
41:36
going to carry on with the rest of the interview that that was
41:39
embarrassing. Yeah.
41:41
Now I was so nervous about the whole recording.
41:45
My gosh. He I'm like, did amazing.
41:48
I'm excited to hear it well that but no.
41:52
Just the actual, like, digital recording.
41:55
Just not existing. I'm sure I fuck something up.
42:00
When, I mean, it was on the zoom account, I could show you next
42:03
time. No, I trust you.
42:05
That was, I was just like this. I was like, I did something
42:08
wrong. Like such a mess today.
42:15
All right, here we go.