April 5- Why, You Son of…Dracula!
Let me quickly thank our pal Kevin J. O’Connor, who, in an interview in yesterday’s Sun Times movie section, made some nice comments about me. You can catch him in “There Will Be Blood” which comes out on dvd this week…
Tonight at 9, meet the offspring of our favorite blood-sucking count- as Lon Chaney Jr. plays something more sedate and elegant than the simpering, paranoid, depressed Wolf Man Larry Talbot- he’s the “Son of Dracula!”
Many have commented that Lon Jr. was an odd choice to play
the latest Count- but he does manage to pull it off-establishing the cycle of Draculas with little moustaches and no Transylvanian accent that John Carradine would subscribe to!
Our story concerns the daughters of a wealthy Southern family, one of whom is a Goth gal before it became popular, and visited Transylvania-where she became close friends with one Count Alucard (watch people in the movie puzzle over that name, and dance around what it obviously spells backwards!)
She arranges for the count to come visit America, not realizing that he has sinister plans for this country that is so ripe for the siphoning off its life’s blood. See the Count start a new body count in the bayou country (what is it about these bayous that lure our monster pals? Didn’t the Mummy make a stop in the swamps as well?) He even arranges for one of the daughters to join him in the realm of the undead- and soon, it becomes necessary to get the local authorities to believe in vampires and learn the real identity of the “Son of Dracula!”
Make sure you watch for the same violation of vampire film lore in this film, as we saw with Bela Lugosi in “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein”- we’ll make sure to point it out for you on the show. In addition, there are some cool Sven bits in this one-including my Beach Boys ballad about our “Surfer Ghoul” who skims the surface of the bayou on his coffin- and – as I’ve mentioned –the premiere appearance of our feature “Svengoolie’s Shriek Previews”-giving you a look at the upcoming remake of “Prom Night!” You’ll find additional “Prom Night” fun all this upcoming week here on the WCIU/Sven website, including some webisodes. We’re hoping that the “Previews” will be an occasional feature on the show, where we’ll get to plug new movies in the horror genre.
That’s the lowdown on the complete Sven package for tonight on WCIU at 9 pm, and our beloved sister station Me-TV at
1 am !
Tonight at 9, meet the offspring of our favorite blood-sucking count- as Lon Chaney Jr. plays something more sedate and elegant than the simpering, paranoid, depressed Wolf Man Larry Talbot- he’s the “Son of Dracula!”
Many have commented that Lon Jr. was an odd choice to play
the latest Count- but he does manage to pull it off-establishing the cycle of Draculas with little moustaches and no Transylvanian accent that John Carradine would subscribe to!
Our story concerns the daughters of a wealthy Southern family, one of whom is a Goth gal before it became popular, and visited Transylvania-where she became close friends with one Count Alucard (watch people in the movie puzzle over that name, and dance around what it obviously spells backwards!)
She arranges for the count to come visit America, not realizing that he has sinister plans for this country that is so ripe for the siphoning off its life’s blood. See the Count start a new body count in the bayou country (what is it about these bayous that lure our monster pals? Didn’t the Mummy make a stop in the swamps as well?) He even arranges for one of the daughters to join him in the realm of the undead- and soon, it becomes necessary to get the local authorities to believe in vampires and learn the real identity of the “Son of Dracula!”
Make sure you watch for the same violation of vampire film lore in this film, as we saw with Bela Lugosi in “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein”- we’ll make sure to point it out for you on the show. In addition, there are some cool Sven bits in this one-including my Beach Boys ballad about our “Surfer Ghoul” who skims the surface of the bayou on his coffin- and – as I’ve mentioned –the premiere appearance of our feature “Svengoolie’s Shriek Previews”-giving you a look at the upcoming remake of “Prom Night!” You’ll find additional “Prom Night” fun all this upcoming week here on the WCIU/Sven website, including some webisodes. We’re hoping that the “Previews” will be an occasional feature on the show, where we’ll get to plug new movies in the horror genre.
That’s the lowdown on the complete Sven package for tonight on WCIU at 9 pm, and our beloved sister station Me-TV at
1 am !
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I have to laugh about the prom promos. It was mentioned the original came out in 1980 - the year I graduated high school. The new one is coming out this year, when my son is graduating high school.