She was so familiar to me yet according to IMDB I've never seen anything she's in.
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She's got a nice amount of hair on her tight white body but I don't like the tatts.
>omg le creepy little girl
So tired of this trope, little girls are sexy, not scary.
It would have been a much better movie if dan was the only lead and the monster aka the kid wasn't shown until the very, very end. The dancing was pretty stupid, too. It's like someone watched better cooler movies and didn't understand what made them cool but copied shit anyway.
The movie was doomed from the begining. >The project was originally titled Dracula's Daughter, the same name as the 1936 film upon which it is based;[10] with Universal restating that while they had considered a singular continuity with The Mummy (2017), each release will continue to be "rooted in the horror genre, with no restrictions on budget, rating or genre. They are not part of a shared interconnected universe, which allows each film to stand on its own.
>Dracula movie titled "Renfield" - flops at around 20M >Dracula movie titled "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" - flops at around 20M >Dracula Daughter retitled to "Abigail" - flops at around 20M >Dracula origin story titled "Dracula Untold" - earns acceptable 200M BUT NEVER GETS A SEQUEL
Maybe Universal is just moronic and decided to remove Dracula from titles so people don't know it's related to Dracula?
I still can't believe they gave that awful Renfield movie a $65m budget. It was supposed to be a 90 minute wacky Dracula horror/comedy spinoff, how does that cost a penny more than $20m?
I have one of my horror scripts submitted to the same producers though, so hopefully I can get a massive inflated budget from Universal too kek.
>that awful Renfield movie a $65m budget
It's funny because all these shitty movies' combined budgets are higher that production budget of The Mummy while they earned less than 1/4 of Mummy's box office. >Mummy (production budget 125M, BO 409M) >Renfield (production 65M, BO 26M) >Demeter (production 45M, BO 20M) >Abigail (budget 20M, BO 35M)
So 125 | 409 vs 130 | 81 clearly showing that their new 'brillaint' fomula simply doesn't work. Somehow Universal was worried that The Mummy was a flop. LOL. Now they are in for a series of total flops. They could have had an interesting universe with some mixed movies and still acceptable 350-450M box office runs (which is a lot for action horrors) but they were too greedy and now they will suffer.
Greedy morons at Universal killed not-so-golden-but-still-golden goose for these shitty movies nobody cares about.
My only hope is that after opening Dark Universe theme park they also announce full-on return of Dark Universe movies as well. For now I'm done with these shitty monster movies. Waste of time.
The only issue I had with this movie is that it seemed like they weren't 100% sure how wacky or funny they wanted to make it so it kind of wavered back and forth between thriller and dark comedy.
I didn't know he was in the movie so I was expecting her father to be played by Chazz Palminteri or someone similar I laughed when he showed up with a British accent just hamming it up, the ending was really terrible.
thats a leftover from original shared connected universe plans
dracula was like mob with connections all around while jekyll was leader of monster hunters
you can see some other leftovers. blumhouse and other guys literally stated that universal is going to reuse scripts from failed dark universe and while they removed most of connections, there are still some hints. for example in supposedly standalone the invisible man, there is a line where cop guy says that a special team dealing with unusual cases is investigating recovered invisibility suit. im almost sure it was supposed to be a nod to jekylls agency but they forgot to cut it out.
there is also rumored script for dracula untold2 and van helsing crossover.
yea and its not just my asspulls. elisabeth moss also hints that universal wants to restore that universe but she still says it probably depends on wolf man reception.years ago wolfman producers also stated that they would like to revive dark universe no matter what. and also it was rumored that elisabeth was interested in the invisible woman and universal initially agreed so maybe there is still hope. however with so many flops i dont know what they are going to do
Dan turns into a vampire in the third act and completely steals the show from the little girl, he also holds fights her and sucks her blood not one but twice.
The entire plot is stupid, they had a whole day to try and escape the mansion but they just sat in the library waiting for night time and then they kept splitting up when they clearly had better chances sticking together, just unbelievably stupid.
I'm not saying it was high brow. But the set up was fine, they're scumbags who really wanted the money. The end feels like it was written by a completely different person.
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Yeah I did not buy the e-girl vamp and the final girl teaming up to take down Dan Stevens
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She's shown to be a sadistic evil character yet she somehow gains a sense of loyalty to the girl for some reason? It's just really unsatisfying. Should have had everyone die or have Frank survive but now he has to run from Dracula or have him get instantly 1shot by Dracula as soon as he shows up
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I fully expected Dracula to kill the girl when he showed up, it's bullshit that they just let her go, you'd think they'd want to keep their existence a secret.
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To be fair Abigail has had zero love or compassion in her life. I can buy her getting imprinted off Joey
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She's like 400 years old
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She said her dad turned her in the library of the big house and it didn't look THAT old to me, maybe a hundred years, hunned fitty
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>The end feels like it was written by a completely different person.
It was initially considered as a part of shared Dark Universe stared by The Mummy with Tom Cruise but then they dropped that idea. However it is possible that some parts of the script were left untouched or adopted from previous versions so who knows.
>they had a whole day to try and escape the mansion
They didn't want to escape at the beginning, they had a conversation about it >something something if 7 million dollars isn't worth the risk then what is
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>They didn't want to escape at the beginning, they had a conversation about it
And when the little girl revealed herself as a vampire they all wanted to get the frick out and find the house trigger system or whatever, they could've easily escaped if they crafted some kind of climbing rope, broke the library window and then climbed out. Also Dan's character is presented as this pragmatic guy focused on his survival above everything the whole movie until he decides to just become a vampire and frick around with the junkie b***h and the little girl, knowing that her father was on his way to the house, just makes no fricking sense.
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>focused on his survival above everything the whole movie until he decides to just become a vampire
that would guarantee his survival tho. idk how he got insta le evil tho maybe it was le blood or the fact he was inherently evil idk
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>that would guarantee his survival tho
not really since gus fring told him dracula was on his way to the house and they only had a chance to take him out together, when he killed gus he signed his death sentence
>how does it compare to other ex-monster universe films? should i update this pic?
Sort of like R-rated but with tone closer to The Mummy. Similar mix of horror and action comedy, similar neo-gothic atmosphere but on smaller scale. It's all set inside old mansion. Not too old tho, not like a haunted house nor like catacombs in The Mummy. Definetly not as futuristic/high-tech as The Invisible Man and not as incredibly stupid as Renfield. I haven't seen Demeter and I don't remember Dracula Untold. Not sure if I've seen it.
Cost of living crisis and inflation means that people won't just drop money on a trip to the cinema to see frivolous movies they can wait a few weeks to see for free.
Turns out that you can just print infinite money but it has consequences for the whole of society.
>She was so familiar to me yet according to IMDB I've never seen anything she's in.
bro i had the same thought. she looks exactly like some other actress... cant figure it out
The good side of the movie is that it's quite pacy, an action comedy with comedic touches. The main actress is really good, she's both sexy and believable with overall realistic physical action. Dan Stevens is good too as usual.
But it has several flaws:
-make-up is subpar (compare to the original Fright Night or Lost Boys, both made decades ago)
-the directors are not very talented. The timing of the movie is off (scare reactions are not well edited), they're heavyhanded and their use of references is too : we get the M3gan little dance reference but they overdo it; the ballet music they chose (Swan Lake) is the most obvious possible: and their handling of characterization is very unsubtle/cartoonish. Their awful mishandling of the last 2 Scream movies says it all.
All in all, the script deserved better directors.
>the ballet music they chose (Swan Lake) is the most obvious possible
Of course. This was Dracula's Daughter before they renamed it to Abigail. So it needed Dracula theme song.
>According to The Hollywood Reporter, the story centers on a group of kidnappers who abduct a band of young people, one of whom ends up being Dracula’s daughter. Woe then betides the kidnappers. At one point, the project was going by the title Dracula’s Daughter, but as of right now it doesn’t have an official title. Barrera will be playing one of the kidnappers, while Weir plays Dracula’s daughter.
https://www.joblo.com/dan-stevens-radio-silence/
to The Hollywood Reporter, the story centers on a group of kidnappers who abduct a band of young people, one of whom ends up being Dracula’s daughter. Woe then betides the kidnappers. At one point, the project was going by the title Dracula’s Daughter, but as of right now it doesn’t have an official title. Barrera will be playing one of the kidnappers, while Weir plays Dracula’s daughter.
It'd have been an interesting take. One of the movie's flaws is that it discards the Dracula tropes (the kid's impervious to crucifixes/garlic) but then gets back to it (the wooden stake killing vampires).
I miss original Dark Universe now. Standalone approach is one big mess. Instead of fixing mistakes they made it even more confusing. Renfield acts as a direct continuation of 1931 Dracula and I liked opening scene where they linked these movies. The rest sucked. Abigail however now introduces another Dracula who has young kid. Smells like gore version of Hotel Transylvania. But then this Dracula is not that 1931 Dracula. And then there's is that horror on ship with pointless black Van Helsing. Maaaan what a mess.
they are no longer doing shared continuity. here is their new "strategy" now. release shitload of half assed monster movies giving no frick about anything. there is one more sci fi western dracula planned, modern day wolfman, frankenstein from james wan and... horror version of scorpion king set in mummy 2016 timeline
i bet more than half of these will never be made
>read about her >plays a 1000 year old ancient vampire >vampire is bored with regular killing, just wants to find more fun and spicy ways to go about her vamp life
so does she make sex jokes or did the writers pussy out?
Did not care for the MC being an addict and losing custody of her child or whatever. Should have spent that time developing the relationship between her and Abigail more instead
bad writing ruined his performance. they gave him role closer to a tragic lover than proper dracula - as in personification of misery and death. christopher lee was the best dracula on screen
>Why did her movie flop?
Because people are sick of Universal trying to start monster franchise over and over again. DRACULA UNTOLD was supposed to start the series but apparently it flopped (it didn't, made 200M at the box office) then they got Tom Cruise for THE MUMMY and again apparently it flopped except it didn't. Universal CEO literally said that it was Tom's biggest opening weekend ever and that despite bad reviews they were still proud of Box office run. However due to these bad reviews they decided to reconsider their plans and put Dark Universe on hold.
The Invisible Man was supposed to revive it but then they said that it's not even a part of same universe. And this is where they fricked up. Renfield was next. There were some articled how Renfield plans to restore Dark Universe, director saying that he knows all previous mistakes blablabla... but that was enough. People noticed that Universal studio doesn't even try to come up with a plan. Enough is enough.
WB at least tried to re-form DC. Hired James Gunn as leader. Meanwhile Universal gave monater rights to random people like Kevin Faig (Ghostbusters female remake) or Elisabeth Banks (awful new Charlie's Angeles) to let them film movies nobody wants.
Del Toro says he regrets not taking the deal when Universal wanted him to lead the series. Jason Blum also said that he is not in charge. There is no chairman to helm monster series. No planning. They released 6 fricking movies that lead nowhere. To make it even more moronic, Forbes gave them clear suggestion how to work it out. Hell, there is a script for unproduced Dracula Untold sequel that connects Dracula, Van Helsing and The Mummy together. And these idiots still prefer to release crap like Renfield where great performances are wasted on an idiotic cop drama plot.
I'm still so fricking passed at how bad The Wolfman was. Del Toro was perfect casting and he and Emily Blunt showed they had great chemistry in Sicario, but Wolfman was just awful. We could have had an amazing intro to the new monster-verse, and we got that slop instead.
It was so shit lmao she can't act
I thought she did fine, her American accent was surprisingly good too but as soon as Dan turned into a vampire she lost the spotlight.
She did fine for a kid. You are just gay
Hey I did my part, I saw it 3 times in theaters. Third time I snuck in after watching Alien though.
THE DENTAL PROSTHETICS LOOKED VERISIMILAR ONLY ON HER, AND ON GOODE; ON THE OTHERS, THE PROSTHETICS LOOKED LIKE 99¢ STORE HALLOWEEN PROPS.
They intentionally went for oversized teeth on KNewt's scene though
We need more DFC and bushy eyebrows in Hollywood.
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She's got a nice amount of hair on her tight white body but I don't like the tatts.
It would have been a much better movie if dan was the only lead and the monster aka the kid wasn't shown until the very, very end. The dancing was pretty stupid, too. It's like someone watched better cooler movies and didn't understand what made them cool but copied shit anyway.
is the movie worth a watch? i like ballerinas and vampires.
it's fine
It was a fun "turn your brain off" type of flick, all the characters suck though and Dan Stevens completely steals the show, ending was trash.
fair assessment. it had good points and bad points. a real mixed bag.
Probably shouldn't have given away that she was a vampire in all the trailers.
Why not? It's not like it's a big shock.
What would they possibly have marketed the movie as then?
The movie was doomed from the begining.
>The project was originally titled Dracula's Daughter, the same name as the 1936 film upon which it is based;[10] with Universal restating that while they had considered a singular continuity with The Mummy (2017), each release will continue to be "rooted in the horror genre, with no restrictions on budget, rating or genre. They are not part of a shared interconnected universe, which allows each film to stand on its own.
>Dracula movie titled "Renfield" - flops at around 20M
>Dracula movie titled "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" - flops at around 20M
>Dracula Daughter retitled to "Abigail" - flops at around 20M
>Dracula origin story titled "Dracula Untold" - earns acceptable 200M BUT NEVER GETS A SEQUEL
Maybe Universal is just moronic and decided to remove Dracula from titles so people don't know it's related to Dracula?
You're onto something, normalgays need everything spoonfed to them these days, should've just titled Dracula's Daughter or some shit
I still can't believe they gave that awful Renfield movie a $65m budget. It was supposed to be a 90 minute wacky Dracula horror/comedy spinoff, how does that cost a penny more than $20m?
I have one of my horror scripts submitted to the same producers though, so hopefully I can get a massive inflated budget from Universal too kek.
>that awful Renfield movie a $65m budget
It's funny because all these shitty movies' combined budgets are higher that production budget of The Mummy while they earned less than 1/4 of Mummy's box office.
>Mummy (production budget 125M, BO 409M)
>Renfield (production 65M, BO 26M)
>Demeter (production 45M, BO 20M)
>Abigail (budget 20M, BO 35M)
So 125 | 409 vs 130 | 81 clearly showing that their new 'brillaint' fomula simply doesn't work. Somehow Universal was worried that The Mummy was a flop. LOL. Now they are in for a series of total flops. They could have had an interesting universe with some mixed movies and still acceptable 350-450M box office runs (which is a lot for action horrors) but they were too greedy and now they will suffer.
Greedy morons at Universal killed not-so-golden-but-still-golden goose for these shitty movies nobody cares about.
My only hope is that after opening Dark Universe theme park they also announce full-on return of Dark Universe movies as well. For now I'm done with these shitty monster movies. Waste of time.
Horrible trailer
Did it? I thought people liked it
I thought she did a great job, she was only 13 when they were filming
>Did it? I thought people liked it
They already dumped it on streaming sites, it's over.
The only issue I had with this movie is that it seemed like they weren't 100% sure how wacky or funny they wanted to make it so it kind of wavered back and forth between thriller and dark comedy.
mob boss dracula took me out of the flick
I didn't know he was in the movie so I was expecting her father to be played by Chazz Palminteri or someone similar I laughed when he showed up with a British accent just hamming it up, the ending was really terrible.
Damn I haven't seen him in anything in forever. I guess he retired or something? I miss him.
Dan Stevens was the best part of the film. I didn't even know it was him until he took off the glasses.
thats a leftover from original shared connected universe plans
dracula was like mob with connections all around while jekyll was leader of monster hunters
you can see some other leftovers. blumhouse and other guys literally stated that universal is going to reuse scripts from failed dark universe and while they removed most of connections, there are still some hints. for example in supposedly standalone the invisible man, there is a line where cop guy says that a special team dealing with unusual cases is investigating recovered invisibility suit. im almost sure it was supposed to be a nod to jekylls agency but they forgot to cut it out.
there is also rumored script for dracula untold2 and van helsing crossover.
I think it's kind of cool that way, an implicitly shared universe. Just easter eggs, no strong narrative links.
yea and its not just my asspulls. elisabeth moss also hints that universal wants to restore that universe but she still says it probably depends on wolf man reception.years ago wolfman producers also stated that they would like to revive dark universe no matter what. and also it was rumored that elisabeth was interested in the invisible woman and universal initially agreed so maybe there is still hope. however with so many flops i dont know what they are going to do
no
trust fund's band
They're all flopping
is this supposed to be a Near Dark reference?
Dan turns into a vampire in the third act and completely steals the show from the little girl, he also holds fights her and sucks her blood not one but twice.
>the second time doesn't kill her because... it just doesn't
>somehow even slightly struggles fighting a human woman
The end is so fricking stupid
The entire plot is stupid, they had a whole day to try and escape the mansion but they just sat in the library waiting for night time and then they kept splitting up when they clearly had better chances sticking together, just unbelievably stupid.
I'm not saying it was high brow. But the set up was fine, they're scumbags who really wanted the money. The end feels like it was written by a completely different person.
Yeah I did not buy the e-girl vamp and the final girl teaming up to take down Dan Stevens
She's shown to be a sadistic evil character yet she somehow gains a sense of loyalty to the girl for some reason? It's just really unsatisfying. Should have had everyone die or have Frank survive but now he has to run from Dracula or have him get instantly 1shot by Dracula as soon as he shows up
I fully expected Dracula to kill the girl when he showed up, it's bullshit that they just let her go, you'd think they'd want to keep their existence a secret.
To be fair Abigail has had zero love or compassion in her life. I can buy her getting imprinted off Joey
She's like 400 years old
She said her dad turned her in the library of the big house and it didn't look THAT old to me, maybe a hundred years, hunned fitty
>The end feels like it was written by a completely different person.
It was initially considered as a part of shared Dark Universe stared by The Mummy with Tom Cruise but then they dropped that idea. However it is possible that some parts of the script were left untouched or adopted from previous versions so who knows.
>they had a whole day to try and escape the mansion
They didn't want to escape at the beginning, they had a conversation about it
>something something if 7 million dollars isn't worth the risk then what is
>They didn't want to escape at the beginning, they had a conversation about it
And when the little girl revealed herself as a vampire they all wanted to get the frick out and find the house trigger system or whatever, they could've easily escaped if they crafted some kind of climbing rope, broke the library window and then climbed out. Also Dan's character is presented as this pragmatic guy focused on his survival above everything the whole movie until he decides to just become a vampire and frick around with the junkie b***h and the little girl, knowing that her father was on his way to the house, just makes no fricking sense.
>focused on his survival above everything the whole movie until he decides to just become a vampire
that would guarantee his survival tho. idk how he got insta le evil tho maybe it was le blood or the fact he was inherently evil idk
>that would guarantee his survival tho
not really since gus fring told him dracula was on his way to the house and they only had a chance to take him out together, when he killed gus he signed his death sentence
>oh nooo haha looks like I flubbed my lines AGAIN, agh now I have to nuzzle this e-girl again haha ah darn
Yes
how does it compare to other ex-monster universe films? should i update this pic?
Dabs on them all except Untold which I think is very underrated
>inb4 Gadongay
>how does it compare to other ex-monster universe films? should i update this pic?
Sort of like R-rated but with tone closer to The Mummy. Similar mix of horror and action comedy, similar neo-gothic atmosphere but on smaller scale. It's all set inside old mansion. Not too old tho, not like a haunted house nor like catacombs in The Mummy. Definetly not as futuristic/high-tech as The Invisible Man and not as incredibly stupid as Renfield. I haven't seen Demeter and I don't remember Dracula Untold. Not sure if I've seen it.
There was an invisible man movie?
Cost of living crisis and inflation means that people won't just drop money on a trip to the cinema to see frivolous movies they can wait a few weeks to see for free.
Turns out that you can just print infinite money but it has consequences for the whole of society.
She was so familiar to me yet according to IMDB I've never seen anything she's in.
>nüMiley Cyrus before makeup and photoshop
>She was so familiar to me yet according to IMDB I've never seen anything she's in.
bro i had the same thought. she looks exactly like some other actress... cant figure it out
going mad i tell ya!
The good side of the movie is that it's quite pacy, an action comedy with comedic touches. The main actress is really good, she's both sexy and believable with overall realistic physical action. Dan Stevens is good too as usual.
But it has several flaws:
-make-up is subpar (compare to the original Fright Night or Lost Boys, both made decades ago)
-the directors are not very talented. The timing of the movie is off (scare reactions are not well edited), they're heavyhanded and their use of references is too : we get the M3gan little dance reference but they overdo it; the ballet music they chose (Swan Lake) is the most obvious possible: and their handling of characterization is very unsubtle/cartoonish. Their awful mishandling of the last 2 Scream movies says it all.
All in all, the script deserved better directors.
>the ballet music they chose (Swan Lake) is the most obvious possible
Of course. This was Dracula's Daughter before they renamed it to Abigail. So it needed Dracula theme song.
>According to The Hollywood Reporter, the story centers on a group of kidnappers who abduct a band of young people, one of whom ends up being Dracula’s daughter. Woe then betides the kidnappers. At one point, the project was going by the title Dracula’s Daughter, but as of right now it doesn’t have an official title. Barrera will be playing one of the kidnappers, while Weir plays Dracula’s daughter.
https://www.joblo.com/dan-stevens-radio-silence/
to The Hollywood Reporter, the story centers on a group of kidnappers who abduct a band of young people, one of whom ends up being Dracula’s daughter. Woe then betides the kidnappers. At one point, the project was going by the title Dracula’s Daughter, but as of right now it doesn’t have an official title. Barrera will be playing one of the kidnappers, while Weir plays Dracula’s daughter.
It'd have been an interesting take. One of the movie's flaws is that it discards the Dracula tropes (the kid's impervious to crucifixes/garlic) but then gets back to it (the wooden stake killing vampires).
>an action comedy with comedic touches
*an action horror with comedic touches
>leave abigal…to me
won
>Why did her movie flop?
Well I literally have no idea what movie you're talking about, so marketing might have had something to do with it
I miss original Dark Universe now. Standalone approach is one big mess. Instead of fixing mistakes they made it even more confusing. Renfield acts as a direct continuation of 1931 Dracula and I liked opening scene where they linked these movies. The rest sucked. Abigail however now introduces another Dracula who has young kid. Smells like gore version of Hotel Transylvania. But then this Dracula is not that 1931 Dracula. And then there's is that horror on ship with pointless black Van Helsing. Maaaan what a mess.
they are no longer doing shared continuity. here is their new "strategy" now. release shitload of half assed monster movies giving no frick about anything. there is one more sci fi western dracula planned, modern day wolfman, frankenstein from james wan and... horror version of scorpion king set in mummy 2016 timeline
i bet more than half of these will never be made
>Standalone approach is one big mess
no, it's the one redeeming quality of the Monsterverse
I don't understand. It's a good movie.
Nobody knows names like Abigail or Renfield. Normies have no clue these are related to Dracula.
Normies going to the cinema saw a poster of a ballerina with Abigail as the title, the marketing killed it
>read about her
>plays a 1000 year old ancient vampire
>vampire is bored with regular killing, just wants to find more fun and spicy ways to go about her vamp life
so does she make sex jokes or did the writers pussy out?
It's generic shit, just like Demeter was afraid to kill the black guy, Abigail was afraid to kill the latina b***h. The villians are fricking lame
Who is playing Dracula then? Does he even show up or just mentioned? Can't find any screenshots of him.
Thanks. Strange editing. Feels like some cuts are too erratic.
He gives me weird Christopher Lee but much younger Dracula vibes. Maybe because of his eyes.
In the movie he's using name Kristoff but says that's just one of his names used over many centuries.
Did not care for the MC being an addict and losing custody of her child or whatever. Should have spent that time developing the relationship between her and Abigail more instead
Gary Oldman mogged everyone so hard that anything Dracula related is effectively dead
No one can follow that performance
bad writing ruined his performance. they gave him role closer to a tragic lover than proper dracula - as in personification of misery and death. christopher lee was the best dracula on screen
>omg le creepy little girl
So tired of this trope, little girls are sexy, not scary.
Should I watch Matilda?
which one
The one with Alisha obviously, I've seen one of the older adaptations and I always liked Roald Dahl, but I don't trust netflix.
Not enough feet.
Because there was no full nelson scene with the BWQuebecois
No theater here since coof so I gotta wait to rent it
She's too scary for normies like me.
And then she farts… turning them all into vampires after inhalation.
>Why did her movie flop?
Because people are sick of Universal trying to start monster franchise over and over again. DRACULA UNTOLD was supposed to start the series but apparently it flopped (it didn't, made 200M at the box office) then they got Tom Cruise for THE MUMMY and again apparently it flopped except it didn't. Universal CEO literally said that it was Tom's biggest opening weekend ever and that despite bad reviews they were still proud of Box office run. However due to these bad reviews they decided to reconsider their plans and put Dark Universe on hold.
The Invisible Man was supposed to revive it but then they said that it's not even a part of same universe. And this is where they fricked up. Renfield was next. There were some articled how Renfield plans to restore Dark Universe, director saying that he knows all previous mistakes blablabla... but that was enough. People noticed that Universal studio doesn't even try to come up with a plan. Enough is enough.
WB at least tried to re-form DC. Hired James Gunn as leader. Meanwhile Universal gave monater rights to random people like Kevin Faig (Ghostbusters female remake) or Elisabeth Banks (awful new Charlie's Angeles) to let them film movies nobody wants.
Del Toro says he regrets not taking the deal when Universal wanted him to lead the series. Jason Blum also said that he is not in charge. There is no chairman to helm monster series. No planning. They released 6 fricking movies that lead nowhere. To make it even more moronic, Forbes gave them clear suggestion how to work it out. Hell, there is a script for unproduced Dracula Untold sequel that connects Dracula, Van Helsing and The Mummy together. And these idiots still prefer to release crap like Renfield where great performances are wasted on an idiotic cop drama plot.
I'm still so fricking passed at how bad The Wolfman was. Del Toro was perfect casting and he and Emily Blunt showed they had great chemistry in Sicario, but Wolfman was just awful. We could have had an amazing intro to the new monster-verse, and we got that slop instead.
I liked it, if anything else the scene where he rips and tears through a bunch of snobby arrogant scientists makes the whole movie worth it.