Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 4

Estelle! In the hallway! With the ceramic vase!

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Scarabus reaches into thin air, grabs ahold of a bell pull suspended in thin air, pulls it twice, and summons... Lenore!? No! A merely similar-looking young lady, just as quickly dismissed again as she was first summoned!

The twists and turns of this movie, really. It's like an itchy snake on a turntable set to 78rpm.

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@mhoye still punk as fuck

@cwebber this is the emacs equivalent of buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo

@Gargron aw hell man, I'm so sorry. What a gutting disappointment. ):

Getting ready for #monsterdon tonight in just a few minutes. We're watching "Vampire Circus" (1972). Looks like the movie is just under 90 minutes long, so get your timed mute buttons ready! Or even better, download a copy or pick a stream and join in the fun.

MONSTER CHOMP

Aww, Jenny barely had any screen time before the chompening.

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*vampire suddenly appears between one frame and the next, immediately under his 1:1 scale portrait mounted on the wall* Ah I see the special effects this evening are going to be of a particular calibre, then.

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They're not really making it clear whether the village is intent on killing Anna because they think she's a vampire or because they think she's a libertine.

😑

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Wait, why was the _schoolmaster_ unclothed too?? Is that why the village of Stetl is fated to die, because its clothing industry has somehow decayed to the point where no stitches hold fast? Is that the curse?

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Wait why did Anna's dress just fall off??

I mean the in-narrative reason, the cinematic reason seems pretty self-explanatory. Just jumping straight into the slow-motion nudity four minutes past the opening credits, then.

(Quoth @k8eb: "I too find rolling around like a rolling pin to be very erotic.")

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*villagers toss a torch at lines of black powder leading to literal powderkegs*

I see these villagers learned their craft at the ACME School Of Evil Castle Demolition By Way Of Mob

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Are Faber and Serena supposed to be the tiger and the panther, or the two dancers in this bizarre choreo sequence?

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Like six years from now someone will go wandering down the street yelling "THE CIRCUS OF NIGHTS, A HUNDRED DELIGHTS" and we'll all sigh wistfully and remember #monsterdon

"It's a disease! Something that can be stopped."

*stares bleakly at the last five years of applied global-scale epidemiology* big oof

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Am I imagining things or does the circus ringmaster have a very obvious band-aid on her left hand?

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Ah so these are our...

*forty five seconds of footage of bats inexplicably interleaved with tumblers jumping and flipping overhead without the aid of any visible trapeze or springboard apparatuses*

...acro-bats, eh?

Eh? Eh?? Because they're bats, like vampire bats, because it's a vampire circus

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*Rosa shows up naked in the next scene* OK I would like to double down on my theory about the stitching in the town of Stetl being catastrophically unreliable

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"Anton, take Dora to the house, won't you?"

Swing by the therapist on the way, if you please, Dora's had a day

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PANTHER CHOMP

Oh my goodness, the transition from a real panther to a furry puppet being waved around with teeth making up about 50% of its visible mass was a visual that'll stick with me for a while, at least twenty minutes or so

Did they use borscht for blood in that scene..? It looked _chunky_.

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