I tried making a post earlier asking about whether the Legacy of Kain remakes are any good. I don’t have any nostalgia for them so I don’t know if these remasters are updated enough that I could enjoy them or if I’d just find them clunky and annoying. I’ve heard great things about the story though, so I’m tempted.

I’m honored! …I also can’t possibly live up to those expectations.

That’s how I feel about the Resident Evil movies. I think I can remember the plot to the first two but there are 6 movies in that series. I know I’ve seen all of them but I have no clue what happens in each or if there’s a coherent storyline through the whole thing.

Having Resident Evil movies and Underworld movies coming out at the same time made it hard to keep them straight.

I can’t believe I’d never heard of this… While writing my rant, I came across the wiki page for Underworld: Endless War. Apparently in 2011 they made three animated short films set in the Underworld universe. They’re each only 5 minutes long and are short stories about Selene hunting down three lycan brothers over the course of a century. They aren’t great, but I’m mostly surprised I’d never heard of them. Thanks to the internet, you can watch all of them here.

Oh we’ll get there! I’ll make a post about the Blade trilogy soon enough.

Oh come on, you can’t just say that without posting the video! Now I’ve got the song stuck in my head…
I can only count to four

Thanks for the insight!

I actually tried signing up for a 7 day free trial with Shudder for the sole purpose of watching this movie and it turns out the movie isn’t actually available to watch once you’re signed in. The page displayed when you’re not signed in has a play button but the movie isn’t actually available. Really irritating. I cancelled my free trial after about 10 minutes…

Haha, exactly the response I was looking for!

Thank you! That’s exactly the type of information I was looking for!

I’ve never seen Shiki before, what’s it about? Why is it so good?

Time for me to ruin the joke by explaining it!

In the early 90s, there was a saturday morning cartoon called Captain N: The Game Master. It was about a kid who was whisked away to the magical Videoland where he met a bunch of characters from popular NES games. And many of these episodes included characters from Castlevania.

So this is what Dracula and his son Alucard looked like:

And this is what Simon Belmont looked like:

As you can see, these character designs were terrible. Or at least, they had nothing to do with the actual games. Castlevania games usually try to make Dracula at least a little bit intimidating. But not this Dracula. It’s easily the worst Dracula in the entire Castlevania franchise.

The other Draculas in this image are from: The Netflix anime, Lords of Shadow, and Symphony of the Night.

You know it!

You’re right. It’s crazy how that little idea is now fully ingrained in vampire lore. I think in Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula didn’t like sunlight but I don’t think they ever said it would kill him.

I wonder if that idea still would’ve persisted if all the copies of Nosferatu had truly been destroyed… It’s possible vampires would be very different today if we didn’t have this movie. Crazy.

I agree, strange for that film to be missing. It’s not like he was trying to keep himself to a short list of 10 items or something. Or maybe Near Dark was too similar, being from the same era? I don’t know, I definitely would’ve included Lost Boys if it was my list.

Awesome, thanks so much for explaining that to me! And it happens to be on sale on steam right now too, guess I’ll be getting it! 😁

I know it’s pointless to argue semantics about genre definitions but I do enjoy discussing the boundaries of where one genre ends and another begins.

While I won’t argue Valley of Gwangi is Weird West since it has dinosaurs, do you think subverting Western tropes is enough to make something Weird West? I mean, The Quick and The Dead plays pretty loose with the laws of physics just to make for some fun shots:

Or there’s Western comedies like Blazing Saddles and Maverick that subvert a lot of Western tropes. I guess I’d almost define Weird West as whether or not something could happen in the West (even though it obviously didn’t). So inclusion of vampires, monsters, dinosaurs are “obviously” Weird West but a Western where the “monsters” are simply cannibals isn’t Weird West to me. Of course, there’s also the sub-genre of Acid Western where things might get super weird but not in a supernatural way. And this is why I like making these posts, to discuss the fringes of the genre.