The entire staking scene is friggin' hilarious. They didn't tell Steven Webber HOW much blood they were going to spray. You can see him corpsing toward the end too. The little tap he gives the second time and him raising his arms as if to say "Of course!"when EVEN MORE blood sprays makes me die laughing every time. "She's ALMOST dead!" "....SHE'S DEAD ENOUGH!" KILLS me. After the credits, Dracula gets the last word.
Funny that you mentioned Cary Elwes. He was in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" directed by Francis Ford Coppola, from which this movie took a lot of its inspiration, such as Dracula's crazy hair and the weird shadows. A relatively minor role, though. Dracula was played by Gary Oldman.
@@wardenm - The specific *plot* was more like the original with Bela Lugosi, though, such as Renfield, not Jonathan Harker, being the one who initially travelled to Dracula's Castle in Transylvania.
@@Yngvarfo I was gonna say, the Mel Brooks version was using cues from Bela Legosi’s more than Coppola’s; the Wig was just a new thing at the time, and to this day, Mel Brooks is still mocking that hairstyle: th-cam.com/video/DIpSHoi3D1I/w-d-xo.html
You mentioned a lot of people from Robin Hood Men in Tights in this movie, another was David Deluise who was a random merry man and in this played one of the medical students.
It's certainly not one of his best movies, but it's still competently made and very funny. Just compare this movie to one of the early/mid 2000s parodies or even contemporary comedies and then tell me that it's badly written ^^
@@arsenelupin9697 Paws of Fury wasn’t the best either, but I do like it for being a retold version of Blazing Saddles. I hear Cowboy Movies are just Samurai stories, westernized to make Cowboys cooler, despite already being cool with Rodeos.
Given this film came out in the 90's when you had Jim Carry and Chris Farrell killing at the box office and before that you had Eddie Murphy doing the same thing I can see why if you weren't a fan of Brooks or of the Dracula movies you wouldn't appreciate this film like audiences did on release. But by far this is probably my favorite Brooks film because of all those elements.
Amy Yasbeck, who plays Mina, is a favorite of mine. She's gorgeous, but also effortlessly funny. Loved her as Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Men in Tights!
"Mina, you are in the closet" is the one line from this movie that breaks me every single time. I must've watched this movie a hundred times but that one line never fails.
something that I just remembered (took a re-watching) a direct copy (with a bit of humor built in) - the autopsy scene with Mel and the students all passing out until none were left standing... if you ever watch the opening of the old TV Series "Quincy, M.E." starring Jack Klugman, it opened the same way.
This is my favorite Mel Brooks film and one of my favorite comedies! I'm so happy you are watching this! When I was a kid, I got sick from the heat on Fourth of July, and I watched this movie as I rested up, and it'll always have a place in my heart.
Before Airplane, Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor. They chose him for that role because they wanted someone who who could act the most absurd situations with a straight face. That worked well also in Naked Gun.
I like all kinds of movies, and I like watching you react to all kinds of movie, but watching you react to comedies is something special. Emily's giggle is the cutest thing, and seeing Matthew struggle not to laugh too soon when he knows a joke is coming is hilarious.
Unless I’m wrong I believe some of the actresses were from Mel Brooks Men in Tights. I believe one was Maid Marian and the other is her helper Broomhilda
FUN FACT: The actress who plays Mina (who also played Maid Marianne in Robin Hood: Man in Tights) admits her scream is not really her scream. In fact, she said Mo Brooks was pissed at her because she could not give a high pitch scream. As a result, they had to cast someone else to do her screams and she would lipsync them on set.
This movie is hilarious! It's definitely grown on me. I remember not being that excited about it first time I saw it, but seeing it again I don't know what I was on about. Another Leslie Nielsen classic! You should have seen Bram Stoker's Dracula before this to understand some of the jokes.
I've loved Harvey Korman since his days on "The Carol Burnett Show." His perform here as Dr Seward reminds me a lot of his parody of Nigel Bruce's Dr. Watson from the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies in a comedy sketch with Anthony Newley as Holmes.
I don't know if you have watched Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, you should, this movie is in many ways a spoof of that specific movie, including the accent 😂 I bet you will not be able to restrain your laugh even though it's a serious movie 😺
15:51 Those candleholders are a reference to the cheap set design of Hammer Horror movies. They were trying to save so much budget that the candleholder looking exactly like the one in the middle of the frame appeared from their first Dracula movie through almost every gothic horror movie they made. Even when they got bigger budgets, spent more money on sets, they still reused the same candleholders again and again.
The first time I saw this I felt like Emily, but watching it again years later it was like seeing it for the first time again except I thought it was absolutely hilarious and has since become one of my favorite films in the Melverse.
Love this film, love the famous cameo's/ main roles, the doctor who was obsessed with enemas was doctor Watson in the original black and white Sherlock Holmes series, and the emeeeerrrgency nurse is Billy crystals daughter if I remember right ☺️
This was a movie where Mel Brooks was split between presenting a good Dracula movie and a satirical Dracula movie. In the end, the satirical portions became the stronger of the two. I would have loved for him to have forgo the former and concentrated on the latter. Still, it's an entertaining movie.
If you loved this one, you should check out Love at first Bite. A story of how Dracula had to relocate to New York city after being evicted from his castle. So hilarious 😅😊. Love your show. 💗
One of my picks for a vampire comedy would go to 'Vampire's Kiss' - can't go wrong with Nic Cage in over-the-top mode. And of course "What we do in the shadows", but that pretty much goes without saying. I hadn't realized before that Lucy(Amy Yasbeck) was also from the sitcom 'Wings', along with Jonathan(Steven Weber) who I always recognized from the show.
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"I don't like floaty movement, it creeps me out." So it did what it was supposed to do, perfectly. :D
@@MrAitraining "Oh yeah? What do you say to this, Count!!?" * pulls out a star of David * "I say.. you should leave Miss Suzie alone and find a nice Jewish girl." "What? Oh, wrong one again?" :D
This reminds me of another spoof vampire movie. Love at First Bite (1979) Starring: George Hamilton Richard Benjamin (also known for comedy satire movies like Saturday the 14th) Susan Saint James and Arte Johnson
@justSUMMreactions I just finished reading Mel Brooks's book All About Me. And he wrote that the staking scene was actually filmed about 5 different times with increasing levels of blood every time. At the end of every take, the entire set had to be washed down and Steven Weber had to shower off and be redressed. And the last take with the most blood was what they used.
Your few past video have been of movies I either didn’t like or haven’t seen, and that’s a “me” problem, not a “you” problem. But then you release this one! Oh joy!!! I absolutely ADORE that movie!
The gypsy woman who gives Renfield the cross is Mel Brook's wife, Oscar winning dramatic actress Ann Bancroft. They are hysterical together in To Be or Not to Be, Mel's most underrated film.
The Bat-Neilsen : I don`t know which came first, but I`ve seen that done in animated vampire stories for kids. So, either they copied the idea from this film or Mel decided to incorporate an animation trait, into a live-action version. Either way it was very funny & I appreciated it more because of that.
That is another of my absolute favorites. I didn't even realize it existed, but it just happened to catch my eye, when I noticed on the shelf of the video rental store, in the bargain section. I'm surprised it didn't do better, but maybe it was a bit too much of a cerebral comedy - at least at first. It's still very highly recommended as a watch.
@@jeremygeorgia4943 Agreed, I love the sense of humour, and of course Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley are superb. Michael (at least when he is on form) is a brilliant comic actor, I loved him in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' too.
Peter MacNicol (Renfield) was also in 1981’s Dragonslayer. Also, I can’t believe that nobody brought up the Romani woman who did the warbling thing with her throat, as she was Mel Brooks’s wife and Academy Award-winning actress Anne Bancroft.
Oh yay. This movie kills me; and Peter MacNicol as Renfield is just a darn riot.
Definitely, a better Renfield than the one in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
@@ryangreen6255 Hey, Tom Waits does a great job as well.
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he's from Zee Upper Vest Side, no?
REALLY???? wow.
The entire staking scene is friggin' hilarious. They didn't tell Steven Webber HOW much blood they were going to spray. You can see him corpsing toward the end too.
The little tap he gives the second time and him raising his arms as if to say "Of course!"when EVEN MORE blood sprays makes me die laughing every time.
"She's ALMOST dead!"
"....SHE'S DEAD ENOUGH!" KILLS me.
After the credits, Dracula gets the last word.
that's the funniest scene in the movie, it's like the character is acknowledging the ridiculousness of the situation
That line was also ad-libbed - Weber was just sick of being soaked in the fake gore
You can also see him break a little at the "touch this" "Don't mind if I do- AH!" moment
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"-But Lucy, I'm British...
-But so are these!"
:D
The movie doesn't get enough love. Used to watch the crap out of it when I was a kid.
a lot of cult classics don't get the love they deserve at first!
remember anchorman?!
"Wrong my brains out!" Still one of my favorite lines. 🤣
Leslie Nielson was not a comedy actor. He was a SUPER serious actor, which is why his appearances in comedy films is extra hilarious.
Emily's laughter is _infectious._ I swear, the world is always a little _brighter_ after I've watched one of your videos.
Especially her laugh after Renfield says “why” after falling down the stairs.
Funny that you mentioned Cary Elwes. He was in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" directed by Francis Ford Coppola, from which this movie took a lot of its inspiration, such as Dracula's crazy hair and the weird shadows. A relatively minor role, though. Dracula was played by Gary Oldman.
This movie is SO much better if you've seen Bram Stoker's first!!!
@@wardenm - The specific *plot* was more like the original with Bela Lugosi, though, such as Renfield, not Jonathan Harker, being the one who initially travelled to Dracula's Castle in Transylvania.
@@Yngvarfo I was gonna say, the Mel Brooks version was using cues from Bela Legosi’s more than Coppola’s; the Wig was just a new thing at the time, and to this day, Mel Brooks is still mocking that hairstyle: th-cam.com/video/DIpSHoi3D1I/w-d-xo.html
You mentioned a lot of people from Robin Hood Men in Tights in this movie, another was David Deluise who was a random merry man and in this played one of the medical students.
If you only recognize Renfield from Ghostbusters 2, then you have to see Addams Family Values! Classic dark comedy.
He was also in big TV shows for the best part of a decade - Chicago Hope & Ally McBeal(which I didn't like personally, but it was very popular)
@@DoubleMonoLR YES TOO ALL
He was also in Numb3rs and I think 24
This movie had my whole family saying “RHAZBURRIES!?” for a month.
This was Mel Brooks last film as a director as the movie bombed at the box office and with critics, but became a cult classic.
It's certainly not one of his best movies, but it's still competently made and very funny.
Just compare this movie to one of the early/mid 2000s parodies or even contemporary comedies and then tell me that it's badly written ^^
@@arsenelupin9697 Paws of Fury wasn’t the best either, but I do like it for being a retold version of Blazing Saddles. I hear Cowboy Movies are just Samurai stories, westernized to make Cowboys cooler, despite already being cool with Rodeos.
Who wouldn’t love this film???
Given this film came out in the 90's when you had Jim Carry and Chris Farrell killing at the box office and before that you had Eddie Murphy doing the same thing I can see why if you weren't a fan of Brooks or of the Dracula movies you wouldn't appreciate this film like audiences did on release. But by far this is probably my favorite Brooks film because of all those elements.
Boy, did the crowd REALLY miss out with this gem! And what do the critics know about funny? The same folks also liked "The Last Jedi".
Amy Yasbeck, who plays Mina, is a favorite of mine. She's gorgeous, but also effortlessly funny. Loved her as Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Men in Tights!
"Mina, you are in the closet" is the one line from this movie that breaks me every single time. I must've watched this movie a hundred times but that one line never fails.
Please watch “Down Periscope”. It’s a great underrated comedy.
The line, "I didn't know you had your hand in that," about Van Helsing being an expert on gynaecology was improvised by Harvey Korman.
9:26 I think that's the student who tried to challenge Dr. Frankenstien at the start of _Young Frankenstien._
something that I just remembered (took a re-watching) a direct copy (with a bit of humor built in) - the autopsy scene with Mel and the students all passing out until none were left standing... if you ever watch the opening of the old TV Series "Quincy, M.E." starring Jack Klugman, it opened the same way.
This is my favorite Mel Brooks film and one of my favorite comedies! I'm so happy you are watching this! When I was a kid, I got sick from the heat on Fourth of July, and I watched this movie as I rested up, and it'll always have a place in my heart.
Before Airplane, Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor. They chose him for that role because they wanted someone who who could act the most absurd situations with a straight face. That worked well also in Naked Gun.
Of the end discussion: actually Cary Elwes was already in Dracula - in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), that is!
I like all kinds of movies, and I like watching you react to all kinds of movie, but watching you react to comedies is something special. Emily's giggle is the cutest thing, and seeing Matthew struggle not to laugh too soon when he knows a joke is coming is hilarious.
Unless I’m wrong I believe some of the actresses were from Mel Brooks Men in Tights. I believe one was Maid Marian and the other is her helper Broomhilda
FUN FACT: The actress who plays Mina (who also played Maid Marianne in Robin Hood: Man in Tights) admits her scream is not really her scream. In fact, she said Mo Brooks was pissed at her because she could not give a high pitch scream. As a result, they had to cast someone else to do her screams and she would lipsync them on set.
This movie is hilarious! It's definitely grown on me. I remember not being that excited about it first time I saw it, but seeing it again I don't know what I was on about. Another Leslie Nielsen classic! You should have seen Bram Stoker's Dracula before this to understand some of the jokes.
The "schedule" joke is just about my favorite one in the movie. Perfectly timed
I've loved Harvey Korman since his days on "The Carol Burnett Show." His perform here as Dr Seward reminds me a lot of his parody of Nigel Bruce's Dr. Watson from the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies in a comedy sketch with Anthony Newley as Holmes.
Harvey Korman and Tim Conway in the dentist sketch is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
@@wackyvorlon Yes!
You should've done that straight after "Bram Stokers Dracula"...
20:25 "Why!"
I'm dead
21:03 BATlethes foot. BAT. Missed opportunity!
Definitely the most criminally underrated film in Mel's filmography, and Peter MacNicol's dead-on Dwight Frye steals the whole movie.
9:20 Annoying Student is Barney from Raising Hope. AND a bunch of other stuff but in my heart Raising Hope is #1
I don't know if you have watched Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, you should, this movie is in many ways a spoof of that specific movie, including the accent 😂 I bet you will not be able to restrain your laugh even though it's a serious movie 😺
I remember renting this movie when I was like 10. Good times. I recommend watching "Spy Hard" at some point if you guys haven't already.
Also Wrongfully Accused!
@@andreduarte8372 Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. I'd recommend that too. Good spoof of The Fugitive.
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Those candleholders are a reference to the cheap set design of Hammer Horror movies. They were trying to save so much budget that the candleholder looking exactly like the one in the middle of the frame appeared from their first Dracula movie through almost every gothic horror movie they made. Even when they got bigger budgets, spent more money on sets, they still reused the same candleholders again and again.
If you didn't watch til the end of the end credits. Dracula won the last word war.
The giggly reaction after renfield fell down the stairs had me in stitches.
I swear I was never as proud as when she called out the gag. It mostly fly over peoples head the first time watching….
The first time I saw this I felt like Emily, but watching it again years later it was like seeing it for the first time again except I thought it was absolutely hilarious and has since become one of my favorite films in the Melverse.
Keeping watching Mel Brooks movies. High Anxiety, a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock movies, stars Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, and Madeline Kahn.
That movie is fucking hilarious
So happy to see this is getting viewed. One of my favorites. Been asking for this since you watched Top Secret.
I absolutely loved this movie as a kid and may have watched it enough to destroy 3 VHS copies of it
The gargle throated village lady is the Oscar winning actress...Anne Bancroft....Mrs. Mel Brooks
Love this film, love the famous cameo's/ main roles, the doctor who was obsessed with enemas was doctor Watson in the original black and white Sherlock Holmes series, and the emeeeerrrgency nurse is Billy crystals daughter if I remember right ☺️
Love this movie! Y'all should check out Miami Connection, that movie is right up your alley. It's like the best bad 80s movie ever.
That was terrible. Definitely one of the worst B movies of all time.
@@taoist32 I'd say it's a movie that everybody should own, I could watch it every day and not get tired of it "at awrr"
5:44 "And _stop_ that."
😆😆😆 Looks like the _Count_ is not a big fan of floatie movements _either._
when they shot the stake scene, Mel Brooks didn't tell Steven Weber how much blood there was going to be. so his reaction of surprise is real.
This is the favorite movie for one of my best friends. She still does the "Yes master" part from Renfield to this day. 😂
This was a movie where Mel Brooks was split between presenting a good Dracula movie and a satirical Dracula movie. In the end, the satirical portions became the stronger of the two. I would have loved for him to have forgo the former and concentrated on the latter. Still, it's an entertaining movie.
If you loved this one, you should check out Love at first Bite.
A story of how Dracula had to relocate to New York city after being evicted from his castle. So hilarious 😅😊. Love your show. 💗
One of my picks for a vampire comedy would go to 'Vampire's Kiss' - can't go wrong with Nic Cage in over-the-top mode.
And of course "What we do in the shadows", but that pretty much goes without saying.
I hadn't realized before that Lucy(Amy Yasbeck) was also from the sitcom 'Wings', along with Jonathan(Steven Weber) who I always recognized from the show.
"I don't like floaty movement, it creeps me out."
So it did what it was supposed to do, perfectly. :D
Man, I usually love anything Mel Brooks, but I think Kelsey Grammer would have been an improvement; he does pompous "over-the-top" sooooo well!
"She vil become won HERSEEEEEELF!!!" 🤣🤣🤣
Love the over the top british voices
You should do *Love At First Bite* starring George Hamilton as well. 😂
Love that movie. "You are getting sleeeepy. No, YOU are!...no, you are!"
@@MrAitraining "Oh yeah? What do you say to this, Count!!?" * pulls out a star of David * "I say.. you should leave Miss Suzie alone and find a nice Jewish girl." "What? Oh, wrong one again?" :D
Omg this is my favorite movie of all times always has been always will be I don’t understand how anyone can’t like it
This reminds me of another spoof vampire movie.
Love at First Bite (1979)
Starring:
George Hamilton
Richard Benjamin (also known for comedy satire movies like Saturday the 14th)
Susan Saint James
and
Arte Johnson
Love that film always a good time watching that one.
This was a favorite of mine as a kid and one of my first introductions to vampires. Even though it’s a comedy I was still terrified of Dracula lol
I haven't even watched it yet, but I both know her reactions and his knowing looks, and I'm loving it already :)
i love the respect for the things mell brooks has while still making fun of the thing
Hi new to your channel, and it's been awhile since you have reacted to a mel brooks movie. But Amy is suggest the movie High Anxiety by mel brooks
"I went to the Dr. and all he did was suck blood from my neck. Do not see Dr. Acula"
-Mitch Hedberg
@justSUMMreactions I just finished reading Mel Brooks's book All About Me. And he wrote that the staking scene was actually filmed about 5 different times with increasing levels of blood every time. At the end of every take, the entire set had to be washed down and Steven Weber had to shower off and be redressed. And the last take with the most blood was what they used.
I NEVER knew the lady from this movie was the princess in Krull. She looks so different.
Has Emily seen “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” directed by Francis Ford Copolla? A lot of the jokes in this are based on that version of Dracula
20:32 I see the hand at the left hand corner.
To this day it boggles my mind that Mel Brooks landed Anne Bancroft. Her cameo at the start of this movie is just priceless.
It probably wasn't hard, as the two of them were married. Their son, Max, wrote the novel World War Z.
@@tdogg46142 Of course. What I meant was that it amazes me that Mel landed Anne as his wife. One of the great Hollywood marriages TBH :)
Leslie Nielsen's invisible stunt double is so talented
will scarlett, aka the voice of alan wake, aka casper darling from control.
Your few past video have been of movies I either didn’t like or haven’t seen, and that’s a “me” problem, not a “you” problem. But then you release this one! Oh joy!!! I absolutely ADORE that movie!
Much appreciated. For whatever reason, this has always been my favorite Mel Brooks film
Damn, I wanted to see your reactions to all the enema lines. That whole scene with Renfield and Seward is my favorite part of the movie
I wasn't thinking Hammer films pushing color; I was thinking the Frances Ford Coppola parodying.
"But I'm British!"
"So are these."
You guys should Watch 'The Party' staring Peter Sellers, He is the same actor as the original Pink Panther. Great slap stick and a classic
You guys should watch Vampire in Brooklyn. It's an underrated Eddie Murphy movie. You would love it!
Now you two need to check out Spy Hard & Wrongfully Accused 2 spoofs of James Bond & The Fugitive .
#title -- Matthew: Certified Film Fanatic --- Emily: Video Vixen .. ;)
well, if you liked the accent, I believe you'd definitely like all of Peter Sellers in "The Pink Panther" series :D
Finally! This movie is hilarious and a well done version of Bram Stroker's. I can't even call it a satire.
I love Peter MacNicol in D:DALI! He is the best inept henchman ever! 🤣🤣🤣
SO many opportunities to say "Tiddies!" missed. How sad.
Fun reaction anyways.
"Johnny, where in the hell are you from, anyway?"
"Upper west side?"
Always love that gb2 gag
Oh, but I woo'd!
I love the "last word" bit that kept going on. 8 out of 10.
My favourite in this was the reference to "Yes we have no bananas! We have no bananas today!
The gypsy woman who gives Renfield the cross is Mel Brook's wife, Oscar winning dramatic actress Ann Bancroft. They are hysterical together in To Be or Not to Be, Mel's most underrated film.
Wasn't Carey Elwes in Coppola's Dracula?
Yes he was playing the dashing Auther Homword
First thing I saw Peter McNichol in was Dragonslayer. Great movie. He was also a regular on Ally McBeal (in Ally McBeal? No, that sounds worse).
On is absolute the better choice yes.
Very underrated movie! We hungarians loving it!! (By the way the OG Dracula was played by a famous hungarian actor Bela Lugosi!!)
now that you've watched the end of Leslie Nielsen's career you should see a young Nielsen in "Forbidden Planet".
And also Leslie Nielsen fighting a grizzly bear in Day of the Animals (1977). 😊
The Bat-Neilsen : I don`t know which came first, but I`ve seen that done in animated vampire stories for kids. So, either they copied the idea from this film or Mel decided to incorporate an animation trait, into a live-action version. Either way it was very funny & I appreciated it more because of that.
Lysette Anthony was also quite good in Without a Clue (1988) starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley.
That is another of my absolute favorites. I didn't even realize it existed, but it just happened to catch my eye, when I noticed on the shelf of the video rental store, in the bargain section. I'm surprised it didn't do better, but maybe it was a bit too much of a cerebral comedy - at least at first. It's still very highly recommended as a watch.
@@jeremygeorgia4943 Agreed, I love the sense of humour, and of course Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley are superb. Michael (at least when he is on form) is a brilliant comic actor, I loved him in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' too.
Peter MacNicol (Renfield) was also in 1981’s Dragonslayer.
Also, I can’t believe that nobody brought up the Romani woman who did the warbling thing with her throat, as she was Mel Brooks’s wife and Academy Award-winning actress Anne Bancroft.
Amy Yasbeck is one of my favorites. Got a weakness for red hair and she's hilarious.
Emily's t-shirt is just perfect . I want one too in my Room. 😅
There was one credits-gag you missed out on - at the tail end, Dracula's heard getting the last word in!
Any scene with Renfield is hilarious.
Love this movie can't wait to see your reaction
not sure if you guys recognize Peter MacNichol as the "gay" lawyer from the show Ally McBeal ....
It's funny you guys mentioned Carrie Elwes as Dracula because he is actually in Bram Stroker's Dracula