Transylvania Twist
Transylvania Twist is a 1989 comedy film that parodies horror movies. Originally released by Concord Production Inc., this film is distributed on home video by MetroGoldwynMayer. In the film Angus Scrimm reprises his role of the Tall Man from the Phantasm movies, as a parody. The humor of the film is most often said to be in the style of Airplane, and Mel Brooks comedies. It occasionally breaks the Fourth wall rule with characters looking at the camera, and one even saying Im in the wrong movie. The films main theme has been released on a variety of albums, it and the entire soundtrack was released on CD and as a direct download in the year 2010, twentyone years after the movies initial release.
Dexter Ward Steve Altman enters a Death City location, and is greeted by two morticians, one of which is noted science fiction anthologist Forrest J. Ackerman in a cameo appearance, who is holding a copy of Famous Monsters of Filmland. Dexter is there for the funeral of his uncle, who is suffering from a medical condition and not actually dead. After helping his uncle out of the coffin and back to a library, Dexter is then sent by his uncle Ephram Jay Robinson to find and bring back The Book of Ulthar, a book of great power capable of unleashing terrible evil in the wrong hands librarian Ephram had mistakenly let someone check it out. Dexters search leads him to aspiring singing star Marissa Orlock Teri Copley, who is about to be informed of the death of her father Marinas Howard Morris, and her inheritance of Castle Orlock in Transylvania. Dexter goes with her to the castle.Victor Van Helsing Ace Mask, a professional vampire hunter, accompanies Marissa and Dexter to the castle as the executor of her fathers estate. Count Byron Orlock Robert Vaughn, and his three adopteddaughters who are also vampires are already at the castle. One of them is named Patricia Monique Gabrielle the seemingly helpless girl in the prologue. When viewing the will they find out that Marissa has been left the castle and the money, while Orlock was left luggage. As a tossup gift, they are left to find the book somewhere within the castle. Orlock is determined to find the book so that he can create an age of evil assisting him is the butler Stephan Angus Scrimm. ........
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