Not much to report from this year's spooky activities at SpaceSquid's Seventh and Final Halloweenapalooza; this time around I only watched one new film: Horror of Dracula (hey, it's new to me). It's a deeply odd beast, bizarrely re-worked from the Stoker original (Harker changes the most noticeably, going from prim solicitor to undercover vampire-hunter, who is engaged to Lucy rather than Mina, and is not so much the hero as a tasty aperitif), and not so much a driving narrative as a series of events which presumably happen in the right order.
There's not much to say about it, at least outside the context of a drunken afternoon's communal heckling. On the other hand, the trailer is fascinating, It's always interesting to see techniques you've invariably seen employed ironically being played at face value. I'm not sure what amuses me more, being warned that Dracula will hold me "IN A GRASP OF SHOCK!", or the stunningly chauvinistic introduction of the main characters.
Also, nice use of owls. More things in this world should involve owls.
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