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My review of Asylum's Monster Mash: How Asylum managed to do what Univeral Studios Dark Universe could not
Last night I watched the new Asylum mockbuster, Monster Mash. What is Asylum? And What is a Mockbuster? A Mockbuster is a low budget knock-off movie of a film that is either already a blcokbuster hit or anticipated to be a hit. When Pacific Rim came out Asylum released a Mockbuster called Atlantic Rim. When Dracula 2000 came out, Dracula 3000 aired on The Scifi Channel. When Morbius came out, Asylum made Dracula: The Original Living Vampire. Sometimes the connection to the blockbuster they were "inspired by" is very slim. Asylum was founded twenty-five-years-ago to make mockbusters of high budget, blockbuster, and mainstream scifi and horror films. A lot of Asylum's creations have been released on Syfy (Formerly the Scifi Channel) as Syfy original movies. Most Asylum movies are either made-for-TV or direct to DVD / Blu Ray / Streaming. One season of the Netflix incarnation of Mystery Science Theatre were all Asylum mockbusters. This year there was a highly anticipated vampire movie called Abigail. The plot was about the daughter of a crime boss (heavily implied to be Dracula all along). The daughter gets kidnapped and it turns out her kidnappers are actually her intended victims. So Asylum released their own Mockbuster called Monster Mash and managed to release it two weeks before Abigail came out.
And what a treat this Monster Mash was! It was so delightfully corny! So wonderfully bad. I actually loved it. This was a so-bad-it's-good movie. There are other films called Monster Mash, including a semi-Juke Box musical. This is the only one from 2024. I think I liked Asylum's Monster Mash more than the 2012 Dario Argento's Dracula, which until now, was my favorite campy, bad Dracula movie. My nickname for Dario Argento's Dracula is Mantis Drac because Dracula transforms into a giant female preying Mantis at one point with very low quality CG effects. In Monster Mash, Dracula's daughter is kidnapped by Boris (A rather simple minded but sweet hearted Frankenstein monster) serving the evil Dr. Frankenstein, who wants to use Dracula's daughter as bait to lure out Dracula. Dr. Frankenstein is dying and wants to transfer his consciousness to a new monster, an utterly indestructible monster- supposedly. Dr. Frankenstein wants to use the parts of all the classic monsters including blood from Dracula, skin from The invisible Man, the heart of Rameses The Mummy, and the limbs of an immortal werewolf. Werewolves in traditional folklore, and the original Universal monster movies actually were immortal except when it came to silver.
The movie has minimum gore and suspense (except perhaps where Dracula almost kills his daughter's slave girl). It's tame enough where I think it could work for a child's first introduction to the classic monsters in a horror setting. (You know, outside of cartoons like Hotel Transylvania). I liked it a lot. For an Asylum film there was limited low-quality CG except once Dr. Frankenstein's creation came to life. That's when Asylum brought it its trademark low quality SFX.
The movie was not just a mockbuster of Abigail. It also felt like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but with the classic monsters. There were aspects that reminded me of House of Frankenstein. Dracula's daughter even had wanted a cure for her vampiric condition, like in the Universal monster movie, Dracula's daughter. There are a lot of nice, subtle, homages to classic monster movies. You realize pretty fast that the classic monsters are the heroes of the story (even though Dracula does occasionally snack on a hapless damsel). And I found myself delighted through the corny cheese. THIS is what Universal studios should have give us with their promised Dark Universe. THIS was a classic monsters version of Avengers and with the campy cheese of an asylum mockbuster it was actually fun. It was charming. I usually have difficulty sitting through an Asylum mockbister, let alone want to watch it again. This one I would happily watch again. It was fun. It was cheesy, good, fun. I liked it. I liked it a lot. Honestly, the actor who played Dracula was so much fun in this, Asylum doesn't deserve him. He deserves to be in something better but man, he made the movie. It was the sort of corny movie you might imagine Peter Vincent from the 1985 Fright Night starring in. Much like a classic Hammer Horror movie you can't quite tell what country it's set in or even what time period. There's almost a fairytale-like quality to it. An agelessness that is nostalgic and also refreshing.
This is, hands down, my favorite Asylum Mockbuster. Honestly, I loved it. If I had kids I'd have probably used it as their first horror film exposure to the classic movie monsters, not too scary, yet also well paced and the characters are likable. It was cheesy, corny, fun. I want to see more monster movies like this. THIS is the sort of film Universal Studios Dark Universe should have produced for us. Somehow Asylum managed to give us what Universal should have. It's rare that I say something like this but Universal Studios take note. The low budget mockbuster did what you wanted to but could not. I liked this so much I want Asylum to make a whole franchise out of it or even a TV series. I'd watch the Hell out of Dracula and his team of monsters trying to be the heroes. This was some damn good brain candy. My harshest complaints are that I prefer articulate and intelligent Frankenstein monsters like in Mary Shelley's novel but as this creature was named Boris he's obviously a homage to the zeitgeist Universal Studios tropey idea of the Frankenstein Monster. Also there's an odd moment where Dracula's daughter (named Elisabeta as a nod to the Bram Stoker's Dracula movie) comments about how she can read minds (with the aid of psychometry) but Dracula cannot read minds. I find this particularly odd since psychic abilities are some of his more common powers, even in films where they forget his ability to turn into Bat, wolf, and mist. Other than these petty details I loved this movie. It was very bad but very fun, a deliciously cheesy monster movie.
#Monster Mash#Asylum#Asylum films#Asylum pictures#Asylum movies#Asylum 2024#Dracula#Frankenstein#The Invisible Man#Griffin#The Mummy
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Mom, can we have Transformers?
No, we have Transformers at home.
Transformers at home:
#there was never a third one#*sad vudder noises*#asylum movies#transmorphers#transformers#maccadam#satire#humor#comedy#haha#lol#funny#memes
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THIRTEEN HORROR FILMS THAT SCARED TF OUT OF ME
#horroredit#userhorroredits#filmedit#filmgifs#tag game#tagging game#kane52630#userksusha#userrobin#userlera#useremory#gifs#the strangers#grave encounters#28 days later#hell house llc#[rec]#paranormal activity#signs#the ring#skinamarink#the taking of deborah logan#lake mungo#gonjiam haunted asylum#dawn of the dead#movie
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horror sub-genres: found footage
#sorry if i missed some#found footage#horror#horror movies#the blair witch project#rec#paranormal activity#lake mungo#cloverfield#gonjiam haunted asylum#as above so below#creep#hell house llc#noroi the curse#one cut of the dead#the taking of deborah logon#troll hunter#behind the mask: the rise of leslie vernon#what we do in the shadows#ghostwatch#all hallow's eve#the last exorcism#deadstream#host#the poughkeepsie tapes#afflicted#dabbe the posessesion#the medium#incantation#the bay
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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
#the cabin in the woods#horror movies#horror fans#movie night#scary movies#horror#scary#horror aesthetic#cult classic#haunted hospitals#asylum#nightmare nurse#creepy#psych ward#surgical#surgery#surgeon#cw blood#horror films
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I’m stuck in a loop of David tennant, horror movies, and metal bands
#takin over the asylum#horror movies#memes#david tennant#doctor who#tenth doctor#fright night#my posts#good omens#crowley#campbell bain#tennant verse
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Horror movies from around the world:
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#horror#horror movies#horror movie#movie#movies#gifs#gif#horror gifs#horror gif#my gif post#my gif#my gifs#horroredit#horror edit#gifset#South Korean horror movies#train to busan#thirst 2009#gonjiam: haunted asylum#the wailing#the host 2006#a tale of two sisters#the wailing 2016#call 2020#hashtag alive#the quiet family#I saw the devil 2009#i saw the devil#flashing gif#my gif pack
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#lizzy grant#girl interrupted#girlblogging#manic pixie dream girl#hell is a teenage girl#aesthetic#gaslight gatekeep girlboss#lana is god#just girly things#girl interupted syndrome#female rage#i’m just a girl#female manipulator#cinnamon girl#pretty when you cry#female hysteria#tumblr girls#this is a girlblog#girlhood#this is what makes us girls#girl blogger#im going insane#insane asylum#literature#movies#lobotomy chic#girlrotting#sadgirl#bed rotting#coquette
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#EDIT: i forgot fear street?! shaaame. shaaame.#midnight mass remains one of the best pieces of horror media I've ever consumed hands down#grotesquerie isn't even that great most of the time#but i'm eating up the priest guy and sister megan#grotesquerie#ahs asylum#midnight mass#the devil all the time#frailty movie#the witch#the vvitch#loustat#iwtv 2022#fear street trilogy
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David Tennant Roles Ranked By What Crime I Think They Got Arrested for
#david tennant#good omens#takin over the asylum#campbell bain#barty crouch jr#alec hardy#casanova#richard ii#casanova 2005#doctor who#davina#david tennant shows#david tennant movies#good omens crowley#crowley#kilgrave#will burton#the escape artist#nativity 2#there she goes#phileas fogg
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Asylum of Satan (1972)
#asylum of satan#carla borelli#1970s horror#1970s movies#1972#william girdler#occult shlock#horrorgifs#gif#my gifs
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type of vibe i bring to the function 😋
#horror#women of horror#horror icons#house of 1000 corpses#sheri moon zombie#jennifers body#baby firefly#megan fox#sister mary eunice#american horror story#american horror story asylum#ahs#ahs asylum#ginger snaps#katherine isabelle#rocky horror picture show#magenta rocky horror#dracula#bram stocker's dracula#draculas brides#amy dunne#gone girl#rosamund pike#horror movies#girl blogger#child’s play#bride of chucky#laura palmer#twin peaks#ahs 1984
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31 Days of Horror Marathon 2023 ↪ Day 26: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) dir. Jung Bum-shik
#gonjiam haunted asylum#31horror23#horroredit#userhorroredits#filmedit#filmgifs#doyouevenfilm#fyeahmovies#moviegifs#cinemapix#dailyflicks#userbrittany#userchristineb#userrobin#zombooyah#usergal#userkd#kane52630#gifs#movie
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horror sub-genres: anthology
#if there's one thats not included sorry#horror#horror sub-genres#horror movies#horroredit#moviesedit#filmedit#cinema#horror cinema#tales from the hood#three... extremes#creepshow#kwaidan#black sabbath#trilogy of terror#v/h/s#dead of night#cat's eye#body bags#trick 'r treat#from a whisper to a scream#deadtime stories#southbound#asylum#from beyond the grave#waxworks#tales of terror#dr terror's house of horrors#the mortuary collection#the house that dripped blood
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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
#the cabin in the woods#horror movies#horror fans#movie night#scary movies#horror#scary#horror aesthetic#cult classic#haunted hospitals#asylum#nightmare nurse#creepy#psych ward#horror films#monsters
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thinking about media thats Bad in an impressive way and realized. theres a spectrum here
#i love when things are unintentionally really bad. not even ironically im just in awe of it#troll 2 would also be in unintentional/genuine. asylum movies would be between self aware and unintentional/lazy#i think stuff like foodfight and garten of banban would be between lazy and genuine#most content farm slop would be in unintentional/lazy with some of it being a little further right#thinking about this too deeply because there is something wrong w me
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