#based Lugosi

[romanceyourdemons]

love how mcr and bauhaus are widely considered the beatles of emo and goth, but both bands are like NO we do NOT make that kind of music what we are doing is something DIFFERENT

[vero-niche]

yet another example of "please google the names of your ocs in case they mean something else in another language". this dude stepped out all confident and declared his name to be pussy (in hungarian)

[oct0whyllow]

Art 🤑🤑🤑🤑

[luckylunatix]

Stupid ass MySims headcanon I thought of:

Goth Boy speaks in a Peter Lorre impression and no one knows if it's supposed to be a bit or not. If it is, he's extremely committed and he's not certainly not gonna tell anyone he's faking it. If it isn't and that's just how he sounds naturally, no one knows why he sounds like that. Either way it helps him sound ~dreary and macabre~.

[atropalugosi]

iunno if any of my moots are fortnite players, but if y'all are, can at least one of you agree with me that next season looks completely uninteresting outside of captain america jonesy and hope's adorable new outfit lmao

[thebrideofreanimator]

shoutout to the halloween ad that plays on tcm between movies i be smiling so much every time it comes on

[celluloidchronicles]

Son of Frankenstein

🇺🇸 | Jan 13, 1939

directed by Rowland V. Lee

screenplay by Wyllis Cooper

novel by Mary Shelley

produced by Universal Pictures

starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson

1h39 | Horror, Science Fiction

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[dracula-but-slay]

Ritual Prep

FINALLY, I AM FREE. After 6/7 months, please enjoy this Terzo piece based off of a photo of Bela Lugosi 😋 (because I believe Lugosi was a reference for Terzo’s face mold)

[ichaserabbits]

Getting hot on and off here already so I bought Bela Lugosi a cooling bed and she won't get off it lol

[blackbirdswillsing]

On Gothic

a cute helpful guide on the gothic subculture that no one asked for <3

goth music springing from the late 1970s after the post punk movement was a subculture heavily inspired by the themes found in victorian gothic literature

gothic literature:

frankenstein - mary shelley

dracula - bram stoker

jekyll and hyde - robert stevenson

wuthering heights - emily bronte

rebecca - daphne du maurier

edgar allen poe <3

some keywords that come from gothic literature that can help you spot a goth song:

'dark' 'death' 'black' 'cold' 'heaven' 'hell' 'witches 'bats' 'night' 'roses' 'blood' 'church' 'forest' 'jesus' 'grey' 'horror' 'shadow' 'sacrifice' 'tears' 'ghost' 'spells' 'cry' 'love' 'haunted' 'funeral' 'cathedral'

Some other themes in a song that can help you to decide if it goth or not can be:

heavy bass

synth sounds (the song sounds like it was recorded in an empty church)

mysterious and whimsical vocals

deep vocals

lack of a (electric) guitar

The 1980's and 90's were the peak for the gothic subculture, especially in camden market, london, england

Some bands that were prominent at the time were...

Bauhaus

The Cure

Sisters of Mercy

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Christian Death

Clan of Xymox

The Cramps

Depeche Mode

New Order

Joy Division

Alien Sex Fiend

Fields of the Nephilim

Killing Joke

The Damned

Nick Cave

Softcell

Some other goth band recs:

Boy Harsher

Children on Stun

Earth Calling Angela

Molchat Doma

Forever Grey

Horror Vacui

Lebanon Hanover

London After Midnight

Male Tears

The March Violets

The Merry Thoughts

Paradise Lost

Paralysed Age

Plastique Noir

Rendez Vous

Rosetta Stone

Selofan

She Wants Revenge

Skinny Puppy

Specimen

This Cold Night

Tragic Black

Traitrs

Type O Negative

Twin Tribes

ULTRA SUNN

Xmal Deutschland

Your Funeral

The 69 Eyes

Please let me know which ones i've missed because these are just ones that I have taken from my own playlist!

The music is the number one most important part of goth subculture and you don't have to dress goth to be goth... but it sure is fun to do so! Goth fashion holds its roots in thrifting, upcycling and sustainable fashion (buying 'goth' clothes from shein, dollskill and killstar is a big no no).

Anyone can style their gothic outfits however they like but here are some examples of different styles:

Trad(itional) Goth:

Romantic Goth:

Victorian Goth:

The styles can get very similar so let me know if i’ve mixed any up!

I’ve reached the limit on the number of pictures i can add so here are some more examples of goth styles:

Corporate goth

Gothabilly

Mall Goth

Cyber Goth

J-Goth

Baby Bat

Mopey Goth

Vampire Goth

Steam punk

To end the post i'm circling back to gothic literature by listing some films too (which are often based on the books)

Everyone's beloved: Bela Lugosi in the first adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1931

The Crow 1994 which comes with a song from The Cure

Interview with the Vampire 1994

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975

Edward Scissor Hands 1990

The Addams family 1991 (if he's not like gomez then i don't want him)

The Craft 1996

That's all I have for now and if you made it this far thank you so much for reading and have a nice day <3

current goth song on repeat:

[ihave3verything]

No you need to understand Terzo’s face without his papal paints/makeup is so handsome, he’s got features that are so unique, just like Secondo’s and Copia’s (pre and after his face surgery). Besides his face being based of as Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Terzo is darkly handsome, very brooding and menacing, but also so soft and looks like he has a contagious smile when he does. It’s not some stereotypical attractive guy looking face you may confuse with any other guy’s — you can instantly recognize him and remember him.

Anyways here’s my Ted talk where I

[metalshootingstar]

Ok but I have to know, if Van Helsing exists in WWDITS...does Dracula also exist? If so, I am fascinated by the concept of Dracula in the show because. Assuming, that they go for the more historical shoutout instead of just the Bela Lugosi expy route. My mans Dracula, if he is based on the more historical Vlad Tepes fought against the Ottomans....of which we know Nandor fought for.

So does this mean Nandor at one point fought Dracula? Was my mans Dracula the one who turned Nandor? Also think of what this means for Guillermo, since his family is descended from Van Helsing. Aka Dracula's mortal enemy. Like, you're telling me my mans Dracula wouldn't have some thoughts about the descendant of his mortal enemy being with the vampire he sired? Assuming he's the one who sired Nandor

Though it would also be hella funny if he just...didn't give a shit, or better yet if he didn't even remember Nandor.

Nandor: You turned me into a vampire! Dracula:....Do you know how little that narrows it down? I turn people into vampires every other week.

But also, Dracula fucking with Nandor and actually trying to seduce Guillermo in front of him.

[retrotariotr]

White Zombie is a 1932 pre-Code horror film independently produced by Edward Halperin and directed by Victor Halperin. The screenplay by Garnett Weston, based on The Magic Island by William Seabrook, is about a young woman's transformation into a zombie at the hands of an evil voodoo master. Bela Lugosi stars as the zombie master "Murder" Legendre, with Madge Bellamy appearing as his victim. Other cast members include Joseph Cawthorn, Robert W. Frazer, John Harron, Brandon Hurst, and George Burr MacAnnan.

[faustiandevil]

More marker drawings and it’s time for the Gruesome Twosome.

So in Wacky Races Lil’ and Big Gruesome are more or less expys of Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff respectively, with a bit of Béla Lugosi thrown into the mix with Lil’, so I just built more upon that in the Prohibition AU. Big Gruesome or Károly Groszmann (Károly as that was the closest name I could come up that was similar to Karloff, and fyi if you say that y at the end as an i you are saying it wrong, honey) is looking more like a Frankenstein’s monster, the drawing was also based on T. Wyatt Nelson’s of Karloff as the monster, because I really liked the hair. Lil’ Gruesome or Béla Groszmann was drawn based on an old photo of my very real papa in his military uniform, only Lil’ was part of the flamethrower unit in WWI. I’m still deciding on his rank and proper backstory.

And lastly the colored drawings is a very layered joke that combines the monsters from the cereal commercials and that one gag from Wacky Races ep two where the Gruesome brothers are the only one unimpressed by ghosts. I also did a last minute decision to add a scar to Károly’s cheek as a nod to another Gruesome Twosome from Arsenic.

If you’d like to see not Lorre and Karloff be fucked up criminal brothers then maybe consider reading my fic~ //twirls hair//

[soapkaars]

When @quanatural made a series of drawings reinventing Peter Lorre's, Boris Karloff's, and Bela Lugosi's characters from You'll Find Out as an inept vampire and his bumbling servants, it took over my thoughts and I couldn’t help but make these doodles where I played with the concept further.

If you never saw Blood for Dracula, you should, because that is one of the funniest and best portrayals of Dracula as a completely pathetic loser vampire, and I based professor Fenninger/Vampire vomiting in the toilet on one particular scene in the film (my absolute favourite scene)

Here's the original post that inspired me:

[tyrantisterror]

You've stated that you’ve found every Dracula adaptation EXCEPT Netflix’s Castlevania to a pale imitation of Bram Stoker’s original novel. Why then do you have a soft spot for Legosi’s Dracula? Are there any other unfaithful adaptations of Dracula you feel particularly affectionate towards?

...I don't think that's quite what I've stated, actually. While I think almost every adaptation of Dracula I've seen/listened to/read has altered and cut a lot of the things I love about the book they're supposedly based on, often to the point of being unrecgonizable, I don't think that means they have no merit as stories of their own. Like, an adaptation can be unfaithful to the source material and still be a good story in its own right. And you can be disappointed that an adaptation took so many divergences from the source material while still liking the end product.

I have affection for the vast majority of Dracula adaptations I've seen. The Hammer Dracula movies are some of my favorites - they're really what people are adapting when they turn Van Helsing into Dracula's nemesis, and Peter Cushing's take on Van Helsing is, while not quite true to his literary counterpart, absolutely iconic. He's like the Sherlock Holmes or MacGuyver of vampire slaying, constantly improvising new methods of fending off and fighting vampires.

Or, like, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, which is one of the first and absolute best horror comedies ever made, and marked the only time Bela Lugosi returned to play Dracula. It has almost nothing in common with the book by Bram Stoker, taking just the concept of Count Dracula and inserting him into this farce where he tries to make the Frankenstein monster his minion by giving it Lou Costello's brain. Not a "faithful" adaptation, but the world would be worse without it.

Almost every adaptation of Dracula takes every character from the book who isn't named "Dracula" or "Van Helsing" and either drains them of personality so they're no longer recognizable, or cuts them altogether, and I will always find that disappointing as a fan of the book. But those adaptations often have other things going on that compensate for it and make them good or at least interesting stories in their own right. Do I wish more adaptations were faithful to the book? Yeah, because the characters in the book are excellent and deserve to be known just as well as the Count himself. But that doesn't mean the adaptations that gut them don't have their own charms.