Dracula 6 5000

[Carri Seargent]

Writtenand directed by Rudy De Luca, the film stars Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Joseph Bologna, and Geena Davis. Notable other cast include Michael Richards, Carol Kane, Teresa Ganzel, John Byner, and Jeffrey Jones. It is an American and Yugoslav co-production.

Jack Harrison (Jeff Goldblum) and Gil Turner (Ed Begley Jr.) are writers for The Sensation, a supermarket-grade tabloid run by Turner's father, Mac Turner (Norman Fell). Jack is a more serious journalist, using The Sensation as a stepping stone to a better career and aspires to work for Time magazine, while Gil is a gangling yes-man, ever ready to win his father's approval.

When Mac receives a homemade videotape of two panicked men running from a creature they believe to be Frankenstein's monster, along with a waist-down shot of the suspected monster, he dispatches his son and Jack to Transylvania to follow the lead. Jack tries unsuccessfully to beg off, but is told by Mac that if they both again come back with nothing, they are both fired. They have to bring a story that will bring a banner headline "Frankenstein Lives!"

Planes, trains and buses later, Jack and Gil arrive at their destination. Once off the bus, Jack immediately spots Elizabeth Ellison, a pretty female tourist (Teresa Ganzel) from New York City, whom he propositions. Gil immediately sets out on their assignment, just as quickly drawing hysterical ridicule when he tries to question a hotel desk clerk about the whereabouts of Frankenstein, who shares Gil's inquiries with the staff and patrons, including the mayor Lepescu (Jeffrey Jones).

Jack rescues Gil and pulls him out of the hotel to avoid further embarrassment. Both then take off for their hotel. Seeing them leave, a gypsy woman named Madame Morovia (Inge Appelt) orders her male companion to bring them to her.

Jack and Gil arrive at their hotel, which resembles a 17th-century castle, complete with a gated entrance, but adorned with an "Opening Soon!" banner and signs denoting the acceptance of credit cards. They are met at the gate by Fejos (Michael Richards), a butler with an odd sense of humor. They meet for brunch with Lepescu, where they also meet Radu (John Byner), his hunched-over manservant who addresses everyone as "master" and his wife Lupi (Carol Kane).

Both Gil and Jack learn that something is amiss about Transylvania, despite being laughed off by the locals, including Inspector Percek (Božidar Smiljanić), head of the local police. After meeting Morovia, who tells them they must continue their pursuit, they encounter a series of real-life horror creatures, including the Wolfman, Larry (Donald Gibb), a nymphomaniac vampire Odette (Geena Davis), and a swamp monster Twisto that grabs Gil by the crotch as he tries to escape a frightening face-to-face confrontation with the object of their mission himself.

They eventually learn of a Sicilian doctor, Victorio Malavaqua (Joseph Bologna), who lost his license to practice medicine. Finding out that Malavaqua has been giving care in a sanitorium, Gil tries to go there to make an appointment but is rebuffed by the guard. Gil eventually sneaks in and finds Percek and Malavaqua talking about the latter's "experiments", including one involving a patient, Kurt Hunyadi, that fits the description of the Frankenstein monster, which Malavaqua claimed had died. An exhumation of the body later proves otherwise.

Gil learns that Radu is in cahoots with Malavaqua, serving as his lab assistant. Malavaqua also displays a tendency towards madness when within the confines of his laboratory, but returns to normal when he leaves it. It is later revealed, as Gil and Jack go on a search for Elizabeth's missing daughter Laura, that not only has Malavaqua faked Hunyadi's death, but is also his creator, along with that of Odette, Larry, and Twisto. It is also revealed that Malavaqua has engaged in this type of bizarre work to clear his family's name.

The story ties together after Jack is attacked by the Wolfman. In an attempt to rescue Jack, Gil pulls him off Jack, only to be carted off by the Wolfman. The police arrive, but refuse to listen to Jack's story and order him put in the local police lockup. Elizabeth rescues him and learns that the entire police force is at the wine festival instead of searching for her missing daughter. Jack heads off to Malavaqua's lab and Elizabeth goes to the festival. As she is being hauled away by police after confronting Percek, the town is horrified as the monster returns in the flesh, carrying Laura in his arms. Perceived to be dead, it is later learned she was just sleeping.

Jack and Gil arrive, having confronted Malavaqua, and explain Malavaqua's actions to the townspeople, that Malavaqua was legitimately trying to create normal lives for those seen as outcasts or freaks by the townspeople, who now welcome them with open arms.

Finding out that the story is even bigger than what they bargained for, Gil takes enough pictures and both gather enough material to last weeks for the tabloid. They more than make up for their failures and Mac gets his banner headline.

The film was first announced in 1980 under Krofft International, but no progress occurred. Rudy De Luca, Arnie Fishman, and Paul Lichtman unsuccessfully tried to sell the film to New World Pictures for five years. The studio only expressed interest after producers Mace Neufeld and Thomas H. Brodek entered the project. New World Pictures secured financing for the film from the Dow Chemical Company, a company rarely associated with filmmaking. Yugoslav law at the time prevented the company from repatriating funds that it had accumulated in the Yugoslav dinar. To free these frozen funds, Dow decided to use them to invest in a film production inside the country.[1][2]

According to the DVD commentary from director Rudy De Luca, most of the film was shot on location in Yugoslavia, using local actors. Filming locations included Zagreb, Samobor, and Mokrice Castle.[1] De Luca also mentioned in the commentary that it was the tallest cast he had ever worked with, with Goldblum, Begley, Jones, Davis, Gibb, and Richards all standing over six feet tall.

It received mainly negative reviews from critics. The film holds a score of 18% based on 11 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10, on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.[5] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 10 out of 100 based on four reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike".[6]

Entertainment Tonight critic Leonard Maltin gave a notable one-word review of the film. His review began with him swaying along with the Glenn Miller recording; at the point in the song where the words "Pennsylvania 6-5000" are uttered, Maltin spoke the title of the film, followed by the word "stinks." In a later interview with Film Threat magazine, Maltin stated he felt his review was complete and also categorized it as one of the reviews he was most proud of and most remembered for.[7]

Vlad Tepes is the Progenitor of Vampires before during and the current Vampire King. A monster of flesh and blood over 5000 years old. He is said to be on the same level as Volk Fenrir, the King of Werewolves in his base form. He's one of the most powerful creatures in Earth.

Vlad has no need for shape or form, he usually appears as a being entirely made up of darkness. However, with his ability, he can appear as a thirty year old man salary man, roughly 210 cm tall, with pale skin, black hair slicked back. Or a medieval king wearing medieval black armor, and even a holy warrior with blond hair and green eyes.

In his true form, Vlad has a pair of large wings made of blood, slightly grey skin, eyes with black sclerae and glowing crimson irises, slightly pointy ears and a mouth entirely made of sharp teeth with no lips. His hands were made of sharp monstrous claws as were his feet. He has patterns of black tattoos wandering across his body as if they were alive.

Vlad is often seen as strict and stoic by his people, someone who does not tolerate failure. In truth, Vlad hates nothing more than weak people, he expects his children to grow stronger to surpass him someday so he could pass them his throne. However to his disappointment, none of them is worthy enough. Vlad even refuses to acknowledge his grandchildren as his family and pretends they don't exist.

He fails to see, however, that the cause of his children's inferiority is his overly doting attitude. He spoils all his children too much, that whenever a problem occurs they start to depend to fix their problems.

Vlad is vampire born, the Progenitor of the entire vampire race. He is a 5000+ years old monster of flesh and blood. He is Progenitor of Vlad Vampire Sireline, which is majority of the Vampires who exist.

Vlad Tepes the Progenitor is not the Original Vlad who holds The Impaler Title. The original Vlad was consumed by the "Progenitor of Vampires" before the story even started. Vlad the Progenitor put the Value of Original Vlad in the higher side so he had more characteristics of Vlad. It is same as how Victor and Adonis were same and at the same time they aren't same. It was same for Original Mortal Vlad and the Progenitor who had many forms but also was 'formless' at the same time.[6]

For the sake of making Ophis, her youngest daughter, stay away from Victor Elderblood, he made Victor to become a Count and allowed him to be able marry other Countesses. All for the sake of dumping new problems for his new 'friend' to handle.

Unfortunately Victor Elderblood unknowingly planted a seed of distrust on Vlad's heart towards his wives, and now Vlad thinks some of his wives may have betrayed him since he hadn't given them his blood for 1500+ years.

Vlad has decided to marry again and this time its the direct descendant of a bloodline from another Progenitor that's been lost for thousands of years. [7] This marriage is strictly political so he wont give his blood to her as often as he did for his previous wives.[8] Vlad was busy with developing his plans but wasn't worried about his daughters and sons in the slightest. After all, he knew that as long as Jeanne and Morgana were married to Victor, he would protect them. Even though he doesn't consider Victor a friend, but he has unwavering trust that made him comfortable pursuing his plans.[8]

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