Transylvania Twist (1989)

Directed by

Jim Wynorski

Genre

comedy horror, parody film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman inherits her family's castle in Transylvania. A vampire cousin wants to use a stolen book to summon a monster. A vampire hunter from the Van Helsing family deals with becoming a vampire himself.

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What happens

Transylvania Twist is a 1989 horror comedy film originally released by Concord Production Inc., distributed on home video by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the film Angus Scrimm reprises his role of the "Tall Man" from the Phantasm films, 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 "I'm in the wrong movie". The film's main theme has been released on a variety of albums, and the entire soundtrack was released on CD and as a direct download in the year 2010, twenty-one years after the movies initial release. It was directed by Jim Wynorski, who made over 150 films. In 2013 he said this film "comes closest to my personality and was the film I had the most fun making. It was the show I never wanted to end". In the film, a female member of the Orlock family inherits her family's ancestral castle in Transylvania. A vampire cousin of the heiress is trying to use a stolen magical book to summon a monster to Earth. A vampire hunter of the Van Helsing family tries to cope with his new life as a vampire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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