DAILY CALL SHEET: NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) After hearing about possible sightings of Frankenstein's creature in Transylvania, two tabloid reporters from America fly over to investigate. It isn't long before they find more monsters than they bargained for, including an overly sensitive wolfman and a sex starved bloodsucker. With the likes of Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley, Jr., Gena Davis, Carol Kane, and Michael Richards, the cast of this horror comedy is to die for, but alas the scriptwriter must have already died first because the jokes are mostly dead on arrival. To be fair, though, Richards alone makes it worth at least one watch.

TIL: While most know that Transylvania's most famous son, Vlad III, was somewhat of an inspiration for Dracula, his true story is just as interesting. Taken hostage by Muslims, the teenage Vlad was tortured while his younger brother Radu was made a sex slave to the Sultan. These experiences no doubt influenced his decision to wage war against the invading Turks when he got the chance, declaring in a letter, "we will not flee before their savagery, but stand by all of the Christians, and if He will kindly lend his ear to the prayers of his poor subjects and grants us victory over the Infidels, the Enemies of the Cross of Christ."

I HAVE SOME NOTES: More oddball takes on my daily Scripture readings.