DAILY CALL SHEET: AUGUST 9, 2023

Guess What Happened to Count Dracula? (1971) Keep guessing. This snoozer isn't even about ol' Vlad, but rather his ne'er-do-well son Adrian, who runs a nightclub of sorts for 70's proto-goths in a low rent section of L.A. There's some sort of plot about Adrian's fixation on one of his patrons, but you'll be hard pressed to stay awake long enough to figure it out. Rumor has it this was either shot as hardcore porn and then had the sex parts removed to make it presentable in drive-ins, or else filmed as is and then had hardcore scenes added later to trick the 42nd Street crowd into watching it. No matter, it wouldn't have worked either way.

TIL: Every so often, as if no one had ever thought of it before, detractors of the Bible will try to accuse Scripture of being pornographic due to its depictions of such things as incest, rape, gruesome murders, bestiality, gross bodily functions, etc. etc. What these atheistic puritans seem to ignore is intent and context. As with some (certainly not all) R-rated films, the occasional depiction in the Bible of the lousy things people do is not meant to titillate or arouse, but to communicate real truths about the human condition, one which God didn't sneer at from on high, but entered into personally to help us navigate.

Still Voices: Ready Player One (2018) "The danger is quite real that souls habituated to constant technological stimuli will never be silent with themselves, never alone in a receptive manner, and so never able to discover God in a personal encounter of prayer." - Fr. Donald Haggerty