Transylvania Twist (1989)
You'll Laugh All The Way To The Blood Bank!
The nephew of a librarian must go collect a 200 year old book, "The Book of Ulthar." that should have never been checked out by the Evil Count Orlock cause one of the spells in it could bring about the end of the world. During his trip to the castle, he meets Marissa, a gorgeous rock star and heir to the castle's fortune. There they must confront the only other heir to the fortune and the book, Uncle Byron; and Uncle Byron and his 3 adopted nieces all have very, very, very broad smile.
- Date of release
- 1989-10-01
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (32)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Comedy, Horror
- Director
- Jim Wynorski
Casting
- Robert Vaughn — Lord Byron Orlock
- Teri Copley — Marissa Orlock
- Steve Altman — Dexter Ward
- Ace Mask — Victor Von Helsing
- Angus Scrimm — Stefen
- Steve Franken — Hans Hupp
- Monique Gabrielle — Patty
- Howard Morris — Marinas Orlock
- Jay Robinson — Uncle Ephram
- Lenny Juliano — Maxie Fields
- Clement von Franckenstein — Hans Hoff
- Arthur Roberts — Hans N. Fritz
Interesting facts
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.
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