Horror References in Last Night's SPN (aka A Shameless Self-Plug)

[jetpack_monkey]

For the Supernatural fans looking for the references from last night's episode:

Dracula -- clearly a pastiche on (well, Lenny Bruce's parody of) Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931). Poor Dean gets put in the putzy Jonathan Harker role, while Sam gets to be the badass German dude as Van Helsing.
The Wolf Man -- The Wolf Man (1941)
The Mummy -- The Mummy's Hand (1940)
The way the Mummy rose from his crypt -- very similar to how Count Orlok rolled in Nosferatu (1922)
The whole Oktoberfest/lederhosen thing -- straight out of the very Germanic town celebration in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Dean's Abbott and Costello joke -- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Jamie -- Her name is totally a call to Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween (1978)
"Twas beauty who killed the beast" -- Straight outta King Kong (1933)
The shifter's speech at the end -- A definite parallel with the demise of lycanthrope Henry Hull in Werewolf of London (1935)
Killer uses old movies to be understood -- Fade to Black (1980)

Comments

[desertwillow.livejournal.com]

Also, the shifters bar maid name was Lucy (to go along with Mina)

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was pretty awesome as well.

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Sweet, I'm coming back to look at this once I've seen the episode this afternoon. Thanks for posting, I was wondering if you were going to have something to say about this ep.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It rocked. Like a rocking thing. Let me know what you thought of it!

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you watched this. I was totally thinking this would be right up your alley. :)

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. It rocked so hard. I have to download the episode over the weekend to pick up some more references.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

The only thing I didn't get was why the shapeshifter kept blotting her lipstick when in the Lucy form. Was that a reference to anything?

[packmentality.livejournal.com]

Score! I'm thrilled that I actually got half of these while I was watching. I almost went tromping through Classic-Horror last night, but then I watched the U.S. Life on Mars and lost the will to live...

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

See what happens when you don't visit my site? You lose the will to live. Think about that next time.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

Not loving the adaptation, huh? I liked the first ep, haven't seen the second yet. The only thing I'm not happy with thus far is that UK Sam looked so much more like a real person. US Sam is too hunky in a bland way. Also not crazy about US Gordon. UK Gordon rocked my socks.

[packmentality.livejournal.com]

US Sam is too hunky in a bland way.

Exactly! The thing I loved most about the UK version is that Sam is so different from the '73 cops, that it lives up to the title 'Life on Mars' because it's like Sam is on a different planet. But US Sam is a macho, New York City cop suddenly thrown into 1973, which is full of...macho, New York City cops. With bad mustaches. It's basically just another period cop show, instead of being this crazy sci-fi mystery thing. I'm giving it a shot, but so far I'm not impressed.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

I've finally seen episode 2 now (and I was totally calling Gene Hunt the wrong name in the original comment, I now realize) and yeah, you're 100% right. I will still keep giving it a chance, but it's not nearly as special as the original felt for all those reasons.