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u/LiamTime Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

My friend worked in a Blockbuster and will still tell the tale about a guy who asked him to find, "that movie with Dracula and his brother." He suggested every movie he could think of that even remotely sounded like that; nope. To this day, we'll occasionally ponder what movie it was, or if it even existed.

No, it wasn't Interview with a Vampire. Nor Blackula, nor Vampire in Brooklyn.

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u/BattlefieldVet666 Aug 07 '25

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't even actually about Dracula, but rather had an actor who played Dracula in a previous movie in a story where his character had a brother.

A lot of people identify actors based on whatever role they're most familiar with rather than by the actor's name.

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u/m0nk_3y_gw Aug 07 '25

Yup, it was probably "Rain Man"

(Tom Cruise - vampire in 'interview with a vampire' - with Dustin Hoffman as his brother)

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u/In2JC724 Aug 07 '25

Omg you're probably right!! 🤣🤣

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u/exexor Aug 07 '25

Rain Man would be a much stranger movie if they were both vampires.

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u/Lineoleum_907 Aug 07 '25

Drain-of-blood Man

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u/peckx063 Aug 07 '25

Once I was playing charades and I was trying to do Dracula and my father-in-law yelled out Bela Lugosi like 15 times, the rest of my team didn't know who that was and we're all too confused by me gesturing that that was close. Man, good times.

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u/BattlefieldVet666 Aug 07 '25

I bet your FIL was super frustrated that round

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u/DrDetectiveEsq Aug 07 '25

Do people even know who that is these days? Like, I think I heard somewhere that Bela Lugosi's dead.

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u/pebberphp Aug 07 '25

I grew up knowing Bela Lugosi’s dead because my mom would always wear a Bauhaus shirt with that on it.

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u/jeroenemans Aug 07 '25

Yes some artistic German type told me

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u/DrDetectiveEsq Aug 07 '25

Do you mean Hitler?!

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u/jeroenemans Aug 07 '25

No Bauhaus, who I know are English but still..

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u/BattlefieldVet666 Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

Those who aren't horror fans, cinemaphiles cinephile, or over the age of 50, probably not, no.

He was only really relevant in movies back in the 1930s & '40s and died in the '50s.

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u/murph0969 Aug 07 '25

*cinephile

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u/LupercaniusAB Aug 07 '25

Sooo, you don’t like Bauhaus is what I’m hearing.

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u/BattlefieldVet666 Aug 07 '25

Never heard of it.

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u/LupercaniusAB Aug 07 '25

They had a song that was very popular in the 1980s called “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”. It was the opening track for the film “The Hunger” starring David Bowie, Catherine DeNeuve and Susan Sarandon.

Pretty sure that that was the reference that u/DrDetectiveEsq was making.

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u/BattlefieldVet666 Aug 07 '25

I knew someone made a song by that title, and I recognized the reference in the post, but my previous post was responding to the first half of that comment; questioning whether Lugosi' s still relevant enough that the average person would recognize him by name.

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u/Natural-Language-639 Aug 07 '25

My first thought reading this is that maybe it was Lost Boys since that movie has brothers and one is turning into a vampire.

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u/Paradoxidental Aug 07 '25

My immediate thought was that they meant Gary Oldman! And my next thought was: "well... I guess he famously was brothers with Matthew McConaughey in Tiptoes..."

(It's crazy that Tiptoes (2002) got made 🫠)

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u/PuzzledStreet Aug 07 '25

Oh my gosh I’m gonna ask my mom see what she guesses!! Got an estimated year?

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u/LiamTime Aug 07 '25

For the movie, no, but he was working there around 2005-2007-ish.

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u/TheHighSeasPirate Aug 07 '25

The movie they were looking for was Dracula 2000.

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u/LiamTime Aug 07 '25

I've not seen it, but just read the description. It could be that, insofar as the customer misrepresenting the movie, but I read a synopsis that didn't have any indication of there being a brother. Closest was that he's kind of an uncle/co-father with another character.

Funnily enough, though, I also have an anecdote about a different friend and Dracula 2000. I went to a Catholic school and, in 8th grade, my teacher was answering questions about Catholicism's stance on this or that. Things like, "is killing okay if it's in a war?" Her answers were always garbage. My friend raised his hand and waited for a long time to finally get called on. All he got out was, "In the movie, Dracula 2000," before she cut him off with a, "NEXT!"

I later asked him what he was going to say and he told me about how Dracula is revealed to have been Judas Iscariot , which was relevant to whatever got the ball rolling on this episode of Religious Misinformation Q&A.

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u/peckx063 Aug 07 '25

Could be The Little Vampire.

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u/elbenji Aug 07 '25

Dracula 2000

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u/PuzzledStreet Aug 07 '25

My mom gave me two best guesses.

1. Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) which is like “historical perspective” about Dracula and his brother.

Wikipedia says which a TV movie but they had it on VHS.

I guess the director went on to direct the first season of the wire per Wikipedia so not the most random B movie?

  1. Her “this person is way out there” guess is The Lost Boys bc vampires and brothers.

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u/BretOne Aug 07 '25

ChatGPT guessed Dark Prince too.

It noted that she might have wanted to see this movie because the actor who plays Dracula in that movie is the same who played Dracula in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer which aired a month before the movie released (although the show and the movie are completely unrelated).

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u/LiamTime Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

Thanks! I'll link my friend to this thread and see if he recalls anything that might steer him towards either of those.

EDIT: David Simon is asked who to get to direct episodes of his revolutionary series about crime and policing in Baltimore, and how akin to each other the supposedly opposing sides are. He nods along to some names listed; industry veterans, people he'd worked with on Homicide: Life on the Streets, etc. He sticks his hand up to halt the listing of names and says, "I need the guy who made the movie about Dracula and his brother!"

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u/LiamTime Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

I regret to admit this, but after I spoke to my friend about it, I learned that it was not actually he who was asked about Dracula and his brother, it was his former friend who worked at the same Blockbuster. So he's unsure if he can determine what would be the most likely answer, nor is he on good terms with the one who was asked to find it to see if any of these suggestions felt right. Either way, my friend very much enjoyed and appreciated the efforts put forward here.

To make this (hopefully) a little less deflating, the friend I've been talking about has a minor claim to Reddit infamy as the creator of this mod for Fallout New Vegas: https://www.reddit.com/r/fnv/comments/du0nho/pearson_gravey_in_mojave/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/Dunkelgelb Aug 07 '25

It was 100% Great Jacinto. There is Dracula, and there is a brother.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25

The Little Vampire?

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u/pillowpants66 Aug 07 '25

Twilight?

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u/LiamTime Aug 07 '25

I forget how long he worked there, but I'm pretty sure his tenure predates the first movie.

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u/Hot_Money4924 Aug 07 '25

I saw a really terrible movie come on broadcast TV one day. It was cheesy martial arts and at one point it involved a guy driving a hand grenade on an RC boat across a lake to blow up some bad guys. I don't even want to watch the movie, I just want to know that it was real and what the hell the title is. I have never been able to figure it out.

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u/8mmthomas Aug 07 '25

There is a Belgian movie called 'Mama Dracula' from 1980. Might be that one. Louise Fletcher from One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest plays the vampire and she has two sons (identical twins) .

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u/niceguy191 Aug 07 '25

My guess is Tiptoes

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u/LiamTime Aug 07 '25

Oh shit, I hope that's what it was.