# They can do Hamlet, but can they do Dracula?? (MST3K) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493 "2004-01-08T20:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/1 "2004-01-08T20:02:00Z")
Hello, Doperfriends! Once again I am on a MST3K movie quest. Have the boys and the bots done Dracula (Or anything resembling Dracula??)? You’re the best! simply\_cats ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/2 "2004-01-08T20:20:22Z")
They never did any version of Dracula. Off the top of my head I don’t recall ever seeing a vampire movie on MST3K. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/3 "2004-01-08T21:20:09Z")
Uh-uh-uh… Number 624: Sampson vs. the Vampire Women. No Dracula, though. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/4 "2004-01-08T21:35:53Z")
Well, I never saw that one. I didn’t have cable for several years of MST3K’s run and then by the time I did get cable the show had moved to Sci Fi and I didn’t get that channel. ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/5 "2004-01-09T00:55:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\*Uh-uh-uh… Number 624: Sampson vs. the Vampire Women. > > No Dracula, though. \*\* Maybe no Dracula but Mexican masked wrestlers!!! Oh boy! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/6 "2004-01-09T01:24:47Z")
Granted, **Otto** , that vampire movies showed up on MST3K much, much, much more rarely than zombie movies, though. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/7 "2004-01-09T02:40:44Z")
El Santo! El Santo will save us! P.S.:do a google search for “mst3k archive” to check out details ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/8 "2004-01-09T03:57:03Z")
Does “It Lives By Night” count? It has a person becoming a bat-creature-thing, which is kinda close, I guess, maybe… ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/9 "2004-01-09T04:25:08Z")
And don’t forget, the “Hamlet” that they did was actually an English dubbed German film, **not** the best production of the Bard’s work ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/10 "2004-01-09T06:36:49Z")
Very few vampires, true, but I think the one about the weerullwelves more than made up for it with…it were absaluttly fussinading… (show #904) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/11 "2004-01-09T06:47:44Z")
And it had the least talented member of the Sheen/Estevez clan in it, too! ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/12 "2004-01-09T16:41:14Z")
According to the [trivia](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061191/trivia) for **Wild World of Batwoman** , it was also called “She Was a Hippy Vampire.” Plus, there’s that pointless scene at the beginning with the giggling idiots drinking strawberry yogurt. One of the idiots mentions something about vampires, so I guess that would also count. I can’t be sure because I have no idea what was going on in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/13 "2004-01-09T19:47:58Z")
How about zombies? Zombies do anything for you? Cause there’s always “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.” Of course, the actual zombies don’t really show up until the last 10 minutes, but that’s just part of the charm. Oh, and “Manos: Hands of Fate” wasn’t about vampires, but he was some sort of creepy type monster guy. Kind of close. Sorta. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/14 "2004-01-09T19:55:22Z")
Bela Lugosi appears in “Bride of the Monster,” although he plays a mad scientist, not a vampire. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/15 "2004-01-09T20:12:59Z")
Speaking of Hamlet, I just got that episode today on dvd! MST3K goodness happening tonight! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/16 "2004-01-09T20:29:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\*And it had the least talented member of the Sheen/Estevez clan in it, too! \*\* Dude, is that a riddle? Honestly, I can’t figure out who you’re referring to. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/17 "2004-01-09T20:36:39Z")
Joe Estevez (Martin Sheen’s brother) is in Werewolf, in a fairly minor role as the dig worker who (I believe) gets wolfed first. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/18 "2004-01-09T20:56:08Z")
Joe Estevez, brother of Martin Sheen, is in **Werewolf**. He’s also in **Soultaker** , in a more prominint role. Some quotes from **Soultaker** : \ Aren’t you due on the set of ‘Werewolf’? \ Dummy, didn’t you see that ‘Warning - Joe Estevez Crossing’ sign? \ You know, it’s just not death with dignity if there’s an Estevez in the room. \ Does anything really ‘star’ Joe Estevez? Isn’t that some kind of an oxymoron? \ Some kind of moron. And here’s one from **Werewolf** : \ I’m Martin Sheen’s Brother. Does that help? ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/19 "2004-01-09T20:58:38Z")
I guess I should have hit ‘refresh’ before posting. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493/20 "2004-01-09T23:25:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vanyel \* > \*\*Joe Estevez, brother of Martin Sheen, is in **Werewolf**. He’s also in **Soultaker** , in a more prominint role. > Some quotes from **Soultaker** : > \ Aren’t you due on the set of ‘Werewolf’? > > \ Dummy, didn’t you see that ‘Warning - Joe Estevez Crossing’ sign? > > \ You know, it’s just not death with dignity if there’s an Estevez in the room. > > \ Does anything really ‘star’ Joe Estevez? Isn’t that some kind of an oxymoron? \ Some kind of moron. > And here’s one from **Werewolf** : > \ I’m Martin Sheen’s Brother. Does that help? \*\* Don’t forget the classic line when Joe is hanging around while the other characters discover the skeleton: \ GOODBYE JOE! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-can-do-hamlet-but-can-they-do-dracula-mst3k/223493.md?page=2)