Transylvania Twist
1989 American film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Transylvania Twist is a 1989 comedy film that parodies horror films. Originally released by Concord Production Inc., this film is 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.[2] The humor of the film is most often said to be in the style of Airplane!,[3][4] and Mel Brooks[2][5] 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, it 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.
Transylvania Twist | |
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Directed by | Jim Wynorski |
Written by | R.J. Robertson Jim Wynorski |
Produced by | Roger Corman Alida Camp |
Starring | Robert Vaughn Teri Copley Steve Altman Ace Mask Angus Scrimm Jay Robinson Boris Karloff |
Cinematography | Zoran Hochstätter |
Edited by | Nina Gilberti |
Music by | Chuck Cirino |
Distributed by | Concorde Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1 million[1] |
It was directed by Jim Wynorski, who made over 150 films. In 2013 he said this film "comes closest to my personality and was the film I had the most fun making. It was the show I never wanted to end".[6]
In the film, a female member of the Orlock family inherits her family's ancestral castle in Transylvania. A vampire cousin of the heiress is trying to use a stolen magical book to summon a monster to Earth. A vampire hunter of the Van Helsing family tries to cope with his new life as a vampire.