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...same role for a film. Although the movie will have a different script, approach, director, cast and special effects, Langella wants to maintain his conception of the role of the sanguineous count. Dracula, he feels, has been misunderstood. "I don't play him as a hair-raising ghoul," says Langella. "He is a nobleman, an elegant man, with a very difficult problem...
...horror movies it inspired,* Count Dracula's domain in Transylvania has long been a place of pilgrimage. Every year hundreds of Americans and Europeans visit Rumania for government-organized Dracula tours of spooky castles that were supposedly once inhabited by the Transylvanian ghoul. Many of the tourists who climb secret staircases and descend into the dank depths of dungeons wear bags of garlic round their necks-the traditional method of warding off the vampire's bloodsucking kiss. In the spirit of the occasion, local schoolchildren wave their arms like bat wings and bare their budding fangs for visitors...
...ghoul tours of Rumania are conducted tongue in cheek by the Ministry of Tourism. While not acknowledging the existence of vampires, it profits handsomely from indulging the fantasies of visiting foreigners. After all, as every vampire watcher knows, Dracula was zapped for all eternity when a stake was driven through his evil heart...
Little Monsters. For the child who does not get enough blood and ghoul from TV or movies, new Monster Make-Up and Horror Make-Up kits provide the wherewithal for 56 basic variations of Lon Chaney, including leprous or misshapen cheekbones, deformed foreheads, grotesque scars, dagger wounds, drooping, bulging eyeballs, bullet holes-plus a bottle of nontoxic gore. The kits, which sell for less than $20 each, were designed by Veteran Makeup Artist Dick Smith, who turned Linda Blair's head in The Exorcist and aged Marlon Brando in The Godfather. They come with a packet of powdered gelatin...
...Harkness Commons, Night of the Living Dead feeds other fears with a story of ghoul-like aliens taking over Pittsburgh, Why do they want...