Monster Movie Allusions

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Dean: It looks like we stumbled upon a midnight showing of Dracula Meets the Wolf Man.

In actuality, there is no film entitled Dracula Meets the Wolf Man. Dean must have mixed up the title of another monster match-up film, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Bela Lugosi. It detailed the Wolf Man's attempt to use the science that created Frankenstein's monster to finally kill himself
There is however a popular comic book by Frank Frazzetta titled "Dracula meets the wolfman"

Sheriff Deitrich: I mean some Satan-worshiping Anne Rice-reading Gothic psycho vampire wannabe.

Referencing Anne Rice (born 1941), a Louisiana writer who rose to fame writing about vampires. Her first novel, Interview With The Vampire, was turned into a movie in 1994 starring Tom Cruise as the Vampire Lestat, and co-starring Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst. She has also written under the pseudonyms Anne Rampling and A. N. Roquelaure.

Sam: Agents Angus and Young.

Referencing Angus Young, the lead songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. Along with his older brother Malcolm, he formed the band in 1973, along with Colin Burgess, Dave Evans, and Larry Van Kriedt.

Dean: We got a Dracula and a Wolf Man monster-mashing it in this town?

Monster Mash is a popular novelty song from 1962. It is musician Bobby "Boris" Pickett's best-known work.

Dean: We need to find this guy before he Creature from the Black Lagoons somebody.

This is a reference to the 1954 film Creature from the Black Lagoon, starring Richard Carlson and Julia Adams. In it, an amphibious creature known as "Gill-man" kills research scientists seeking to find fossil evidence of the legendary creature's existence

Dean: We still need to see the new "raiders" movie.

With the new one Dean meens Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Scull, the fourth Indiana Jones movie. It came 7 days after Deans death in premiere.

Title: Monster Movie
Pretty much the entire episode is a parody of the variousUniversalPictures original monster movies, Dracula,Frankensteinand the Mummy.Frankensteinwas originally a book by Mary Shelly, and Dracula was written by Bram Stoker. Van Helsing, Mina, Luci, Jonathon, and of course, Dracula, were all characters in the original novel. Mina married Jonathon Harker, but was the reincarnation of Vlad Dracul's (Dracula's) wife. Van Helsing was the doctor called in when Luci, Mina's best friend, became sick. Luci was actually being fed on by Dracula, she later died and came back as a vampire and Van Helsing killed her.



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