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Dracula: Dead and Loving It — The Parody That Sank Mel Brooks (2025x20)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Eki 28, 2025

On paper, Dracula: Dead and Loving It should've been a companion piece to Young Frankenstein. But when the movie arrived in theaters during the 1995 holiday season, it was ignored by audiences, savaged by critics, and ultimately became the final film Mel Brooks ever directed. Thirty years later, I want to revisit how this movie got things wrong—exploring its production, its missteps, and what its failure says about the end of an era for both Mel Brooks and the parody genre itself.