Café de Nuit

DING DING DING !!!!

Varney the Vampire by Thomas Prest. Being written in a sort of serial form before collection into a single work, this novel had our protagonist 'killed' in many gruesome ways, only to rise again and again. Finally, our maudlin friend (a VERY early adopter of what would later be known as the 'angsty Goth' philosophy) decided to commit suicide by Vesuvius. Didn't come back from that one...


For more Penny Dreadfuls, try Prest's Sweeney Todd-the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (yes, the one the Musical used as its source) and Sawney Bean, Man-Eater of Midlothian (chock full of cannibal goodness!).

Next Question-Griselda's up! Sorry for the delay in replying-it's the Holidays and all, and all those witnesses don't bury themselves...

Thank you, order99!

Question: According to Haitian folklore, what should you feed a zombie in order to get rid of him?

Salt!

Ding! Keee-rect!


Salt (and/ or meat, by some sources) reminds the zombie that he is dead and makes him aware of his undead state. He will immediately turn around and do his level best to get back into his grave as quick as possible.


From W.B. Seabrook's "...Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields":

"...and as the zombies tasted the salt, they knew they were dead and made a dreadful outcry and arose and turned their faces toward the mountain.

No one dare stop them, for they were corpses walking in the sunlight, and they themselves and all the people knew that were corpses. And they disappeared toward the mountain.

When later they drew near their own village on the slopes of Morne-au-Diable, these dead men and women walking single file in the twilight, with no soul leading them or daring to follow, the people of their village, who were also holding bamboche in the marketplace, saw them drawing closer, recognized among them the fathers, brothers, wives and daughters, whom they had buried months before.

Most of them knew at once the truth, that these were zombies who had been dragged from their graves, but others hoped that a blessed miracle had taken place on this Fete Dieu, and rushed forward to take them in their arms and welcome them.

But the zombies shuffled through the marketplace, recognizing neither father nor wife nor mother, and as they turned leftward up the path leading to the graveyard, a woman whose daughter was in the procession of the dead threw herself screaming before the girl's shuffling feet and begged her to stay; but the grave-cold feet of the daughter and the feet of the other dead shuffled over her and onward; and as they approached the graveyard, they began to shuffle faster and rushed among the grave, and each before his own empty grave began clawing at the stone and earth to enter it again; and as their cold hands touched the earth of their own graves, they fell and lay there, rotting carrion."




And on that note -- Isabella, the floor is yours

Uh, crap. I don't have a question. I just answered it on reflex because I actually knew the answer.

Isabella wrote:Uh, crap. I don't have a question. I just answered it on reflex because I actually knew the answer.

Do think of one, please This game is fun!

Uh, okay, I googled a question up for you. (Last time I answer any trivia quizzes! )

What was the name of the gypsy fortune teller who passed on the werewolf curse to Larry Talbot, in the the 1941 Universal classic "The Wolf Man"?


And, for the extreme obscure bonus question:

What was the name of the werewolf in the Darkstalkers video game?

Isabella wrote:Uh, okay, I googled a question up for you. (Last time I answer any trivia quizzes! )

What was the name of the gypsy fortune teller who passed on the werewolf curse to Larry Talbot, in the the 1941 Universal classic "The Wolf Man"?
?

Oh, that's a fun one! It was Bela

And, for the extreme obscure bonus question:

What was the name of the werewolf in the Darkstalkers video game

Was it Jon?

Well, Lady Soth was too fast

Bela indeed, played by Bela Lugosi.
Short role, he was doing well until he was killed *smirk*. Better than in many later films...

LadySoth wrote:Oh, that's a fun one! It was Bela

Correct!

Was it Jon?

That's part of it.

Isabella wrote:

LadySoth wrote:Oh, that's a fun one! It was Bela

Correct!

Was it Jon?

That's part of it.

Jon Talbain, then. Surely a play on Talbot!

Ail wrote:Well, Lady Soth was too fast

Bela indeed, played by Bela Lugosi.
Short role, he was doing well until he was killed *smirk*. Better than in many later films...

Thanks Ail!

So continuing "The Wolfman" thread in the questions: in the same film, the female gypsy (Bela's mommy) was played by a famous Russian film actress who was famous in real life for teaching acting and what other artform?

LadySoth wrote:

Ail wrote:Well, Lady Soth was too fast

Bela indeed, played by Bela Lugosi.
Short role, he was doing well until he was killed *smirk*. Better than in many later films...

Thanks Ail!

So continuing "The Wolfman" thread in the questions: in the same film, the female gypsy (Bela's mommy) was played by a famous Russian film actress who was famous in real life for teaching acting and what other artform?

Maria Ouspenskaya. She taught acting and dancing. I was going to say ballet, but decided to check, in case my memories were hazy.

She was perfect in her role. Does anyone else think that the scenes of her riding the carriage are great inspiration for Vistani scenes? I thought so much of Night of the Walking Dead when I saw this film!

Great work Ail! Yes, I completely agree with you, Maleva (played by Maria) always comes to my mind as the prototypical Vistina. Especially in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (loose sequel to The Wolfman, and Frankenstein both) where she takes on a special importance in Larry Talbot's life. So cool! Your turn for the next question . . .

LadySoth wrote:Great work Ail! Yes, I completely agree with you, Maleva (played by Maria) always comes to my mind as the prototypical Vistina. Especially in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (loose sequel to The Wolfman, and Frankenstein both) where she takes on a special importance in Larry Talbot's life. So cool! Your turn for the next question . . .

Yes, saw that one too. I like her in both films, but the lighting and the forest scenes in The Wolfman are more eerie

Next question, then, still on films:

In one Hammer film, a vampire is killed by a shadow. Which film, and how could a shadow kill a vampire?