It’s not false advertising, believe it or not. Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) played herself in a Fall Guy episode called “October the 31st,” which premiered on Halloween, 1984. From what I remember, she and Colt are doing a Halloween special in a haunted mansion owned by a demented old man played by John Carradine. Will they survive the night?
Speaking of Carradine, I just watched him ham it up in another winner called Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966). Think you know the best way to knock down a vampire? Think again.
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That works on normal people as well.
The thing is, bullets didn’t knock him down, but the gun itself, used as a projectile weapon, DID knock him down.
It had a wooden hilt and bullets were small and just passed through him whereas the gun probably have him a concussion. Just because they didn’t know of such things back then doesn’t make it any less of a threat, even to a vampire.
So if the gun had an iron hilt it would have passed right through him?
Don’t be silly. The gun was way too big to pass through him. And had the cowboy shot him in the head, maybe there would have been some effect.
STOP IT.
They used to do this on the George Reeves Superman show: the gangsters would unload pistols into Superman and he’d stand there, defiant. They’d throw their emptied guns at Supes, and he’d duck.
If only poor Dracula had ducked…
I’ll always be a sucker for Elvira…
And what if that pistol was silver plated? Whatever. Important thing here is that the movie’s better than “Jessie James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter” – Same director, same writer… 73% more boring (by volume).