ITP: Marketing, deconstructed... Or defanged.

[2nd_slinger]

[Outside the Video-Rama, there's a superhero examining a new movie poster display and its attached commentary.]

... huh.

Comments

[oneofthefive]

. . .

There's the reason I avoided the popular lore like a veritable plague.

[2nd_slinger]

... why do I get the feelin' you're not talkin' about for a research paper.

[oneofthefive]

Well I have written dissertations on vampire practices in eastern Slovakia but that's not the point. Normally I don't expect any amount of realism in, ah, that subject matter. But honestly couldn't they at least take the idea of the undead feasting on human blood seriously?

[2nd_slinger]

... I guess we're lucky it wasn't Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

[oneofthefive]

I wouldn't even know where to begin about everything that's wrong with the Dracula mythos.

[2nd_slinger]

Depends on the version... The Count I met was pure Bela Lugosi--an' for good reason.

[oneofthefive]

I would suppose the dispersal of legends, e-especially through oral traditions would result in some, ah, disreprencies? However if you traced historical accounts--you've met some form of, er, Dracula?

[2nd_slinger]

Yup--got pulled into a movie once while I was here, an' Dracula was there. I uh, kinda had to punch him in the face at one point.

[oneofthefive]

So this was literally--er, thematically, Bela Lugosi's interpretation of Dracula?

...why is it that Halloween can't simply be a relaxing holiday like it is in the Hellmouth.

[2nd_slinger]

Yeah, from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. So Frankenstein's Monster an' the Wolf Man were there, too.

... whoa, hey--Hellmouth?

[oneofthefive]

Yes, Hellmouth. Dimensional gateway between this world and the one occupied by the forces of evil. They, ah, aren't very fond of the holiday's turn toward commercialism so they tend to stay in.

[2nd_slinger]

... would this gateway be in an evil monster billboard that comes to life an' eats people, thereby sendin' 'em to sort-of Hell?

[oneofthefive]

There are multiple access points so a billboard could theoretically be one of them but not as I've heard?

[2nd_slinger]

That was just somethin' that happened in my world... Probably not the kinda thing that transcends interdimensional boundaries, or anythin'.

[oneofthefive]

Our Hellhole is rather localized, although I wouldn't be able to say whether or not yours is of the same origins. However, any demonic influence tends to be the result of a breachable access point for such dimensions.

[2nd_slinger]

Demonic influence at a breachable access point... Yeah, sounds about right for NYC.