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[[https://www.youtube.com/user/planetdrakula/featured Count Jackula]] (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a former reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome, the website formerly known as Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be a HorrorHost space-vampire from the planet Drakula and reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be also be found on Website/TheAgonyBooth and Website/{{Geekvision}}.

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[[https://www.youtube.com/user/planetdrakula/featured Count Jackula]] (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a former reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome, the website formerly known as Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, Website/ChannelAwesome and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be a HorrorHost space-vampire from the planet Drakula and reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be also be found on Website/TheAgonyBooth and Website/{{Geekvision}}.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Count [[Film/TheRoom Wiseau-ula]]

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* BreakoutCharacter: Count [[Film/TheRoom [[Film/TheRoom2003 Wiseau-ula]]
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* NiceHat: The Count's top hat & goggles

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* CreepyGood: While Jackula himself ranges from ChivalrousPervert[=/=]EthicalSlut to grouchy [[HollywoodSatanism Hollywood Satanist]], the nature of Drakulons in general seem to fit this description, the general aesthetic and weird (and often graphic) traditions and hobbies being the sort of thing that would make Franchise/TheAddamsFamily feel right at home.

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* CreepyGood: CreepyGood:
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While Jackula himself ranges from ChivalrousPervert[=/=]EthicalSlut to grouchy [[HollywoodSatanism Hollywood Satanist]], the nature of Drakulons in general seem to fit this description, the general aesthetic and weird (and often graphic) traditions and hobbies being the sort of thing that would make Franchise/TheAddamsFamily feel right at home.
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** [[TheEighties 80s]]!Jackula is [[BadFuture frightened]] by the future's increasing amounts of [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad political correctness]] but is even more horrified to discover that 9/11 will happen soon.

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** [[TheEighties 80s]]!Jackula is [[BadFuture frightened]] by the future's increasing amounts of [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad [[PoliticalOvercorrectness political correctness]] but is even more horrified to discover that 9/11 will happen soon.



* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Besides the usual mockery of this, Jack Shen is known to argue against applying political correctness to horror movies since they're ''intentionally'' offensive.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero[=/=][[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Villain]]: Many of the jokes that Jackula makes definitely fall under the umbrella of "offensive", to the point of having an "offense attorney" to call whenever he makes an offensive joke. With Jackula's LargeHam personality and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} moments, this is done more out of a sense of self-awareness and [[TakeThat open mockery of the concept]], given that he believes that Horror (the genre his show is about) has the most to lose under PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.

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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: PoliticalOvercorrectness: Besides the usual mockery of this, Jack Shen is known to argue against applying political correctness to horror movies since they're ''intentionally'' offensive.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero[=/=][[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Villain]]: Many of the jokes that Jackula makes definitely fall under the umbrella of "offensive", to the point of having an "offense attorney" to call whenever he makes an offensive joke. With Jackula's LargeHam personality and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} moments, this is done more out of a sense of self-awareness and [[TakeThat open mockery of the concept]], given that he believes that Horror (the genre his show is about) has the most to lose under PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.PoliticalOvercorrectness.
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* ShoutOut: Satanic Jackula wears skull make-up similar to Papa Emeritus, the lead singer of the satanic-themed HardRock band Music/{{Ghost}}.

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* ShoutOut: Satanic Jackula wears skull make-up similar to Papa Emeritus, the lead singer of the satanic-themed HardRock band Music/{{Ghost}}.[[Music/GhostBand Ghost]].
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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Creator/WernerHerzog goes mad from watching ''WesternAnimation/RudolphsShinyNewYear'', kills himself, resurrects, flies into space, turns into a giant floating head, destroys the Earth and reboots it with himself as its new God.

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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Creator/WernerHerzog goes mad from watching ''WesternAnimation/RudolphsShinyNewYear'', kills himself, resurrects, flies into space, turns into a giant floating head, destroys the Earth and reboots it with himself as its new God.



** Then [[Main/SlasherMovie Masked Slasher]] once Wiseau-ula eventually [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared.]]

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** Then [[Main/SlasherMovie [[SlasherMovie Masked Slasher]] once Wiseau-ula eventually [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared.]]disappeared]].



* {{Crossover}}: Regularly does them with the Creator/HorrorGuru. {{Justified}} since they're roommates.

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* {{Crossover}}: Regularly does them with the Creator/HorrorGuru. {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} since they're roommates.



* HumanAliens: Though Jack has mentioned [[Main/AllThereInTheManual in a live stream]] that Drakulons' [[Main/TheyLookLikeUsNow human forms are not their true ones.]]

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* HumanAliens: Though Jack has mentioned [[Main/AllThereInTheManual [[AllThereInTheManual in a live stream]] that Drakulons' [[Main/TheyLookLikeUsNow [[TheyLookLikeUsNow human forms are not their true ones.]]ones]].
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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Creator/WernerHerzog goes mad from watching ''Rudolph's Shiny New Year'', kills himself, resurrects, flies into space, turns into a giant floating head, destroys the Earth and reboots it with himself as its new God.

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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Creator/WernerHerzog goes mad from watching ''Rudolph's Shiny New Year'', ''WesternAnimation/RudolphsShinyNewYear'', kills himself, resurrects, flies into space, turns into a giant floating head, destroys the Earth and reboots it with himself as its new God.
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* PhlebotinumOverload: According to Jackula in his "Top 10 Sexy Monster Girls" video, the Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky movie adaptation of ''Dune'' actually did get made, but it contained so much [[Creator/HRGiger Giger]] that it [[RealityBreakingParadox created a quantum-singularity that would have destroyed the universe]]. The Drakulons moved in and [[CosmicRetcon stopped this from happening by erasing the film from existence]], resulting in the creation of ''Film/TheFlamingoKid'' to keep the paradox stable.


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* DocumentaryEpisode: The ''The Forgotten New Year'' review is framed as being like a documentary directed and narrated by arthouse director Creator/WernerHerzog on Satanic Jackula's War on Christmas in 2016.
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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Creator/WernerHerzog goes mad from watching ''Rudolph's Shiny New Year'', kills himself, resurrects, flies into space, turns into a giant floating head, destroys the Earth and reboots it with himself as its new God.
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Count Jackula (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a former reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome, the website formerly known as Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be a HorrorHost space-vampire from the planet Drakula and reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be also be found on Website/TheAgonyBooth and Website/{{Geekvision}}.

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[[https://www.youtube.com/user/planetdrakula/featured Count Jackula Jackula]] (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a former reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome, the website formerly known as Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be a HorrorHost space-vampire from the planet Drakula and reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be also be found on Website/TheAgonyBooth and Website/{{Geekvision}}.

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Count Jackula (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a former reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome, the website formerly known as Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be from the planet Drakula and reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be also be found on Website/TheAgonyBooth and Website/{{Geekvision}}.

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Count Jackula (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a former reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome, the website formerly known as Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be a HorrorHost space-vampire from the planet Drakula and reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be also be found on Website/TheAgonyBooth and Website/{{Geekvision}}.



* BerserkButton: Bad-mouthing horror movies as being unintelligent or low-brow.

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Bad-mouthing horror movies as being unintelligent or low-brow.low-brow.
** Mixing characteristics of monsters with one another (or has he calls it, "the retarded MonsterMash") arbitrarily.
* BigBoosHaunt: From Jackula's description of the place, Planet Dracula has shades of this, ranging from harmless HalloweenTown fun (like celebrating Halloween by dressing in costumes and giving out candy) to full-blown horror-show DeathWorld (a popular sport being where they "[[InterplayOfSexAndViolence murder-fuck]]" each other in gladiatorial arenas). Considering it is populated by alien vampires and horror fiction is almost considered sacred there, this is all a given.



** Then [[Main/SlasherMovie Masked Slasher]] once Wiseau-ula eventually [[Main/ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared.]]

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** Then [[Main/SlasherMovie Masked Slasher]] once Wiseau-ula eventually [[Main/ChuckCunninghamSyndrome [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared.]]



* CreepyGood: While Jackula himself ranges from ChivalrousPervert[=/=]EthicalSlut to grouchy [[HollywoodSatanism Hollywood Satanist]], the nature of Drakulons in general seem to fit this description, the general aesthetic and weird (and often graphic) traditions and hobbies being the sort of thing that would make Franchise/TheAddamsFamily feel right at home.
** Whenever [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Jackula veers away]] from his LargeHam performance and gets real with us, it is usually him breaking character to condemn truly terrible things (like RealLife mass shooters and rapists). Please note though that Jack himself is still a massive horror wiz and Satanist, so Jack Shen the actor also qualifies as this.



* HollywoodSatanism: While Jack Shen himself is a member of the Church of Satan, his character Satanic Jackula deliberately falls under many of the more typical stereotypes associated there-in, his hobbies usually being equal-parts blasphemous and ridiculous.



* {{Irony}}: Jack Shen was raised under a Fundamentalist Christian household. Despite this (or maybe because of it), Jack is now an out and proud Satanist.



* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Drakulons and earth vampires are not one and the same. Drakulons are much stronger than earth vampires, can fly through space, and don't have as many weaknesses as earth vampires. For instance, they don't turn to dust in the sun or 'need' to sleep on home soil. Because of this, earth vampires are considered the 'retarded cousins' of Drakulons. Both can poof into bats though, as seen in Count Jackula's most recent videos.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Drakulons and earth vampires are not one and the same. Drakulons are much stronger than earth vampires, can fly through space, and don't have as many weaknesses as earth vampires. For instance, they don't turn to dust in the sun (though he claims that he has a "skin condition") or 'need' "need" to sleep on home soil. Because of this, earth vampires are considered the 'retarded cousins' "retarded cousins" of Drakulons. Both can poof into bats though, as seen in Count Jackula's most recent videos.



* ShoutOut: Satanic Jackula wears skull make-up similar to Papa Emeritus, the lead singer of the satanic-themed HardRock band Music/{{Ghost}}.



* WorldOfWeirdness: The Reviewaverse. Jackula is a space alien vampire for crying out loud!

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* WorldOfWeirdness: The Reviewaverse. Jackula is a space alien [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Satanic space-alien vampire horror-host]] for crying out loud!
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero[=/=][[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Villain]]: Many of the jokes that Jackula makes definitely fall under the umbrella of "offensive", to the point of having an "offense attorney" to call whenever he makes an offensive joke. With Jackula's LargeHam personality and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} moments, this is done more out of a sense of self-awareness and [[TakeThat open mockery of the concept]], given that he believes that Horror (the genre his show is about) has the most to lose under PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.
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* InNameOnly: His problem with ''Film/HalloweenII2009''. He thinks Creator/RobZombie has created a well-done psychological slasher with well-developed characters and an impressive amount of thought put into its symbolism and plot. The problem is that it's supposed to be a ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' film.

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* InNameOnly: His problem with ''Film/HalloweenII2009''. He thinks Creator/RobZombie Music/RobZombie has created a well-done psychological slasher with well-developed characters and an impressive amount of thought put into its symbolism and plot. The problem is that it's supposed to be a ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' film.
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There is no way Drakula is a Fundementalist Christian planet, he was talking about just real life.


* EnfantTerrible: Both InUniverse and in RealLife. Jack Shen was raised by Fundamentalist Christians and spent a good chunk of his childhood almost blindly following his congregation's terrifyingly bigoted views.

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* EnfantTerrible: Both InUniverse and in In RealLife. Jack Shen was raised by Fundamentalist Christians and spent a good chunk of his childhood almost blindly following his congregation's terrifyingly bigoted views.
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* HiddenDepths: Within the fifteen to twenty minutes of maniacally gushing about the violence and promiscuity of something he reviews, he'll often drop insightful interpretations about the context behind a film's creation and its producers' intentions behind their choices.

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* HiddenDepths: Within the fifteen to twenty minutes of maniacally gushing about the violence and promiscuity of something he reviews, he'll often drop insightful interpretations about the context RealitySubtext behind a film's creation the mayhem and its producers' intentions behind their choices.the time period the films were released in.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Besides the usual mockery of this, Jack Shen is known to argue against applying political correctness to horror movies since they're ''intentionally'' offensive.
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** He is visibly uncomfortable when trying to discuss the rape scenes in "I Spit On Your Grave." He also comes down hard on misogyny in all forms during his review of the movie.

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** He is visibly uncomfortable when trying to discuss the rape scenes in "I Spit On Your Grave." ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'' He also comes down hard on misogyny in all forms during his review of the movie.
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** He is visibly uncomfortable when trying to discuss the rape scenes in "I Spit On Your Grave." He also comes down hard on misogyny in all forms during his review of the movie.
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* BerserkButton: Bad-mouthing horror movies as being unintelligent or low-brow.

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* BrotherSisterIncest: Has admitted at one point that he wanted to fuck his older sister.



* EnfantTerrible: Both InUniverse and in RealLife. Jack Shen was raised by Fundamentalist Christians and spent a good chunk of his childhood almost blindly following his congregation's terrifyingly bigoted views.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** He's disturbed by the accuracy of the Fred Phelps {{Expy}}'s sermon in ''Film/RedState'' due to his own personal experiences with such topics.
** [[TheEighties 80s]]!Jackula is [[BadFuture frightened]] by the future's increasing amounts of [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad political correctness]] but is even more horrified to discover that 9/11 will happen soon.



* InNameOnly: His problem with ''Film/HalloweenII2009''. He thinks Creator/RobZombie has created a well-done psychological slasher with well-developed characters and an impressive amount of thought put into its symbolism and plot. The problem is that it's supposed to be a ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' film.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He takes his hat off and is much more serious when examining a scene in ''Red State'' where a Fred Phelps {{Expy}} gives a sermon, saying that certain things the pastor says (encouraging small children to have homophobic attitudes, saying that tolerance of others is evil, and that disasters are God punishing the wicked) resemble certain things Shen himself was taught or experienced when he was growing up as a Fundamentalist Christian.

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He takes his hat off and is much more serious when examining a scene in ''Red State'' where a Fred Phelps {{Expy}} gives a sermon, saying that certain things the pastor says (encouraging small children to have homophobic attitudes, saying that tolerance of others is evil, and that disasters are God punishing the wicked) resemble certain things Shen himself was taught or experienced when he was growing up as a Fundamentalist Christian.Christian.
** Often when fighting between parents occur, Jack will suddenly break down in tears begging for his own parents to stop fighting, a big contrast to his usual AxCrazy personality.
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* AllMenArePerverts: He sure loves his ass and tits.


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* HiddenDepths: Within the fifteen to twenty minutes of maniacally gushing about the violence and promiscuity of something he reviews, he'll often drop insightful interpretations about the context behind a film's creation and its producers' intentions behind their choices.


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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: He's really into it when movies go all out with its violence.
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* SharedUniverse: Due to his inclusion on Channel Awesome, his many cameos, and the occasional crossover, Count Jackula is part of the Reviewaverse.


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* WorldOfWeirdness: The Reviewaverse. Jackula is a space alien vampire for crying out loud!
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Count Jackula (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome, the website formerly known as Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be from the planet Drakula & reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be also be found on Website/TheAgonyBooth and Website/{{Geekvision}}.

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Count Jackula (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a former reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome, the website formerly known as Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be from the planet Drakula & and reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be also be found on Website/TheAgonyBooth and Website/{{Geekvision}}.



* SteamPunk: His outfit certainly fits the style, especially the top hat & goggles combo.

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* SteamPunk: His outfit certainly fits the style, especially the top hat & and goggles combo.
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Count Jackula (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome, the website formerly known as Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be from the planet Drakula & reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsH7qSnvFDxcI4TtXW6mltQ here]], and also on {{Geekvision}}.

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Count Jackula (a.k.a. Jack Shen) is a reviewer on Website/ChannelAwesome, the website formerly known as Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and formerly Website/{{Reviewtopia}} and Reviewers Unknown. He claims to be from the planet Drakula & reviews little known horror movies. His videos can be also be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsH7qSnvFDxcI4TtXW6mltQ here]], on Website/TheAgonyBooth and also on {{Geekvision}}.
Website/{{Geekvision}}.

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