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* AwesomeDearBoy: Lysette Anthony took the role of Lucy just to work with Mel Brooks.



** [[ThrowItIn And it led to the ad lib]] "She's dead ''enough.''"



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/KelseyGrammer was offered the role of Dracula.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: MidDevelopmentGenreShift: Steve Haberman and Rudy De Luca had been writing a serious horror script titled 'Not Human', and kept thinking of parodic scenes. They ended up compiling their ideas into what became this script.
* MissingTrailerScene: The trailer has a shot of the 'daymare' scene where Dracula says "it's good to be dead", but it doesn't appear in the film.
* RealLifeRelative: Creator/AnneBancroft, who was married to Mel Brooks, plays the Romani woman Madame Ouspenskaya.
* ThrowItIn: Steven Weber ad-libbed "she's dead enough" after staking Lucy's corpse.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** An early idea was to have the movie in black and white, as they had done with ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. They opted not to, citing how most of the more famous Dracula movies had been in colour. They then used the Hammer movies as a visual inspiration for this one.
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Creator/KelseyGrammer was offered the role of Dracula.
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* FakeBrit: Most of the cast.

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* FakeBrit: Most of the cast. Of the main cast, Lucy is the only British character played by a British actor (Creator/LysetteAnthony).

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* CreatorKiller: After a string of flops in TheNineties, this film proved to be the last nail in Creator/MelBrooks's prolific cinematic coffin, and he would move into musical theater a few years later. Considering that most of his acting parts were ones he'd written for himself into his own films, it also drove a stake into his acting career, save for a few voiceover roles.

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* CreatorKiller: After a string of flops in TheNineties, this film proved to be the last nail in Creator/MelBrooks's Creator/MelBrooks' prolific cinematic coffin, and he would move into musical theater a few years later. Considering that most of his acting parts were ones he'd written for himself into his own films, it also drove a stake into his acting career, save for a few voiceover roles.



* FakeBrit: Most of the cast.

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* FakeBrit: Most of the cast.cast.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/KelseyGrammer was offered the role of Dracula.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $30 million. Box office, $10,772,144.

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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $30 million. Box office, $10,772,144. The movie was left to die in a sea of other underperforming movies during a crowded Christmas 1995 season.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Steven Weber had no idea how much blood was going to be splattered on him during the "staking Lucy" scene. Look closely and you can see him [[{{Corpsing}} trying not to crack up]].

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* EnforcedMethodActing: Steven Weber Creator/StevenWeber had no idea how much blood was going to be splattered on him during the "staking Lucy" scene. Look closely and you can see him [[{{Corpsing}} trying not to crack up]].
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* CreatorKiller: After a string of flops in TheNineties, this film proved to be last nail in Creator/MelBrooks's prolific cinematic coffin, and he would move into musical theater a few years later. Considering that most of his acting parts were ones he'd written for himself into his own films, it also drove a stake into his acting career, save for a few voiceover roles.

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* CreatorKiller: After a string of flops in TheNineties, this film proved to be the last nail in Creator/MelBrooks's prolific cinematic coffin, and he would move into musical theater a few years later. Considering that most of his acting parts were ones he'd written for himself into his own films, it also drove a stake into his acting career, save for a few voiceover roles.
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* CreatorKiller: After a string of flops in TheNineties, this film proved to be last nail in Creator/MelBrooks's prolific cinematic coffin. Considering that most of his acting parts were ones he'd written for himself into his own films, it also drove a stake into his acting career. As of this writing, he's yet to write, direct or star in another film, save for a few voiceover roles, instead moving into doing musical theater.

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* CreatorKiller: After a string of flops in TheNineties, this film proved to be last nail in Creator/MelBrooks's prolific cinematic coffin. coffin, and he would move into musical theater a few years later. Considering that most of his acting parts were ones he'd written for himself into his own films, it also drove a stake into his acting career. As of this writing, he's yet to write, direct or star in another film, career, save for a few voiceover roles, instead moving into doing musical theater.roles.
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* CreatorKiller: After a string of flops in TheNineties, this film proved to be last nail in Mel Brooks's prolific cinematic coffin. Considering that most of his acting parts were ones he'd written for himself into his own films, it also drove a stake into his acting career. As of this writing, he's yet to write, direct or star in another film, save for a few voiceover roles, instead moving into doing musical theater.

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* CreatorKiller: After a string of flops in TheNineties, this film proved to be last nail in Mel Brooks's Creator/MelBrooks's prolific cinematic coffin. Considering that most of his acting parts were ones he'd written for himself into his own films, it also drove a stake into his acting career. As of this writing, he's yet to write, direct or star in another film, save for a few voiceover roles, instead moving into doing musical theater.
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* CreatorKiller: This was the last nail in Mel Brooks's cinematic coffin after a string of critical misfires and a long career in filmmaking. He has yet to deal with another movie on a creator level, moving to the stage. It also drove a stake into his acting career's heart, seeing as how he didn't lend a role to another movie for another 10 years, and hasn't been in another live-action production.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Steven Weber had no idea how much blood was going to be splattered on him during the "staking Lucy" scene. Look closely and you can see him trying not to crack up.

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* CreatorKiller: This was the After a string of flops in TheNineties, this film proved to be last nail in Mel Brooks's prolific cinematic coffin after a string coffin. Considering that most of critical misfires and a long career in filmmaking. He has yet to deal with another movie on a creator level, moving to the stage. It his acting parts were ones he'd written for himself into his own films, it also drove a stake into his acting career's heart, seeing as how he didn't lend a role career. As of this writing, he's yet to another movie for another 10 years, and hasn't been write, direct or star in another live-action production.
film, save for a few voiceover roles, instead moving into doing musical theater.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Steven Weber had no idea how much blood was going to be splattered on him during the "staking Lucy" scene. Look closely and you can see him [[{{Corpsing}} trying not to crack up.up]].
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* FakeBrit: Most of the cast.
* HeyItsThatGuy: DomDeluise's son David [=DeLuise=] is one of the medical interns.
* HeyItsThatVoice: You can really hear [[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdman X the Eliminator's]] voice in some of Renfield's lines.

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* FakeBrit: Most of the cast.
* HeyItsThatGuy: DomDeluise's son David [=DeLuise=] is one of the medical interns.
* HeyItsThatVoice: You can really hear [[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdman X the Eliminator's]] voice in some of Renfield's lines.
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* HeyItsThatGuy
** DomDeluise's son DavidDeLuise is one of the medical interns.

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* HeyItsThatGuy
**
HeyItsThatGuy: DomDeluise's son DavidDeLuise David [=DeLuise=] is one of the medical interns.interns.
* HeyItsThatVoice: You can really hear [[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdman X the Eliminator's]] voice in some of Renfield's lines.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $30 million. Box office, $10,772,144.
* CreatorKiller: This was the last nail in Mel Brooks's cinematic coffin after a string of critical misfires and a long career in filmmaking. He has yet to deal with another movie on a creator level, moving to the stage. It also drove a stake into his acting career's heart, seeing as how he didn't lend a role to another movie for another 10 years, and hasn't been in another live-action production.
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* FakeBrit: Most of the cast.

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* FakeBrit: Most of the cast.cast.
* HeyItsThatGuy
** DomDeluise's son DavidDeLuise is one of the medical interns.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Steven Weber had no idea how much blood was going to be splattered on him during the "staking Lucy" scene. Look closely and you can see him trying not to crack up.
** [[ThrowItIn And it led to the ad lib]] "She's dead ''enough.''"
* FakeBrit: Most of the cast.

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