Welcome, dear listeners, to a new—wait, no, not new—episode of *The Rotten Horror Picture Show*. But… haven’t we done this before? I’m getting this overwhelming sense that we’ve all been here, in this exact moment, with Clay and Amanda, talking about *Bram Stoker’s Dracula*. The Halloween vibes, the eerie atmosphere, the Tarot cards… it’s like a foggy memory hovering just out of reach, but it feels so *familiar*. Like a dream I can’t wake up from. Or maybe a nightmare?
So, yes, it’s Halloween, and Amanda is reading Clay’s Tarot cards, diving into his fate and perhaps seeing glimpses of his future—or is it the past? And then there’s Francis Ford Coppola’s *Dracula*, that lavish, gothic fever dream from 1992. You know the one, right? With Gary Oldman as the immortal count, a cursed soul searching for lost love through centuries, doomed to repeat the same tragic cycle again and again… kind of like how I feel about this episode. Have we already talked about Dracula’s Victorian decadence? The exquisite costumes? That eerie sense of impending doom? I could *swear* we have.
But maybe that’s what *Dracula* does to you. It haunts you, gets under your skin, makes you feel as though you’re eternally circling back to it, like the undead himself. This episode promises blood, horror, and that seductive Coppola flair, and I *know* Clay and Amanda have a lot to say. I think I remember their thoughts on Oldman’s Dracula, the wild accents, and Winona Ryder’s intense gaze, as if I’ve heard it all before.
So, if you, too, feel like you’ve been here before, listening to *The Rotten Horror Picture Show* under the spell of *Dracula*, maybe it’s fate. Or maybe, just maybe, *this* episode was always meant to happen… again.