Showing posts with label Mel Brooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mel Brooks. Show all posts

4.7.11

dracula: dead and loving it (1995)


"I was having a daymare!"
Prof. Van Helsing (Mel Brooks), is summoned to Whitby when a there are some suspicious deaths. These seem to coincide wit the arrival of the clumsy Count Dracula (Leslie Nielsen).
Brooks turns his spoofing abilities to the Universal Dracula films, in this lame comedy. Not on a par with his earlier work, but passible if being plied with drink at the time.

26.6.10

high anxiety (1977)


"The big bucks are in pschiatry...I mean...its so much more rewarding."
Dr. Richard Thorndyke (Mel Brooks) is the new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, and discovers there is something suspicious going on at the hospital. Nurse Diesel (Cloris Leachman) and Dr. Charles Montague (Harvey Korman) frame Thorndyke for murder, and he goes on the run and confront his own 'high anxiety' to try and clear his name.
Brooks takes on the might of the Hitchcock thriller and wins with a parody that includes scenes from The Birds, Psycho, and Vertigo.