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Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravanna Garbage, where the Dark Universe

is always happening whether we like it or not. Confound it. Confound it. Oh, the Dark Universe also got your voice this week, didn't it? Yeah, I'm a little under the weather, folks, and I'm very committed to just powering through this, so if you don't like it, you're going to have to bloody lump it. Although, in a way, James, I wish we were still covering the Percy Jackson and the Olympians franchise, because much like Pierce Brosnan and Anthony Stewart Head, I am a little horse. Whoa, here we go. We're back, folks. He was a regular horse though. He wasn't a little horse. Well, I'm a little horse. You know what I mean? Ben and Lawrence, can we... Oh my God, now I'm a little horse. Now you've got it. Ben and Lawrence, we need to turn Mason into a little horse, obviously. But make it anamorph into a little horse. Yeah, that would be if you get... Just the most difficult thing you could possibly do. But James, in a way, I'm also prepared for this video. Oh yeah. Because I've spent this week doing a lot

of coffin. He's back, folks. You haven't coughed at all? No. I don't think you have been coughing.

No, that doesn't really work. No, neither of these jokes really work, but that's okay. Please leave a

like. Sometimes entire movies don't really work. Well, entire franchises, they keep trying to restart. Because that's the point of this, Mason. We're looking at four different universal monster movies that attempted to start their own franchise. Now, is that what Van Helsing attempted to do? Oh, yeah, Mason. This was basically an attempt to do The Mummy again, but with Dracula's and Frankensteins and etc. Yeah, I know what you're saying there, but what I'm saying is, because this is the era before

like everybody trying to make a franchise. Are you saying this was the first? No, this was supposed

to be a franchise and we'll get into it. But look, I'm almost all about this movie, but really,

it's just swinging on ropes and crashing through windows.

And CGI big, big wolves and stuff. Big wolves, Mason. I remember when I was a kid. And when I say a kid, I meant an adult. I was an adult when this came out. Sure. The first and last time I saw this was when it came out at the cinemas. With me. Yes. And I remember a conversation we had was

This movie isn't very good

Because this was the era

We were just realizing that movies could be bad. Yeah. We said, this movie isn't very good. But how incredible and incredibly accurate was that homage to old school black and white horror movies at the start? Oh, up top. And now, having rewatched it, no, it's not. It's not at all.

It's just in black and white.

It's just black and white.

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