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Two tabloid reporters are sent to Transylvania to find the Frankenstein monster - or get fired. They are laughed at there, but something suspicious is going on.Two tabloid reporters are sent to Transylvania to find the Frankenstein monster - or get fired. They are laughed at there, but something suspicious is going on.Two tabloid reporters are sent to Transylvania to find the Frankenstein monster - or get fired. They are laughed at there, but something suspicious is going on.
Inge Appelt
- Madame Morovia
- (as Inge Apelt)
Ksenia Prohaska
- Mummy
- (as Ksenija Prohaska)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe movie was financed by the Dow chemical company in order to spend frozen finances (money that could not be spent outside the country of origin) that the company had in Yugoslavia.
- GoofsThe plane shown taking off in the opening credits is not the same type of plane shown flying in the air, and the plane shown landing is yet a third type. This could be a goof, but in the 1980s it likely would have been a connecting flight.
- Quotes
Gil Turner: You can't fire me, I'm your son.
Mac Turner: Prove it!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Svengoolie: Transylvania 6-5000 (1995)
- SoundtracksTransylvania 6-5000
(based on "PEnnsylvania 6-5000")
Music by Jerry Gray, lyrics by Carl Sigman
Arranged by Bill Finegan (uncredited)
Used by permission of CBS Robbins Catalog Inc.
All rights reserved
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When Jeff Met Geena...
Horror spoof that is probably best remembered as the film where Jeff Goldblum met his future ex-wife Geena Davis and vice versa.
Jeff plays a skeptical tabloid reporter who feels that he is not making any great contributions to the world of journalism who is forced to go on a wild goose chase for in Transylvania with hapless believer Ed Begley Jr. (also the son of their boss). Along the way, they encounter a number of oddballs who are not actual monsters but are really just downtrodden, misunderstood misfits. Among them is Geena Davis as a sex starved vampire wannabe. Geena fell for Ed, but Jeff walked away with her off camera.
Film takes a while to get going but briefly comes alive here and there when a pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards is on screen as a goofy hotel worker. The film also gets a good shot in the arm from Joseph Bologna as the mad scientist whose entire personality changes depending on whether or not he's in his lab. Geena does what she can and Jeff & Ed have their moments as the reporters.
"Good. Everything hurts." - Joe the mad scientist.
"If I didn't keep you chained up, no man in town would be safe!" - another good line from Joe the mad scientist.
Jeff plays a skeptical tabloid reporter who feels that he is not making any great contributions to the world of journalism who is forced to go on a wild goose chase for in Transylvania with hapless believer Ed Begley Jr. (also the son of their boss). Along the way, they encounter a number of oddballs who are not actual monsters but are really just downtrodden, misunderstood misfits. Among them is Geena Davis as a sex starved vampire wannabe. Geena fell for Ed, but Jeff walked away with her off camera.
Film takes a while to get going but briefly comes alive here and there when a pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards is on screen as a goofy hotel worker. The film also gets a good shot in the arm from Joseph Bologna as the mad scientist whose entire personality changes depending on whether or not he's in his lab. Geena does what she can and Jeff & Ed have their moments as the reporters.
"Good. Everything hurts." - Joe the mad scientist.
"If I didn't keep you chained up, no man in town would be safe!" - another good line from Joe the mad scientist.
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- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Transylvanien, var god och dröj!
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,196,872
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,507,542
- Nov 10, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $7,196,872
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