Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)

Podcast: the Most Excellent 80s Movies Podcast · TruStory FM

Opublikowano: 2026-11-04

Podcaster Pete Wright joins Krissy and Nathan for 1985's Dow Chemical-funded disaster.Krissy Lenz and Nathan Blackwell dig into why this 1985 Frankenstein spoof never finds its footing—a satire with no real target, hotel scenes lit for daylight instead of night, and editing so loose the jokes never land. Guest Pete Wright, of TruStory FM's "Sitting in the Dark," walks through the film's stranger-than-fiction backstory: it exists because Dow Chemical couldn't get its money out of Yugoslavia. Plus, a pre-"Seinfeld" Michael Richards, Carol Kane stealing every scene she's in, and the audition story from Geena Davis's memoir that changes ho...