SONG OF THE THIN MAN (1947)

I'm just not feeling this one. Nick and Nora attend a party aboard a gambling boat and there's some turmoil between some of the guys in the band over a girl and money. Naturally, somebody gets blasted and Nick is on the case.

I don't know what is was exactly, but (outside of Keenan Wynn's performance) this movie was a complete bore. I disliked it when I first saw it years ago, so I revisited it yesterday and it still stunk. The mystery isn't compelling, there's nothing moving the story forward, all of the characters are boring and the fucking kid has way too much screen time. Honestly, I wish they would have just ended the THIN MAN series at part 5 and instead of letting the series go out with a whimper. Skip it.

Part 1 - The Thin Man (1934)
Part 2 - After the Thin Man (1936)
Part 3- Another Thin Man (1939)
Part 4 - Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Part 5 - The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)

HORROR OF DRACULA (1958)

[Update 09/20/2021: Need to redo this review completely.]

HORROR OF DRACULA opens with Dracula winning a break dancing contest at a nudist colony...what?! Oh, sorry wrong film. A guy, posing as a librarian, comes to work for Dracula cataloging his books, but in reality, the dude is a vampire hunter! He fails completely and by the time Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) shows up, Dracula is long gone and actually off stalking the fake librarian's fiancee. Van Helsing begins looking for clues that will lead him to Dracula.

Some modern audiences with short attention spans might find the story slow, but I was entertained throughout and found Christopher Lee to be probably the most awesome vampire I've ever seen...besides Angel and Edward and Spike and Jerry Dandrige, of course. Overall, it was a solid vampire film.

Part 2 -The Brides of Dracula (1960) 

Part 3 -Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) 

Part 4 - Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) 

Part 5 - Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) 

Part 6 - Scars of Dracula (1970) 

Part 7 - Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) 

Part 8 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) 

Part 9 - The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)