Where to watch Transylvania 6-5000
1 Star
Tabloid reporters Jack Harrison and Gil Turner are sent to Transylvania with two choices: find the Frankenstein monster or find new jobs. But before the jumpy journalists can dig up their big story, they must first face the horrors of an extremely clumsy butler, a nymphomaniac vampiress and a semi-mad doctor, as well as assorted mummies, werewolves and more Transylvanian oddballs. Can these two bumbling heroes unravel this monstrous mystery or are they in for some very scary surprises?
Transylvania 6-5000 is a horror-themed comedy that is a descendant of the zany Hope-Crosby ‘road’ pictures from the 1940s. Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. are unsuitable replacements for the incomparable screen duo from Hollywood’s golden age, and it doesn’t help that neither actor can generate a single laugh. Transylvania 6-500 is a compilation of one unfunny scene after another until the movie reveals itself as a disaster.
Narrowly escaping the dreadful ‘no star’ rating, I’ve awarded Transylvania 6-5000 one star due to the appearance of the always-sexy Genna Davis and the manic comedic antics of Michael Richards. However, every other element of the film is a letdown, and while boring, it’s also visually murky to boot. Goldblum is the straight man to Begley Jr. tasked with producing non-existent chuckles from this witless material; he’s unsuccessful at this, but so are the usually reliable Carole Kane and Jeffery Jones. Transylvania 6-5000 is a horror-comedy hybrid that is just dreadful.
Directed by: Rudy De Luca
Written by: Rudy De Luca
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Joseph Bologna, Ed Begley Jr.