Bela Lugosi’s Dead || Clive & Dani
Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Wolfman, Bride of Frankenstei... It was a movie lovers dream. Especially after the bullshit that had happened over the last few weeks… Classics night at Nordica Theater was absolutely welcomed—even if the horror movies were, perhaps, in bad taste considering the situation. The theater wasn’t nearly as packed as it usually was, though there were quite a number of people. Robin had told her to try to get a friend to go with her (she would have gone with her, but she had an awful stomach for horror movies, even classic ones), but Dani thought she’d let Tod spend time with his family and she wasn’t sure if Andris or Lainie shared her passion for movies.
Also, she wasn’t sure if inviting Andris and Lainie would be weird. After all, Dani was pretty sure there were rules about killing a Ghoul with a guy and inviting him to a movie, and she really only talked to Lainie online when something weird was happening again… Which was always. Did that count as ‘hey friend! Come see a movie with me!’ type of friend status? Or was that too awkward and weird. It was times like this, sitting in the back of the theater with her box of candy, that she wished her brothers were here.
They, although they were absolute sports maniacs, did love a good horror movie. Then she wouldn’t even be alone in the theater. But that was okay, right? Still she found herself on the edge of her seat, carefully scanning the theater. As of late, the theater seemed like it had this bad luck charm around it—werewolves coming through the screens, visions of spiders dancing through people’s heads… Although that was Nora’s fault.
Nora! Dani jumped with a start, and cast an apologetic glance towards a couple that had startled because she had startled. She should of asked Nora to the movie! She was friends with her, right? She seemed chill enough to go with her to a movie, especially something like that. Yes, next time Tod wasn’t available- or she was too shy to ask- she’d ask Nora. That sounded like it’d be fun, and maybe she could finally see some of her paintings and stuff that Tod had mentioned to her some weeks ago.
…. She really needed to develop a better social life.
Maybe she’d show up to one of the parties kids threw over the weekend once school started up again.
As she watched the trivia flash through the screen, she sighed. If the screen asked her who wrote the book Dracula one more time, before flashing Bram Stoker in glitter letters across the screen, she was gonna absolutely, positively, die. This wasn’t Twilight. Dracula did not glitter, nor was he paid more to take off his shirt every two seconds--- maybe that would have gotten more people in the seats….. Probably not. She just really wanted the movie to start. Dracula would be first, and vampires were cool.
Real vampires that she assumed existed because werewolves and maras and ghouls (oh my!) existed were not cool. Probably.
Finally, the opening of the movie started to play as the lights began to dim. She could spend the next few hours getting lost in the movies. Nothing would go wrong, she didn’t even sense anything was off! So, if that was the case, what could possibly go wrong?