Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)

Two skeptical reporters are sent to Transylvania to find the Frankenstein monster - or get fired. They are laughed at there but something suspicious is going on - maybe there are monsters, vampires, mummies and werewolves.

Director:

Rudy De Luca

Writer:

Rudy De Luca

Stars:

Jeff Goldblum, Joseph Bologna, Ed Begley Jr.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jeff Goldblum	...	Jack Harrison
Joseph Bologna	...	Dr. Malavaqua
Ed Begley Jr.	...	Gil Turner
Carol Kane	...	Lupi
Jeffrey Jones	...	Lepescu
John Byner	...	Radu
Geena Davis	...	Odette
Michael Richards	...	Fejos
Donald Gibb	...	Wolfman
Norman Fell	...	Mac Turner
Teresa Ganzel	...	Elizabeth Ellison
Rudy De Luca	...	Lawrence Malbot
Inge Appelt	...	Madame Morovia (as Inge Apelt)
Bozidar Smiljanic	...	Insp. Percek
Petar Buntic	...	Hunyadi

Storyline

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?

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Plot Keywords:

father son relationship | colleague colleague relationship | co worker co worker relationship | reporter as protagonist | campy | 

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Taglines:

For A Good Time, Call Transylvania 6-5000

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Genres:

Comedy | Fantasy | Horror

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

Yugoslavia USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 November 1985 (USA)

Also Known As:

Transylvania 6-5000

Filming Locations:

Mokrice Castle, Catez ob Savi, Slovenia

Box Office

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$2,507,542, 10 November 1985

Gross USA:

$7,196,872

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$7,196,872

Company Credits

Production Co:

Balcor Film Investors, Dow Chemical Company, Jadran Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jeffrey Jones and Geena Davis both starred together in Beetlejuice (1988).

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Goofs

The 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.

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Quotes

[repeated line]
Fejos: I want to show you something.

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Connections

Featured in Special Collector's Edition: Especial redoblajes (2011)

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Soundtracks

Pennsylvania 6-5000
by Carl Sigman, Jerry Gray and Bill Finegan
Arranged by Bill Finegan (uncredited)
Used by permission of CBS Robbins Catalog Inc.
All rights reserved

User Reviews

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.