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Monster Movie

Episode aired Oct 16, 2008
TV-PGTV-PG
55m

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8.4/10

5.8K

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It's Halloween time and the Winchesters face-off against a shapeshifter with a penchant for impersonating classic movie monsters like Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Mummy.It's Halloween time and the Winchesters face-off against a shapeshifter with a penchant for impersonating classic movie monsters like Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Mummy.It's Halloween time and the Winchesters face-off against a shapeshifter with a penchant for impersonating classic movie monsters like Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Mummy.

IMDb RATING

8.4/10

5.8K

YOUR RATING

- Robert Singer
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- Eric Kripke
- Ben Edlund
- Jeremy Carver(executive story editor)
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Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki in Supernatural (2005)

Jensen Ackles and Garry Chalk in Supernatural (2005)

Jensen Ackles and Todd Stashwick in Supernatural (2005)

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Trivia
The sign in the beginning of the episode reading "Pennsylvania", changes to "Transylvania" when the lightning flashes.

Quotes
Dean Winchester: Well, look at me. I mean, I came back from the furnace without any of my old scars, right? No bullet wounds, knife cuts, none of the off-angle fingers from all of the breaks - I mean, my hide is as smooth as a baby's bottom. Which leads me to conclude, sadly, that my virginity is intact.
Sam Winchester: What?
Dean Winchester: I've been re-hymenated.
Sam Winchester: Re - Please. Dean, maybe angels can pull you out of hell, but no one could do that.
Dean Winchester: Brother! I have been re-hymenated. And the dude will not abide!

Crazy credits
The opening credits are done in classic "Monster Movie" style

Connections
References The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Soundtracks
Bratwurst Polka A
Composed by Lars Kurz

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Review

Featured review

9/10

A favorite

From a joke stolen from The Simpsons to the tacky sets that look like they came off a 1930's Universal Studio monster film, this episode was a pleasant surprise in taking the typical Winchester storyline and turning it on its head as a classic monster movie.

The characterization of the sleepy Pennsylvania town (which looks like the backdrop for "Frankenstein") as a hotbed of supernatural activity surrounding an Oktoberfest celebration gives credence to the story that includes a poor Lugosi impersonation as Dracula, an unseen werewolf and a mummy that comes to life in the town's museum. Definitely a fun show that steps outside the series' sometimes overwrought seriousness.

Full disclosure: I am from that small town, Canonsburg, PA, and it does have an Oktoberfest, it's definitely steeped in 1950-70 architecture, it does not have a natural history museum and it does have a few people who look like they stepped out of a 1930's horror film. And it has a statue of hometown favorite Perry Como in front of the Borough Building.

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