Transylvania 6-5000 (1985).avi

Jack Harrison [Jeff Goldblum] and Gill Turner [Ed Begley, Jr] work for The Sensation, a tabloid magazine which has just received evidence that the Frankenstein monster still exists in Transylvania. Consequently, Jack and Gill go to investigate, much to the chagrin of Jack who does not believe in such irresponsible journalism. Transylvania is not what they expect, however. More like downtown Cedarburg, Transylvania has a powerplant, new skyscraper (6 stories high) and, whenever Gill asks anyone about Frankenstein, the locals break into hysterical laughter. The castle has become a theme hotel, repleat with an American Express sign on the door, a telephone that plays Transylvania 6-5000, idiot butler Fejos [Michael Richards], and a hunchback servant Radu [John Byner] and his hunchback wife Lupe [Carol Cane].

While Jack chases after American tourist Elizabeth Eillison [Teresa Ganzel] and her daughter Laura [Sara Grdjan], Gill chases after all kinds of strange creatures--a vampiress, a gypsy fortune teller, the wolfman, the mummy, a hunchback servant and his hunchback wife, mad doctor Malavaqua [Joseph Bologna], and the Frankenstein monster. Of course, Jack doesn't believe what Gill is reporting, and Mayor Lepescu Jeffrey Jones] and the chief of police are trying desperately to keep stories about Dr Malavaqua's monsters under wraps.

When Laura disappears during the Wine Festival and is returned by the Frankenstein monster , the cover-up is exposed. The vampiress is nymphomaniac Odette [Geena Davis] who wants to be attractive to men. The wolfman is Larry Malbot, Jr [Rudy de Luca], victim of hypertrichosis, who is receiving electrolysis treatments. The gypsy fortune teller, Madame Morova [Inge Apelt] is Malbot's mother. The Mummy is unwrapped as the former "Ugly Hattie" [Ksenija Prohaska] who has undergone extensive plastic surgery. The Frankenstein monster is Kurt Hunyadi [Petar Buntic], victim of a terrible car wreck, also receiving reconstructive surgery. Radu and Lupe stand up straight and reveal that they are not hunchbacks. And The Sensation has a heyday with the resulting photographs. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]