HIYA FOLKS!!
long time no see, i apologise for my 'ack of input' of late, but i have been bedridden in hospital with the 'usual wose!" Anyways, it's great to see the mobius gang has bounced back from the terrible event of a few months back!!1

Now, here is a topic that I hope to 'tickle the funny' bone as I 'pick your brains with' it!! the other night I watched a low budget horror from the 90's called TROLL 2. Now I assume that it was origianlly title GOBLIN2 becasue their are no 'trolls' in the entire movie!!1 but, it does include one of my favorite 'clues' for those in the audience who are 'on the ball'. In TROLL 2 the young lad/hero travels to holiday in a spooky town with the strange name of 'Nilbog". Odd-sounding isn't it? Well, thats because it's "golbiN' backwards!! Does the young lad deciphers it 'in the nick of time' bfore the titular residents of NilboG catchure him?? I won't spoiler your fun, sorry guys!! you'll have to watch it and see for yourselfs!!

anyways, it's a good way of keeping 'the audience on it's toes', but i know that I've seen it in other movies. I recall a horror wherein a town was called "Melas", which of course turned out to be built on the ruins of Salem or some such witch hunting place! The name eludes me...could it be DEADLY BLESING? or THE SOULTAKER?

Can any of the gang elp out on this one? and even provide other 'chillers' wherein the main source of the town's 'evil' in the film is hidden within the town's name??

many thanks!!!
JP

There's lots of movies with characters named Alucard. SON OF DRACULA, DRACULA AD '72, etc.

ROSEMARY'S BABY had some kind of play on the name "Satan" if I remember correctly.

*spoilers*

Actually, the word puzzle in ROSEMARY'S BABY was that the old man of the curiously helpful couple was named Roman Castevet, which was an anagram of his real name Steven Marcato - son of a famous devil worshipper.

In one of THE MONSTER CLUB stories a man is stuck in Loughville, which is really Ghoulville.

SPOILERS for BLACK NOON follow:






In 1971's BLACK NOON, preacher Roy Thinnes and his wife (on- and off-screen) Lynn Loring are rescued in the desert and taken to the western town of San Melas, where they are nursed back to health by town boss Ray Milland, Milland's mute daughter Yvette Mimieux and others. Guess where these insulated townspeople originally came from and what they're up to now.

I don't know if this counts, but in Angel Heart, the main bad guy is named Loius Cypher. By the way, Angel Heart is a great movie.

THE MONSTER SQUAD has a scene where one of the kids gets a written message from his mother that a Dr. Alucard called and was inquiring about Van Helsing's diary. The kid then sees it in the mirror and it reads "draculA." Not very smart on Dracula's behalf I must say.

Of course these would all be considered spoilers!

Anyway, in HORROR HOTEL, the scary manager of the Whitewood Inn, Mrs. Newlys, is in actuality the ancient witch Elizabeth Selwyn.