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The Tale of the Midnight Madness

Season 2, Episode 2, Aired Jun 26, 1993

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An old movie theater has two weeks before they close down for good. Ever since the multiplex came into town, the older movie theater has made less than six dollars per day. All of a sudden, the mysterious Dr. Vink appears and offers them a horror movie he made decades ago. He promises the owner and his staff that his movie would save them from closing down and it works! Dr. Vink's horror movie, Nosferatu: The Demon Vampire, starts attracting more than fifty people a night. The staff wonders what attracts people to this film and unfortunately they find out. The terrifying vampire jumps out of the movie and into the real world where it can have all the victims it wants. Now the staff must pull the plug on the movie before it gets out of hand!moreless

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Eddie T. Robinson

Pete Matt
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Christopher Heyerdahl

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Harry Standjofski

Mr. Kristoph

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By phillthebest, Dec 31, 2010

In my opinion this is the best episode not only in this season but in the entire show, I can remember how scared was I when I was child after seeing that horrorific image of nosferatus going out from the screen and persuing that boys, it was so good and i wish that more things like that were shown on tv because nowadyas you only can find stupid reallity shows and things like that, i wish that more interesting storys like these were shown because at this momment tv is dying.

P.D: Im from venezuela, Im not an expert writing in English, please forgive my mistakesmoreless
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The strange and mysterious Dr. Vink wants to save an old movie theatre and he brings one of his own movies, but things get out of hand when a vampire gets out of the movie and steps into reality.moreless

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By ernie329, Oct 29, 2010

This is a great episode because it has Dr. Vink in it. I can remember that Dr.Vink made many strange appearances on Are You Afraid of the Dark. This episode is also scary because of the Vampire that comes out of the movie, Nosforatu. This episode will send chills down your spine.
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An old time theater was going out of busines ever since a larger theater moved into the same area, but when the manager gets the notice of foreclosure, he decides to play Dr. Vink's movie, Nosferatu: The Demon Vampire, the theater starts to find success.moreless

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By ghastly7grinner, Oct 29, 2010

This is tied for my favorite episode along with The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner because it just plain scared me to death. As a 5 or 6 year old kid, I had numerous nightmares about this very eipisode. When I purchaesed a DVD set of the series, this episode still scared me for one reason: the vampire, Nosferatu. His long fingers, his pasty, deathly white skin, his tall, hunched stature, and his ominous walk send a myriad of chills down my spine. Also, the numerous glances he shoots at the camera made me think that he was looking right at me as a child. This was a magnificent episode that should be in everybody's top five list of AYAOTD.moreless
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Jumping out of the screen terror.

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By sh811a, Oct 29, 2010

This is one of my favorate episodes of all time because as a kid it scarred me for one reason, the Norferatu vampire jumping out of the screen and it's physical appearence and omenious presence. The writers and director of the episode really did their homework because the humanoid bat creature has that same terrifiying and believable feel and look like the one from the original 1920's silent film as well as the remake from brilant movie director Wenzer Herzog.

This whole episode has that same format like "The Purple Rose of Cairo" like in that film it has a charater that is from the movie and jumps off screen. But by the episodes nature it was real a love letter to honor the old horror films mainly starting from the silent era that have helped bring horror stories not just to the visual medium but also mainstream as well. Norsfertu has power over the audience back then and it still does over fresh new eyes.moreless
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Totally scary. It scared the daylights out of me. Good job for Frank

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By nejihyuga21, Oct 29, 2010

The theatre totally old but they reuse the same cups over and over again? Please it's like gross. No wonder Rialto is not liked. Then Doctor Vink comes and gives them a film to play. Nosefaru the demon vampire. The Vampire is sort of scary out of this world with long fingers and suddenly everyone comes over and watches it. However it came out of the video. Ergh, that bite was so gross and disgusting. Yuck it was totally disastrous but then Dr. Vink purchased the theatre and now plays his movies everyday and it's far more better than the vampire. NOt so good for the workers. Painful to watch.moreless
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- Frank: (Story Intro) You sit in that movie theater for so long, you start to forget that the real world even exists. And the only thing that seems real, is the horror movie on the screen. That's what my story is about, because you know when you get really scared, you can always just tell yourself that it's just a movie. But sometimes a movie seems so real, it's hard to tell the difference between what's make believe, and what's really there. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story... The Tale Of The Midnight Madness.
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- Pete: I thought I just saw Nosferatu step out of the movie.
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- Dr.Vink: Vink! With a Va, Va, Va!
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- Katie: Movies aren't real!
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- Dr. Vink: I am not a nutbag!
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- There is also a Ben 10 episode named 'Midnight Madness'.
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- Alliteration Alert! (Midnight Madness).
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- Harry Standjofski, who played Mr. Kristoph, also played Phil in The Tale Of the Wisdom Glass.
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- Christopher Heyerdahl who played Nosferatu, also played Leonid in the episode called The Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor.
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- Frank never told a story opener.
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- This is the second appearance of Dr. Vink
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- This was one of the only Nickelodeon shows that featured someone drinking alcohol. The owner of the theater drank from a flask, as he looked over his bills. After he swallowed he made a face as though what he was drinking was very strong. Odd for a kids show.
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- This story was told by Frank.
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- In Dr. Vink's movie, there is a character who gets killed by Nosferatu at the end of the film. The character's name is Harker. The full name is Jonathon Harker who is from Bram Stoker's classic novel, Dracula.
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- The name of the vampire movie in the episode is called Nosferatu: The Demon Vampire. This title is based on the 1922 silent movie Nosferatu: Symphony of Horror.
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