Today's Fear Factor: How's It Fangin'?: In Search Of The Real Dracula

NBC ID: ART1TUBRTS | Production Unit: NBC News | Media Type: Aired Show | Air Date(s): 10/29/2015 | Event Date(s): 10/29/2015

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Event Date(s): 10/29/2015 | Event Location(s): Romania, Romania, Sighisoara, Romania | Description: NBC’s Keir Simmons reports live on-camera in-studio. EJ: CLIPS: Black and white and color clips of Dracula movies. EXT DAY TRANSYLVANIA, ROMANIA AND THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS MS: Long shot of a castle on a hill with time lapse footage of clouds moving overhead. MS: In a field guide shakes Simmons’ hand and says “Welcome to Transylvania.” MS: Car drives down a road. MS: Point of view shot of driving down a highway past trees in a forest. MS: Rolling shot of driving past mountains. MS: Panning shot down from trees to man standing near graves in a graveyard. MS: Silhouetted tombstone. MS: Simmons and the guide kneel near a grave as the guide says “It’s a piece of superstition that says if you have a damaged grave like this one someone or something may pop out of it” as shot pans to damage on the grave’s exterior. CLIP: Black and white clip from a Dracula movie. EXT DAY TRANSILVANIA MS: Bones in a grave. MS: In interview the guide says (about bodies found with stakes through the hearts) “Yes actually it proves the superstitions are very strong.” INT MS: Black and white drawings of Dracula. STILL: Black and white of Dracula’s creator Bram Stoker. EXT DAY TRANSYLVANIA MS: Low shot of Dracula’s castle. MS: Simmons reports on-camera under an umbrella and walks in a field to the castle (while looking up back and forth). MS: Low shot of Simmons jogging up the castle’s steps. MS: Low shot of Simmons under an umbrella outside the castle looking up at the castle pans to low shot of the castle. INT TRANSYLVANIA IN DRACULA’S CASTLE MS: Interior of a secret passageway. MS: Simmons in a room. EXT DAY TRANSYLVANIA MS: Low shot of Dracula’s castle. CLIPS: Clips from the movie “Dracula Untold.” INT MS: Painting of warlord Dracula knicknamed Vlad The Imapler. GFX SUPER: “Dracula.” INT TRANSYLVANIA MS: In interview guide says “Dracula it’s son of the Devil.” MS: Guide (faces unseen) holds black and white drawing of Dracula. MS: In interview the guide says “The impaler was a knickname that came later with the brutal habit…” (Simmons’ VO interrupts the guide’s interview). MS: Black and white drawing of people impaled by Dracula. MS: The guide asks Simmons “Would you like to know more?” and Simmons, with his head in his hands, says “No not really. No.” EXT DAY TRANSYLVANIA MS: Overhead panning shot of the castle’s rooftop. INT TRANSYLVANIA MS: Simmons interviews parents from Michigan with their baby in the castle. 2 MS: The father holds the baby as in VO Simmons asks “Is it scary here?” and the baby squeals. EXT NIGHT TRANSYLVANIA MS: Exterior of Dracula’s castle. MS: Simmons on-camera with Dracula’s castle in the distance as he shudders and walks away. EXT DAY TRANSYLVANIA AND CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS WS: Beauty shot of sunrise over the silhouetted mountain. EXT DAY SIGHISOARA, ROMANIA AND TRANSYLVANIA MS: Low shot of homes in Sighisoara with Dracula’s castle seen in the distance. 2 MS: Silhouetted Simmons and guide walk. MS: Buildings. MS: Simmons and the guide walk down a stone street past homes. MS: Exterior of the building where Dracula was born. MS: Simmons and the guide stand near a statue of Dracula. MS: Dracula’s statue. MS: Flowers at the base of the statue seen as the guide says “He is hugely popular in Romania. Everyone loves him.” 2 MS: A couple pose near the statue. 2 MS: Women talk in a home’s doorway. 2 MS: Men ride on horse-drawn cart. 2 MS: Longer shot of the men waving on the horse-drawn cart. CU: The statue of Dracula. MS: In interview the guide says (when asked if Dracula was still alive would he be the Romanian’s preferred politician) “I think everyone would answer with a yes here in Romania.” MS: Dracula’s statue. MS: Simmons reports on-camera drinking a glass of red liquid and says “It’s tomato juice.” Simmons reports live on-camera and x-talks with Lauer, Guthrie, and Daly (does no sign-off).

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