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(ominous ambient music)

- Hello, I would like, if I may,

to take you on a strange journey.

A journey to a world where right is left,

up is down, and ugly is considered beautiful.

It's a kind of fictitious world that can only be created

in the minds of those who are truly out of touch.

Beings who hold themselves above

and separate from decent society.

Beings looking onto the human race

as nothing more than amusing playthings.

Chess pieces, as it were, to be used

and abused at their own perverted whims.

Tonight, we delve into the world of a deranged duo,

a powerful, sick, and twisted set of individuals

who use their perverse privilege to create

a dollhouse of terror and then fill it with human playthings

who are challenged to act out their frightful fantasies.

Tonight we delve into the world of the Boulet Brothers.

What made these homicidal housewives call on nine

outcast drag queens to come together on this fateful night?

What dangerous plans did they have

in mind for these innocent rejects?

What desperate situations forced these queens

to accept an invitation to the Boulet Brothers' mansion

in the middle of the night in a cemetery

to voluntarily partake in a twisted pageant

which would surely mean certain death for most of them?

Tonight we shall find out the answers to these

and many other questions as we open the files

and dive deeply into the diabolical world

of the Boulet Brothers' Dragula,

the Search for the World's First Drag Supermonster.

(upbeat synthesized music)

* Drag

* Filth

* Horror

* Glamour

* Dragula

* She's a killer queen

* Dragula

* She'll make you scream

* Drag drag drag drag Dragula

(screaming)

(ominous string music)

- Good evening, ghoul friends.

It's time for you to look around and meet

the other queens that have come here to take your crown.

(dramatic string music)

- [Boulet] Xochi Mochi.

- I'm Xochi Mochi, a killer clown from outer space,

and I love to get gritty, so when Dragula came around,

I knew this was all me.

- [Boulet] Ursula Major.

Foxie Adjuia.

Vander Von Odd.

- I've never competed in drag before,

I'm still a baby queen, but I'm expecting to get pretty far.

- [Boulet] Meatball.

- They wanted a monster,

but they're gonna get a goddamn terrorist.

- [Boulet] Loris.

- I'm Loris, and I'm your most perverted fantasy.

- [Boulet] Frankie Doom.

Pinche.

And Melissa Befierce.

- Melissa is drag queen royalty.

I don't really consider her a monster,

but I'm excited to see what she does.

- I don't think I have competition in here.

I mean, have you seen them?

- Welcome ladies.

We've invited you all here to compete for the title

and crown of Dragula, the World's First Drag Supermonster.

- As many of you know, we have dedicated

our careers to creating monsters,

whether it be legendary nightlife events

or superstar stage performers.

(dramatic synthesized music)

And we are in the business of working

on our next great creation, one of you.

- You'll be competing in ways that

drag queens have never competed.

(intense music)

But if you rise to the occasion and snatch the crown,

you will be a queen unlike the world has ever seen before.

(laughing)

- I'm like send all these bitches home.

- Just hand it over, it's mine.

- Your first challenge is very simple.

You are going to give us your wickedest witch look.

Up in the parlor, you're going to feature your look

and then you will be reenacting one of

the most tragic scenes from cinematic history.

- The death of the Wicked Witch of the West.

- I worked in haunted houses for years before doing drag.

I live for this shit.

- Alright ladies, it's your first day with us,

so give us everything you've got.

Because for one of you, your first day will be your last.

(ominous synthesized music)

- It's my life story.

Actually I started getting tattoos because

I wanted art that nobody could

ever steal from me or take away.

So by having it on my body, bitch, you're gonna have

to hold me down and skin me to take it, so.

- Hector. - What?

- I never really had money so the idea of spending money

on something that could just disappear was not my jam.

- I'm happy to be here, I'm happy just that my have

my name inside their fucking head

because that makes me feel like okay, I have potential,

I have a chance to do more than I usually do,

do more than just being the fucking queen.

Just like just the club circuit and stop working

and doing top 40 shit

and like get fucking creative, you know?

I don't do stuff like this,

I don't paint my face like this all the time.

I really wanna start doing more.

So here's the moment.

- Girl, okay, so I just barely turned 21.

So I'm new on the club scene.

And when I first started going out, I had a problem

getting really, really wasted, like way too drunk.

And it's not cute, I was not able

to conduct myself professionally.

(chattering in background)

But you live and you learn.

- Yes, that is very true.

Hallelujah to that one, girl.

- [Meatball] Hallelu.

- If I could inspire a single weird creep out there

to be the best weird creep they can be, I did my job.

- I think I, like Loris, we're newer queens on the scene.

But we both make our things,

we both fabricate our own things,

we make our own hair, our own costumes, our own everything,

but because we're new, we're not given these sort

of opportunities and it can be really frustrating

to make everything yourself and then sometimes you'll go

to a show and then you see queens

who don't appreciate the spots they have who--

- Girl, it's all look. - Right?

I feel like a lot of girls, they get comfortable,

they get comfortable and they start lazing,

and I'm dying to get these spots and nobody gives them to me

and I'm just making and making and making and producing drag

and it just doesn't get anywhere

so I was really surprised to be here, I'm incredibly happy.

I can put up a front all I want that

I'm so confident in this competition,

whatever, but I'm still scared shitless.

Again, I'm still pretty new to this.

- I'm excited to be around all these talented bitches.

I feel almost at a certain point where you feel

kind of stagnant in your drag,

and then you get paired up or pit against

these creative ass bitches, like this one over here,

well half of these other bitches over here.

(laughing)

- Ooh, which half, which half?

- [Meatball] Point them out!

(laughing)

- So I'm excited to see what

they bring out inside of me, really.

Being invited on Dragula was fucking awesome.

It made me feel validated in a sense to know

that being a working monster in Los Angeles

and being invited to compete against

the other major monster names made me feel like

oh God, I fucking made it. (laughing)

(dramatic ambient music)

- I came to win and I came knowing already that

these girls weren't gonna accept me and think that

I'm too clowny or too messy or too sloppy

because I'm not bloody or horror or whatever they do.

I'm different in a way that is difficult to fit in,

and I've been like that forever.

Growing up I was different too

and I'm just used to everyone shitting on me all the time,

that's not what I want from this.

- I'm a vegetarian.

- Uh oh. - I'm concerned about

having to eat some baby bird or some fucking

- Me too, or like anything, yeah,

anything animal. - Anything animal products.

- For me too, I'm vegan, but you know what,

I said at the very beginning of doing this

that I have to leave my moral compass at home.

Because it's Dragula.

- [Xochi] So why, what is your decision about being vegan?

- Well, I dunno, I guess I just think that what happens

in the industry with all the animals is really fucked up

and it's not an industry that I wanna support with my money.

- Absolutely. - But that doesn't mean

that I judge other people at all, that's kind of--

- [Pinche] She's actually punched me

in the mouth for eating.

- I did.

- So BJ, your and Lor's look the same, have the same look.

Very similar.

- [Loris] Really?

- A little bit. - But hers was made of elastic

and mine was made of leather.

(hooting and yelling)

- But she's vegan because she doesn't

like the way the animals are treated.

(yelling and laughing)

- When I said leather,

I just meant it's made of vegan leather,

I don't feel like I have to specify that.

- Who fights over vegan leather?

- She's always just,

just about herself.

And she just,

I just didn't like her energy at all.

- [Loris] Okay, you can touch my leather and if you find

- Clap back!

- Any small component of animal product,

you can have $300 from my bank account.

As soon as I have them.

(laughing)

- I mean yeah, the looks are similar,

but they were delivered in different ways, so.

- Yeah, the color scheme was totally different,

the energy was different.

Her tits are hairy, mine aren't.

I think the vibe of the outfits was completely different,

we both did bondagey strappy things,

but mine was a little bit more in the avant garde

fashion direction and I felt like hers was more

'80s inspired, kinda high school cheerleader kind of gig.

- Is this bitch here to compare costumes

with each other or is she here to compete?

(ominous synthesized music)

- Tonight we've challenged our ghouls

to come up with their wickedest witch looks

and model them for us during the Floor Show.

- As the second part of the challenge,

each of our ghouls will reenact the death scene

of the Wicked Witch of the West.

- Here to help us judge our ghouls tonight is our friend,

writer and director of Jawbreaker, Darren Stein.

Hello, Darren.

- [Boulet] Darren's known for his work on B movies,

horror flicks, feature films, documentaries,

but I think he's best known for his hugely

influential gay cult classic, Jawbreaker.

- Now, let the Floor Show begin.

(evil laughing)

(ominous ambient music)

(dramatic choral music)

(evil laughing)

(dramatic electronic music)

(evil laughing)

(dramatic orchestral music)

(dramatic electronic music)

(screaming)

(yelping and screaming)

- Los Angeles tap water!

I'm melting, I'm melting!

- I'm melting!

- No, got me with the good hair.

(yelling and hooting)

- Oh you bitch!

(screaming)

(yelling and screaming)

- Oh, you'll pay, you'll pay!

(growling)

(ominous ambient music)

(dramatic synthesized music)

- Darlings, I have to start off by saying,

from all of the judges here,

thank you all so much for what you've brought

to the stage tonight, you all wowed us.

You just reminded us of why we're doing

this show in the first place, so thank you all.

- Thank you, seriously,

you are making our jobs very, very difficult.

But it won't go without its rewards.

Now I failed to mention this earlier

and I think the time has come.

We thought it would be appropriate for the fans,

who are also enjoying your performances,

to have the opportunity to tip their favorite girls

and accumulate a cash prize over the course of the series

and the race to the title of Dragula.

We've started a fund in the name of Dragula,

and we've set that fund's limit for $10,000.

(gasping)

- Oh my God.

- This could potentially be my first paid gig,

and it's gonna be $10,000.

- That's a lot of fucking money.

- That's a lot of veggie burgers.

- I'll take it in cash.

- That means as you perform and the viewers watch you

and like what you do, they can tip you to up the fund.

When it reaches $10,000, we will close the fund and hold it

and deliver that along with the crown

and the title to the winner of this competition.

(applauding and cheering)

- These bitches can go home already.

Give me the crown and the cash, I'll take it all.

- Now it's time to review our ghoulfrends.

In the Dragula family, we pride ourselves

on being outcasts and losers,

so there really are no winners, per se.

But a few of you did make some magic tonight.

When I call your name, please step forward.

Xochi Mochi.

Great job tonight, we loved what you did.

You were scary, I think maybe the scariest queen

that I saw tonight on stage.

You were giving me a Disney villainess

from the black and white period that just came out

and freaked out too many people

and they sent her away and you never saw her twice.

- I have this in the bag, I'm gonna win this challenge.

- I thought you were super punk rock.

A lot of Evil Dead, Nina Hagen, loved it.

I was transfixed.

- The boys loved my colonial punk

pop art rendition of witch bitch.

I'm so excited, they called me Disney,

Darren Stein called me punk,

I can literally just die happy now.

- [Boulet] You did great tonight but--

- But?

- If there was a top witch tonight,

that witch would be Vander Von Odd.

Vander, can you step forward?

- This baby queen just stole my wig.

(applauding and cheering)

- You slayed it tonight, you were in character

from moment one to moment done,

I had to do a double take to even recognize you.

Well done.

(applauding)

- I'm genuinely shocked that I won this first challenge

'cause going into this I really didn't know

what I was getting myself into.

- I love the LA tap water comment.

- Oh that was funny. - That was some good humor.

- Next up my favorite cannibalistic fertility goddess.

Frankie Doom.

(applauding)

Oh bitch, those teeth. (laughing)

- She was giving me full on Trilogy of Terror

with a mouthful of sharp teeth, very Karen Black,

which can't get more Dragula than that, right?

- I was surprised to see some of the people

who were called up to be in the top.

- I thought her look was a little kinda dirty.

- Foxie Adjuia, would you step forward please?

(applauding)

You really wowed us tonight because your look,

originally when we issued the challenge,

was very pretty, very soft.

Where some of you guys wear your monster on the outside,

but you shouldn't underestimate the ones

that are hiding it on the inside

because they might come out and surprise you.

- I love your name Foxie, it's like a character

out of my own film Jawbreaker, so that was good for me.

My only criticism of you was the ankle strappy red heels

felt more strippery than witchy.

- You were super sexy, feminine, virile.

When you came out you were just exuding confidence,

that's what I love, you were a boss bitch.

- Well congratulations to you four,

you guys can leave the stage now.

Well done, once again.

- Thank you.

- A few of you unfortunately did underwhelm us tonight

and as a consequence to that failure,

three of you are going to be up for extermination tonight.

- These are the trials of Dragula

that you need to go through to prove that you actually

can represent the principles of Dragula,

punk, drag, filth, and glamour.

- And let's begin with Loris.

I like the costume, you're giving me an avatar of a witch,

kind of from a manga world.

It got very clunky after that.

You seemed distracted by what you had with you

as opposed to really embodying what you were giving.

- I brought a full reveal to the stage.

The transition may have been a little clunky,

but I think for the performance

and the look alone, I should be okay.

- My problem with you is that

you're scared to own your look.

And I think to win a competition like this,

you need to be as confident as your looks are powerful.

You have nothing to be afraid of.

- Melissa Befierce.

You owned the stage as soon as you came out.

You were giving me a super villain for sure,

I don't know how wicked it was.

I was feeling like the newest

villain from Jem and the Holograms.

It made me question does she exist in the Dragula world?

I don't know.

- I came in in that room thinking that because

I was very polished my look was gonna be the top one.

But in reality, it was not the T.

- I have to say my biggest problem

with your whole thing is the sensible black pump.

To me, that's not very drag monster.

It's a little more Ross Dress for Less.

- Being polished in this competition,

it's not enough and it's not gonna cut it.

- Thank you, Melissa. - Thank you.

- [Boulet] Pinche.

- Just having one white eye and one normal eye,

just didn't quite compute to me.

I felt like I wanted to see all or nothing there.

- Because you're competing with

so many amazing makeup artists,

you've got to show your makeup skill,

and that's an easy out to just black your whole face.

You don't have to show your skill,

so we can't see how talented you may or may not be,

and we know that you can beat your face.

- Yeah, we all know you can beat

the fuck out of that face.

Miss Meatball.

The costume became a liability.

The cape was fumbly, the hood was going back,

to me it felt like it was the first time

you were wearing it and it held you back.

- I think Meatball's look looks very hodge podgey,

99 cent store, kindergarten, had fun with a crayon

and said we're gonna do drag today.

- My heart is racing, I'm freaking out.

I realize looking around that

I could have pulled it together more

and it's truly my fault, where I'm at.

- For me the characterization was spot on,

your acting was amazing, that's one of your strengths.

I too thought the costume started to get

a little confusing with the yellow and the blue.

There's something that almost looks

a little storebought costume about those elements.

- That's not the greatest feeling to hear your costume

looks store bought when you spent days putting it together.

- My biggest problem was the Party City cape.

It's like it came out of a box.

- And finally Ursula.

Some of the fabric choices are weird,

and I've seen you do better.

There's a cheapness that for me.

But I was on your fantasy ride, you had me on your side,

but I was looking past some weird choices that I knew.

The two queens that are safe

and not up for extermination tonight are Melissa Befierce.

(dramatic synthesized music)

- I'm over my head like, way up there in this competition.

- And Ursula Major.

(applauding)

Thank you both.

- That means Loris, Pinche, and Meatball,

as the first of our girls to face extermination.

- It just sucks being down here

and thinking that I'm gonna go home first

and that they're all gonna be fucking right about me.

I have so much more to prove, I'm better than this.

- We will meet you back upstairs in the cemetery

in a few hours where you will be buried alive,

underground, and locked in a coffin,

where we will see which of you have the nerve

to stay down there the longest.

And you're not gonna be down there alone.

If you bore us or stay down there too long,

there's gonna be some little friends

that are gonna be joining you.

We're gonna let you guys leave the stage now

and think about what's to come

and we'll see you at the cemetery shortly.

(intense orchestral music)

(dramatic ambient music)

- I guess the only thing that surprised me

with the bottom three was that there were

four contestants that had extremely similar looks.

- I feel like the judges' critiques were pretty spot on,

but very sobering, for sure.

- Frankie Doom, Foxie Adjuia, Loris,

and Ursula Major all had very similar looks,

it was very voodoo, tribal, witch doctor.

- I feel like I let the Boulets down.

(intense orchestral music)

Yeah, their critiques were accurate, I can't argue them,

they were all, it all adds up.

- The competition's tough.

- Loris seems really upset, she's worried.

She knows that going up against me and Meatball,

that's a lot of personality to deal with,

and even me going up against Meatball's a lot,

so I'm interested to see how this all works out.

- I'm a little bit nervous.

It's weird to be in a coffin underground,

so that might throw me,

but I really don't want to go home, at all,

and I wanna do everything I can to stay in this competition.

- I feel disappointed in myself.

- Pinche is a fierce fucking queen, Loris is gorgeous,

it's gonna be tough, this is gonna be work tonight.

This is gonna be a hard competition to beat.

But I can't go home.

(intense ambient music)

- Good evening ladies, and welcome.

As we've made clear, each of you has just a little bit

more to prove if you're going to

stick around in this competition.

- We're going to take each one of you

and bury you alive, one at a time.

- You'll be buried and tormented.

The rules are very simple, you'll need to keep

your hands at your side at all times.

- We're trying to find out which

one of you has nerves of steel.

- And if you are weak and you want to escape,

all you need to do is (tongue clicking)

knock three times and it all ends.

I say we get this witch trial started

and we can see just how fearless each one of you really are.

- Let's begin.

(intense ambient music)

(gasping)

- Ugh.

(gasping)

- Can I get, no!

(intense ambient music)

(shovel clanking)

Oh, fuck

Oh, I don't like the sound of that latching.

Oh fuck!

(shovel clanking)

- This isn't too bad.

- Oh God.

(coughing)

The fuck?

Don't like this.

Whoa! Ew!

What the fuck was, oh!

Oh, oh no!

Oh God, no!

(choking)

(groaning)

Oh, whoa, bleh!

No!

Oh God, oh God, oh it's on my face, I think.

Oh, there's one on my face, I think!

Oh, it's on my neck!

Oh, there's one down my chest.

(yelling and screaming)

(knocking)

Oh God, this is gross!

Oh!

Are there still bugs?

Are they moving?

Oh, oh God!

(gasping)

- Oh wow, no, that does not feel nice at all.

- There's a,

whoa!

Whoa!

Oh no!

No ma'am!

No ma'am!

(retching)

(sobbing)

- Oh, oh God, is someone peeing?

Oh God.

Yes, yes Daddy, yes Daddy, give it to me!

Mm, oh yeah, oh, fuck yeah.

- What's going on?

Who's pissing on my leg?

I ain't even dead, those are pricking at my tits!

Oh!

(groaning)

- Oh, let me have it!

(groaning)

- Oh, I just heard a bug crunch under my head. (laughing)

(gentle sobbing)

Legitimately terrified.

You guys, I think I'm peeing.

I'm actually peeing.

I'm actually peeing right now. (laughing)

I just peed!

Oh, I'm pissing my pants! (laughing)

(intense ambient music)

- So here I am in this coffin,

all of a sudden surrounded by nothing and darkness.

- A little bit of stuff comes in, and it's like a mealworm.

I thought it was sawdust, apparently it wasn't.

- Crickets just pouring on my face.

I had crickets all over my body.

I don't know what I'm doing but they're not terrible,

but they're in my bra.

- All I could think to do is what I've done my whole life

and that's to take something shitty

and nightmarish and turn it into something funny

and worth laughing about. (laughing)

- I feel fucking gross. (laughing)

But I'm not mad about it.

- Then I peed, I'm peeing, I'm peeing my pants,

I don't know what's happening, I have no control of it.

Then,

I got out.

- Well done, darlings, well done and good show.

We are impressed.

- We're all going to go back to the mansion now

and you can return to your crypts for the night.

Unfortunately, one of you will not be waking up tomorrow.

- Goodnight, lovers.

(intense ambient music)

(ominous ambient music)

- What?

What?

Is it because I ate everything at craft services?

Huh, I was hungry!

(heavy breathing)

Balenciaga!

(intense ambient music)

(intense electronic music)

(thunder booming)

(dramatic orchestral music)

(gasping)

- [Meatball] No.

- How do you decide which one lives and which one dies?

(yelling)

- [Boulet] We've invited you all here to compete

for the title and crown of Dragula,

the World's First Drag Supermonster.

- She punched me too!

- [Loris] You're still here, so you did something right.

- She was a bitch to all of us, she wasn't funny,

she wasn't nice, it was time for her to go.

(dramatic choral music)

- So girl, it's time for you to go home already.

Get the fuck out.

- If you came here expecting anything less

than getting punched in the face at least once,

you have definitely signed up for the wrong competition.

- I'm trying my hardest.

- Doesn't matter 'cause you didn't do it.

- [Meatball] Yeah.

- I can't go home, I have to make it.

(intense percussion music)

(screaming) (intense electronic music)

(screaming)

(chainsaw buzzing)

(gagging)

(gasping)

(thunder booming)

(intense electronic music)

* Drag

* Filth

* Horror

* Glamour

* Dragula

* She's a killer queen

* Dragula

* She'll make you scream

* Drag drag drag drag Dragula

(screaming)

(owls hooting)

(wolf howling)

(intense ambient music)