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Valentine’s Day is almost here, and for some, it’s a dreadful day. Cutesy couples hanging all over each other, radio stations playing love songs all day and virtually every TV channel showing one romantic comedy after the other – it’s a bit sickening. For those of you who do not want to spend their day …
2011 nears its end, with 2012 to follow. Many the movie, novel, web comic and television series about the undead await us in the future–and if they deal with vampires let us offer a few gentle reminders. Past tellers have sometimes done marvelous examples of how to deal with the undead, examples that too often …
More often than not vampires are romantic beings that steal our hearts and make us wish for nights of lusty passion. Once feared creatures of the night, these dark immortals are now the stars of hundreds upon hundreds of romance novels, and while that’s all well and good, we need to bring some of that …
Last year horror author Neil Gaiman created All Hallow’s Read, a day where you give a loved one a horror book in celebration of Halloween. When I wrote about All Hallow’s Read last year it was still a new idea, just something he happened to mention on his Twitter one day, but since then this …
With the release of “Let Me In,” the American adaptation John Ajvide Lindquist’s novel, a trope that naturally comes to mind is the child vampire. Although as disturbing as it seems shocking, there’ve actually been a fair number of the breed in popular entertainment. One might think that Claudia from Anne Rice’s seminal “Interview With …
Things are coming to a head between the Cullens and Victoria; the revenge mad vampire who wants nothing more than to kill Bella. As usual Edward tries his best to keep the truth of the dangers that await Bella from her, only Bella hates being kept out of the loop. Jacob is of course more …
I guess it’s going ‘straight-to-DVD’ so to speak, –I’m old, I still think of it as ‘straight-to-video’, which basically means your film is a) independent, or b) crap, –the two are not mutually exclusive, and even though I am excited to see where they’ve taken the original story, I do approach sequels with caution. The …
It’s not easy being undead. Some vampires want out, and sunlight is their preferred method. It’s a happy way to go, in my opinion. Death by sunshine. Some vampires decide to greet the blue skies very shortly after turning. In 30 Days of Night, the character Eben becomes a vampire to save his friends. He …
Info on 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days is finally starting to trickle in. The sequel to the hugely popular 30 Days Of Night was written by Ben Ketai and Steve Niles and based upon Niles’ graphic novel, that’s all we knew before. But now, not only do we now know the list of confirmed …
30 Days of Night is a horror movie that came out back in 2007, it is based on the comic book series of the same name. This flick brought back the traditional bloodthirsty and violent vampires to the big screen – no pretty sparkly vamps here. Now, as great as that all is, you’re probably …
Vampirella, 1969 – So, you’re a hot alien vampire chick from planet Draculon, why not wear a red thong suit that fits like a surgical glove, thigh high boots, and go hunt the evil kind of vampires? Forrest J. Ackerman thought this was a great idea, and then created Vampirella, who started out as a …