Vampires

The new television program based on the six-book “Vampire Academy” series (having previously inspired the lackluster film of the same name) will be overseen by Julie Plec of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and will air exclusively on Peacock. BLOOD RED SKY, a German film wherein “a group of terrorists attempt to hijack [a] transatlantic overnight flight…

A Serbian film (no not *that* Serbian film; I wouldn’t touch *that* one with a ten-foot pole if I were wearing latex gloves!) focusing on real-life vampire legends, set in the part of the world where the vampire originated? Hells yeah! Directed by Branko Tomovic, VAMPIR is headed to Cannes before hopefully getting wide release.…

Over at our sister site DARKNESS.COM I’m working my way through the CHILD’S PLAY films in celebration of the fact that Chucky is getting his own television series this fall. Rather, I am working my way through all the films and *writing* about the experience, reviewing the movies at that site. (And for the first…

Mortally wounded serial killer Charles Lee Ray, who happens to be an adept at Voodoo, puts his soul into a Good Guys doll, then continues his murderous ways…No. Wait. That’s a different movie. Let’s start over. Serial killer Henry, soon to be mortally wounded, puts all his evil into a quartet of handmade worry dolls…

The Darkness came to Selivanov in the form of Charlie Drenth. A stick protruded from one eye; the other stared hollow and vacant, dark radiance bleeding out. Most of Charlie’s throat had gone missing, yet it remained Charlie’s voice that Selivanov heard. “Your servant has failed you, little thing,” the Darkness said. “Even as you,…

Son of a bitch, they actually made the first one make sense. Okay, so SPOILER WARNING if you read past this point. The characters in the first one were dead the whole time. That was the big twist that didn’t quite work. Only you find out in this one, this movie that is both a…

The new EVIL DEAD movie will go straight to livestreaming. Alright, livestreaming. This means war. I get that the suits in offices don’t care about the minority of fans who cannot watch content via livestreaming. We aren’t a sizable enough percentage to affect their bottom dollar, so they simply do not care. And I get…

Never let it be said that Roger Corman couldn’t gift the world with some real stinkers, as far as films are concerned. 1957’s THE UNDEAD isn’t among his worst; it’s not even close to, say, CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (anyone who thinks this one isn’t waaaaay worse than PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, I…

It really struck me while recently viewing SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW (check out my review over at our sisters site DARKNESS.COM): Samuel L. Jackson must be one of the Undead. Yes, we all know that “black don’t crack”, but even so, there’s something unnatural at play where he is concerned. The man doesn’t…

I chatted at length with a really nice lady serving as docent during my recent visit to this historic structure, now a museum. After the initial reticence that is commonplace among employees where it comes to discussing ghosts—those working at most historic structures are, if not outright forbidden from broaching the subject, at least discouraged…