The whole idea of a musical based on Dracula or Interview With the Vampire or something like it feels “off” somehow. Probably because when we think of musicals the titles that come to mind include Oklahoma! or Guys and Dolls or some such lite fare. Images of Maria coming to Baron Von Trapp’s home to…
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Best Undead on TV
Just for fun, here’s a list of excellent–some might even say “best”–vampires to be found on television. A personal list to be sure, but offered with sincerity. Your own views most welcome as well! Buffy the Vampire Slayer has so many great vampire characters I force myself to just choose two–the Sid Vicious and Nancy…
Review of Fluffy VS Vampirella
It takes little or no imagination to read the title Vampirella vs Fluffy the Vampire Slayer and get the gist of it. Two female icons of the undead genre meeting up. The stuff of fantasies, actually. In more ways that one. Just to let everyone know–the cover art conveys the quality of the actual comic…
Tropes That Need to Go Away
One problem any popular genre develops tends to be tropes that pervade too much of it all. In and of themselves, maybe they work. Often they work quite well. They can, anyway. But when we see the same thing over and over and over again, we enter into the realm of the cliche. So here’s…
Joss Whedon Discusses His Biggest ‘Buffy’ Regret
Our beloved Buffy creator Joss Whedon accomplished a ton of awesome with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but he does have one big regret concerning the hit show – that there was no cartoon. At a Q and A panel, Whedon said not getting the Buffy animated series off the ground is his biggest regret regarding…
David’s Most Sexy Vampires
“Sexy” pretty much by definition remains subjective, but that is what makes lists like this one subject to debate. Not that we’re minding that! In fact, we encourage it! Please feel free to offer your own notions! To try and cover a broad range without using an untenable about a space, here are the rules…
Directors Who Should Do Dracula
Dario Argento’s new version of Dracula in 3D premiered at Cannes and looks to be headed directly to DVD. Looking at the history of Dracula adaptations, one sees a blend of different directors bringing quite different sensibilities to the exact same story. How much do Francis Ford Coppola and Dan Curtis really have in common? …
Buffy’s Juliet Landau to Continue Drusilla’s Insanity in Print
As some may know, I am a hardcore Buffy the Vampire Slayer fangirl, and of the many wonderful characters on both Buffy and Angel, Drusilla is one of my absolute favorites. This vampire was deadly, heartbreaking and hilarious all at once. She was such an unique mixture of traits that you wouldn’t expect to work…
Vampires in 2011
Now that it is 2012, perhaps it is time to take one last look back at the year that is gone? And the top vampire stories of those twelve months? Johnny Depp, Vampire! Quite apart from the fact that Johnny Depp is finally playing one of the Undead (it seems so odd that neither he…
Rebooting Buffy the Vampire Slayer
We all know that the vagaries of contracts and show business market means the iconic “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is to be rebooted a second time. The first followed the less-than-stellar film of the same title, in which the screenwriter Joss Whedon took his idea and turned it into something fang-tastic! But now plans proceed…