Someone contacted us here and asked an interesting question–namely, where are all the lesbian vampires? In one way, this seems very nearly ridiculous. Almost to the point of whining! True Blood comes back in a couple of months, featuring a regular lesbian vampire character (Pam) who now looks to be in a relationship with another…
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Review of Virgin Vampires
Way back in the 1970s, Hammer films had plans (never realized) to make a fourth Karnstein film as a follow-up to Twins of Evil. The title was to have been Vampire Virgins. When I heard of the following graphic novel, little wonder if I wondered about any possible connection! Virgin Vampires (or Once Upon a…
Vampire Might Have Beens
Many a fan of the undead may well agree with Anne Rice that we live “in the golden age of vampire fiction.” But don’t we all forever wish more classic vampire films had been made? And as long as we’re wishing, how about some thinking about which stars of yesteryear might have been perfectly cast…
Carmilla Adaptation STYRIA Needs Your Help
As some of you may know, I’ve been following the production of Styria for some time. This is the first major effort to seriously adapt Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic novella Carmilla in over twenty years. Last year I even did a three-part interview with Mark Devendorf, one of the writer/directors of the project. Now…
STYRIA A First Look
Post production on the first major film adaptation of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla nears completion. With that comes a new Facebook Page as well as a teaser trailer online for only 48 hours. By the time anyone reads this, the teaser will most likely no longer be available. So we here at Vampires.Com offer…
Directors Who Should Do Carmilla
Two decades have passed since Showtime’s adaptation of Carmilla with Meg Tilly as the title character. As this article goes is written a new version of the classic is looking for a distributor. Titled Styria it stars Stephen Rhea. To be sure, Le Fanu’s wonderful and seminal novella so far ended up on the screen…
10 Best Vampire Victims in Film
A superhero is nothing without an archnemesis. Likewise each detective needs a crime. For vampires, they remain pale-faced immortals without someone upon whom they feed–the Victim! Behold a list of ten exemplary victims in vampire films. Keep in mind the criteria here involves much more than a good bite. That’d be a different list. Here…
Review of The Moth Diaries 2012
This film will go into limited release April 20, but in the meantime is available SundanceNOW, Cable VOD, Amazon Streaming, iTunes and XBox ZUNE. The Moth Diaries debuted at the Venice Film Festival last year to lukewarm reviews, an adaptation of Rachel Klein’s debut novel. Given how highly that novel stands in my eyes, my…
‘The Moth Diaries’ Trailer & Poster Finally Revealed
Based on the novel by Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries goes into limited release this April. Exactly one month earlier, on March 20, its studio Screen Gems makes the film available on VOD. Evidence said studio doesn’t quite know how to market this film. The trailer below gives some hint of why this might be.…
Review of Kyle Marffin’s ‘Carmilla The Return’
Like the more famous novel Dracula, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampire classic about the lonely predatory Carmilla inspires some to pen sequels. Usually, these have taken the form of films. Most famously, Hammer studios filmed the so-called “Karnstein Trilogy” (actually a misnomer–four not three films ended up made). Only one of these–Lust for a Vampire–meets…