Described as a story about “Romance, friendship, death, sex and scandal,” Vampire Academy is based on a series of young adult paranormal romance novels by international bestselling author Richelle Mead. In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter […]
Dark Commandos is the live action web series about a team of vampires carrying out missions for the government. Their leader is Non Gage (played by actor Justin Neal Thompson on the series) and in words and comics, here’s a bit more about him. Known simply as “Non”, he is the leader of the Undead […]
The big news in the world of Anne Rice is the fact that her various novels, particularly those making up The Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches are being turned into television series on AMC. Offering up a detailed look at characters making up the former is YouTube user Shockwave, who created the […]
Yet another vampire film with a different sort of approach is Jackob’s Wife. Spending her days on cooking, housekeeping, and gardening, Anne, the dutiful, obedient, and supportive suburban wife to local pastor and pillar of the community, Jakob Fedder, realises that decades of passionless marriage have taken a toll on their relationship. Trapped in an […]
Climate of the Hunter is a 2019 American horror film directed by Mickey Reece, who co-wrote the film with John Selvidge. It stars Mary Buss and Ginger Gilmartin as sisters Elizabeth and Alma, who attempt to reconnect with their friend Wesley, who may or may not be a vampire, after twenty years apart. The concept […]
Black as Night is one of the four films making up Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studio’s Welcome to the Blumhouse. “A resourceful teenage girl,” offers the synopsis, “leaves childhood behind when she battles a group of deadly vampires in Black as Night, an action-horror hybrid with a strong social conscience and a biting sense of humor. […]
The critically acclaimed vampire film is given this official synopsis: “North of Spain, end of the 19th century. During the final throes of the last Carlist war, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman who lives deep inside the forest. Badly wounded and close to death, the girl believes the […]
Thanks to an interview with bloody-disgusting.com, writer Mark B. Perry has confirmed that his sequel series to the original Dark Shadows, Dark Shadows: Reincarnation, is still being retooled and shopped around after ultimately not making the cut at the CW, more for scheduling reasons than anything else. He describes the premise this way: “We are […]
The Vampires & Slayers podcast kicks off with a special look at Dark Shadows, the 1966 to 1971 Gothic horror daytime soap opera. It starts with an exclusive interview with Mary O’Leary, director and producer of the documentary Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story, focusing on the Canadian actor whose role as vampire […]
The excitement is building for AMC’s adaptation of Interview with the Vampire/Vampire Chronicles, based on the novels of Ann Rice. Admittedly dated as it’s a couple of years old, this YouTube documentary, Blood Genesis, provides an overview of the world of Lestat and other denizens of The Vampire Chronicles. The most recent news on the […]
While for many years people seemed to scoff at Sony’s plans on expanding the Spider-verse, those scoffs seem to have been turned to more of a “wait and see” attitude on the part of the fans, partially due to the commercial success of the non-Spidy Venom and the critical and box office success (not to […]
When it comes to content originating from Germany, the vampire film Blood Red Sky has set records on Netflix by being watched by more than 50 million people around the world. Essentially Die Hard with Fangs, the film is set on a transatlantic flight that is taken over by terrorists. An ill woman (Peri Baumeister) […]
Although there’s been a reboot or continuation of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the works for the past several years, there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of movement. However, that’s not the case when it comes to the world of fiction, Disney Hyperion announcing a new YA trilogy to be […]
If you ever imagined what it would be like to cross Sergio Leone with Bram Stoker, the results could very well be August 2021’s Death Rider in the House of Vampires, which seemingly transports a variation of Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name into the lair of the undead in the Old West. Glenn Danzig, […]
Actor William Marshall may have left us in 2003, but of his many roles the one that continues to live on all these years later is that of the vampire Blacula, as featured in the 1972 film of the same name and its 1973 sequel, Scream Blacula Scream. Now the character is returning in a […]
Johnny B. Truant’s Fat Vampire book series is being adapted for Syfy by Harley Peyton as a 10-episode series, tentatively titled Reginald the Vampire. It’s going to star Jacob Batalon, best known for playing Ned Leeds in Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films Homecoming, Far from Home and this December’s No Way Home. The show is described […]