When you put the idea of Stephen King and vampires together, usually it’s ‘Salem’s Lot, his 1975 novel, that comes to mind. But what many don’t realize is that there’s actually a prequel to that novel in the form of Jerusalem’s Lot, a short story publication in the the 1978 collection Night Shift and currently the inspiration for […]
Humanoids has published Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula, written and drawn by acclaimed cartoonist Koren Shadmi. The biography, which chronicles the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi, is Shadmi’s second collaboration with Humanoids in the media biography space after The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of […]
The original Crypt TV series The Girl in the Woods begins streaming on Peacock on Thursday October 21, and genre fans are hoping that it will be this generation’s answer to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s described as a supernatural YA drama about a mysterious door in the woods that leads to a terrifying monster […]
If you prefer your vampires live — sort of — and you happen to be in Florida during the month of October, you should check out The Vampire Circus. Here’s what they say at their official site: “Heralded as a mix of circus cabaret and theatre, The Vampire Circus is a mysterious, tantalizing, fun, dark, […]
While speaking to the Den of Geek site, director Alan Taylor had a couple of comments to make about AMC’s upcoming adaptation of Interview with the Vampire, which is to star Sam Reid as Lestat and Jacob Anderson as Louis. It was his love for Anne Rice’s original book that drew him to the show, […]
“Five rich, spoiled Asian twenty-somethings (Gijs Blom, Aviis Zhong, Yen Tsao, Philip Juan, Anechka Marchenko) are suffering from upper class ennui, unsure how to spend their days when so little is expected from them. In search of excitement, the five friends form the “Circle,” a group where they take turns designing a unique, extravagant experience […]
Coming off of its success with Blood Red Sky, it’s not surprising at all that Netflix is staying in the vampire business as evident by Night Teeth, a film that will make its streaming debut on October 20. In it, Jorge Lendebort, Jr. starts as college student Benny, who decides to make some extra cash […]
SHOWTIME has given a series order to the vampire drama Let the Right One In. Led by Oscar nominee Demián Bichir (A Better Life), the series also stars Tony winner Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls, Power), Grace Gummer (Mr. Robot), Madison Taylor Baez (Selena: The Series), Kevin Carroll (Snowfall), Ian Foreman (Merry Wish-Mas) and Jacob Buster (Colony). Award-winning playwright, writer and producer Andrew […]
Although the game V Rising is still in the Beta stage, a gameplay trailer has been released by Stunlock. On the official site, marketing director Johan Ilves says of the game’s origin, “After 10 years of creating competitive arena games, we felt it was time to go outside our comfort zone and try something new. […]
The prolific Mark Millar’s, whose filmed adaptations of his comic work includes Kick-Ass and the single-season Netflix series Jupiter’s Legacy, is now turning an idea that was developed for the streaming service and presenting it first as the vampire comic Night Club. In his newsletter, Millar describes the premise this way: “What would you do […]
Over the past several years there have been rumblings about a reboot of the feature film The Lost Boys, the seminal ’80s film about a couple of kids discovering there are vampires in their midsts which was played for both humor and thrills. Not comes word that Warner Bros is absolutely onboard a new version […]
No one was more surprised at Kate Beckinsale’s four-film turn as the vampire Selene in the Underworld films than the actress herself. After all, the British beauty earned her reputation in costume dramas like Cold Comfort Farm, Much Ado About Nothing and Emma, before moving a little closer to the present with Michael Bay’s Pearl […]
In the new episode of the Vampires & Slayers podcast, writer Mark B. Perry provides an exclusive preview of the currently-in-development television series Dark Shadows: Reincarnation, which, rather than being a remake or reboot, is actually a continuation of the original 1966 to 1971 daytime Gothic horror soap opera, all of which he considers canon. […]
One of the foremost experts on the vampire genre is scholar J. Gordon Melton, author of The Vampire Book, which is currently being revised and expanded as this October’s The Vampire Almanac: The Complete History. Melton is also featured on the current episode of the Vampires & Slayers podcast, during which he discusses his own […]
Ever since news that the rights to the daywalker Blade had returned to Marvel, fans have been awaiting the integration of the character into the MCU. We know that it’s supposed to happen in the next couple of years, that vampires were mentioned in an episode of the Disney+ series Loki (driving home the reality […]