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. […]
Listen to this Article: From the outside, Collinwood —home base to the horror soap opera Dark Shadows — just looks like another grand New England estate. Sunnydale of Buffy the Vampire Slayers, appears to be an ordinary California town with a decent high school and an alarming mortality rate. True Blood‘s Bon Temps is a […]
Based on reporting by Stanley Stepanic for The Conversation (via Citizen Tribune) For more than a century, Count Dracula has refused to stay in his coffin — and according to a recent essay by Stanley Stepanic of the University of Virginia, that’s largely because he keeps evolving along with us. Once depicted as a revolting […]
Based on reporting by Erik Piepenburg for The New York Times According to a recent New York Times feature by Erik Piepenburg, vampires have proven to be one of pop culture’s most durable monsters — endlessly reinvented, endlessly revealing. Since the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1897, the vampire has survived every cultural shift […]
When Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) first stepped out of his coffin on Dark Shadows in 1967, viewers were introduced to a different kind of vampire. More than a predator, Barnabas was a tragic figure, forever haunted by the memory of Josette Du Pres, the 18th-century woman he once loved and inadvertently doomed. His longing for […]
Note: This interview with author P.C. Cast and producer David Cormican was conducted back in 2019 when House of Night was in active development as a television series. While that show has yet to move further in the production process, historically it’s interesting to see what the thought process was at the time. Let’s face […]
While the name John Karlen may not register with today’s television viewers, there are a couple of generations of them that will surely remember him for two very distinct roles: Willie Loomis on the Classic TV daytime soap opera Dark Shadows (the show’s answer to Bram Stoker‘s Renfeld in Dracula) and Harvey Lacey, the epitome of the […]
There’s one inescapable conclusion: vampires — those bloodsuckers that go bite in the night, whether in movies or on TV — aren’t going anywhere, which is perfectly fine with us. To celebrate, we’re presenting mini-interviews with the stars of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Moonlight, Angel, Midnight Texas, Dark Shadows and more. David Boreanaz as Angel […]
With Dracula: A Love Tale, French auteur Luc Besson turns his distinctive cinematic lens on Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire, delivering a romantic horror epic that blends operatic visual style with the enduring ache of lost love. Set for a July 30, 2025 release in France, the film stars Caleb Landry Jones as the titular Count, […]
What if Michael Bay directed a vampire film? If the director of such films as Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon and Pearl Harbor did choose to turn his focus to the undead, the resulting film would undoubtedly be along the lines of something like “Vampire Marines” — a team of young, good-looking, kick-ass vampires working […]