FROM MARVEL: This May, BLOOD HUNT takes hold of the Marvel Universe with its own main limited series by Jed MacKay, Pepe Larraz, and Marte Gracia, as well as a bloodbath of tie-in issues, spinoff limited series, and one-shots. As eternal night descends, an overwhelming army of bloodsucking terrors will emerge from the shadows, united […]
The official description of the VR game Vampire: The Maaquerade — Justice reads, “You are a vampire. You strike from the shadows and drink the blood of both mortal and vampire prey. In a gritty main narrative that includes several side missions and dialogue options, explore a dark and mysterious Venice to improve your abilities […]
Losing cast members from Dark Shadows is, unfortunately, something that oldtime fans of the show have gotten used to, yet it’s always a sad moment and that’s particularly true with the loss of Lara Parker, who made such an impact in her role as Angelique Bouchard. I had the opportunity to interview Lara a number of times […]
This article / [Article Title] was originally published on The Public Domain Review [hyperlink to article on The Public Domain Review] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/” From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake Geneva villa in 1816, as well as Frankenstein’s monster, there arose that other […]
Well this one caught us by surprise, we’re not happy to admit: a vampire series that made its debut in 2018 and we’re only just hearing about it now? You couldn’t be more disappointed in us than we are, so no guilt trips! The overall series description is described as follows: “In an America quarantined […]
AMC has released a first scene from season 2 of Interview with the Vampire. Here’s how they officially describe the series: “A luxury apartment covering an entire single floor of a high rise. Where the Vampire has granted the interview with the man he once judged to be unworthy. And where the journalist Daniel Molloy […]
Written by tony Moorman and illustrated by Oliver Meinerding, Lost Fang is a picture book for kids and adults. It’s a story about a child vampire searching for his lost fangs and losing his patience along the way. Only in the end does he realize that all good things come to those who wait. Lost […]
Audible announced the first ever audio original set in the ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ universe. Slayers: A Buffyverse Story is set to premiere October 12, 2023, twenty years after the series finale of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ The audio original was written by original cast member Amber Benson alongside writer Christopher Golden, and directed by Benson, Golden, […]
There’s no denying that this is some pretty bizarre stuff, but the host of this video — Wendigoon —pays a pretty compelling portrait of an American operation in the Philippines that involved a ruse involving vampires. Wikitubia describes Wendigoon (whose real name is Isaiah Nichols) as “an American YouTuber known for his horror and true […]
The Mythology & Fiction Explained podcast is a weekly show that aims to cover all sorts of mythological tales and crazy fiction. This is also a YouTube channel, and this particular video examines a variety of different vampire legends from all around the world and examine how they’ve changed over the years.
Let the Right One In is a vampire television series that has had a long journey making its way to television. It started as a 2004 Swedish novel written by John Ajvide Lindqvist, was adapted four years later into a Swedish film directed by Tomas Alfredson with Lindqvist supplying the screenplay; in 2010 made into […]
Emma Caulfield Ford, who played the demon Anya on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has goner public with the fact that she’s struggling with multiple sclerosis. Emma, 49, has told Vanity Fair that the reason she is sharing her diagnosis has completely to do with her six-year-old daughter, Knightley Lake, who she had with husband Mark […]
Considering German director F.W. Murnau’s 1922 version of Nosferatu, the unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (published 40 years earlier), was sued practically out of existence, there is still plenty of life in this particular take on the undead, which is currently celebrating 100 years. For starters, casting’s been announced for Robert Eggers’ long-planned […]
Marvel giveth and Marvel taketh away. On the same day that Ryan Reynolds tweeted Hugh Jackman would be reviving the character of Wolverine in Deadpool 3 (thank you, Multiverse!), comes word that the reboot of the Blade vampire film franchise has lost the director who had been attached to it from almost the start, Bassam […]
If you were Jerry Lewis in 1956, he odds are pretty strong you’d still be trying to wrap your head around the fact that your 10-year partnership with Dean Martin had come to an end. But to deal with whatever he was feeling, he forced himself back into work and his first film as a […]
Appearing as part of the annual Fantastic Fest was writer/director Noah Segan’s vampire film Blood Relatives, which has been described as a family drama with vampires. Here’s how FF describes it: “Francis has a deep appreciation for the things of decades past. He drives a bitchin’ 1969 Barracuda Fastback and wears a black leather jacket […]
The name Dracula brings with it a long and varied history, and fans/scholars of the king of the vampires are well aware of the the historic precedent to the character in the form of Vlad the Impaler. But back in the pages of Castle of Frankenstein magazine (which is actually in the public domain), writer […]
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 […]
Between October 21 and 30, Scotland’s neatshows.co.uk will be serving as host of Festival of Darkness in celebration of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. “This is an opportunity to celebrate Aberdeenshire’s significant contribution to creating the world’s most famous vampire,” notes their official site. “Slains Castle fed Stoker’s imagination, and the jagged rocks gave life to Dracula’s […]
An excavation in Poland has uncovered the skeleton of a woman, believed to have been buried in the 17th century, with a scythe having been place around her neck at the time of her burial. Additionally, there was a padlock attached to one of her toes. In an interview with Britain’s Daily Mail, Professor Dariusz […]
One of Vampires & Slayers‘ other projects is a comic strip titled Media Geek & Friends, which essentially has some fun with pop culture. In the latest installment, “Media Geek & The Fang Club,” MG and his pal, Roddy (an intelligent, talking simian born as the result of being a chimp bitten by a radioactive […]
A matchmaking agency for vampires, werewolves and other fantastic creatures as well as humans? That’s the premise behind Dead End Dating, an eight book series by best selling author Kimberly Raye which is currently being adapted into a television series designated for one of the streaming services by the Big Screen Entertainment Group. Enthuses the […]
Universal Pictures can’t stay out of the vampire business — not surprising considering that they’re the studio that released 1931’s Dracula starring Bela Lugosi — only this time they’re approaching Bram Stoker’s material from a different angle: focusing on his man-servant, Renfield, and now comes word that the count will be played by Nicolas Cage. […]
AMC (and its streaming service, AMC+) continue throwing caution to the wind as they more closely embrace the vampire genre, beginning with its series take on Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire with other components of The Vampire Chronicles in development. Now get set for an eight-episode limited series titled Firebite, which is currently shooting […]
Needless to say, there are spoilers to be had here, so if you haven’t seen Marvel’s Eternals, you may want to seek out some other pieces on this site. That out of the way, the final tag scene in the new MCU entry features Kit Harington’s Dane Whitman about to reach out and grasp “The […]
In a new featurette released by Sony Pictures, actor Jared Leto takes viewers behind the scenes on his upcoming vampire film based on the Marvel character Morbius. Describes Leto, “Morbius is a Marvel character who’s been an important part of the universe. He’s brilliant, he’s strong, he’s got some unique powers, but these powers seem […]
It what is going to be the first in a series of videos, YouTube user Harry Potter Folklore has launched the umbrella series, “Vampires Explained.” Here is the description they offer: “Despite there being many different vampire franchises, they all have at least one thing in common, they drink blood, but honestly thats about it. […]
Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for their adaptation of Marvel Comics’ Morbius, the Living Vampire, starring Jared Leto in the title role. The studio definitely seems to be on a roll — beyond the Tom Holland Spider-Man projects — with the first two Venom films and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, with a number […]
Actor turned writer, director and lead Donavon Warren (who was last seen in the independent film Wheels) is going to start shooting Vampire Apocalypse in the near future. The idea of the film — which some might consider exploitive given the global ramifications of the pandemic — is to offer the question of what would […]
We’re repeating our refrain about vampires, but we continue to be impressed with how many permutations the genre can successfully handle. Another example comes in the form of the announced South Korean drama Bite Sisters, starring actress Kang Han-na (most recently seen in the series My Roommate is a Gumiho). In the new show, she […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Part of the anthology book Vampires Never Get Old was the V.E. Schwab short story “First Kill,” which is being adapted into a Netflix series. Sarah Catherine Hook plays Juliette Fairmont, a teenage vampire who must achieve her first kill so that she can truly become a part of her family of vampires. Problem is […]
In the pages of Marvel Comics’ Wolverine, the title character continues his battle with Dracula and his vampire army. Back in issue #5, Logan was captured by the King of the Vampires, who began using his unique blood to transform the undead back into daywalkers, thus dramatically increasing his power over humanity. Wolverine escapes, and […]
Can a blog be set back to 1938? If so, that could be a very interesting thing. Not sure if it’s doable, but we’ll find out, won’t we?