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 […]
On October 2nd, AMC will release an eight-episode adaptation of Interview with the Vampire based on Anne Rice’s celebrated gothic novel of the same name. For vampire fans, this is genuinely thrilling news: Interview with the Vampire is the first in a series collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles. The universe is vast and extraordinarily […]
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 […]