When Guillermo del Toro stepped behind the camera for Blade 2 released in 2002, he was hardly an unknown filmmaker, but he wasn’t yet Guillermo del Toro in the sense moviegoers understand the name today. There was no Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim or The Shape of Water, and the Academy Awards and international recognition that would accompany them were still years away. […]
October and vampires have always gone together, but this year the connection extends well beyond Halloween. A new collection of vampire novels is arriving throughout the month, taking the undead into everything from Gothic horror and historical fiction to romantasy, supernatural mystery and romantic comedy. Among the most intriguing is Calvin Cherry’s Stoker, which turns Dracula author Bram […]
Sixty years ago, Victoria Winters boarded a train bound for Collinsport, Maine, and television viewers were introduced to the strange world of Dark Shadows. What began on June 27, 1966, as a Gothic daytime serial about a young woman’s search for answers would eventually become something considerably stranger — and far more enduring. There were ghosts, […]
Listen to this artlce as read by Vampire & Slayers’ own Victoria Nearly 40 years after Kathryn Bigelow sent a murderous family of vampires tearing across the American Southwest, Near Dark may be getting another chance at life. A24 is developing a television series based on Bigelow’s 1987 cult classic, according to Dread Central, although “developing” remains […]
Listen to this article, read to you by Vampire & Slayers’ Victoria Imagine you’re a lonely teenager in the summer of 1994 and come across a mysterious personal ad with three words guaranteed to get your attention: “MUST LOVE BLOOD.” Answering it may not be the smartest decision. That’s the starting point for Bleed the Night, a […]
Listen to an audio version of this article as read by Vampire & Slayers’ Victoria More than four decades after British comedy legend Eric Morecambe dreamed up a vampire who didn’t quite fit in with the rest of the undead, The Reluctant Vampire is finally making the leap to television. The six-episode BBC comedy premieres Sunday, October […]
Listen to this article as read by V&S’ Victoria Nearly 30 years after Sarah Michelle Gellar first picked up a stake as Buffy Summers, the former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star is once again facing creatures of the night — although this time her weapon of choice is garlic. Gellar has teamed with Buffalo Wild […]
Blood is apparently no longer enough for vampires. The newly released trailer for Vampire Carnival introduces a rather different breed of the undead — creatures who feed not on blood, but on human despair — while turning a mysterious traveling carnival into the gateway to their hidden world. Opening in theaters October 7 from Aura Entertainment, Vampire Carnival stars […]
Moving out on your own is hard enough without discovering that your landlords are ancient vampires. That’s the predicament facing Sandra in The Teenage Vampire, an upcoming horror film from Lionsgate that has just released its first trailer ahead of an October 27 digital debut. Jazlyn Nicolette Sward stars as Sandra, an 18-year-old who moves into […]
Apparently Dracula doesn’t need to turn into a bat to fly. Bram Stoker‘s Count is returning to the ice in Dracula: The Story of Eternal Love, a Gothic musical that combines the familiar vampire story with professional figure skating, aerial gymnastics, fire, elaborate costumes and large-scale visual effects. The next announced performance takes place March 16, […]