The new Lionsgate digital release turns a young woman’s dream of independence into a bloody encounter with ancient vampires. Moving away from home is supposed to be an exciting adventure, particularly when your new address happens to be in the Hollywood Hills. But in The Teenage Vampire, an 18-year-old woman discovers that her attractive new living […]
The new Gothic thriller follows a centuries-old vampire aristocrat whose pursuit of revenge becomes complicated when she encounters the reincarnation of her lost love. Dracula may be the most famous vampire in literary and cinematic history, but the Count isn’t necessarily the central character in every story bearing his name. The latest example is Dracula: The […]
From Victoria Winters’ arrival at Collinwood to the adventures of Barnabas Collins and Quentin Collins, here’s how the original Dark Shadows paperback series began. For fans of Dark Shadows, there was a time when spending time with the Collins family didn’t necessarily mean turning on the television. Sometimes it meant opening a paperback. Beginning in […]
Euphoria, Cuckoo and (forthcoming) Blade Runner 2099 actress Hunter Schafer says a mysterious new horror film may be her favorite project yet, with a cast that includes Emma Corrin, Josh Hutcherson and Caleb Landry Jones. As it turns out, for nearly a year, A24 has been keeping the details of an upcoming horror film from […]
Thirty years after Habit, the independent horror filmmaker brings three of his most troubled creations together for a new monster movie arriving in November. When Universal Pictures brought Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster and the Wolf Man together in films like House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula during the 1940s, the studio created a tradition that […]
What do you get when you combine Dracula, an army of zombies, a small American town and the gloriously excessive imagination of 1950s science-fiction filmmakers? Apparently, you get Vampire Zombies… From Space!, a Canadian horror-comedy that embraces everything from Ed Wood’s low-budget monster movies to the irreverent humor of Mel Brooks. Directed by Mike Stasko […]
What happens when a vampire prince becomes the leading man on a reality dating show? That’s the premise of author Rosie Danan’s upcoming paranormal romantic comedy, The Villain Edit, which combines supernatural romance with the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of reality television. But as Danan recently revealed in an interview with Publishers Weekly, her original plans for […]
From futuristic bloodsuckers and supernatural action to vampire-werewolf romance, a new generation of filmmakers is experimenting with AI-generated horror. Vampires have survived just about every transformation popular culture has thrown at them, from the aristocratic menace of Bela Lugosi’s Dracula to the romantic immortals of Twilight and the blood-soaked creatures of 30 Days of Night. […]
The vampire has undergone some remarkable transformations over the centuries, but few have been as influential — or as controversial — as those introduced by Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer. Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, published in 1976, gave readers the tormented Louis de Pointe du Lac and the flamboyant Lestat de Lioncourt, while Meyer’s […]
Spoiler warning: This article discusses the vampire mythology and plot of Sinners. One of the most fascinating aspects of writer-director Ryan Coogler’s 2025 horror hit Sinners is Jack O’Connell’s Remmick, an Irish vampire who arrives in 1932 Mississippi with a disarming manner, an appreciation for music and a decidedly sinister appetite. But there’s something else […]