For a character born in Gothic literature and made immortal by the silver screen, Count Dracula has also left a sizable—and often surprising—bite on television. From live anthology drama to romantic melodrama, Saturday-morning cartoons, prime-time reboots and streaming horror, Bram Stoker’s vampire has proven remarkably adaptable to the small screen. Television gave Dracula a different […]
It’s appropriate that a television series about vampires should prove unusually difficult to kill. Long before Joe Port and Joe Wiseman became the showrunners behind CBS’ Ghosts, the longtime writing partners came up with another supernatural comedy. Eternally Yours would follow Liz and Charles, two vampires who discovered that pledging your love for eternity sounds considerably more romantic […]
New Orleans and vampires have been connected in popular culture for so long that it can sometimes be difficult to determine where history ends and supernatural storytelling begins. That’s certainly the case with the Casket Girls, real women whose arrival in Louisiana nearly three centuries ago eventually inspired an elaborate legend involving mysterious trunks, a […]
There was a time when you pretty much knew what you were getting when you picked up a vampire novel. There would be blood, darkness, probably a cape or two and, depending on the era, either a terrifying monster or an impossibly attractive immortal yearning for someone he probably shouldn’t be. Not anymore. If the […]
DRACULA PART I: THE LITERARY LEGEND — From Bram Stoker’s Novel to Modern Vampire Canon DRACULA PART II: THE VAMPIRE TAKES THE STAGE — Count Dracula in Theatrical History If literature gave Dracula immortality, cinema gave him form. Over more than a century of filmmaking, Count Dracula has become one of the most frequently portrayed […]
Universal’s legendary monsters may be returning to television — and this time, they may be entering the kind of serialized supernatural drama that defined early 2010s genre television. Writer-producer Kevin Williamson, co-creator of The Vampire Diaries and the architect behind the Scream franchise, recently revealed that he is developing a new series set within the […]
This interview with Forever Knight star Geraint Wyn Davies was conducted back in September 1995 when the show was early in its third season. Forever Knight (1992–1996) was a Canadian-produced supernatural crime drama that blended police procedural storytelling with gothic romance. The series followed Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a homicide detective in […]
Network television isn’t done with vampires just yet. According to Variety, CBS’ single-camera comedy pilot Eternally Yours has added three new series regulars to its cast as the project continues to take shape. The show, from Ghosts creators Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, centers on a married vampire couple who have been together for 500 […]
Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe became a global juggernaut, or vampire hunting got cute or ironic, there was Blade. A half-vampire slayer with superhuman strength, tactical brilliance and zero patience for bloodsuckers, Blade redefined the vampire hunter for modern audiences. With roots in 1970s horror comics and a pivotal role in proving Marvel characters […]
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 […]