Based on reporting from Playbill and New York Theatre Guide More than three decades after Joel Schumacher’s 1987 cult classic helped redefine youth-oriented vampire mythology, The Lost Boys are riding their motorcycles straight onto Broadway. The long-awaited musical adaptation begins previews March 27 at the Palace Theatre, with an official opening set for April 26 […]
Based on reporting by Stanley Stepanic for The Conversation (via Citizen Tribune) For more than a century, Count Dracula has refused to stay in his coffin — and according to a recent essay by Stanley Stepanic of the University of Virginia, that’s largely because he keeps evolving along with us. Once depicted as a revolting […]
Based on reporting by Erik Piepenburg for The New York Times According to a recent New York Times feature by Erik Piepenburg, vampires have proven to be one of pop culture’s most durable monsters — endlessly reinvented, endlessly revealing. Since the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1897, the vampire has survived every cultural shift […]
In 1973, Dan Curtis (1927-2006), the creator of Dark Shadows, traveled to England and Yugoslavia to direct his acclaimed version of Dracula, based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. The film, sometimes known as Bram Stoker’s Dracula or Dan Curtis’ Dracula, aired on CBS-TV on Friday February 8, 1974, after the fifth episode of Dirty Sally […]
Before vampires ruled streaming television and TikTok aesthetics, they were taking over The New York Times bestseller list—one leather-clad warrior at a time. When J.R. Ward’s Dark Lover debuted in 2005, it introduced readers to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, a secret band of vampire warriors protecting their race from extinction. What began as a sexy, […]
When Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) first stepped out of his coffin on Dark Shadows in 1967, viewers were introduced to a different kind of vampire. More than a predator, Barnabas was a tragic figure, forever haunted by the memory of Josette Du Pres, the 18th-century woman he once loved and inadvertently doomed. His longing for […]
A new vampire film is quietly taking shape overseas, and if its premise is any indication, Crave is aiming for atmosphere and unease rather than familiar gothic comforts. Currently in production in Spain, Crave brings together a cast that spans genre veterans and rising talent, including Nell Verlaque, Jason Isaacs, Paulina Chávez, Kieron Moore, Eoin […]
Note: This interview with author P.C. Cast and producer David Cormican was conducted back in 2019 when House of Night was in active development as a television series. While that show has yet to move further in the production process, historically it’s interesting to see what the thought process was at the time. Let’s face […]
Vampires have adapted to the modern world before, but Vampires of the Velvet Lounge–reaching theatres on March 20—takes the concept to deliriously wicked extremes. Set deep in the American South, the film unfolds inside a shadowy back-alley absinthe bar where Countess Elizabeth Báthory and her glamorous coven of vampires have found a very contemporary hunting […]
While the name John Karlen may not register with today’s television viewers, there are a couple of generations of them that will surely remember him for two very distinct roles: Willie Loomis on the Classic TV daytime soap opera Dark Shadows (the show’s answer to Bram Stoker‘s Renfeld in Dracula) and Harvey Lacey, the epitome of the […]