Described as a story about “Romance, friendship, death, sex and scandal,” Vampire Academy is based on a series of young adult paranormal romance novels by international bestselling author Richelle Mead. In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter […]
Dark Commandos is the live action web series about a team of vampires carrying out missions for the government. Their leader is Non Gage (played by actor Justin Neal Thompson on the series) and in words and comics, here’s a bit more about him. Known simply as “Non”, he is the leader of the Undead […]
The big news in the world of Anne Rice is the fact that her various novels, particularly those making up The Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches are being turned into television series on AMC. Offering up a detailed look at characters making up the former is YouTube user Shockwave, who created the […]
Yet another vampire film with a different sort of approach is Jackob’s Wife. Spending her days on cooking, housekeeping, and gardening, Anne, the dutiful, obedient, and supportive suburban wife to local pastor and pillar of the community, Jakob Fedder, realises that decades of passionless marriage have taken a toll on their relationship. Trapped in an […]
Climate of the Hunter is a 2019 American horror film directed by Mickey Reece, who co-wrote the film with John Selvidge. It stars Mary Buss and Ginger Gilmartin as sisters Elizabeth and Alma, who attempt to reconnect with their friend Wesley, who may or may not be a vampire, after twenty years apart. The concept […]
Black as Night is one of the four films making up Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studio’s Welcome to the Blumhouse. “A resourceful teenage girl,” offers the synopsis, “leaves childhood behind when she battles a group of deadly vampires in Black as Night, an action-horror hybrid with a strong social conscience and a biting sense of humor. […]
The critically acclaimed vampire film is given this official synopsis: “North of Spain, end of the 19th century. During the final throes of the last Carlist war, a little girl is rescued from an orphanage by a mysterious woman who lives deep inside the forest. Badly wounded and close to death, the girl believes the […]
Thanks to an interview with bloody-disgusting.com, writer Mark B. Perry has confirmed that his sequel series to the original Dark Shadows, Dark Shadows: Reincarnation, is still being retooled and shopped around after ultimately not making the cut at the CW, more for scheduling reasons than anything else. He describes the premise this way: “We are […]
The Vampires & Slayers podcast kicks off with a special look at Dark Shadows, the 1966 to 1971 Gothic horror daytime soap opera. It starts with an exclusive interview with Mary O’Leary, director and producer of the documentary Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story, focusing on the Canadian actor whose role as vampire […]
The excitement is building for AMC’s adaptation of Interview with the Vampire/Vampire Chronicles, based on the novels of Ann Rice. Admittedly dated as it’s a couple of years old, this YouTube documentary, Blood Genesis, provides an overview of the world of Lestat and other denizens of The Vampire Chronicles. The most recent news on the […]