It what is going to be the first in a series of videos, YouTube user Harry Potter Folklore has launched the umbrella series, “Vampires Explained.” Here is the description they offer: “Despite there being many different vampire franchises, they all have at least one thing in common, they drink blood, but honestly thats about it. […]
Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for their adaptation of Marvel Comics’ Morbius, the Living Vampire, starring Jared Leto in the title role. The studio definitely seems to be on a roll — beyond the Tom Holland Spider-Man projects — with the first two Venom films and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, with a number […]
Actor turned writer, director and lead Donavon Warren (who was last seen in the independent film Wheels) is going to start shooting Vampire Apocalypse in the near future. The idea of the film — which some might consider exploitive given the global ramifications of the pandemic — is to offer the question of what would […]
We’re repeating our refrain about vampires, but we continue to be impressed with how many permutations the genre can successfully handle. Another example comes in the form of the announced South Korean drama Bite Sisters, starring actress Kang Han-na (most recently seen in the series My Roommate is a Gumiho). In the new show, she […]
When you put the idea of Stephen King and vampires together, usually it’s ‘Salem’s Lot, his 1975 novel, that comes to mind. But what many don’t realize is that there’s actually a prequel to that novel in the form of Jerusalem’s Lot, a short story publication in the the 1978 collection Night Shift and currently the inspiration for […]
Humanoids has published Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula, written and drawn by acclaimed cartoonist Koren Shadmi. The biography, which chronicles the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi, is Shadmi’s second collaboration with Humanoids in the media biography space after The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of […]
The original Crypt TV series The Girl in the Woods begins streaming on Peacock on Thursday October 21, and genre fans are hoping that it will be this generation’s answer to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s described as a supernatural YA drama about a mysterious door in the woods that leads to a terrifying monster […]
If you prefer your vampires live — sort of — and you happen to be in Florida during the month of October, you should check out The Vampire Circus. Here’s what they say at their official site: “Heralded as a mix of circus cabaret and theatre, The Vampire Circus is a mysterious, tantalizing, fun, dark, […]
While speaking to the Den of Geek site, director Alan Taylor had a couple of comments to make about AMC’s upcoming adaptation of Interview with the Vampire, which is to star Sam Reid as Lestat and Jacob Anderson as Louis. It was his love for Anne Rice’s original book that drew him to the show, […]
“Five rich, spoiled Asian twenty-somethings (Gijs Blom, Aviis Zhong, Yen Tsao, Philip Juan, Anechka Marchenko) are suffering from upper class ennui, unsure how to spend their days when so little is expected from them. In search of excitement, the five friends form the “Circle,” a group where they take turns designing a unique, extravagant experience […]