Ryan Coogler’s Sinners didn’t just give us a fresh take on the vampire myth—it recharged the genre with a jolt of soulful atmosphere, historical weight and social undercurrents rarely seen in bloodsucker cinema. Set in 1930s Mississippi and pulsing with blues, sweat and secrets, Sinners is as much about identity, community and survival as it […]
This article / [Article Title] was originally published on The Public Domain Review [hyperlink to article on The Public Domain Review] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it please see: https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/” From that famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake Geneva villa in 1816, as well as Frankenstein’s monster, there arose that other […]
On October 2nd, AMC will release an eight-episode adaptation of Interview with the Vampire based on Anne Rice’s celebrated gothic novel of the same name. For vampire fans, this is genuinely thrilling news: Interview with the Vampire is the first in a series collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles. The universe is vast and extraordinarily […]
Considering German director F.W. Murnau’s 1922 version of Nosferatu, the unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (published 40 years earlier), was sued practically out of existence, there is still plenty of life in this particular take on the undead, which is currently celebrating 100 years. For starters, casting’s been announced for Robert Eggers’ long-planned […]
Marvel giveth and Marvel taketh away. On the same day that Ryan Reynolds tweeted Hugh Jackman would be reviving the character of Wolverine in Deadpool 3 (thank you, Multiverse!), comes word that the reboot of the Blade vampire film franchise has lost the director who had been attached to it from almost the start, Bassam […]
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, […]
Although the game V Rising is still in the Beta stage, a gameplay trailer has been released by Stunlock. On the official site, marketing director Johan Ilves says of the game’s origin, “After 10 years of creating competitive arena games, we felt it was time to go outside our comfort zone and try something new. […]
One of the foremost experts on the vampire genre is scholar J. Gordon Melton, author of The Vampire Book, which is currently being revised and expanded as this October’s The Vampire Almanac: The Complete History. Melton is also featured on the current episode of the Vampires & Slayers podcast, during which he discusses his own […]
Actor William Marshall may have left us in 2003, but of his many roles the one that continues to live on all these years later is that of the vampire Blacula, as featured in the 1972 film of the same name and its 1973 sequel, Scream Blacula Scream. Now the character is returning in a […]