DayBreakers Movie Recap and Review

This recap has spoilers, you are warned!
Over the weekend I saw the new vampire thriller Daybreakers with Ethan Hawke. A decade or so in the future, a plague has transformed much of the world’s population into vampires. Humans, if spotted, are rounded up and farmed for blood. The world though is experiencing a blood shortage [...]

Trends in the Genre – The Misunderstood Vampire

OLDIES AND UNHUMAN - Purely deadly
In the old days, in Dracula and Dracula’s Daughter, vampires were sensuous and deadly predators. They were not three-dimensional personalities with emotions or a conscience. Bela Lugosi’s Dracula was suave, gentlemanly, sophisticated. Part of that sophistication was his inscrutability. He did not reflect upon the suffering he was creating and we [...]

New Vampire Diaries Promo Picture!

Woot! This is an awesome shot. I love the burgundy color scheme and the Cypress trees in the background… very eeery. Remember the CW’s Vampire Diaries starts September 10th!

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The Vampire Rules Keep Changing

Here is a funny article from USA today that compares the rules created for the vampire worlds of Bill (True Blood), Edward (Twilight) and Angel (Buffy). It highlights the differences in strength, weaknesses, how to kill, and what they eat, among other things.

Nothing But Blood – Episode 201

Wahoo! The first episode of True Blood season 2 rocked!!
At the end of the last season we were left to believe that Lafayette’s body was found in Andy Bellefleur’s car. In fact according to the Sookie Stackhouse novels it WAS Lafayette, but in True Blood land it was the body of Miss Jeanette, the fake exorcist. Since [...]

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