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The lights dimmed over the Egyptian Theatre in Horrorwood, Karloffornia. From the balcony I looked down across the audience and upon the screen; a montage of photographs and old home movie footage played out the life of Sara Karloff in a glowing radiance for the crowd of horror fans like a window into the past…. [Continue Reading]
The Authors Robert Eighteen-Bisang, is most famous for his large private collection of vampire literature, which is the largest in the world and is considered an authority on Dracula and vampire literature. He runs a publishing house called Transylvania Press and has a Masters Degree in Sociology. Elizabeth Miller is recognized the world over for… [Continue Reading]
So many Dracula films and books have been redone over the years that I was certain I had developed immunity towards excitement over the matter anymore until now. Dacre Stoker, the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, has teamed with award-winning Dracula documentarian/historian Ian Holt to bring us the first official Dracula sequel since Bram’s classic 1931… [Continue Reading]
Perhaps best known for writing the novel of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, writer, director, screenwriter, musician, special FX man, prop builder, and actor, Donald Glut continues to feed his passion for making independent movies in his latest project, Blood Scarab. As one of the original “sci-fi boys”, Glut lived and breathed horror and… [Continue Reading]
In July 2007, Variety announced Universal’s new origins tale about Vlad the Impaler titled Dracula: Year Zero with Alex Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot, The Crow) to direct and Michael De Luca producing. The film will be a new take on the legend of Dracula, showing Vlad when he was still vital. Scribes Matt Sazama… [Continue Reading]
Rob Cohen reports that Paramount Pictures signed for the remake rights to Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad. The 1987 original film featured the Frankenstein Monster trying to thwart Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Mummy and the Gill Man from ruling the world. Cohen produced the movie way back when and will likely reprise that role.
In time for Halloween, vampire fans will get a new look at Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel Dracula. Leslie S. Klinger has written The New Annotated Dracula, following up on her Edgar Award-winning work, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. The New Annotated Dracula includes facts drawn from letters, journals and newspaper articles, as historical truth,… [Continue Reading]
Lionsgate announced their home video releases for August 5 and among them are: Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre For the first time in the United States, the star studded French film Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre will be released on DVD from Lionsgate on August 5, 2008, coinciding with the theatrical release of The Mummy:… [Continue Reading]
There’s something about swords and vampires, we guess. The other day we were talking about Universal’s forthcoming movie about vampires during the crusades. Now have word that Tony DiGerolamo is adapting Silent Devil’s Dracula vs. King Arthur graphic novel into a role playing game. Entitled Vampires vs. Knights, the game is using the tried and… [Continue Reading]
Blatant Comics’ Last Blood has been optioned by the Benderspink company for adaptation into a film. The four-issue miniseries tells of a time when Earth is overrun by zombies and the last bastion of humanity are being protected in the Midwest by vampires, who need the humans for their survival. The series was produced by… [Continue Reading]
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