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YOU’RE A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT MICHAEL! A GODDAMN VAMPIRE! OHHHHH YOU WAIT TIL MOM FINDS OUT. The CW has ordered, we kid you not, a new tv series pilot based on The Lost Boys, the 1987 teen vampire film from Joel Schumacher. This report comes to us from Variety, who say Heather Mitchell of Scandal will write […]

JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN, FX just released two teasers for their upcoming What We Do In The Shadows tv series based on the film of the same name from Taika Waititi and Jemanie Clement. According to Rotten Tomatoes,  the series follows three vampires who live together: Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Nandor (Kayvan Novak) — the former […]

One of those fantastically stylish ’80s films about vampires, The Lost Boys, is getting the FUNKO Pop Vinyl treatment this summer. Announced today, a set of four (technically five, since one is a two-pack) collectible figures feature some of the notable characters from the film. There’s a beach town in California where you never have to […]

The late Tony Scott’s second directorial feature film The Hunger opened 35 years ago today, on April 29th in 1983. Still spoken about as a masterpiece of the vampire genre, the moody and dark horror romance holds up. Starring Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon and David Bowie, the film is a very lose adaptation of Whitley Striber’s 1981 novel “The Hunger”. There is a doctor […]

Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement created something pretty fabulous with their vampiric comedy What We Do In The Shadows.  There have been stories swirling since last year that not only would we be getting a sequel about the clan of Werewolves (called We’re Wolves) from Shadows, but there would also be the possibility of a tv series with the vampires. […]

We were lucky enough to be included on a conference call with acclaimed writer and Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro and executive producer Carlton Cuse about their new show for the FX network, The Strain.  This vampire horror series is based on the novels of the same name, authored by del Toro and Chuck Hogan.  The […]

I never thought the day would come.  After Blackwood Farm  and Blood Canticle, we thought the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles were done, but APPARENTLY NOT!!! Taken from Anne’s twitter just a few minutes ago, breaking news about an upcoming book! That’s right, A BRAND NEW NOVEL ABOUT LESTAT!  Our favorite lavender eyed Brat Prince will return!  “Prince […]

by Mister Sparta, guest reviewer Hello, folks, and welcome to the first (and hopefully not the last) edition of Mister…