Sunday 31 January 2010

Sunday night bits n pieces

Sundays are usually very quiet, but lets see what i can dig up...

Gabrielle Faust spotted this, details of Charliane Harris' book tour to support the new release of the tenth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Fangtastic books has a vampire valentines gift guide.

Vampire Cafe spotted this... casting news for True Blood season III - Janice Herveaux signing up.



This is worth a mention... spotted by Shocktilyoudrop, there is mention of a Lady Death movie... i am mentioning it because that brings the possibility of Vampirella and Purgatori featuring.

Vampire Lore fans, the Ringmasterrealm blog has a piece on Slavic vampires here.

Ha! ok... gabriel, taliesin, nicole... look away now.

Robert Pattinson... the comic is coming.



And in further bad news for my fellow Twilight haters... Stephanie Meyer says she might write some more!

Taliesin today reviews "Leanor" a 1975 film by Juan Luis Buñuel.

One more mention for "The Vampires of bloody island" which has its DVD release today.

Saturday 30 January 2010

Being Human Season III gets the go ahead!

Vampire cafe has spotted a webclip for Vampire Diaries #13



Great news here... spotted by scifiwire. Being Human is getting a third season!

A little game news... EA's Battlefield Heroes is to introduce vampires and werewolves for a while... dread central has the details here.

Filmandbooks.com has an interesting piece today... "The Evolution of Vampires - Exploring Vampire Lore in Modern Media"

Taliesin today reviews park Chan Wook's "Priest"

Friday 29 January 2010

stuff...

There is news of a new dracula game being launched for PSP mini's here... Dracula Undead Awakening.

Ok, this is supposed to be about news, but sometimes you come across something so funny... it has to be posted. From The oatmeal blog, "How Twilight Works"

Vampire Cafe spotted this... not sure if it is official or not, but we have a Lady GaGa video featuring vampires...

VampChix blog has an interview with author of "Real Vampires Have Curves", Gerry Bartlett.

Vampire Cafe has a dozen links related to episode 12 of Vampire Diaries.

The director of "Priest" reveals his vampire's origins here, spotted by vampire cafe once again.

Thursday 28 January 2010

More Dacre Stoker Dracula adaptations?

This first, tonight... Gabrielle Faust spotted this by Dacre Stoker, where he talks about the possibility of doing more Dracula adaptations.




Vampire Cafe has published the results of its 2009 Vampy Awards here.

The Cafe has folowed that tonight with a bunch of interviews... True Blood, Being Human, and Vampire Diaries. There is also a little True Blood casting news here.

A couple of bits of Twilight stuff... the documentary on Forks is out March 20th, and the New Moon soundtrack companion is going to be available here. There is also news of a chairty twilight baseball game in New Orleans here.

A little folow-up to that "Castlevania - Rondo of Blood" story from a day or two ago... its not going to be translated into english, unfortunately.

Also a note about "Tex : Vampire Hunter "from yesterday. Tex: Vampire Hunter will premiere at the Beloit International Film Festival, which runs from Feb 18-21.

A little comic news... Morbius the vampire is coming back to battle spiderman in the next issue from Marvel Comics.

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Vampire girl vs Frankenstein girl release date

Quiet night...

Vampire Cafe spotted this, a report from the set of True Blood season III.

Horrormovies.ca has news that "Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein girl" will be available on region 2 dvd on March 15th.

Dread Central spotted a video on the upcoming episode 12 of Vampire Diaries here.

Taliesin today reviews "Skeleton key" a film by John Johnson.

Tuesday 26 January 2010

Tex - vampire Hunter, Sam Worthington is Dracula : Year Zero

Tex : Vampire Hunter is almost here... watch the trailer .

News for those of us in the UK - Vampire Diaries is to appear on ITV2 on Tuesday 2nd February at 9pm with the pilot episode, and there is episode 1 proper following it at 10pm.

Some big casting news breaking tonight, with news that Sam Worthington has been picked as the lead role for "Dracula : Year Zero". Vampire Cafe has a collection of links here.


Vampire Cafe spotted this, New Moon is now available for pre-ordering on DVD and Blu-ray.

Shocktilyoudrop has an interview with scream queen and actress behind the Ms Vampy web series, Brooke Lewis

There is an interesting article on Dracula and Vlad the impaler here.

There is news of a Twilight convention coming up in Nasville Tenessee.

This has appeared.... a natty little flash game called "Vampire Fever"

MTV has a feature on "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead" here.

"Castlevania : Rondo of blood" is coming to virtual console... details here.

A little plug for the new site of "The Dirge of Gabriel", which has been linked over there >>> for quite a while... The Convent of Blood is now open.

Dread Central has news that True Blood Season II will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 25th May.

Dead Cert footage

Dread Central has found director Scott Stewart talking about "Priest" here.

Shocktilyoudrop has a piece on "Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Undead", out April 16th.

Bite Club episode 29 is available to download here.

Vampire Cafe spotted some more Vampire Diaries spoilers here. Dread Central also has a couple of articles on episode 12 here.

Bloody Disgusting has spotted some footage from upcoming film "Dead Cert". There are also some stills here.



Taliesin today reviews "Blood Creek" a 2009 film by Joel Schumacher

Sunday 24 January 2010

Vlad, and more Vampire Diaries

There is a piece on Charlie Hunnam and his latest project "Vlad" here.

News of True Blood missing out at the Screen Actors Guild Awards is here.

There are more Vampire Diaries #12 spoilers and links here.

Saturday 23 January 2010

Eclipse music, vampire diaries clip

Well... good thing Vampire Cafe is around, because no-one else out there has come up with anything new this saturday night worth posting here... thanks deaana!

Vampire Diaries episode 12 is on the way... Vampire Cafe spotted this webclip.



Vampire Cafe also spotted this news on the musical score for Eclipse.

HBO has revamped their True blood website, and their is an interview with lafayette here.

Friday 22 January 2010

Umbrage & Vampire Diaries links galore.

Vampire Cafe has a whole bundle of Vampire Diaraies links tonight. The main chunk is here, with interviews here and here.

News of a new vampire game for mobiles is here... Dracula : Path of the Dragon

Comicbookmovie.com has a feature on "Priest" here.

More new film news, spotted by BloodyDisgusting.com. View the trailer for Umbrage here, and the official website is here.


"In the Old West, the assassination of an ageing cowboy is thwarted by a sultry vampiress, the would-be killer left for dead in the dust…

A hundred years later an ancient obsidian mirror, long unearthed from the Mesopotamian desert, is liberated from an American collector’s vault and illegally transported to Europe.

Jacob, an unscrupulous antiques dealer, moves to a remote farmhouse with his pregnant young wife, Lauren, and his difficult ward, Rachel. His goals are clear: to pass this near-priceless mirror to the highest bidder, and to prevent these two women from ripping each other apart.

Nearby, a beautiful ornithologist, in nocturnal pursuit of the Screech Owl, is disturbed in her hide by a couple of noisy hikers. Her efforts ruined, she joins them by their campfire, but when one of them is mysteriously mutilated in the woods, she and the other are forced to flee and seek refuge at Jacob’s farm.

Something has been unleashed into the dark of that night…. Shadows take on a life of their own, and the blood begins to flow.

Maybe it’s all down to the ominous cowboy hiding in the barn who doesn’t seem to cast any reflection in the dark mirror.

Maybe it’s because the shiny black artefact is the enchanted talisman and portal of Lilith, the wilful first wife of Adam, exiled from Eden to spawn her demonic offspring.

The family find themselves in the middle of a century old grudge between a vengeful undead cowboy and the re-awakened Lilith, mother to the Succubi, ruler of shadows, slaughterer of children, and consort to the devil himself.

Sometimes the only weapon against evil is evil itself...
"


Twilight graphic novel & I am Virgin

Lets start with Vampire Diaries stuff tonight... as spotted by Vampire Cafe, there are some spoilers to be had here in an interview with Katerina Graham.

Shocktilyoudrop has an interview with Abby from "Let me in"

ScifiGuy has an interview with the author of "Gentlemen Prefer Succubi" Jill Myles.



Vampire Cafe spotted this - 8 vampires that achieved reel immortality.

The Cafe also has this, but i wish it didnt. Twilight - The graphic novel is released March 16th.


Dread Central reviews are usually pretty close to the mark - Daybreakers gets the treatment here.

Dread Central also spotted this... some natty True Blood merchandise going on sale.



New Film news! "I am Virgin" is a spoof of "I am legend".... release date on DVD is Feb 23rd.

I Am Virgin is a spoof of I Am Legend, the 2008 science fiction release starring Will Smith. In I Am Virgin, Portland actor Adam Davis plays Robby, the last uninfected man standing in a world ravaged by a virus that has transformed all of humanity into horny, sex-crazed vampires. And as the title suggests, Robby is a virgin.



Here's something nice... Vampire Vineyards are running a special offer for readers of the blogs that contribute to www.vampire.com, and this little place is one of them.

Vampire Vineyards would like to offer readers an exclusive coupon for the month of January. Simply have your readers enter the coupon code: VAMPBLOG in the checkout cart at www.wickedwinesonline.com to get 10% off ANY PURCHASE.

Taliesin spotted this news... "Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are undead" has been given an April 16th release date.

And speaking of Taliesin, the best of all vampire film blogs out there has today passed 1 million hits... Congrats Taliesin, thanks for all the work and here's to the next million!

Thursday 21 January 2010

Stake Land pics, Abraham Lincoln : vampire HunteV

Bite Club #28 is available to download here.

Some "Stake land" behind the scenes images have been found by Dread Central here.

"Feast of the Vampire" is a low budget film, but vampire nontheless... BloodyDisgusting has news of the DVD release date - Feb 9th.

Vampire Cafe spotted this interview with Matt reeves, director of the remake of Let the right one in - "Let Me In"

More season 3 spoilers for True Blood here, spotted by Vampire Cafe again.

This sounds like a gem. A new book is on the way... "Abraham lincoln: Vampire Hunter"

Taliesin today reviews "Vampiro" a 2009 film by Jorge Ramirez Rivera

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Suck clips, Dracula : Year Zero update

Vampire Cafe spotted this article on Being Human.

The cafe spotted this as well. A feature on the extreme lengths advertisers have been going to in Toronto to advertise Daybreakers.

Trueblood.net has some spoilers for season 3 here, and there is an interview with with Sam on Sam here.

BloodyDisgusting has some clips from the upcoming "Suck"





Shocktilyoudrop carries this interview with Alex Proyas, with an update on "Dracula : Year Zero"

Darren Shan's blog has an interesting interview today, well worth a read for his thoughts on the vampire genre.

There is a "guide to vampire fiction with real bite" here.

Monday 18 January 2010

More on Being Human the American version.

Well... between the net being full of Daybreakers reviews and Vampire Weekend's new album, its gotten damned quiet. here's a few snippetts though...

Gabrielle Faust reports on a little more news on the American version of "Being Human" that is being planned.

Filmmusicmag has a piece on the Daybreakers musical score.

Comicbookmovie.com has a piece on the proposed Fright Night remake.

Sunday 17 January 2010

The Vampyre Prayer & Vampire Diaries clips

Vampire Cafe spotted this, an interview with a couple of the Vampire Diaries stars.



Dread Central also has two webclips from the upcoming episode 11 here.

The Crowewings blog had this amusing piece... the vampyre prayer.



Daybreakers star Ethan Hawke talks about his love of vampires here.

Saturday 16 January 2010

Weekend bits n bobs

Lets start Saturday night with this, a competition from Gabrielle Faust around the third release of her Eternal Vigilance vampire series.

Dread Central has an interview with Willem Dafoe on Daybreakers and other vamps.

Vampchix blog has the January vampire book releases, essential reading!

Taliesin today reviews "Vampire's Embrace", a 1991 film by Glenn Andreiev.

For the more scientific among you out there... there is a piece here on vampires and the search for a blood substitute.

www.firstshowing.net has a Daybreakers poster i havent come across before. nice one too!



A little comic book vampire news from the newsarama blog. Marvel are to release "Marvel Zombies 5" with vampire character Morbius.

Friday 15 January 2010

Fright Night remake details...

Gabrielle Faust has a piece on "Nightlight : a twilight parody" here.

It is a bit wide to post here, so i'll provide a link instead. Spotted by Vampire Cafe, a very good Dracula strip.

Vampire Cafe also spotted this, which is well worth a read. Producer Mike de Luca talks about "Priest" and his proposed remake of "Fright night". Bloody Disgusting also has news of the Fright night remake, revealing that the vamps are not going to be of the sparklie type...

March 20th is the release date of New Moon on DVD, according to this.

Vampire Cafe carries this promo for the next vampire Diaries episode, and also has a little casting news here.



The LA Times has done a piece on the "subsiders" in Daybreakers.

The Fortean Times has a nice piece today called "the many lives of count dracula"

Thursday 14 January 2010

Quiet Day...

Bite Club podcast #27 is available here.

Vampire Diaries vamps are on the cover of the next Cosmopolitan magazine.

This is worth a mention... vampire author Nicole Hadaway's blog is running a competition tomorrow for Dwayne Kavanagh's novel "A Child's Wound"

The Berkelyplace Blog has its top ten Dracula movies here.

There is a piece on Charlaine Harris here, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series that became True Blood.

Taliesin today reviews "Blood" a 2009 Japanese vamp film.

Wednesday 13 January 2010

True Blood the movie?

Bits and bobs from the wonderful Vampire Cafe first tonight, as usual. There is an interview here with Jackie Kessler, author of "Carpe Noctum".

The cafe also spotted this - what it takes to be a leading vampire on TV.

There is an interview with True Blood's Eric northman here, and in probably the big news of the night, there are rumours of a True Blood movie here.

Dread Central spotted this - producer Mike de Luca talks about "Dracula - Year Zero"

Thanks to my Teresa for spotting this nice site. A spinoff from Being Human, the CenSSA site has many video's linked to the series here.



A little news on graphic novel "Daughter of Dracula" is here at The Pulp Factory.

Tuesday 12 January 2010

Being Human... being remade!

Vampire Cafe spotted this, some more Vampire Diaries spoilers and casting news.

Dread Central has some news of Stephanie Meyer possibly arguing with Summit about the conclusion to Twilight. Or not.

Why? Dread Central also has this - the Syfy channel is remaking BBC's excellent Being Human series.

Dread Central also has some more news on Sherwood Horror in the form of a press release.

The LA Times shares its doubts that any of the recent big money vampire films will go down as classics.

Sherwood Horror art... Being Human season II kicks off

Being Human season II got underway last night in the UK... the guardian website has a review here.

Vampire Cafe has some more Daybreakers articles here.

Vampire Cafe spotted this, more details on the three Being Human novels.

Shocktilyoudrop has an update on "Sherwood Horror"

This is worth a read... the science behind Daybreakers. could it happen?

More on Twilight parody Nightlight is here.

Taliesin reviews "the vampires of Bloody island" here

Sunday 10 January 2010

Rosencrantz & Guildestern are Undead trailer

Dread Central has this, a feature on what is in store for the second half of the Vampire Diaries series. With the second half fast approaching,Vampire cafe has a review of the first half here.

Vampire cafe spotted this, a behind the scenes article on Daybreakers.

Suburban Vampire spotted this. the trailer for "Rosencrantz and Guildentern are undead" with news of an April 16th release date.



Vampire Cafe spotted this, another trailer for Being Human season II.

Taliesin today shares his first thoughts on Daybreakers.


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Saturday 9 January 2010

The Vampires of Bloody Island

Its Daybreakers day. Vampire Cafe has put together a list of reviews and articles here and here.

Vampire Cafe spotted this bit of casting news for Vampire Diaries, with Melinda Clarke joining the cast.

Vampire Cafe also saw this Buffy Comic spinoff - Tales of the Vampires : Carpe Noctum



Ah, now this is great news. "The Vampires of Bloody Island" is getting a DVD release on Feb 1st. The trailer is here.

Friday 8 January 2010

Jason Dark : Ghost hunter & buffy trinkets

Starting here tonight. Vampire Cafe has spotted this article - 5 reasons why Being Human is essential viewing.

Vampire Cafe spotted another Daybreakers review, and fearnet has an interview with the director on making vampires nasty again. USAToday also carries a review here.

Dread central has spotted some new Buffy collectibles, first in a few years.

Dread Central also spotted this, a new online series that contains some vampires. "Jason Dark : Ghost Hunter". Two of the series are avaiable here.



Shocktilyoudrop has a little more on the upcoming Stephen King graphic novel from DC comics "American vampire"

MSNBC has an interesting piece on vampires here.

Taliesin today reviews "Alone" a novel by Marissa Farrar

Thursday 7 January 2010

Lost Boys 3 pics... being human books

BloodyDisgusting has some more behind the scenes footage from Daybreakers here. There is also a competition here.

Dread Central has more on the three books following the "being Human" series here.

Dread Central also has news of "Lost Boys 3" including a good few stills.

More from dread central... the peoples choice awards are dominated by vampires!

TVOvermind has some new vampire Diaries photos here.

News of the Twilight Eclipse script being leaked is here.

Lost Boys 3 pic, being human clip, daybreakers stuff

Starting here tonight... Gabrielle Faust has some details on the upcoming NYC Vampire Ball, set for Feb 14th.


Gabrielle has also revealed the artwork for the third in the brilliant "Eternal Vigilence" series of books.

Shocktilyoudrop has spied the first look at Corey Feldman in "Lost Boys 3"

Vampire cafe has news that the "let the right one in" remake will be out on October 1st.

Dread Central has news that "demons" set viewing records for BBC America.

Vampire Cafe spotted this, a clip from episode 1 of "Being Human" season II

A couple more Daybreakers clips... one here from Horrormovies.ca, and one from DreadCentral. Bloodydisgusting has an interview with some of the cast here.

NME has more on Sir Christopher Lee's upcoming album here, including a few clips.

Castlevania rebirth is now available for the Wii, details are here.

E!Online has news that Alan Ball has been signed up to produce at elast 2 more seasons of "True blood" - damned good news!

Taliesin today reviews "Krasue Valentine" a film from 1996 by Yuthlert Sippapak

Tuesday 5 January 2010

Twilight parodies, Vlad and more.

Summit Entertainment (those of the dubious twilight vampires) and Brad pitt are teaming up to do a film about Vlad Tepes. Not surprisingly with Summit, this is going to be another film without vampires. More details on the upcoming "Vlad" are here.

Vampire Cafe has kicked off its 2010 book club with "Dead Until Dark" by Charlain Harris.

The Bite Club #26 podcast is available to download here.

The Hillywood Show is about to release its "Twilight : New Moon" parody.



Dread Central has some Being Human season II stills here.


Ahh, twilight marketing rubbish, how i have missed it over xmas. We can all welcome it back thanks to these.



Dread Central has also spotted the artwork and synopsis for issue 2 of the "federal vampire and zombie agency" comic.

Shocktilyoudrop has been behind the scenes of Daybreakers, and has ten minutes(ish) of footage.

The Guardian newspaper has more on Sir Christopher Lee's proposed album... Symphonic metal is on the way!

Reviews for "daybreakers" are starting to appear. heres another one.

Any readers in Detroit? news is here that there is to be a casting call for parts in a new vampire film this coming Saturday here - Vampire tales.

The Examiner has news of a Twilight Nintendo game here.

Monday 4 January 2010

Stake land details and casting news

The brilliant Suburban Vampire has updated its Upcoming Vampire Films page, with quite a few on there that i hadnt heard about. Links to IMDB are there, so head over and have a browse!

Vampire cafe has spotted this article that tells us that "Vampires have taken over the movies"

Bloody Disgusting has some casting news for True Blood season III here.

Vampire Cafe has some casting news for "Eclipse" here.

Bloody Disgusting has a new Daybreakers clip featuring Sam Neill.

Bloody Disgusting also has this, Danielle Harris revealing details of "Stake land" webisodes.

Shocktilyoudrop carries an interview with Ethen Hawke where he talks about Daybreakers.

Sunday 3 January 2010

Vampires Assistant DVD news

Starting with a couple of items spotted by Vampire Cafe tonight.

The DVD and Blu-ray release of "The Vampires Assistant" will include the featurettes of “Guide to Becoming a Vampire” and “Tour du Freak”. Release date is Feb 23rd.

Moonlight is dead, once again... no comeback for the popular vampire series according to this.

Why we are obsessed with vampire sex... read the article here.

ok, no excuses everyone, xmas is done with and its not the weekend... hopefully we will be back to nice packed updates from now on!

Saturday 2 January 2010

and Falling, fly

Quiet weekend by the looks of it, but i have a few bits and pieces to bring you.

Vampire Cafe spotted this early review of Daybreakers.

Dread Central has its ten best horror films of the decade here... only one vampire film makes it, can you guess which?

News of a new book on the way from Skyler White... "and Falling, fly" is due out March 2nd and is well worth a look!





Olivia is a vampire bored with modernity. Tattooist, boyfriend, black-metal singer: everyone you don’t love tastes the same. Since the fall from Eden, she has hungered for love, but fed only on desire. Dominic O’Shaughnessy is a neuroscientist plagued by impossible visions.

When his research and her despair collide in Ireland’s L’Otel Mathillide – a subterranean hell of beauty, demons and dreams – rationalist and angel unite in a clash of desire and damnation that threatens to destroy them both.

Friday 1 January 2010

Christopher Lee... the album!

The deplorable "Demons" is about to be inflicted on our american friends tomorrow. Vampire Cafe has spotted a couple of reviews here and here.

Vampire Cafe also spotted a review of "jane bites back" here.

BloodyDisgusting has news of a Daybreakers competition here.

News here of a new book by Syrie james, "Dracula, My Love: The Secret Memoirs of Mina Harker"

Dracula is releasing an album! Well, the mighty Sir Christopher Lee is anyway.

ok, this looks.... interesting. Dracula as a Furry Comic.