Wednesday 31 March 2010

Real Vampires TV show, Stake Land report

Gabrielle Faust spotted this upcoming TV series... "Real vampires" is going to be a reality tv show set in New York, and they have just put out a casting call.

Bloodydisgusting has some new images from "Eclipse" here.

Bloodydisgusting also has another new poster for True blood season 3

One more from BD - they have a set visit report from Stake land

USA today takes a look at Stephen King's "American vampires" here.

Tuesday 30 March 2010

Bundles of news!

Gabrielle Faust has some news of this years "Dracula's Ball" taking place in Philadelphia, may 10th.



Vampire Cafe spotted the release of "The Lair" Season 3 on DVD

Vampire Cafe also spotted this... *cringe* a new Twilight related release from Stephanie Meyer - "The short second life of bree tanner"

Bite Club#37 is available here.

Vampire Cafe spotted this, an interview with True Blood's Kevin Alejandro

This has popped up on Amazon - "Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies : Compendium Monstrum"

BloodyDisgusting has news of the proposed film version of "Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter"

Dread Central has interviews and review of "I sell the Dead" here, and a bit of news regarding a possible sequel here.

Shocktilyoudrop has details of the american version of "Being Human", coming to the USA in the summer.

Graphic novelist Andy Fish is working on a version of Dracula, and right next to that on my google alert today is Staz Johnson and his work on Dracula.

TVOvermind has some pics from episode 18 of Vampire Diaries here to air April 18th.

Daemonstv.com spotted this pic from the upcoming vampire episode of America's top model.


Something for the ladies... this was spotted by vampchix blog today. A Vampire Perfume.



And finally tonight... Taliesin today reviews "And Falling, Fly" a book by Skyler White.

Monday 29 March 2010

Doctor Who battles vamps, The Hammer Vampire

Gabrielle Faust spotted this gem over at Eternal Vigilence. How Vampires use the media.

Gabrielle also spotted this new True Blood video from HBO.

The new Doctor Who series has a vampire episode... there is a clip here - The Vampires of Venice.

This looks like something that will interest a bunch of you out there... spotted by TheHammerandBeyond blog, The Hammer Vampire is set for a May release.



Taliesin today gets stuck into "The last vampire on earth", a 2010 film by Vitaliy Versace

Sunday 28 March 2010

Sunday bits...

Gabrielle Faust has news of the winners of the 2009 Bram Stoker Awards.

Fangoria has this article... Descent into Dust

Vampire Cafe spotted this - a new Vampire RPG, The Phoenix Foundation.

Saturday 27 March 2010

Bram Stoker Film Festival, Ugly Americans clips.

Lest start with this tonight... The Bram Stoker Film Festival will be held in Whitby England 14-17th October... hopefully i'll get to attend this again, it was darn good last year! Anyway, we have the posters for the opening night Vampire Ball and the film festival itself.





Dread Central has a couple of clips from this weeks episode of "Ugly Americans" here.

Friday 26 March 2010

America's next top vampire

Gabrielle Faust spotted this piece of rubbish... well, lets face it, when plastic vampire teeth are being pulled from the ocean around the UK, its us that are rubbish.

Patricias vampire notes has the March 2010 vampire releases.

Vampire Cafe has all the links you could want around episode 15 of Vampire Diaries.

Fearnet has an interview with Suck vamp Jessica Pare here.

BloodyDisgusting has some director talk for "Breaking Dawn"

Dread Central has a synopsis for episode 16 of Vampire Diaries

Dread Central has news of "Tales of an ancient Empire"

Dread Central also spotted this... the voice actors for "Vampire Knight" have been named.

America's next top model is having a vampire episode... details here.

Taliesin today looks at "Dracula", a 2009 film by George Anton.

Wednesday 24 March 2010

Bram Stoker Memorial & Pervula

Gabrielle Faust spotted this, the first in what will no doubt be a barrage of true blood season III marketing ads.




Dread Central has some news of the New Moon DVD sales here.

There is news of Dacre Stoker starting a campaign to have a Bram Stoker memorial erected in Dublin here.

Fangoria has this today - The Newborn Dead - The Naughty Nosferatu, which includes exclusive video of Pervula.

Some sad news... Carol Marsh, who starred in 1958 classic "Horror of Dracula" has died.

Speculation that the graphic novel that Stephen King contributed to would become a movie is growing... the LATimes has a piece here, and asks who lead vamp would be in "American Vampire"

Taliesin today reviews "Bloodwine", a 2008 film by Patrick Keith.

Tuesday 23 March 2010

Eclipse poster, Vampire Timeline

Gabrielle Faust has some news of this years Vampire film Festival in New Orleans.


Vampire Cafe spotted the new official Eclipse poster.




Vampire Cafe also spotted this... some New Moon extended scenes.

Shocktilyoudrop has a feature on "Burke & Hare" - it has a vampire scene, and its a cracking film, we were lucky enough to see it at the Bram Stoker film festival last year.

IO9 has a nice feature - I demand better vampires.

Taliesin has started an epic project... a Vampire Timeline.

Monday 22 March 2010

Dead Cert trailer & Gorbals vampire documentary.

Lets start with this tonight... A feature being run by the BBC on the Gorbals Vampire from Glasgow.

Back in 1954, two policemen were called to a disturbance at a Glasgow cemetery. They discovered hundreds of children searching for a vampire with iron teeth.

American comics were blamed for the panic but, according to a documentary on BBC Radio 4, there were other sources for the Gorbals vampire. Pauline McLean reports.

The Gorbals Vampire will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 2300 GMT on Tuesday 30 March, and will be available on BBC iPlayer

Gabrielle Faust has spotted another short clip from Season III of true blood.







Staying with True Blood, Vampire Cafe spotted this interview with the Vampire King of Mississippi, Denis O'hare.

BloodyDisgusting has the unofficial trailer and artwork for "Dead Cert" here.

Shocktilyoudrop has news of Daybreakers arriving on DVD and Blu-Ray on June 1st.

Is there hope? Could it be that more feel this way? I had to share this, a 14 year old's realisation that vampires didnt start with twilight and sparkles.

There is a spoiler that there is another big death on the way in Vampire Diaries here.

Taliesin today reviews "Vampire Taxonomy", a 2009 book by Meredith Woerner

Sunday 21 March 2010

Going GaGa on Sunday...

HBO has released a True Blood Season 3 promo, spotted by Gabrielle faust among others.



Gabrielle also spotted lady Gaga showing off her gold vampire grill (a birthday present)

Saturday 20 March 2010

Renfield pics and news

Vampire Cafe spotted these two clips from the upcoming Vampire Diaries episode.





Dread Central has news of the third chapter of the "Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency" graphic novel series.



Dread Central has news and stills from upcoming film "Renfield" here.



Taliesin today reviews "Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein girl"

And finally, a shout to some nice vampire trinkets on sale here and here at www.cutencreepy.co.uk

Friday 19 March 2010

Monster Squad remake details

Book news first tonight... Vampire Cafe has news of a new book called "Past Due" from C.S Winchester.

Gabrielle Faust, author of the wonderful "Eternal Vigilance" series has news of the third installment and of a new project called "Regret" here.

Vampire Cafe spotted a Vampire Diaries clip featuring Paul Wesley.



BuddyTV has some Vampire Diaries bits n pieces here.

Vampire Cafe also spotted this, a feature on the New Moon DVD extras.

Bite Club episode 35 is available to download here.

"Monster Squad" is one of many classic films getting remakes... there is an article that names Rob Cohen as the director for this one.

There is news that vampire manga "Rosario + Vampire" season II will be published on April 6th.

Fearnet has its review of "Suck" here.

Thursday 18 March 2010

Let Me In director talks...

Well... quiet night, just rehashed stuff from the last few days out there.

Director Matt Reeves talks about his film "Let Me In" here, spotted by BloodyDisgusting.

Dread Central has some news on the Vampire Diaries season finale here.

Wednesday 17 March 2010

Sigourney Weaver to be a vamp, The last vampire coming to the big screen

BloodyDisgusting spotted this big news - Christopher Pike's teen book series "The Last Vampire" has had the screen rights picked up by Filmnation Entertainment.

MTV has an interview with Vampire Diaries Katerina Graham here, spotted by Vampire Cafe.

Dread Central confirms the director for the Fright Night remake will be Craig Gillespie.

Some more big news, spotted by Vampire Cafe - Sigourney Weaver is to play a vampire in "Vamps"

BloodyDisgusting has some directorial speculation for Breaking Dawn.

Dread Central has another preview clip of "Ugly Americans" here.

Comicbookresources has a feature on Stephen King's American Vampire graphic novel.

Taliesin today gets stuck into a Robert Hossein film from 1965 "Le Vampire de Dussledorf"

and finally tonight... Nicole Hadaway has released a new short story, well worth a read.

Tuesday 16 March 2010

Ugly Americans preview, American Vampire features.

A couple of things spotted by Gabrielle Faust first tonight.

Gabrielle does a feature on the upcoming "American Vampire" here and Dread Central has more here.

Gabrielle also spotted a first look youtube video of "Priest".



Vampire Cafe spotted a True Blood Season III spoiler here. Bloody Disgusting has a teaser from HBO for Season III here.

Bloody Disgusting has the first ten minutes of animated vampire series "Ugly Americans" coming tomorrow to Comedy Central.

Dread Central has some snippetts of Twilight news here.

MTV has a sneak preview and some pics of the upcoming Vampire Diaries episode here.

Oh goody. News here that Walmart are opening Twilight shops across America.

Monday 15 March 2010

True Blood Season III date

ScifiWire spotted news that Steven Spielberg has got involved with the American remake of "let the right one in"

Vampire Cafe spotted an interview with Charlaine Harris here.

Bloody Disgusting has some big news... True Blood season III will hit US TV screens on HBO June 13th.

Dread Central has the trailer for Stephen Kings graphic novel "American Vampires" here.

There are some pics anda report of a new vampire musical "Vampire Heart" here.

There are a collection of 10 top tv and movie vampires here.

There is another glimpse of Eclipse here, featuring Bryce Dallas.

This is worth a read... "A short history of vampire movies" Part II is the link, part I is available from there.

There is a feature on the Jane Austen based vampire stories of recent times here... Jane Bites Back.

Taliesin tonight reviews "Twilight Vamps" a 2010 film.

Sunday 14 March 2010

More Eclipse

There is a feature on "Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter" here.

Summit has released another "Eclipse" featurette, spotted here.

Saturday 13 March 2010

Buffy turns 13, vampire diaries next episode trailer.

Buffy has just turned thirteen... Vampire Cafe spotted this tribute to the slayer.

Shocktilyoudrop has a feature on four upcoming vampire projects here.

This is worth a read... Vampires do not sparkle!

The Zap2It blog has spotted the next Vampire Diaries trailer for the upcoming episode.



Taliesin today reviews 2010 film "I am Virgin"

Friday 12 March 2010

Priest music details...

A quiet night, apologies everyone.

Fearnet spotted news that Christopher Young is to produce the musical score for "Priest"

MTV has an interview with Vampire Diaries Paul Wesley here.

A review of some new vampire manga is here... Blood Honey. There is a preview of the first chapter here.



Fangoria has an interview with vampire horror writer Brian Keene

Thursday 11 March 2010

Eclipse trailers are here...

Vampire Cafe spotted this... a sneak peak of the New Moon commentary.

There is an interview with True blood's bill here.

Horror Movies.Ca has the DVD specs for Daybreakers here.

BloodyDisgusting spotted this... full trailers for Eclipse.

BloodyDisgusting has a tribute to Corey Haim here.

There is an article here on transforming Dracula into Edward Cullen.

A Vampire Diaries scoop is claimed here, and Nina Dobrev talks about the series here.

Taliesin today reviews "Graveyard Shift 2"

"Orpheus : A Vampires Rise" by V.M.K Fewings is due for release on March 31st

Wednesday 10 March 2010

RIP Corey Haim

Sad news tonight... Corey Haim, who starred in the Lost Boys has died, aged 38.

Vampire Cafe spotted a 10 second teaser for Eclipse.



Vampire Cafe also spotted another trailer for "Suck"



BloodyDisgusting has a new Rosencrantz and Guildenstern poster, and news that the release date has shifted to may 21st.

News now of a couple of films, spotted by Shocktilyoudrop.

The Nest is a film based on the Chupucabra legend.

Mutant Vampire Zombies from the Hood is getting a May 18th DVD release.

There is a review of "Dracula : Path of the Dragon" for the iPhone here.

Sir Christopher Lee is releasing his metal album next week... some more details here.



MTV has more on Spencer Locke's role in the upcoming Vampire Diaries episodes.

Tuesday 9 March 2010

Suck Trailer

Gabrielle Faust spotted this... The LA Times has named Alexander Skarsgard as their Millenium Man.


ScifiGuy has an interview with Marta Acosta, author of the "Happy Hour at Casa Dracula" series.

Vampire Cafe spotted this news... HBO are to screen some minisodes before True Blood season 3 proper.

Dread Central has in interview with Chloe Moretz, star of "Let Me In".

Dread Central also spotted news that Daybreakers will be out on DVD and Blu-Ray on 11th May.

More from Dread Central, who spotted some casting news for Vampire Diaries - Spencer locke joining up.

There are more details of "Tales of an Ancient empire" here... this is set for an April 23rd release.



Dread Central also has some stills from the next Vampire Diaries episode here.

Big news of the night... shocktilyoudrop has unearthed the "Suck" trailer starring Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and others.

Taliesin today reviews 1995 film "Not of this Earth"

Fearnet has an interview with Hammer Films on "Let Me In"

Monday 8 March 2010

bits n bobs...

Bloody Disgusting has spotted a new image from "Higanjima", playing this week at a film festival in Austin, Texas.

BD also has more on the Fright Night remake, and yesterdays news that Craig Gillespie is being lined up as director.

There is an interview with author Alexander Galant, the chap who was historical researcher for Dracula : the undead.

There is an interview with Vampire Diaries producer Julie Plec here, and there is a report from Paleyfest where the next episode got a screening for those attending.

Hm. The Sun has news that Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton) is not allowed to go sunbathing so he can stay nice and pale. Good thing he is english, no danger of sunbathing here!

Sunday 7 March 2010

Sunday stuff...

Vampire Diaries is returning to TV on March 25th... first photos of the next episode are here.

There is a review of "The reformed vampire support group" by Catherine Jinks here.



There is a Fright Night remake on the way. Vampire Cafe spotted news that the director might be Craig Gillespie.

Taliesin today reviews "Dracula - The Broadway Musical"

Saturday 6 March 2010

Ugly American game

Gabrielle Faust spotted a couple of clips of Stephen Moyer on UK a chat show hosted by Jonathon Ross.

Three items spotted by the dependable Vampire Cafe next.

There is an interview with Priest director Scott Stewart here.

The New Moon director reveals some secrets about the film here.

The LATimes has a piece on "Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter" here.

Comedy Central has launched a game to go alongside its "Ugly Americans"... details are here at Dread Central.

Dread Central has news that New Moon director Chris Weitz isnt keen on coming back for Breaking Dawn.

Taliesin today reviews 1957 film "not of this earth"

Friday 5 March 2010

The Count strikes back...

Gabreille Faust spotted this new book trailer - Evolve : Vampire Stories of the new Undead.



There is an interview with the author here.

There is an interview with Stephen Moyer (Bill) of True blood here, where he talks about working with wolves for season 3.

There is an interview with Charlaine Harris here.

And yet another interview... this time director Chris Weitz on New Moon.

Wesley Snipes continues to try and talk himself into a fourth Blade movie... details here at BloodyDisgusting.

Ah, this is wonderful! thanks to Poopbear on Deviantart, whoever you are... this is truly magnificent.



There is a review of Vampire Hunter D volume 4 here.

The LATimes has a piece on the National Geographics program on vampires last month.

Thursday 4 March 2010

Spike returns...?

Looks like being a quiet night again...

Dread Central has some Twilight : Eclipse news... a new editor and Muse dropped from the soundtrack.

There is an interiew with George Earl Parker, author of "Vampyre Blood - Eight pints of trouble"

The LATimes runs a piece on Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter here.

There is an interview here with James Marsters, or Spike to you and me... he mentions he would like to still do something as Spike as a Buffy spinoff.

Taliesin today reviews 2010 film "God of Vampires"

Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter gets a movie!

Gabrielle faust is running a trailer contest for the third in her Eternal Vigilance series.

Bloody Disgusting has news of "The last Voyage of the Demeter" which looks to be finally getting under way.

Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter is making some stunning progress... now there are rumours of a movie being on the way, with no less director than Tim Burton!

Dread Central has news that David Anders has joined the Vampire Diaries cast.

"Law and Order" has a vampire episode coming up... thre is a preview here.

Ugh... a Robert Pattinson waxwork. Wonder which has the better acting skills?



There is a feature of the latest Buffy comic here.

Tuesday 2 March 2010

quiet day...

Struggling for news today, where did all the vamps go? Scared away by yesterday's Abraham Lincoln, no doubt...

There is a review of Castlevania : Lord of Shadows here.

There is news that Dracula : The path of the dragon part 2 should be available on the Iphone Appstore soon.

There is a piece on upcoming film "Vamps" here.

There is a review of the "Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl" DVD here.

Monday 1 March 2010

Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter trailer

Vampire Cafe spotted this - a review of "The Vampires Assistant" Blu-Ray release.

Dread Central has some stills from the upcoming film "Renfield"

Vampire Cafe spotted this... a deleted scene from New Moon appearing online.

Ah, finally some movement on this... Johnny Depp hopes that his Dark Shadows project will shoot this year.

New Film News, courtesty of Dread Central. "Tale of an ancient empire" has started picking up cast members, details here.

Shocktilyoudrop spotted this trailer for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. DVD hits the shelves tomorrow, March 2nd!



The Guardian has its review of Being Human season II here, and Taliesin does his thing here.