Vampire Movies
Why Werner Herzog’s ‘Nosferatu’ is Actually the Better Movie
F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu is a masterpiece of silent cinema. It’s one of the all-time great horror films. While it did not get the rights to the characters of the novel Dracula from the St...
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Helped Define the Gory Excess of the 1990s
So many people, even now, believe the 1980s to be a golden age in horror history. By extension, the 1990s is believed to be an incredibly dull period. Many people say that horror was dead in that deca...
Why From Dusk Till Dawn is Still Going Strong After More Than 20 Years
More than twenty-five years ago, filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino spun the vampire genre on its head with From Dusk Till Dawn. In that time, the film has only grown in popularity, hav...
Eight Cinematic Vampires That Don’t Get Nearly Enough Credit
Vampires films are everywhere. They often make their way out of the genre and have (as of late) infected comedy, teen romance and just about everything else. But vampire movies are a staple of the hor...
Sex, Blood and Rock ‘n’ Roll: Queen of the Damned at 20
Queen of the Damned is the most metal movie of all time. Correction, it’s the most nu-metal movie of all time, which might sound like an insult but, if you were a moody teenager in the early to...
Seven Great Vampire Comedies to Sink Your Teeth Into
Vampire comedies, like vampires themselves, tend to come and go. They’re not always popular but even when they aren’t, they’re still being produced in some capacity. The bigg...
All The Moons Adds A Stunning Fairy Tale Aesthetic To Familiar Vampire Fare [Fantasia 2021 Review]
All The Moons/Ilargi Guztiak immediately thrusts the audience into the middle of a crisis. Late in 1876, the Third Carlist war’s last gasps are being fought in the Basque region of Spain. The te...
Dollar Double Feature: Christmas Horror: Rabid (1977) and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
Welcome back to Dollar Double Feature, Christmas horror edition. A digital throwback to bargain theaters, and the idiosyncratic slate of second run fare that often played them. Because even the surlie...
Bleed With Me Is A Chilling Look At Toxic Female Friendships [Charlotte Film Festival Review]
Rowan (Lee Marshall), the protagonist of Amelia Moses’ Bleed With Me, is clearly far too used to apologizing. Despite being the invited guest of her good friend Emily (Lauren Beatty) and Emily&#...