it has been so long since I saw that movie... (Interview with the Vampire, that is), I actually remember the book better.
One of my all-time favorite acting performances is Gary Oldman as Dracula. I loved his modes of speech and aura of vast age. Some elements of that film weren't perfect by any means, but the costumes, sound design and sets were delicious.
(http://screampunch.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/gary_oldman_licking.jpg)
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Louis and Lestat were very handsome vampires too. And Louis was quite friendly towards humans. I always like movies with friendly vampires in them.
Well, not ALWAYS!!
(http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp161/richiemanzzz/Interview_with_the_vampire.jpg)
Of course I think the SEXIEST vampire right now is Edward Cullen from Twilight!
And he's a very friendly vampire too!
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu53/joey_logano_lover/edward%20cullen/edward_cullen.jpg)
I liked Intervirew With The Vampire, both book and movie.
But the only really frightening vampire ever was Klaus Kinski's Nosferatu:
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/1_61_vampire_nosferatu_76.jpg)
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/nosferatu.jpg)
But then, Kinski himself was always creepy to me. Boy, you should have seen him in German talk shows ::).
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it was called "Shadow of the Vampire", staring Willem Dafoe as the vampire. He did a masterful job!
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I just started reading the first book of the Twilight series. My daughter already has read all existing books, God and his brother are talking about them at the moment. So last week, when I was at Newark airport, waiting for my flight back to Germany, I bought it.
I've only read 70 pages so far. I kinda like it, but I think like Harry Potter, it shows that the target audience are teenagers. I never got the whole Harry Potter thing. To me it was children's books and I gave up after 1.5 books.
But I digress. We're talking vampires here!
I liked Intervirew With The Vampire, both book and movie.
But the only really frightening vampire ever was Klaus Kinski's Nosferatu:
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/1_61_vampire_nosferatu_76.jpg)
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/nosferatu.jpg)
But then, Kinski himself was always creepy to me. Boy, you should have seen him in German talk shows ::).
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/image_fmbg_0_3-1176390016.jpg)
If only for contrast, I recommend the 1922 Nosferatu. Very creepy, and beautiful visually, all German Expressionism, great shadows and angles. I saw it in college, complete with bizarre soundtrack.
(http://facesoffantastic.com/images/cinema/nosferatu16.jpg)
(http://internettrash.com/users/murnau/nosf17.jpg)
(http://facesoffantastic.com/images/cinema/nosferatu9.jpg)
one of the reasons I get impatient with modern "vampire" stories is because I find the earlier, ugly predator versions of vampires to be a far more credible and interesting tale.
These new glamorous sparkly vampires just don't do it for me in terms of suspense.
Of course, the first time I ever thought of the possibility of a vampire as sexy was Frank Langella back in the late 1970s. All Byronic angst. ;D
Then (of course) we have Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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YES!!
Yes Yes Yes!!
I remember Frank Langella too Jeff.
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If only for contrast, I recommend the 1922 Nosferatu. Very creepy, and beautiful visually, all German Expressionism, great shadows and angles. I saw it in college, complete with bizarre soundtrack.
(http://facesoffantastic.com/images/cinema/nosferatu16.jpg)
(http://internettrash.com/users/murnau/nosf17.jpg)
(http://facesoffantastic.com/images/cinema/nosferatu9.jpg)
I think another interesting thing about Nosferatu is that the "fangs" are the vampire's front teeth instead of the usual canines. It does look to me like it would be easier to puncture somebody's throat with extralong, sharp front teeth than with the canines.
(http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/071018/kiefer_l.jpg)
GAWD that picture is HOT!! :laugh:
WHOOOOO!! :P
I loved The Lost Boys. I have it on DVD. It had a distinct comedic element to it as well - what I'd call a dark comedy. Corey Haim was very cute in it, and I've been a die hard Keifer fan for years and years. :)
(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/vampire-cat-will-suck-your-blood.jpg)
I always remember it for that one song..."When You're Strange"
Dracula has also gone against super heros.
(http://www.tvcrazy.net/tvclassics/wallpaper/cartoons/superfriends/vampires.jpg)
In the episode "Attack of the Vampire", Dracula rises, and turns a plane full of passengers into vampires.....their eyes shooting out laserbeams that turn others into vampires.
The Super Friends try to stop the spread of the vampires, and Superman, and later the Wonder Twins, are turned into vampires, and later restored.
C O U N T J A C K U L A
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Keifer Sutherland as a vampire. "The Lost Boys" 1987
Dracula has also gone against super heros.
(http://www.tvcrazy.net/tvclassics/wallpaper/cartoons/superfriends/vampires.jpg)
In the episode "Attack of the Vampire", Dracula rises, and turns a plane full of passengers into vampires.....their eyes shooting out laserbeams that turn others into vampires.
The Super Friends try to stop the spread of the vampires, and Superman, and later the Wonder Twins, are turned into vampires, and later restored.
The interesting thing about Lost Boys to me, is that for a "classic 80s movie" it holds up so well. The soundtrack, the costumes everything holds up well and works when you watch it now. It doesn't seem dated like a lot of flicks made at that time do. And it had some really fine actors: Dianne Weist, Jason Patric, etc. And I thought Corey Haim did the comic moments really well.
I don't have a photoshopped pic of Hugh Grant, however, Jimmy (gnash) on DCF worked a picture for us that got placed in our Photo captions thread, in the Halloween series.
C O U N T J A C K U L A
(http://taxine.com/fullerspicer/count_jackula.jpg)
I don't have a photoshopped pic of Hugh Grant, however, Jimmy (gnash) on DCF worked a picture for us that got placed in our Photo captions thread, in the Halloween series.
C O U N T J A C K U L A
(http://taxine.com/fullerspicer/count_jackula.jpg)
I actually found the full episode on YouTube.
:laugh:
Posting it here, sorry you can't see it David. Maybe you can check out a library that has a free high speed connection.
Here is part one (10 minutes)
Here is the conclusion. (3 minutes)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-QYwugOaSY&feature=related[/youtube]
From TampaBay.com
V is for voracious: Vampire culture unveiled
THE VAMPIRES wait outside the back door of the Ybor City nightclub. Newcomers stand on the fringes, alone. The regulars talk about school, about work, about the weather. • But not about blood-drinking. Not out here. •
Times researcher John Martin contributed to this report. Alexandra Zayas can be reached at [email protected] or (813) 226-3354.
http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/v-is-for-voracious-vampire-culture-unveiled/1027763 (http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/v-is-for-voracious-vampire-culture-unveiled/1027763)
I heard an interesting interview with Anne Rice on NPR yesterday about why she is leaving Christianity, not from a loss of faith in the Trinity, but because of the Catholic church's work to defeat same-sex marriage. She is rightfully disgusted by the Church's spending money to defeat state initiatives instead of concentrating on religion and helping the poor.
It isn't like the Roman Catholic Church is alone among Christian churches condemning gays though - look at the fundamentalist churches, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Mormons (okay maybe they aren't Christian), and the other side of the schism in the Episcopal Church.
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some lovely vampire pictures from true blood
and if you don't have HBO you can log on to the website www.tv-dome.net there you have the most recently american movies and tv-series.
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Teeth don't look right.
Looks like they've made his lateral incisors into fangs, instead of his canines. Isn't it usually the canines that are abnormally long and sharp in a vampire? ???