Visually Vampire: Ten Must See Vampire DVDsVisually Vampire: Ten must see vampire movies and series are the vampire movies and television shows which you really must-have-seen if you are going to carry on a conversation with vampire aficionados. These are the vampire movies I work into my classrooms, introducing the ideas with which our society embeds visual metaphor into our culture. One can watch the way the cultural notions morphs through time and culture simply by the way essential elements – souls, food sources, sleeping arrangements – are shown in the videos.
Noseferatu features a truly unattractive, and evil, vampire. This rip-off of Dracula featured a vampire that couldn’t endure daylight because it was thought that changing such an essential characteristic, and ending, would make the copyright infringement less marked. Todd Browning’s Dracula caught the imagination of the world as Bella Lugosi portrayed the Count with skill the character of the upper-class vampire consuming the life blood of any victim he strutted across. Lugosi’s Dracula was attractive and wealthy, souless and eternally hungry for brides and blood. And, like most powerful individuals – his promises were worthless. Dark Shadows, a 1960s serial soap-opera, again brought vampires to popular notice when the directors brought Barnabas Collins in as vampire to raise flagging ratings. They succeeded admirably. Barnabas was conflicted. While he had no choice but to kill people if he wished to maintain his own un-dying life, he searched and hoped for a cure – either scientific or supernatural. He – like the Dracula of film – slept in a coffin, avoided daylight, and killed his nearest and dearest as needed. Interview with a Vampire is interesting not only for the quality of the male actors, it is interesting in its juxtaposition of two characters, one content with his vampire needs, and one not okay with his vampire needs. Again we see coffin sleepers who avoid daylight. They are dead to the day.
Lost Boys explores what happens to young adults after they become vampires. This is an early version of “Boys Gone Wild.” No coffins, but they must avoid sunlight and exist by “eating” the outliers of society. Buffy is simply Buffy. What happens when a ‘normal’ teenage female is assigned the role of savior of society? Just watch! And attend the Slayage 2012 conference if you can. Angel is an offshoot of Buffy. He's a bit weepy for me, but it is well worth watching. True Blood and Vampire Diaries are both running now. You would have to be to chained in a coffin to hiss the furor. Mr. Vampire is one of the funniest vampire movies you could ever see. It is a Chinese vampire movie which mixes Kung-fu, Vampires, Zombies, Ghosts, and magic. Must see. |
Read Real Victorian Vampires
Have you ever wondered what the early vampire novels were like? Wondered how vampires of the Victorian period differ from the modern novels that fill bookstore shelves -- or if they differ at all?My modernized language version of Varney the Vampre: The Feast of Blood allows you to find out. Updated language and removal of excess words (Rymer was paid by the word) make this version the best available. Risen From the Grave is a statement that Sir Francis Varney once again stalks the earth looking to have access to readers.
Risen From The Grave: Varney the Vampyre Part 1: The Feast of Blood is available at any online bookstore, such as Amazon.
So, what is Risen From the Grave: Varney the Vampyre Part 1: The Feast of Blood about?
What is a vampire to do? Sir Francis Varney has needs, just like he did back when he was human. He needs a good house. He needs money to pay servants and to buy the props of humanity. He needs a good wife. But most of all, he needs blood. It is the final need that drives him to Bannerworth Hall during the dark and stormy night, that drives him to break into the bedchamber of Flora Bannerworth, and that drives him to suck her blood.
Sounds like a modern story, doesn't it? Read it for yourself and see how it compares to the modern vampire novels.
What have NON-PAID readers said about Varney?
The characters are nicely developed, you'll find yourself taking sides and giggling at antics throughout the ever changing story's ever changing drama and action. I can't wait for the next volume of this modernized vampire classic! (Arynn -- on Amazon)
This modernization of Varney the Vampyre is an absolute must read for the occult reader or anyone who enjoys tales of thrills and romance. (NicoleAlaine -- on Barnes and Noble)
Will the bite of the vampire force Flora Bannerworth to become a vampire herself? Did Charles Holland, her fiancé, abandon her because he believes she will, or was he abducted forcibly for nefarious reasons? Will Flora be free from threat if the villagers slay the vampire? With Varney The Vampyre book two: The Flight Of The Vampyre Malcom James Rymer continues the saga of Sir Francis Varney, the vampire, exploring the issues raised in personal lives by the presence of a blood-sucking vampire in a small township in Eighteenth century England. This modern language version, Risen From The Grave, produced by Leslie Ormandy allows a modern reader a glimpse of an earlier era, and their ideas of Vampires.
Available in Paperback through Amazon.com for only $9.95.
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