Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
... Angie Everhart - Bordello of Blood4. Aaliyah - Queen of the Damned5. Monica Bellucci - Bram Stoker's Dracula6. Nikki Reed - Twilight7. Olga Kurylenko - Quartier de la Madeleine8. Sharon Tate - The Fearless Vampire Killers9. Kristanna Loken - Bloodrayne10. Traci Lords - Blade
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... series, but this novel about vampires on a steamboat has earned reviews which feature the phrase “Bram Stoker meets Mark Twain,” which is high praise by most people’s standards. 8. “Lost Souls,” by Poppy Z. Brite. Maybe it’s just because I enjoy pretty much any film revolving around a band, but I’d love to see the adventures of Lost Souls? make it to the big screen. 7. “Jonathan Barrett,...
Dark Party Review (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
The 86-year-old Vampire Film Needs a Careful Watching to Appreciate Ironically, for a film that is 86 years old, “Nosferatu” starts off, like a bad, self-produced YouTube video. Thankfully, it improves. I’ve always wanted to watch the first vampire movie ever made and the one that is often considered the greatest adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” It’s an unofficial version and Stoker...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... schooler Bella Swan and the object of her desire, Edward Cullen, a vampire. “Jane Austen meets Bram Stoker,” one reviewer said.—Controversy: Some fans initially protested the casting of Robert Pattinson, a relative unknown, as Edward. Who did the hardcore fans want? Tom Welling (”Smallville”) and James Franco (”Pineapple Express”), for instance. —Author Meyer is a mother of three...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
... that (this was Victorian England, after all)? Only in thinly veiled metaphors.OTHER MONSTERS? Bram Stoker's short story "Dracula's Guest," which some say is the original opening chapter of "Dracula," contains scary wolves and a vampire's ghost.GREATEST DESIRE? Dracula actually came to London to conduct a real estate transaction. Oh, and to be around millions of potential meals.TWILIGHTGARLIC,...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
The somber, clinical tone of the movie may be closer to Ingmar Bergman and Krzysztof Kieslowski than it is to Bram Stoker, but the story line is boilerplate stuff: When a lethally active vampire and its mysterious protector arrive in an early 1980s suburban community, they start piling up blood-drained corpses and eventually face opposition.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Joseph Conrad and, more surprisingly, Bram Stoker, also drew inspiration from this most haunted area of the Thames. (Jonathan Harker found a marshland hideaway at Purfleet for the vampiric count.) It is here, toward the end of a pilgrimage of nearly 400 pages, that Ackroyd at last enters his element. The concluding chapters of "Thames" are extraordinary, perhaps the finest he has written...
