I first encountered Christopher Lee shortly before my sixth birthday, in a darkened movie theatre where HORROR OF DRACULA was unspooling onscreen before my startled, innocent eyes. Even at that tender age, I had seen Bela Lugosi as Dracula on ...

Maryland-born Jay Lind made his first film Sangre Songs in New York in 1990. During the shooting of the film, he met his first wife, Maria Petchukas, who starred in many of his films, including his 1998 version of Carmilla. ...