Tag Archives: Bram Stoker

One thing that really annoys me when it comes to vampire cinema is the dominance of the male form when it comes to filmic interpretations of the myth. Don’t get me wrong, I love vampires in all guises, be it ...

Films, like music, are of a certain time and place, and those that are immediately successful, as opposed to finding success gradually in aging like fine wine, tend to come out at the perfect time, when audiences are ready for ...

Almost from the moment of its emergence from ‘lost film’ purgatory in the early 90s, it has become received wisdom among many horror fans and cinéastes that George Melford’s Spanish-language version of Dracula (1931) is actually the superior film to ...

Such an odd choice by Destiny for the creator of an eternal monster, that Stoker fellow. Such a Renfield, such a Sorcerer’s Apprentice. From his diligent research, his industry, his graphic and sex-charged vision grew an icon which overwhelmed the ...

Street Date: 1/31/17 A terrifying English legend returns when the Vestron Video Collector’s Series brings the British horror classic The Lair of the White Worm to limited-edition Blu-ray™ on January 31 from Lionsgate. In a remote corner of England’s Peak ...

In the introduction to In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, editor-annotator Leslie S. Klinger observes that “Poe’s best stories traverse the ranges of existentialism—pondering the inexorable nature of time and death and the indifference of God—and of the depths ...

Showtime’s television series Penny Dreadful is a feast for the eyes with its brilliant art direction, costumes, and eye candy cast. Among its characters are Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dorian Gray. It seems likely that Skyhorse Publishing is aware of the ...

Thirty-five years after it’s initial release, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Werner Herzog’s haunting tone poem of death and loneliness is as potent today as it was in 1979. To celebrate the film’s recent arrival on blu-ray for the first time in ...

Thanks to MPI, Dan Curtis’s British made-for-TV film, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1973), has finally made it to Blu-ray, complete with a restored print from the original 35mm negative and some new special features. The master of ‘70s television horror, Curtis ...

Steve Head and David Kleiler welcome special guest, Bret Wood, Vice President and Executive Producer at Kino Lorber, to discuss Kino’s new blu-ray release of F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), the film that Werner Herzog called the most important German ...