Vampires | Coosa Creek Cinema

Interview with the Vampire

By Rick, on October 28th, 2008 |

Interview with the Vampire is the “Harry Potter” of vampire movies. It’s based on a novel (by Anne Rice) that was very popular, and there was tremendous speculation amongst its fan-base over how close the film would stick to the novel. As in the Potter stories, every fan of the books had an image in [...]

Money Shot, Part II

By Rick, on October 25th, 2008 |

Dracula (1931)

By The Tuscaloosa Strangler, on October 18th, 2008 |

Velcome to my humble chateau

I first saw Dracula as a kid; my father loved the Universal monsters, and he passed it on to me. We thrilled together at the Wolfman and the Mummy, commiserated with Frankenstein’s monster — if only he hadn’t thrown that little girl in the pond! — and gasped at the [...]

Children of the Night

By Rick, on October 17th, 2008 |

Some of the denizens of Dracula’s castle.

Even the Count wants to go home with the armadillo.

[Stills and detail from Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931)]

When You’re Strange

By The Tuscaloosa Strangler, on October 10th, 2008 |

The Lost Boys is one of those movies that plays better in memory than in fact. I remember it being a dangerous, not-your-parents vampire movie, with cool music and even more cool vampires. Even though I was hardly a kid when I saw it — it was released in 1987 — it seemed at the [...]

Soul-less Mate

By The Tuscaloosa Strangler, on October 7th, 2008 |

Even vampires get lonely, even vampires need love. Unlike the rest of us they can create the perfect mate, the perfect companion. All it takes is a nibble here, a nosh there, and voilá: you’ve got a companion for life, er, death, uh … undeath. Well, forever, if you know what I mean.

Here, for your [...]

Rules for Vampire Hunters, Part I

By The Tuscaloosa Strangler, on October 5th, 2008 |

Always keep your priorities straight.

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The Hunger

By The Tuscaloosa Strangler, on October 4th, 2008 |

When I saw the pretentious, 80s-techno opening — cut to Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugos is Dead,” for God’s sake — I thought: “Ah, hell. This is going to be a long and bumpy ride.” After all, it was directed by Tony Scott, that master of empty sizzle — see Spy Game, Deja Vu and Enemy of [...]

30 Days of Night

By Rick, on August 22nd, 2008 |

Danny Huston chews the scenery

30 Days of Night has an ingenious premise: vampires attack Barrow, Alaska during its annual period of darkness, when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon for thirty days. That’s convenient, because in addition to being immortal, sunlight kills them as well. In fact, they’re pretty-much old school vampires, except [...]