I don't normally watch awards shows, ever. They're unnecessarily long, are inundated with bad skits and musical numbers (ahem, unnecessarily long), and more often than not showcase actors/movies I don't really care for. I'm a horror girl, through and through. Horror doesn't really exist to the Academy. Sure, there have been a few nods here and there. One of my all time favourite films, The Omen, won an Oscar for best music in 1977.

Before I get off track on some tangent, I'll make my point. I sat through most of the Oscars, Ru Paul's Drag Race was over and there was really nothing better on TV. I sat through the musical numbers, the not so witty jokes & scripted banter. I honestly don't think I saw any of the films nominated, so it was all a little lost on me. But! It was all worth it. And I'll tell you why.

During their rememberance montage of the film elite who have passed away over the course of 2008, they tossed a nod to our beloved Maila Nurmi. And as a beautiful picture of Vampira, the original glamour ghoul, crossed the screen it was all worth watching.

So thanks to the Oscars for remembering Vampira. Now be a dear and give us horror freaks a few more Oscars!

As per my last post, it turns out the makers of the Twilight perfume did copycat the Nina by Nina Ricci bottles. A lawsuit is in the works. Silly people.

Have any of you folks checked out the new Twilight perfume? Yes, Twilight. As in the book series and subsequent movie series. There's a perfume. I have no idea what it smells like, but it comes in a fetching little apple shaped bottle. I have the exact, and I do mean exact, same bottle of perfume sitting in my bathroom but it's called Nina by Nina Ricci. Odd? How do they get away with using the exact same bottle design? See for yourself: Nina by Nina Ricci and Twilight, the Perfume

And while we're on the subject of copycats, have any of you guys seen the film Gabriel? It's a 2007 release written and directed by Shane Abbess, who's done really nothing else, yet. I read the description, watched a trailer and thought it might be all dark & dirty like The Crow or Dark City, something to that effect. I started watching it last night and about 15 minutes into it I realized it was The Crow. Again, how did they get away with it? I counted nearly half a dozen scenes that were basically frame for frame from The Crow. I should really watch the making of featurette to see if the director addresses his total & complete obsession with The Crow. Maybe he's seen it more times than I have. Pfft, not bloody likely.

By the way, my inner 14 year old wants the damn bottle of Twilight perfume. So sad.

My pre-op is tomorrow. Christmas present to myself, new boobs! ;)

Hope everyone had a fabulous hell-iday season!

Just popping by to wish you crazy kids out there in the Land of LJ a very scary Christmas! There's a new year coming, to which I am very thankful and excited for. This year has been a whirlwind of ups and downs, culminating in mostly downs to say the least.

2009 is going to be my year darlins! Too much to type and too little time right now. But I'll be back babies!

Bites & hisses to you all!

I thought you guys might want to meet my new boyfriend, Christopher. My older sister gave birth to him a little over 2 months ago. I'm an aunt! Very strange.

This is a shot of him & I on Halloween at my sisters house. I'm in charge of Halloween costumes for the lil guy, hence Baby Dracula. He might just be a vampire every year. :P

Psst...It's Bela's birthday. He may be too dead to celebrate it, but you're not.

Throw Dracula into your DVD player. The Count commands it.

I kinda sorta maybe start using this thing again. No promises, but there's just so much in my head these days I think I might need a journal again.

And why write if no one's reading.

;)

Hi.

Remember me?

New Regency has recently announced that they have acquired the rights to Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's illustrated novel Baltimore or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire.

David S. Goyer is set to direct after wrapping current Magneto project. Goyer wrote and produced the Blade movie trilogy and TV series.

Mike Mignola is a comic book artist and writer best known for his Hellboy series. Christopher Golden is an author of horror & fantasy novels for adults and teens including the Shadow Saga, a lengthy list of Buffy spin-off novels and along with Mignola several Hellboy books.

Baltimore,: Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden:

From celebrated comic artist Mike Mignola and award-winning novelist Christopher Golden comes a work of gothic storytelling like no other. Reminiscent of the illustrated tales of old, here is a lyrical, atmospheric novel of the paranormal?and a chilling allegory for the nature of war.

Why do dead men rise up to torment the living? Captain Henry Baltimore asks the malevolent winged creature. The vampire shakes its head. It was you called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves. You killers. You berserkers. You will never be rid of us now.

When Lord Henry Baltimore awakens the wrath of a vampire on the hellish battlefields of World War I, the world is forever changed. For a virulent plague has been unleashed a plague that even death cannot end.

Now the lone soldier in an eternal struggle against darkness, Baltimore summons three old friends to a lonely inn, men whose travels and fantastical experiences incline them to fully believe in the evil that is devouring the soul of mankind.

As the men await their old friend, they share their tales of terror and misadventure, and contemplate what part they will play in Baltimore?s timeless battle. Before the night is through, they will learn what is required to banish the plague?and the creature who named Baltimore his nemesis?once and for all

Hammer Films has been in a sort of hibernation since the 80's. Founded in 1934, Hammer made a name for themselves with a selection of horror films produced from the 1950's through the 1970's. Earlier this year, it was announced that Dutch producer John De Mol had bought the rights to Hammer Films, a catalog of over 300 films. He also announced plans to restart the company with fresh horror films. Guy East and Nigel Sinclair of Spitfire Pictures signed on to exculsively produce two or three genre flicks a year for the studio.

Beyond the Rave marks the first horror film Hammer has released in over 20 years. Filming is under way in London on this vampire flick set in England's underground rave scene. Intended for online release, Hammer hopes to spark the interest of a new & younger generation of would be fans before producing feature films.

Actor/model Jamie Dornan will play a soldier named Ed on his way to Iraq. The night before leaving, Ed and pal Necro go looking for Ed's missing girlfriend last seen partying with an odd ball named Melech. Ending up at a rave in the woods, Ed quickly discovers Melech and company are vampires with ulterior motives.

Featuring Sadie Frost (Bram Stoker's Dracula), Rick Warden, Lois Winstone (When Evil Calls), Nora-Jane Noone (The Descent), Sebastian Knapp (28 Days Later) and Les Simpson (Dog Soldiers). And for all the devoted Hammer Horror fans, Beyond the Rave also features a cameo from Ingrid Pitt whom starred in Hammer's The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula.

Directed by award winning short filmmaker Matthias Hoene. Produced by brothers Tom & Ben Grass, based on an original story by Tom. Ben recently described it as being "inspired by Tom and my own experiences of raves: the great highs, and the demons that can lurk in the dark before dawn. It's jam packed with great characters and encounters. The narrative hurtles along to a big, juicy conclusion, and all along it's peppered with great tunes and visceral action. Tristan Versluis, whom recently did Tim Burton?s Sweeney Todd out this Christmas, will handle special effects.

Certainly not the most promising plotline for a Hammer resurgence. Although I'm more than curious to see what comes out of the studio in its new direction, I will admit to being just a touch nervous for them.

Am I the only one that wants Sara Sidle to die in tonights episode of CSI?

I go in for laser eye surgery in 2 hours. I'm excited! I'm not nervous, but I'm sure I will be when I get there. I'm trying to keep visions of 'suction rings' and eye scenes from A Clockwork Orange out of my head. But oh to be glasses free!

I'm barred from using the 'puter for 24 hours, but after that I'll be back with photos from the recent Rue Morgue Festival of Fear horror convention, a book signing with author Sherrilyn Kenyon and all sorts of silliness.

So let's all say goodbye to Vampy's glasses.

Bitternest by Alan Draven

From the folks that brought you Prison of the Psychotic Damned comes Red Scream Vampyres. Described as a reimagining (I don't like that word) of the vampire mythos, it features a pair of thousand year old bloodsucking vixens living in an abandoned train terminal. They seduce and drug victims for a night of passion and slaughter. Forget the tidy bite marks, these girls rip their victims to shreds driven purely by bloodlust.

Owner and founder of Red Scream Films describes the movie as exploring the lifestyle of these vampires, how they think and how they see humans. Shot on HD and now in postproduction, the crew wrapped in June with hopes of having Vampyres out by the end of the year. Special FX artist Tony Mandile, whom also directed Midnight Mass, lent his FX talents on Red Scream Vampyres.

Visit the official site for more info and a really weak trailer. Join me in amusement as the main page of the site suggests Red Scream Vampyres ranks among the vamp classics including Nosferatu, Dracula, The Hunger and....Underworld?? Yeah.

http://redscreamvampyres.com

New Regency has optioned Virgin Comic's Virulents for a movie adaptation. Directing the project is John Moore, known best for 2001's Behind Enemy Lines and the recent remake of The Omen. Writing the adaptation is John Cox, who wrote the screenplay for the forthcoming Sgt. Rock movie.

Virgin's Virulents takes a new spin on the vampire legend by incorporating Indian mythology. It's post 9/11. US soldiers searching for a lost patrol in Afghanistan cross paths with Indian commandos searching for terrorist activity. What both groups find are a nest of vicious bloodsucking vampire like creatures called the Raktaveej, or blood demons. In Indian legend, the Raktaveej were able to multiply by a single drop of shed blood. It took the Goddess Kali to stop them once and for all. See a promo video for the comic here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws8nQjGSU4o

Producing Virulents will be Virgin Comic's own Gotham Chopra and Sharad Devarajan, along with Seth Jaret and Moore. Fox will handle distribution.

A movie prequel to Bram Stoker's novel was announced a year ago from Universal Studios, the company that brought us the most memorable film adaptation starring Bela Lugosi. This month they have announced that Alex Proyas has become attached to the prequel; Dracula Year Zero.

Alex Proyas directed the 1994 gloomy cult hit, The Crow, starring Brandon Lee in his final & ultimately fatal role. Four years later, he wrote and directed the cyberpunk meets film noir, Dark City. Featuring pretty boy Keifer Sutherland in a particularily creep & unpretty role, alongside the equally creepy Richard O'Brien of Rocky Horror fame.

Both excellent dark moody films. Dark City is especially imaginative but lacked a successful (or any?) marketing campaign. And with the Matrix in theaters soon after, Keanu Reeves would become the face of cyberpunk, much to our chagrin. Or at least anyone with taste. :P

Oh right, Dracula Year Zero! So with Alex Proyas at the helm, whom also directed Will Smith's I, Robot which opened to $52 million, it's possible we might see a decent production with a decent budget and decent distrobution. Universal will no doubt want to do their most popular monster proud.

Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless have writen the screenplay, neither of whom I'm familiar with. Possible newcomers? But Dracula Year Zero does not deal with the Count as we think we know him. It's intended to serve almost as a historical biopic of the real Dracula, Vlad Tepes. Don't expect a particulary gory or ruthless film, Proyas has stated he became interested in the project because of its sympathetic approach to portraying the Romanian ruler.

My curiosity has certainly been piqued, but I'd like to point out that this has been done before. In 2000, Rudolf Martin portrayed Vlad in a made for TV movie released on the USA Network which was successful in little else but keeping vampires out of the equation.

That's currently my only concern. An improved film portraying Vlad is wonderful, but will they manage to keep the man and the fictional vampire seperate. Given that this is being dubbed the prequel to the novel influenced by the man, they're off to a bad start, historically speaking. There is no intentional connection between Stoker's fictional novel and the 15th century prince.

Expect Dracula Year Zero for 2008. Universal will surely want to beat the film adaptation of The Historian to theaters and possibly to contend with Juraj Jakubisko's biopic, Bathory. Bathory tells the story of Hungarian Countess Erzs?bet B?thory, arguably the world's first serial killer and undoubtedly history's second favourite real life 'vampire'.

Ballantine books, a division of Random House Publishing Group, has recently signed a $3.75 million dollar deal for the North American rights to a post apocalyptic vampire trilogy. Writing as Jordan Ainsley, Justin Cronin is the author of The Summer Guest and Mary and O'Neil, which won the Pen/Hemingway Award in 2001. The deal was made based on a 400 page manuscript. CAA is representing the book and hoping for a film option.

The trilogy will be set in 2016 when a government experiment goes terribly wrong, turning death row prison inmates into infectious vampires. Meanwhile, a young girl begins to discover she has powers beyond the norm that may be related to the crisis.

While deals for vampire books are probably a dime a dozen, this one proves significant in just how much it sold for based on only a partial manuscript. Pfft, and people tried to tell me vampires were out & zombies were in. To them I say, bite me!

(copy from vampress.net)

Thanks to the fangtastic dracschick! She sent me a virtual gift here on LJ (see my profile). I didn't even know those existed. How cool!

I will be the big '2-4' on Sunday. Okay so that's not a big age, but yeah, 24. In porn star years that makes me what, 67?

:P

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I have a Lasik consultation appointment for next week! Ahhhhhh!

Now let's hope that my eyes are eligible for the surgery. I'm excited, so you should be too. Be excited!

Is it frightening that I kinda sorta think the upcoming Nancy Drew movie looks a teensy bit cute? Just a wee bit.

My handsome man and I saw Evil Dead: The Musical this past Saturday. It was a riot. No, no splatter zone, thank you very much. It may wash out, but we can't get into his sexy car covered in faux blood. And well I melt in contact with liquid. Anywho, I figured we'd be safe with 4th row center, that's the 2nd row back from the splatter zone. We had a close call, but came out unscathed.

They did a good job of melding the two Evil Dead films together, with a few hints of Army of Darkness. The guy playing Ash was bang on. If you haven't already seen it (and if there are any tickets left), I really recommend you check it out. We ended the evening with dinner, and curled up on the couch watching both Evil Deads until we (or rather I) passed out.

I get my wisdom teeth ripped out next Wednesday. Just my top two, and they've come through fine, so it should go smoothly. Steve had all 4 of his impacted teeth yanked last month. It was not pleasant. In fact, look to the right for a very puffy cheeked boy. That will be me next week. Woohoo! Is it odd that I'm looking forward to it?

I'm contemplating booking a consultation for Lasik during my off-work recovery time. I decided I hate my glasses, I hate wearing glasses, and yeah, I don't want glasses anymore. So I figured may as well find out if I'm a candidate for Lasik and go from there. Exciiiiiiiting!

I'm terribly behind in my photo sharing. So here's some photos from Gary's birthday this past April. Yeah, I'm that behind.

Gary & Nicole

Dave & Alana, too cute

Rod, Jovanka, Brett.

Steve & I

Steve is adorable & lil.

The cake!

The boy! And his sis.

So hot!

Still hot.

His dad and I.

A happy boy.