Vampire Movies

Author : Vanessa Morgan
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781797494135
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Blood written by Vanessa Morgan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an overview of the most offbeat and underrated vampire movies spanning nine decades and 23 countries. Strange Blood encompasses well-known hits as well as obscurities that differ from your standard fang fare by turning genre conventions on their head. Here, vampires come in the form of cars, pets, aliens, mechanical objects, gorillas, or floating heads. And when they do look like a demonic monster or an aristocratic Count or Countess, they break the mold in terms of imagery, style, or setting. Leading horror writers, filmmakers, actors, distributors, academics, and programmers present their favorite vampire films through in-depth essays, providing background information, analysis, and trivia regarding the various films. Some of these stories are hilarious, some are terrifying, some are touching, and some are just plain weird. Not all of these movies line up with the critical consensus, yet they have one thing in common: they are unlike anything you've ever seen in the world of vampires. Just when you thought that the children of the night had become a tired trope, it turns out they have quite a diverse inventory after all.

Author : James Aubrey
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476676739
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampire Films Around the World written by James Aubrey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal. Vampire content produces exquisitely suspenseful stories that, combined with motion picture filmmaking, reveal much about the cultures that enable vampire film production and the audiences they attract. This collection of essays is generously illustrated and ranges across sixteen cultures on five continents, including the films Let the Right One In, What We Do in the Shadows, Cronos, and We Are the Night, among many others. Distinctly different kinds of European vampires have originated in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Serbia. North American vampires are represented by films from Mexico, Canada, and the USA. Middle Eastern locations include Tangier, Morocco, and a fictional city in Iran. South Asia has produced Bollywood vampire films, and east Asian vampires are represented by films from Korea, China, and Japan. Some of the most recent vampire movies have come from Australia and New Zealand. These essays also look at vampire films through lenses of gender, post-colonialism, camp, and otherness as well as the evolution of the vampiric character in cinema worldwide, together constituting a mosaic of the cinematic undead.

Author : Alain Silver
Publisher : Amadeus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Film written by Alain Silver and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on [recent films] from the United States and abroad that found inspiration in the vampire theme ..., the authors consider and analyze each picture in detail: its style and approach, plot, acting, cinematography, set design, special effects--and finally its quality of achievement"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307575853
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

Author : Gary A. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662559X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampire Films of the 1970s written by Gary A. Smith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s were turbulent times and the films made then reflected the fact. Vampire movies—always a cinema staple—were no exception. Spurred by the worldwide success of Hammer Film’s Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1969), vampire movies filled theaters for the next ten years—from the truly awful to bonafide classics. Audiences took the good with the bad and came back for more. Providing a critical review of the genre’s overlooked Golden Age, this book explores a mixed bag from around the world, including The Vampire Lovers (1970), Dracula Versus Frankenstein (1971), Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973), ’Salem’s Lot (1975), Dracula Sucks (1978) and Love at First Bite (1979) and many others.

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982563090
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampire Classics written by Bram Stoker and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampire Classics features a unique adaptation ofthe 1922 silent film, Nosferatu. Plus a horror-western by "Conan" creatorRobert E. Howard and Ray Bradbury's "The Man Upstairs." With "The StrangeOrchid" by H.G. Wells, "Olalla" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and a short story byfamed horror writer and co-editor Mort Castle.

Author : Jeffrey Weinstock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850034
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Film written by Jeffrey Weinstock and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Méliès' early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the history of vampires in cinema can be organised by a handful of governing principles that help make sense of this movie monster's remarkable fecundity. Among these principles are that the cinematic vampire is invariably about sex and the vexed human relationship with technology, and that the vampire is always an overdetermined body condensing what a culture considers other. This volume includes in-depth studies of films including Powell's A Fool There Was, Franco's Vampyros Lesbos, Cronenberg's Rabid, Kümel's Daughters of Darkness, and Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire.

Author : Adam Woog
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1601522118
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampires in the Movies written by Adam Woog and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampire movies have a long and rich history, from what was probably the first one (in 1896), through the classics of the early-twentieth century (Nosferatu, Bela Lugosi's version of Dracula), and on to the present-day mania for Twilight and other modern takes. In between there have been hundreds of versions and variations, including American Sign Language vampires, comedies, space vampires, and much more. This book explores the lore of vampire films, why they remain perennially popular with audiences, and themes that run through the history of these cinematic bloodsuckers.

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810892960
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dracula's Daughters written by Douglas Brode and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost as long as cinema has existed, vampires have appeared on screen. Symbolizing an unholy union between sex and death, the vampire—male or female—has represented the libido, a “repressed force” that consumed its victims. Early iconic representations of male vampires were seen in Nosferatu (1922) and Dracula (1931), but not until Dracula’s Daughter in 1936 did a female “sex vampire” assume the lead. Other female vampires followed, perhaps most provocatively in the Hammer films of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Later incarnations, in such films as Near Dark (1987) and From Dusk till Dawn (1996), offered modern takes on this now iconic figure. In Dracula’s Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka have assembled a varied collection of essays that explore this cinematic type that simultaneously frightens and seduces viewers. These essays address a number of issues raised by the female vampire film, such as violence perpetrated on and by women; reactions to the genre from feminists, antifeminists, and postfeminists; the implications of female vampire films for audiences both gay and straight; and how films reflected the period during which they were created. Other topics include female vampire films in relationship to vampire fiction, particularly by women such as Anne Rice; the relationship of the vampire myth to sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS; issues of race and misogyny; and the unique phenomenon of teen vampires in young adult books and films such as Twilight. Featuring more than thirty photos spanning several decades, this collection offers a compelling assessment of an archetypal figure—an enduring representation of dark desires—that continues to captivate audiences. This book will appeal not only to scholars and students but also to any lover of transgressive cinema.

Author : Steve Hutchison
Publisher : Tales of Terror
ISBN 13 : 1778872360
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Vampire Movies (2019) written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-04-29 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Hutchison reviews 50 of the best vampire movies. Each film is analyzed and discussed with a synopsis and a rating. The movies are ranked from best to worst. How many have you seen?