Happy Halloween!

Merlotte’s T-shirt? Check.  Short black skirt? Check.  Blonde wig? Check.  Tru Blood bottles? Check.  Gory nasty looking vampire bite? Check.

Transformation Sookie Stackhouse complete!

Sookie Stackhouse - my alter ego

Have a fun and safe one everyone!

YAY HALLOWEEN!

Vampires suck... well.... yeah.

Things like this just make me smile.  And then I get hungry…

Anna’s been a bad monkey.

I’ve been so caught up in collecting, watching and reading anything having to do with vampires that I haven’t been reviewing or writing!

Bad MONKEY!

I need a nip in the bud.  Or a bite on the butt…with big fangs.  Eric Northman’s my first choice!

I know somewhere you can bite!

So, in a bid to keep my obsession going… I’m raising my glass of blood red wine *yummay* and I pledge to get my reviews, thoughts and giggles OUT!  Beware!  BWA HA HA HA!!!

I totally confess that this is a completely gratuitous post, but who can blame me… really? If you’ve watched True Blood on HBO or read the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, you know what I’m talking about! AAAAAAAAAAhhhhh!! Can’t stop dreaming of Eric!

Eric Northman

Season 3, you can’t come soon enough!!

So why Eric?  Because he’s the ultimate bad boy – selfish, brazen, nonchalant, mischeivous, and oh so garsh darn SEX-AY!!

Eric Northman, bad boy.

If y’all have read the books as well as watched True Blood, you know that they are reeeeally different in some aspects – Eric being one of them.  We get to see some of his weaknesses early on in the HBO series, while in the books it takes a bit longer.

Oh, but don’t we love the anguished Eric?!

Eric and Godric

I would just like to thank Alexander Skarsgaard for bringing life (ha! or death, rather) to one of my favorite characters.  He is exactly how I pictured Eric.

Alexander Skarsgaard as Eric

Thus ends my Eric tribute for now.  I’m sure there will be more!

More Eric Northman

Help!  Can’t stop posting pics!!

More Eric Northman

Eric and Sookie

Ok, last one I swear!  For now, at least! HA!

Eric Northman

Ok, got some vampire gossip!

WELL….

I happened to be at the emergency room with friend last night, a swelling toe issue that was diagnosed as “toe pain”! LOL. That is besides the point though! While my friend was whisked away to have an x-ray of his poor toe, I was left to my own devices.

The room I was in just had a curtain and no actual door. Just outside this room was where the triage nurses asked the admitted patients why they were here and medical history. I didn’t mean to listen in, I really didn’t! But there I was, sitting practically next to a man with just a curtain separating us.

Eavesdropping, no never!

The nurse asked him why he came into the ER. He replied that he had called his doctor earlier because he was attacked by a bat and his doctor recommended that he be seen at emergency services.

Apparently, the night before while he was asleep a bat had gotten into his bedroom by flying in through an open window. He woke up suddenly because the bat was flapping right over his face. He didn’t think he had been bitten exactly, but wanted them to check out a strange mark.

Bats at Dusk

Ok, not exactly bitten by a vampire! But who knows really?! I’m going to keep my eye on the paper and see if there are mysterious disappearances after dark!

I only wish that I had pulled back the curtain and saw a big, beautiful, honkin, viking vampire sitting there! **le sigh** a girl can dream, right?

A girl can dream...

I was poking about tonight and found this great site: www.vampirehealth.com

They have vitamins and supplements for promoting vampire perks – like the abilities to see, hear and think clearly and to be strong and beautiful. Though, I’m not too sure about the garlic supplement!

Very boutiquey – but made me smile a toothy grin!

Smile!

Let the Right One In

The only thing I knew about the film before I saw it was that it was a foreign file, that it was reeeeeally good and it was about a kid who befriends another kid in his building, who happens to be a vampire.  What I heard wasn’t too far off, but what I found out was that the movie I watched was a beautifully crafted and atmospheric film.

*********May contain some spoilers if you haven’t seen this movie*********

The setting was so simple – a neighborhood in a city in the middle of a snowy winter – an apartment building, a school – very simple.  And the characters were really moving, very real.  A twelve year old boy, who is bullied at school, meets the new girl who has moved into his building.

She is strange, but they seem to understand each other.   She just happens to need the blood of others to survive.  A child vampire.  I loved that their friendship blossoms like most childhood friendships, with a few awkward words and moments, then a feeling of familiarity and ease.

Oskar in Let the Right One In

The film focused beautifully on the developing relationship of these two young people (well, at least one of them is young!).  Only when the story crept away from the children did you get a sense of something sinister.

The city newspapers told of people being killed – drained of their blood.  And boy did I get to see it!  The man that lives with the young vampire was one of the culprits - he would prey on the kind and trusting passer-bys and attack them, string them up and drain their blood to take back to the girl.

This movie did not have horrifying vampire special effects.  It did have some cool visual effects, adding to the supernatural ambiance of the film.  It had very real feeling situations.  Even the murder scenes seemed to be a part of this film’s world.  Yes, they were horrifying, but they seemed very matter-of-fact – like it was what needed to be done for this child to survive.

I did get my vampire feelers tickled during a few scenes.  I always love seeing the interpretation of what a vampire in a particular story can do and can’t do, what powers they may or may not have.  It’s fascinating to me.

In this movie, the child vampire could climb walls.  It is very subtle the way you find out, really well done.  She also is strong, but very vulnerable and can be hurt.  The most interesting element for me was that you actually get to see what happens to a vampire if they enter a home without being invited.  Usually, it’s just described as something a vampire cannot do, they just can’t enter.  In this film, she enters her friend’s house and immediately starts to bleed from every orifice and pore.  Frightening and oh so cool.  I have never seen this evolution in the vampire myth.

Eli in Let the Right One In

Every scene I found to be precise and exquisitely filmed and I found myself loving the fact that the main story was about budding friendship, loyalty and trust, even if it had a macabre overtone.

VVVVV  (5 Fangs for Let the Right One In)  Brava!

There have been so many different  adaptations of Dracula in movies and TV.  I have known and loved most of them!  Have you? Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)

Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula

Christopher Lee in Dracula (1958)

Christopher Lee as Count Dracula

William Marshall in Blacula (1972)

William Marshall as Dracula

Frank Langella in Dracula (1979)

Frank Langella as Dracula

George Hamilton in Love At First Bite (1979)

George Hamilton as Dracula

Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Gary Oldman as Dracula

Leslie Nielsen in Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Leslie Nielsen as Dracula

Gerard Butler in Dracula 2000 (2000)

Gerard Butler as Dracula

Rudolph Martin in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 5

Rudolph Martin as Dracula

Richard Roxburgh in Van Helsing (2005)

Richard Roxburgh as Dracula

Check this out! http://www.twilightlexicon.com/2010/04/15/go-crusing-vampire-style/

Now, I’m not sure about the Twilight theme, but hey beggars can’t be choosers!

I just found this site with a trailer for a True Blood porn parody.  It is hysterical!  Look for the wig.  You will know which one I mean!  HA!

Check it out at http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/04/15/true-blood-porn-parody-tru/