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!!!

30 Days of Night

I had seen it before when it first came out and I remember really liking it. Seeing it again years later after seeing so many bad vampire movies in between brought it home how AWESOME a scary vampire movie can be! Thank you David Slade!

This movie was great.  The storyline was fun…simple, but fun.

Set in the northern most town in Alaska, Barrow (population teeeeeny tiny!) is overrun by a pack of nasty, yet mesmerizing vampires.  They have chosen this particular town because it is basked in darkness as the sun sets for an entire month.

The First Night

Then all hell breaks loose!  These vampires are SCARY.  They are dirty, bloody, elven looking creatures with black eyes and rows of sharp pointy teeth that screech at each other in an animal-sounding language.  The leader sounds like he is speaking some form of extremely guttural Klingon.  Yeah, awesome!

Marlowe - Vampire Leader

These scary bloodsuckers are strong, fast, vicious and smart. No angsty mood swings sexiness or sparkle in these guys! But they do get all whiney and flamey when they are exposed to UV light or the sun.  Classic! They prey and hunt the town until mostly all the people are dead.

Creepy scary vampire chick

Based on the 3-issue comic book written by Steve Niles & illustrated by Ben Templesmith (thanks guys for an awesome story!!), the sheriff of this small town and his estranged (then not so estranged) wife hide and then take charge and try to save their small town.  It is chock full of chase scenes, suspense, gore, love and overall vampy kickass fight scenes.  There is even a scene with a gory kid vampire! Damn, we need more vampire movies like this!

Survival mode

It’s a classically crafted story that comes full circle with a somewhat poetic ending.  And leaves it open for a sequel, surprise surprise!

Overall —  Loved it!  VVVV (4 fangaroos for 30 Days of Night)

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

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead combines my obsession with vampires and my love of the classics.

Vampires and Shakespeare.  I think I’ve gone to heaven! It comes out in theaters today.

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...

The Lost Boys

I hadn’t seen The Lost Boys in years, literally.  And so when walking through the store the other day and coming upon the glare of David (Kiefer Sutherland, a super young Kiefer at that!) and Ray Bans and tousled hair of Jason Patric, I couldn’t resist!

I actually love the premise of this movie.  Family moves to city (happens to be the murder capitol of the US), son falls in with the hooligans (vampires, yay!) of the town and starts to act (gasp!) like a teenager, and younger brother has to help his brother and save the day.

Yes, the elder brother falls in with the wrong crowd, namely some rocker, biker teenaged vampires with totally bangin’ 80′s hair while following a beautiful woman and ends up drinking blood out of a bottle in the ruins of a building in a cave on the coast. I hate it when that happens!  He then starts to turn vampire.

The Lost Boys

His little brother, who also happens to be a comic book fanatic, teams up with a pair of brat pack vampire hunters.  He then commits to helping his half vampire brother and vows to save him from the vampire life.   All the while the mother is dating some spiffy dude with a dog named Fang, who happens to be way more than he seems.

The vampire hunters

Yes, this movie was totally predictable (even though I had already seen it a few times!)  But, I have to say… I like a movie with the classic vampire elements and legends.  These vampires were mean – monsters of the night.  They could come out at night, they had bad breath, hated garlic, had no reflection, could only come in when invited, could fly, and found holy water to act a bit like acid.  But these vampires have amazing feathered hair (bring on the Aqua Net!) and punk rock duds.

Vampires circa 1987

In this day of brooding and angsty vampires, it was great to get back a story of vampires being monsters – and they really don’t make movies like the classic movies from the 1980′s!  Just the soundtrack alone is amazingly amusing.

The Lost Boys, not one of my favorite vampire movies of all time, but I truly think it was significant in the evolution of the modern vampire.  It had classic elements but also made these creatures “cool” and able to live in the world without people realizing what they really were.  It’s definitely a movie for a true vampire collection.

VVV (3 Fangs for The Lost Boys)

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!

True Blood: Season 3

My favorite is still the VILF poster – see it here:  http://www.loveofvampires.com/2010/true-blood-promos/ – but this new one is up there!

June can’t come soon enough.  Warm nights, True Blood and hot blood!