I sometimes wonder why Hollywood has to go one better than Europe when it comes to adapting novels for the screen. Last week, my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to buy the Bluray disc of the Hammer film Let Me In. For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know it, Let …
Tag: vampire fiction
Britannia Rules
Bad Timing by Nicky Peacock A Review 'With his amazing organisational skills, Lyle had arranged for all the humans in Hope nad Glory to donate a pint of blood a month.' The title of my contribution today is in no way meant to be a political or racial statement! In my wholly unexpected (well, unexpected …
A Vampire with Heart
Bad Blood by Nicky Peacock A Review ‘Modern vampires don’t believe in anything. They strut around with a new self-worth, declaring themselves to all and sundry. They’ve been brainwashed by TV and books into thinking being a vampire is cool.’ I’m way past my teens and vampire horror is not my usual genre. So, when …
Vampires in the Twilight
The Vampire in Literature and Cinema Part 4 What an explosion it has been! In the past, film makers drew their ideas from literature. And of course they still do. However, it appears that, in the 21st Century, cinema and television have also been a trigger for the proliferation of novels in which teeth, blood …
The Vampire Revolution
The Vampire in Literature and Cinema Part 3 While Hollywood was exploiting the talents of Lon Chaney Jr, Boris Karloff and others, the British film business had not been idle. Hammer Film Productions, who branched out into horror movies in the mid-1950s, was giving - if not glamour stardom - at least a successful villainous …
Romancing the Undead
The Vampire in Literature and Cinema Part 2 Like Stoker's Dracula, Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla was seized upon by the public as new and bold. It helped boost le Fanu's image as a master of the gothic and of the Victorian ghost story. For all that, le Fanu's work, and Carmilla in particular, has not …
One Bite Too Many
The Vampire in Literature and Cinema Part 1 Vampires have long been popular in books and film. So have elves, wizards, witches, werewolves, zombies and Doppelgänger, not to mention gods, demi-gods, devils and angels. They are the elements of which fantasies are made. Long before a fantasy genre existed (or indeed the movie industry), they …
