by K Hogaboom | Oct 20, 2014 | blog
This post is the twentieth in my 31 Days of Vampires! series for October 2014. Blade II, released four years after the first film, received a significant update in style. The action film is stocked with a whole new cast of creepy monsters, primordial beings, and ugly...
by K Hogaboom | Oct 19, 2014 | blog
This post is the nineteenth in my 31 Days of Vampires! series for October 2014. Do you like The Matrix? Sure, we all do!* Well, Blade reminded me of The Matrix (they came out a year apart). Certainly it’s easy to get the ethos mixed up –...
by K Hogaboom | Oct 18, 2014 | blog
This post is the eighteenth in my 31 Days of Vampires! series for October 2014. The premise of this film, born of a screenplay-pitch-cum-comic series, seems solid: Barrow, Alaska, America’s northernmost town, plunges into its yearly month of total darkness. At...
by K Hogaboom | Oct 17, 2014 | blog
This post is the seventeenth in my 31 Days of Vampires! series for October 2014. It’s probably best to watch Thirst without knowing a single thing about it before you dive in – except, perhaps, the rating (this one’s definitely not for the kids)....
by K Hogaboom | Oct 16, 2014 | blog
This post is the sixteenth in my 31 Days of Vampires! series for October 2014. Let me just point out that if any other director attempted the gags that Mel Brooks does, I doubt they would get laughs – probably groans. But there is a delightfulness and innocence...
