Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore in “The Vampire Diaries”
Charlie Jane Anders is “CAPS” mad. Watch Vampire Diaries vid at io9.
Kat Graham – Still from “The Vampire Diaries” season 4, episode 22
Starring Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh, and Jemaine Clement as New Zealand vampires.
Clement (Flight of the Conchords) is of Maori descent, raised in Wairarapa, New Zealand, and Waititi (Eagle vs. Shark) is of Te-Whanau-a-Apanui descent from the Raukokore region of the country.
Taika Waititi
Jemaine Clement in “What We Do In The Shadows” (2014)
Cage was only person involved who’d ever made a movie. Not kidding.
Nicolas Cage in “Vampire’s Kiss” (1988)
Jennifer Beals and Nicolas Cage in “Vampire’s Kiss” (1988)
Maria Conchita Alonso and Nicolas Cage in “Vampire’s Kiss” (1988)
The writer/director/star gives insight into film’s unsympathetic antihero.
Onur Tukel (right) as Erik Sparrow in “Summer of Blood”
Currently portraying General Glenn Talbot on ‘Agents of SHIELD’, Persian American actor Adrian Pasdar is probably better known as Nathan Petrelli, superhuman politician from Tim Kring’s NBC series Heroes.
The actor has done any number of horror roles on both TV and in the cinema and these are two of my favorites.
Near Dark (1987)
Near Dark was a cult hit blending vampires into a modern Western motif. Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker, Zereo Dark Thirty) co-wrote and helmed this dramatic road trip horror. Her direction gives things a feel that is somehow both epic and trashy. A 21 year old Pasdar stars in one of his first sizable roles. He is the heart-throb reluctant hero while Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton up the creepy factor with over-the-top bad guy action. A classic.
Home Movie (2008)
A dark and effective horror indie in the found footage motif that takes a seemingly idyllic family into sociopathy with a tinge of the supernatural. Here, 20 years after Near Dark, Pasdar plays an earnest pastor and adoring dad trying to create normalcy where there is increasingly less and less of it.
Director: Juno Mak, Producer: Takashi Shimizu
Hong Kong’s multi-talented wunderkind Juno Mak has struck gold in his every creative endeavor in music, fashion, and film. As the director of this 2013 vampire flick, Mak pairs up with J Horror innovator Takashi Shimizu who birthed the Ju-on/Grudge franchises.
The resulting movie pays tribute to Ricky Lau’s 1985 horror/comedy Mr Vampire and bends the fourth wall by including cast members from that iconic film. Eschewing the Western take on bloodsucker mythology, both films instead hinge Chinese folklore’s jiangshi, a Taoist creature roughly described as a “hopping vampire”.
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