Sentences with phrase «alfredson vampire stories»

Vampire stories aside, the idea of rejuvenating the body with young blood dates back to macabre 1950s experiments that stitched young and old mice together so they shared a circulatory system.

Adapted from a play called A Vampire Story, Byzantium stars Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as a mother - daughter vampire duo who pissed off the wrong vampires a few centuries ago, and those leads both earned praise from multiple critics, as did the film's visuals.

«Blade: The Vampire - Slayer» focuses on Marvel's version of Blade with classic vampire stories.

Marking Irish director Jordan's second venture into the vampire genre, the film is an adaptation of a play by Moira Buffini called A Vampire Story, which was commissioned as part of Londonâ $ ™ s National Theatre Connections season in 2008.

Let the Right One In Year: 2008 Director: Tomas Alfredson Vampire stories are plastered all over American pop culture these days (True Blood, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries), but leave it to the Swedes to produce a vampire film that manages to be both sweet and frightening.

When Hill left to work on Spider Baby, Stephanie Rothman took over and did additional re-shoots and turned it into a vampire story called Blood Bath.

After Tarantino quit Video Archives in 1989, he met Bob Kurtzman, who had written a few paragraphs of a vampire story.

No Telling was his take on Frankenstein as an environmental drama, Habit, a vampire story set in the drug addict culture of New York City, Wendigo, a monster movie of myth and imagination and The Last Winter, an eco-twist on the ghost story in the culture of big oil.

After ruining vampire stories for an entire generation, Meyer set out to do the same thing for alien invasion scenarios.

Combining a documentary on the flooding of the Mekong Delta with a subtly suggested vampire story, the film fits into Weerasethakul's preoccupation with mysticism, folk - legends and reincarnation, but it is (self - consciously) merely a sketch outline of a more ambitious work, and the screening was marred by the omnipresence of an irritating guitar refrain provided by a friend of the filmmaker (although apparently problems with the sound mix were at least partly to blame for this).

Daybreakers is a nifty switcheroo on the vampire story: in a bleak future, vampires have taken over the world and human blood is in dangerously short supply.

Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign — Who doesn't need a good vampire story in this day and age?

We're going to lead off with very contemporary and gritty vampire story called One Night Stand that will lead into weird mini-series that involves murder, the occult and other evil things.

I usually don't like vampire stories, but I'm a fan of Tyler Crook (Petrograd) and his watercolor style and intriguing character designs give this comic a very different look from most vampire comics — his vampire looks nothing like Dracula.

Bad Blood: It's hard to believe anyone could come up with an original twist on a vampire story, but Jonathan Mayberry has done it.

Hundreds of thousands of people are reading her vampire stories that you always turned down.

We're setting up a book tour for new adult urban fantasy «Relative Strangers: A Modern Vampire Story».

Right behind it at # 2 is Vampire Knight vol 9 and Black Bird vol 3, not quite a vampire story, but does involve blood - sucking at # 3.

This is a vampire story from the 1970's, when vampires were vampires.

One of the first big releases of January 2010 is Elizabeth Kostova's follow - up to her hit debut, The Historian, a literary vampire story that topped bestseller lists in the summer of 2005.

Essentially, the agent loved everything about Inkwell's writing, but knew he couldn't pitch another vampire story to publishers.

It involves research, particularly if you are writing fiction in a narrower sub-genre, such as steampunk vampire stories.

Fiction authors may become known for their writing style and their expertise in writing in a specific genre (such as children's, sci - fi, romance, or mystery) or for their niche within a particular genre (vampire stories, romantic adventure).

I confess, I'm now wary of female authors in general, until I get to know them — I'm not a big romance fan, and I don't touch vampire stories in general, and I'll never read Twilight.

Just when we were thinking that Anne Rice, author of the Vampire Chronicles and other bestselling novels, might be seriously considering bringing out her next book as a Kindle exclusive, she's thrown us a bit of a curveball with the announcement by her literary agency that she'll be releasing, through Vook, a multimedia edition of «The Master of Rampling Gate,» a vampire story published in Redbook magazine in 1984 and set in an England mansion in the 19th century.

It's a historical vampire story.

But if you want to base your vampire stories on «folklore,» make sure you know what you're talking about.

So Sharazade downloaded a free sample to her Kindle, and made a discovery that was even more shocking than the vampire story that the author had written.

Some of those writers were really good, but they wrote stories (like Vampire stories) that appealed to smaller audiences (according to NY).

And because TPs still won't publish much outside the norm, save vampire stories, authors are going digital and making a lot more money (remember, higher royalties on reasonably priced books) than if they'd gone traditional.

It's a great vampire story that steers clear of most tropes and focuses more on a subtle but poignant relationship between a young girl and her protector.

RaShelle's Fairy - Tale - Turned - Vampire stories brilliantly captured the wave of demand for both those genres.

RaShelle blazed a wildly successful trail with her 12 part serialization of her Snow - White - Turns - Vampire story, starting last summer and cranking out the stories until she recently finished the set last month.

Agents and publishers are flooded with vampire stories.

Grab it now along with all the sexy vampire stories you'll ever want to read.

Romania is also home to the mountains of Transylvania & home to the legend of Count Dracula that has spawned a stream of vampire stories.

I'm sure everyone has come across the same old vampire story several times.

Desperados on the PC was fantastic, yet didn't give you a sense of being a cowboy with it's RTS style; Darkwatch was, well, a vampire story with cowboy elements here and there — and I struggle to think of another good western game I've played.

For me, Castlevania was not only an indulgence of my childhood love of vampire stories and movie monsters, but the music of the series became the baseline for which I rated so many game soundtracks through my life.

Not exact matches

The first is a device of modern retellings, found in stories like Twilight, where the vampires are vegetarians and the werewolves can transform at will.

These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.

Joss Whedon tells stories about heroes, whether they're California teenagers slaying vampires, a misfit band of smugglers saving the galaxy, or a group of superheroes repelling an alien invasion.

(CNN)-- The books and movies of the Twilight Saga have launched a firestorm of debate as to whether the vampire - human love story represents eternal love at its finest or glorifies misogynistic and abusive relationships.

For example, Buffy the Vampire Slayer dies and comes back from the dead not once but twice, and this heroine's story touches upon the same trope and informs the same moral intuitions and moral imagination in us.

Some people dedicate a lot of time and energy watching Joss Whedon's «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and debating the finer points of that story, debating what Whedon's intent was with certain images, what philosophy is supported by that storyline.

CNN: My Take: 5 reasons Christians should love «Twighlight» Jane Wells, author of Glitter in the Sun: A Bible Study Searching for Truth in the Twighlight Saga, writes that the Twilight Saga has launched a firestorm of debate as to whether the vampire - human love story represents eternal love at its finest or glorifies misogynistic and abusive relationships.

The last time I recall a vampire - themed political hit was September 2008 when the New York Post put a photo - shopped shot of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver with blood - dripping fangs on its cover to illustrate a story about then - Gov.

In a development that calls to mind both vampire lore and stories of bathing in blood, young blood appears to in fact rejuvenate old brains.

There are people who intentionally drink blood, which is another story, but even small amounts in vampire terms, such as the amount of swallowed blood from a long nosebleed, can give a human diarrhea, says Tomas Ganz of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Case in point: The surprising medical history of vampires, witches, zombies, and other spooky characters that you're likely to encounter (at least in stories) this season.