One Man’s Trash: Billy the Kid vs. Dracula
Hmmm, how best to succinctly describe the central conflict in Billy the Kid vs. Dracula…?
Hmmm, how best to succinctly describe the central conflict in Billy the Kid vs. Dracula…?
Hard Core Logo and Pontypool director Bruce McDonald’s latest film, Dreamland, brings vampire tropes, Lynchian surrealism, and a love of cool Jazz to audiences that may or may not be receptive to the trippy tale.
Based on the 2014 movie of the same name, the FX network’s What We Do in the Shadows transfers Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s cult comedy to a new continent and a new medium, but remains just as dark, quirky, and ...
Save for The X Files and Fringe, Fox doesn’t have a great track record for keeping sci-fi dramas on the air longer than a season. Nevertheless, the network keeps trying. Will The Passage find a path to long-term success, or ...
Since his creation in 1897, Bram Stoker’s famed vampire Dracula has become an indelible pop culture icon, appearing in hundreds if not thousands of movies, TV shows, books, comics, games and more, sometimes treated seriously...
Oh, ‘Vampire in Vegas’, you only had two things to deliver. Vampire: check. Vegas: not so much.
Movie monsters tend to move in cycles. We just got out of a soapy vampire romance trend, so the time has come for the undead blood suckers to become moody and unsettling creatures again. First-time writer/director Michael O’...
Hey, remember when everyone was obsessed with those ‘Underworld’ movies? I’ll bet you don’t because that never actually happened. Yet here we are, 14 years later, and there are still sequels being made. ...
The best thing about Syfy’s new ‘Van Helsing’ series is that the show is not a spinoff from, and in fact has nothing to do with, the infamous Hugh Jackman flop movie of that same title. The worst thing about the ...
FX brought ‘The Strain’ back for a third year. I suppose that means people are still watching it. Sadly, I’m not sure I can hang around for another season.
In preparing this post to recap the show’s second season finale, a Google Image search for “the strain night train” brought up some… shall we say, interesting results.
Goddammit. Just when I was starting to hope that the writers behind ‘The Strain’ might have forgotten about Zach and would ignore him for the rest of the season until the character could be recast again, the annoying b...