'Nother night, 'nother villain. This one's a vampire.

"Mercy Wheeler," words and tune by April Grant. Some of you know this one already. Please learn it and sing it wherever you wish.

Lyrics and notes from the Soundcloud post:

Now Mercy Wheeler’s in the grave; they buried her today ( Read more... )

I just watched Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter for the first time. It's lumbering, poorly paced, and endearingly silly. I was annoyed by the hero, a handsome and vapid dingus whom we were constantly directed to love. The harder a movie tries to make me love a character, the more I dig in my heels and shout "NO!" Of course he had interesting scars, ( Read more... )

I watched Interview with the Vampire on a big screen last night. I used to think of that movie as having no plot. Now, it strikes me that it's the tale of Louis fleeing one abusive relationship successfully, only to blunder right into another one. Truly, it takes a long time to learn how to avoid getting involved with terrible people ( Read more... )

I read this on the bus journey from Los Angeles to San Francisco. It beguiled the tedium of the journey. I don't know if I would have been able to hold still long enough to finish it if I hadn't been stuck on a bus ( Read more... )

sovay has an excellent essay here on "The Brides of Dracula," and I just enjoyed reading it. See my icon for my facial expression.

The House that Dripped Blood (1971).

One of the discs sent to me and Kestrell earlier in the summer by handful_ofdust.  An anthology horror film with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott, Ingrid Pitt, and a bunch of people not as hot as the above.  Wildly uneven; I went into it not expecting it to be an anthology of four short films with a framing ( Read more... )

Shit, that was disturbing.  So so disturbing.  I have a mind full of vampires, and this disturbed me.  Go and be disturbed in turn.  There isn't even any violence.  All it is is a PowerPoint presentation with a prissy male voice talking into an echoing mike in a lecture hall.  It lasts about forty minutes.

Fizerpharm: Taming Yesterday's Nightmares ( Read more... )

Monster hunters ( Read more... )

Your Blood
is
Extra Special!

That's what it says at the top of the letter I just received from Mass. General Hospital.  You may now address me as Delicious Tastyblood, Esq.

Backstory: I tried to donate blood at Arisia and failed.  It was a great experience otherwise--the Sexy Nurses and the real nurses were professional, and gyzki and the_termagant came with me ( Read more... )

"You think to baffle me, you with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have more. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already. And through them you and ( Read more... )