Last week was predominately monopolized by my work as a freelance journalist (one of the very many professions I hold) for Blastr.com and Girls & Corpses Magazine at the 2010 Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin, Texas. I was lucky enough to screen some of the incredible independent horror and science fiction films before the [...]

Eternal Vigilance dream cast May 16, 2010 • • • A couple of weeks ago one of my awesome readers showed me the site StoryCasting where you can select your “dream cast” for a movie project you are working on. Since we are in the final stages of finishing the screenplay adaptation, I thought this [...]

Teaser trailer for The Sanguinarian APRIL 16, 2010 • • • VampireWear.com announced today that they are a sponsor for the upcoming new vampire movie The Sanguinarian, a drama/thriller centered around Christoph, a suicidal vampire drifting down through a post-industrial, sensual, and surreal world. Wending through the vibrant dance at an underground blood bar, where [...]

Kyle Schmid to return to the silver screen as a Musketeer? APRIL 12, 2010 • • • When it comes to memorable, sexy modern vampires actor Kyle Schmid has definitely secured himself a permanent place in the top ten for his part as “Henry Fitzroy”, the illegitimate son of King Henry the VIII, on the [...]

Twilight infiltrates pop culture APRIL 2, 2010 • • • PopSugar has made this amusing collage of snippets from various popular television shows from Gossip Girl to The Office where the characters are either directly or subtly poking fun of the Twilight franchise. May I say, moi finds it quite hysterical…although it’s frightening just how [...]

Belgian film from director Vincent Lannoo claims his “documentary” tracks the lives of “real” vampires in modern-day Belgium. Though this is obviously a faux documentary, the tagline “They’re…Not scary. Not sexy. Not trendy.” has definitely piqued my interest, including the below official description posted by BD Horror New earlier today. I am very curious and [...]

The Association of Movie Productions will be hosting 24 Hour Film Festival this coming weekend at Virginia Tech university. During the film festival, students will have exactly 24 hours to write, shoot and edit a short film. Each team of three filmmakers will begin work on 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 27 and deliver their [...]

One of the most original indie vampire films to come out of the modern day obsession with the undead genre is the 2010 release starring Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe entitled Daybreakers. If you missed my review earlier this year it is still up on my Examiner column. Click here to read it. Unfortunately, Daybreakers [...]