Vampire Horror Movies - Page 2 of 10

Over the past century the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations--from Bram Stoker's original Dracula to Anne Rice's VAMPIRE CHRONICLES. BLOOD READ examines a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars and shows how these transformations reflect ongoing changes in postmodern culture .

Horror motifs are mixed with eroticism and surrealism in The Nude Vampire, the second feature from the innovative French auteur Jean Rollin. The Nude Vampire is centred on a doctor s obsessive desire to find immortality by experimenting with the blood of a female vampire he is holding captive. However, the doctor s besotted son conspires to free the incarcerated bloodsucker with disastrous results. The Nude Vampire offers the viewer an array of voyeuristic images in a beautiful mix of the surreal…

In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice brings us the mesmerizing story of the eternally young Armand--who first appeared in all his dark glory in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. . . .

A string of mysterious, gruesome deaths in the Shiprock area has attracted the attention of FBI agent Diane Lopez. She believes the killer is a vampirebut the only vampire she knows of is Lee Nez, a State Police officer who prefers his blood chilled from the refrigerator, not hot from someones neck. The victims all worked for a secret government lab, experimenting on a captured vampire. When the vampire, Stewart Tanner, broke free, he avenged himself on the doctors and technicians who had been torturing…

This is bestselling author John Steakley's vampire classic: Vampires infest the modern world and a group of brave people-professional vampire killers-devote their lives to hunting them down.

When the one-night-only Traveling Vampire Show arrives in town, promising the only living vampire in captivity, beautiful Valeria, three local teenages venture where they do not belong, and discover much more than they bargained for.

HE’LL GIVE HER A NIGHT SHE WILL NEVER FORGET.A vampire killer with a Las Vegas beat, Candace Steele has risked everything to vanquish the forces of darkness–and to resist her own passionate desire for Ash, a dark and seductive vampire. But suddenly the stakes are raised. Candace has been attacked by a member of the Board, an ancient, powerful, and secret vampire sect with a vendetta against Ash. Now the only way she can save her life is to give herself to Ash–body and soul–and…

Wherever vampires existed in the imaginations of different peoples, they adapted themselves to the customs of the local culture. In The Vampyre (1819), John Polidori introduced Lord Ruthven and established the vampire craze of the 19th century that resulted in a flood of German vampire poetry, French vampire drama, and British vampire fiction. That tradition culminated in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), which fixed the character of the Transylvanian nobleman firmly in the public imagination.…

Details on the Strix, strange nemeses from the nights of Rome. The horrifying consequences of Kindred sins, including larvae and dhampir. New lineages of vampire, from the horrifying Jiang Shi to the grotesque Cymothoa Sanguinaria.

Two beautiful runaways seek refuge in a castle. When night falls, they become prey to a sadistic vampire named "The Last Vampire" who, as luck would have it, intends to use them to produce progeny who will continue his bloodline.

A YOUNG AMERICAN KICKBOXER IN THAILAND JOINS UP WITH A GROUP OF VAMPIRE SLAYERS - SOME VAMPIRE & SOME HUMAN - IN ORDER TO RESCUE HIS KIDNAPPED GIRLFRIEND FROM KIRAN, A VAMPIRE WARLORD AWOKEN BY A SOLAR ECLIPSE.

In the spirit of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Marvel`s Blade the Vampire Hunter series and UPN`s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blood Legacy: The Novel spans more than six centuries and chronicles the exploits of Ryan, a beautiful and mysterious woman whose beauty belies her true nature as an immortal warrior. This fast-paced novel turns the lies that created the vampire mythology on its head and pumps new blood into the horror/fantasy genre.

In Sakuri, a young woman is about to be sacrificed to the vampiric Noblewoman who reigns over the village. But before the princess can drain the life from the woman, a young man tries to slay the vampire. He fails and manages to escape, but in doing so incurs the wrath of the entire town. The citizens of Sakuri have entered into a pact with the Undead princess and her monstrous bodyguards. With the ritual offering disrupted, the vampire's armored bodyguards vow to murder the villagers one by…

This volume follows two stories: one written by Snyder and one written by King. Snyder's story is set in 1920's LA, we follow Pearl, a young woman who is turned into a vampire and sets out on a path of righteous revenge against the European Vampires who tortured and abused her. This story is paired with King's story, a western about Skinner Sweet, the original American Vampire-- a stronger, faster creature than any vampire ever seen before with rattlesnake fangs and powered by the…

Vampire Hunter D Volume 7: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part One stars D who, even a reluctant hero can't refuse the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives Vampire Hunter D a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. Vampire Hunter D's journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing…