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Whole stories were planned ahead. Miyu was finally betrayed by Chisato and she was the final Sninma which the clan of bird raised. Miyu and Chisato get a key-holders as a memory of their friendship in the episode 2. But it was a key item to shield Chisato's devilship (nature of shinma). Two other Miyu's friends (Yukari and Hisae) are simply killed by Chisato for a lesson to kill Miyu. I guess the theme of this story is this point. How lightly treated the lives of humanbeing are! It can…

The Erotic Horror Classic Is Reborn... Totally Uncut And Uncensored!"They share the pleasures of the flesh, and unleashed the horrors of the grave!" screamed the ads. The beautiful Marianne Morris and stunning Playboy centerfold Anulka star as bisexual seductresses who roam the English countryside with an insatiable lust for the blood of mortals as well as the succulent bodies of each other. Director José Ramón Larraz packs this landmark adult hit with chilling atmosphere,…

In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men.As we are drawn into their dark…

In 1795, after being convicted of witchcraft, Victoria Winters waits to be hung at the gallows. Peter Bradford vows they'll be together again someday. In 1968, Victoria reappears during a seance at Collinwood and Barnabas fears that she has learned his secret from her time in the past. After he and Victoria are hospitalized following a car accident, Barnabas is stunned when the mysterious Dr. Lang enables him to see daylight for the first time in nearly 200 years. The doctor offers Barnabas…

New in paperback: The story of the mind behind the monster (and the monster within the mind)-a tale of obsession and hero worship in Victorian England. "What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post. Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard-a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels and short stories largely forgotten today. All, of course, except for Dracula, which has enjoyed countless stage and screen incarnations…

Vampires are having trouble surviving in a world whose life giving blood supply has become polluted by drugs and STDs. They have become a desperate species of mutated semi humans fighting amongst themselves for the remaining humans who have pure blood. On their trail is a cowboy hat wearing samurai sword wielding vampire killing priest (Tim Thomerson) with a personal agenda. Also crossing their path is a blood pusher Max (Ken Foree) who has the answer to what 'Live Evil' is truly about. It's a twisty,…

Dracula's Daughter: Picking up where Dracula left off, Dr. Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), thinking he has rid London of all vampires, is instead arrested for murder. Meanwhile, the beautiful and mysterious Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden) appears in London seeking the understanding Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger), Von Helsing's psychiatrist. A mysterious sequence of events leads Von Helsing and Garth to set off to Transylvania after the elusive countess and to rescue Garth's beautiful…

"Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction--period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature."-The Washington Post Book World "Readers familiar with . . . Parable of the Sower and Bloodchild will recall that [Butler] never asks easy questions or settles for easy answers."-Gerald Jonas in The New York Times Fledgling, Octavia Butler's first…

With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, DARK SHADOWS (1966-71, ABC-TV) became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. The character of Barnabas Collins, a guilt-ridden, 175-year-old vampire, brought the show tremendous success. Now, for the first time on DVD, MPI presents the spooky series rare, early episodes before Barnabas.Victoria Winters assures Carolyn Stoddard that her loyalties lie with the Collins family, not with Burke Devlin. Victoria makes a startling…

Andrew Klavan reinvents the classic ghost story with this literary X-Files, a breathtaking blend of Hollywood-style excitement and literary tour de force.Richard Storm is a Hollywood producer who has reached the top of his profession making horror movies based on classic English ghost stories. Now, with his life beginning to unravel, he flees to England on a desperate quest: to find evidence that the great old stories bear an element of truth, that the human spirit lives on after death, that in…

Night Owl (Jeffrey Arsenault, 1993) Those of us who fancy ourselves critics toss around the word "indie" these days as a synonym for any movie that got made outside the Hollywood system, even if that film ends up getting distributed by the Hollywood system (and let's not talk about those who would use the term "indie" to describe Kevin Smith movies or Juno, fer god's sake). The real definition of "indie", especially in the early nineties, involved making movies…

He's the only vampire cop around--and a gang of Vespa-riding vampires threaten to drain San Francisco dry! Big trouble at night in the city. A gang of Vespa-riding vampires are killing San Franciscans so indiscriminately they threaten to not only drain the city dry--but risk the discovery of vampires everywhere. Gay vampire cop Valentino is called upon to stop the group calling themselves The Very Bloody Marys before the situation gets worse. Unfortunately, it already has. You see, Valentino…

They were probably trying to make a genuinely scary film, but it turns out to have some pretty ridiculous moments. Lots of absurd dialogue between the two College Freshman, the " jock " and the " nerd ". COLLEGE KIDS DO NOT TALK LIKE THIS! This college is mostly men, apparently, but the female lead delivers her lines in a flat, whiny, fake voice. The villian also has a strange flat delivery of his lines, but at least he has more charisma. The best way to watch this film is to…

Dracula, The Dirty Old Man (1969, 69 min.) - Reporter Mike Waters enters a desert cave and finds Dracula the Dirty Old Man, a vampire babbling like a borscht-belt comic and wearing a hairpiece that resembles a dead skunk. Under Dracula's spell and renamed "Irving Jackalman," Mike turns into a werewolf-like creature and attacks women in parking lots, gas stations, and even a drive-in! The women are magically whisked away to the cave where Drac drains 'em and "Irving"…

The first of Universal's all-star monster tag-team bouts, House of Frankenstein boasts Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's monster, plus a menacing mad scientist (played with hammy glee by Boris Karloff) and his hunchbacked assistant (J. Carroll Naish). It's really more like two films. Karloff and Naish escape prison and find the skeleton of Dracula, resurrecting the dapper vampire (played by a dignified John Carradine) and unleashing him on an unsuspecting town. In the second…