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What Would Happen if Buffy (the Vampire Slayer) Met Edward (Twilight series)?

llsee — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:54:37 +0000

I thought this was pretty cute! Always did love Buffy, even if the series did get a little boring toward the end.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM

Speaking of Vampires, Here’s a Quirky Swedish Vampire Movie

llsee — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:30:15 +0000

Since I was on the subject of Vampire movies in the last post, I couldn’t move on without mentioning one of the most original entries in the genre. Last year’s Swedish import, “Let the Right One In” is a new very original take on the vampire legend. It is all the more moody and atmospheric because of the dark Swedish winter setting. The two protagonists in this film are 12 year old’s, that makes the film slightly disturbing. This is a film that could only be made in Europe. Like I said, I’m a sucker for vampire movies, and this is one of the best of the genre… forget your “Twilight” films and watch this.

Here is the trailer for “Let the Right One In”:

The most disturbing thing I’ve heard lately is that an American remake of this film is in the works. I am not looking forward to it. As one poster on IMDB said ‘there should be a special place in hell for American directors who remake foreign films, that I like’.

Reccomendation, Watch “True Blood” on HBO.. Update

llsee — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:54:47 +0000

I’ve been watching the HBO series “True Blood”. I have liked vampire stories/movies since I was a kid. My first exposure to the Dracula story happened in 1958 when I saw the Hammer Film version of Dracula starring Christopher Lee as the nasty count. I was hooked. Of course I had to read the Bram Stoker novel after that. Over the years I have seen most of the Vampire themed movies, including all 3 of the movies that were based on Stoker’s novel. Those include the 1931 Bela Lugosi version, the 58 Christopher Lee version and the 1992 Francis Coppola version that starred Gary Oldman as Dracula. And I’ve even seen the ridiculous versions, Blackula,etc. I liked ‘Lost Boys’ and ‘Interview With a Vampire’ and read most of Ann Rice’s novels.

Then a couple of years ago, I was in the checkout at Barnes & Noble when I saw a little book by an Author named Charlaine Harris called ‘Dead Until Dark’. I picked it up and bought it and found it an interesting take on the vampire legend. The primary character was a small town waitress named Sookie Stackhouse from a fictional Louisiana town. In this book, the vampires (some of them) were the good guys. Well I read several more in the series, and like most vampire series, the later books became harder to read as she had to invent new circumstances and improve on the ‘lore’ of the vampire. Then I heard that HBO was filming a series based on Harris’ novels. So, I watched ‘True Blood’ last year. It followed the first novel pretty closely and best of all maintained the irreverent tongue-in-cheek tone of the novel.

On the HBO series, Sookie is played by Canadian/New Zealand actress Anna Paquin. Here is an interview with her from Jimmy Fallon’s TV show last week. About two thirds of the way through, she explains the difference between ‘True Blood’ and the “Twilight’ series…

Update: Well, apparently NBC made Youtube pull down the clip from Jimmy Fallon’s show. I hate this whole Intellectual Property-DRM bull… but that’s another post. If you want to see the clip here’s a link to it on NBC’s site: Anna Paquin on Jimmy Fallon. The reason I posted it was because Anna made a great comment comparing True Blood to the Twilight movies. She said “Well, they’re all about not having sex, and our show is all about (pause) having sex.” Pretty cute. To replace the Jimmy Fallon clip, here is HBO’s trailer for True Blood: