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The Chronicles
Volume 2 Issue 9 |
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London Vampyre Group
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Reviews
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BLOOD TROMA ~
Independent writer/director Warren F. Disbrow has SCARLET MOON due for an April 2006 release on trash label Troma. It’s been described as a modern-day vampire comedy and features Michael Bruce of The Alice Cooper Group and Forry J Ackerman of Famous Monsters Of Filmland magazine. The director says it’s a vampire movie with Satanism and the world’s first Christian vampire (I suppose they all are really otherwise why do they fear the cross?). A sequel, DARK BEGINNINGS, is in pre production. Ooh, I just can’t wait.
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Scarlet Moon
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VAMPIRE HISTORY~
David Magee, whose first produced screenplay was FINDING NEVERLAND for Johnny Depp, will script the film version of THE HISTORIAN, based on Elizabeth Kostova’s best-selling vampire novel. It relates the story of a teenaged girl in 1972 who continues her father’s search for evidence that Dracula/Vlad the Impaler is still alive after he mysteriously disappears. The novel, Kostova’s first, interweaves three different timelines and the screen rights were bought by Sony Pictures for $1.5 million. Not bad for a starter, eh?
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The Historian
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SPIKED BLADE ~
Spike TV is working on a BLADE series, based on the Wesley Snipes-starring film franchise, with New Line TV and David S. Goyer, who scripted all the movies and directed BLADE: TRINITY. Peter O’Fallon is currently directing the pilot in Vancouver with Kirk Jones (a.k.a. Sticky Fingaz of the hiphop group Onyx) will play the TV vampire slayer, with Jill Wagner, Neil Jackson, Nelson Lee and Jessica Gower co-starring. And the cartoon series? What’s happening to the cartoon series?
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Kirk Jones
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SECT SEX ~
THE SECT features David Carradine as a descendant of the legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (he played Dracula in SUNDOWN: VAMPIRES IN RETREAT y’know) trying to vanquish a group of seductive female vampires who use an Internet dating service to ensnare their victims. To be directed by Jonathan Dueck from a screenplay by David Robbeson.
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BLOODY THIRST ~
Principal photography on Jeremy Kasten’s gorefest THIRST, produced by Mindfire Entertainment, is now complete and it’s apparently shaping up as one of the bloodiest vampire movies ever, with a gruesome ’80s vibe. I can’t think of anything more gruesome than 80’s fashion.
Starring Jeremy Sisto and Adam (SERENITY) Baldwin.
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Thirst
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AFTER SUNDOWN ~
The producers of the horror/Western AFTER SUNDOWN in which the residents of a Western town battle a vampire seeking his offspring with the help of zombie minions, have announced that Barnholtz Entertainment has picked up North American video rights to the movie, with Lions Gate Home Entertainment set to handle distribution. Michael W. Brown, who directed the movie with its scripter, Christopher Abram, says that it’s ‘’ a serious effort to improve the micro budgeted horror-film genre. We’ve made a movie that supersedes the typical throwaway videos so common in this genre.” Yeah right! I’ll believe that when I see it.
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After Sundown
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MORE COWBOY SUCKERS ~
Director Mary (PET SEMATARY) Lambert is has another genre feature set to roll next April. Titled HIGH MIDNIGHT, it’s a vampire Western (another one? Is this the start of a trend? Where’s my Stetson?) Written by Denis Faye to be produced by Mark Heidelberger, Jesse Felsot and executive producer Erik A. Baron.
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Ted Raimi
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Set in Purgatory, New Mexico, where the town mayor also runs the local whorehouse and tries to cover up the vicious murder of one of his prostitutes. The case attracts the attention of a visiting journalist, a U.S. marshal—and a vampire hunter, who teams with the town sheriff to battle the bloodsucking cowboys of the Double V Ranch. Ted Raimi has already been signed to play Earl, the sheriff’s cowardly deputy, with Taylor Nichols as a pastor and Emilio Rivera as an Apache who gets in on the action. I hope we get to see vampires dispatched with bow and arrow. That’d be a new one.
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BAT 2007 ~
Park Chan-Wook, director of Old Boy and Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, has a couple more in the pipeline. The first is a love story set in an asylum between a man and a woman who thinks she’s a cyborg. There’s no official English title yet, but the Korean version translates to “Even If You’re A Cyborg, It’s No Problem”. Sounds a bit Philip K. Dick to me.at when I see it.
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Chan-wook
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The second is a vampire horror simply called THE BAT which Wook says is ‘’more about the question of the existence of God and Evil than a regular vampire movie. I'm not so interested in the vampire genre per se, more in the religious theme.’’ Hey, don’t get all heavy on us.
The cyborg love story starts shooting in March, with the Vamp flick planned for a 2007 shoot
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