Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters
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From London to Tokyo… In 1899 Geneviève Dieudonné travels to Japan with a group of vampires...
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Shattered Bonds (Jane Yellowrock #13)
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Jane Yellowrock is a vampire-killer-for-hire, but her last battle with an ancient arcane enemy has...
The Forever Song (Blood of Eden, #3)
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Allison Sekemoto once struggled with the question, am I human or monster? With the death of her...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Time's Convert in Books
Jan 15, 2022
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Times Convert
By Deborah Harkness
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Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the eighteenth century. Over two hundred years later, he finds himself in love with Phoebe Taylor, a human who decides to become a vampire herself.
And with tradition enforcing separation from Marcus, Phoebe's transformation will prove as challenging now as it was for Marcus when he first encountered Matthew de Clermont, his sire.
Time's Convert moves with epic sweep from the battlefields of the American Revolutionary War, through the treachery of the French Revolution to a bloody finale in New Orleans.
This is one of my favourite books as it follows on from one of my favourite series The All Souls Trilogy!
David McK (3623 KP) rated Blade (1998) in Movies
Sep 7, 2023
The Daywalker.
The half human/half vampire hybrid, waging a one-man war on the vampire underground.
And still to officially enter the MCU, with this film pre-dating even the creation of that cinematic universe by a good 10 years or so, and very much a product of its time: lots of leather and shades!
It also stars a pre-prison for tax evasion Wesley Snipes as the titular character, and is quite a bit gorier than the MCU movies tend to be.
I remember, also, thinking at the time just how much of a letdown La Magra, the Blood God, made out to be the 'big bad' was as well ...
30 Days of Night (2007)
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After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of...
Vampire horror
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Magic Edge (Dragon Born Alexandria #1) in Books
Jan 6, 2021
I managed to keep up with the plot even though the vampire elves threw me off a little at the beginning. The romantic thing she had going on with a certain asassin was also kinda entertaining. I'm interesting in following both of these and I'm off to borrow book 2.
A Discovery of Witches - Season 1
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Diana Bishop, historian and witch, accesses Ashmole 782 and knows she must solve its mysteries. She...
Sarah (7800 KP) rated Daybreakers (2009) in Movies
Nov 15, 2019
This is a very refreshing and original take on a vampire film. It's not an idea I've seen before, and it works really well. The background to the story and vampires is flashed over so quickly during the opening scenes and credits, and at a 1hr40 runtime this film really doesn't mess around. The vampire world looks great and I loved the grayscale and darker camera shots whenever the vampires were on screen, it made a stark contrast to the scenes set in daylight. This is such a different version of vampires to what we're used to and there are parts of this where you almost feel sorry for them.
Ethan Hawke is wonderful as Ed, and Sam Neill is deliciously wicked as he has been in other films, despite the fact I cant stop seeing him as Alan Grant! I think Willem Dafoe was a tad underused thought. The best thing I loved about this film was the gore and physical effects. It's an 18 for a reason and I loved all of the blood and guts. Admittedly some of the gore seemed a little over the top and ridiculous towards the end, but this just made it all the more hilariously enjoyable.
This film isn't perfect. I think some of the CGI is dodgy in parts which is a shame as the rest of the effects are rather good. And the sub plot about Sam Neill's daughter seemed a little flimsy. But aside from this, I think Daybreakers is a great underrated vampire film with a unique story, that seems to have gone without the recognition it deserves.