Really? I didn't like Shadow of the Vampire that much.

Oh good, I thought I was the only one. I thought Defoe's performance was very...comitted. The movie itself was bland and repetitive.

Actually, I just remembered this terrific, fairly recent vampire movie from Mexico called Cronos. I saw it during the Midnight Madness screening in Toronto Film Festival about a decade ago and it left an impression. It went counter to a lot of tired convention of the genre by having the vampirism transmitted through a device, and the main victim be an old man. Good acting, too, if I recall.

Oh, I saw that for some reason! Probably because of Hellboy. It was good.

Night Watch is another recent good one, but it's only kind of about vampires.

The Devil's Backbone is the only del Toro I've really liked.

My local cinemas have been taunting me with Night watch posters that move from theater to theater but never in a "NOW PLAYING" capacity.

::pulls Aimee up higher:: No need to be embarrassed about Dusk Til Dawn, it was a lot of fun. Forever Knight was a movie before it was a TV show.

Calli ... Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires is available on DVD now. At least, it is in R2/4. I've got an old issue of the House of Hammer magazine that does a comic version of the movie. Very cool.

Did I miss it, or has there been no mention of John Carpenter's Vampires ?

You just reminded me of a strange movie I saw in my teens: The Comfort of Strangers, set in Venice. I keep thinking it was a vamp movie, but since I can't recall how it ended, which was the big reveal, I have NO IDEA. I think Walken was the creepy dude.

I think Walken was the creepy dude.

I think Elvis might have recorded a few songs.

I think I liked the potential of Shadow of the Vampire better than the execution, but I'll stick with liking it. Doubt I will ever buy it though.

ION, there's another shot at a really bad Lovecraft movie...and it looks like Tori Spelling getting eaten by Cthulhu will move from my idle musings to actuality. [link]

Hmmm, I don't recall any gay college professors from "The Shadow over Innsmouth." But you gotta love a movie that features, as Lovecraft put it, "Earth's supreme horror."

And it has Cthulhu as well!

I think Walken was the creepy dude.

I think Elvis might have recorded a few songs.

And yet Walken still got outcreeped by Viggo, in a barely five-minute appearence, in THE PROPHECY. And Walken was plenty creepy in that.

Smartest talking monkey of all of them!

Hmmm, I don't recall any gay college professors from "The Shadow over Innsmouth."

Also, every Cthulu-ite knows that all the evil stuff happens in New England, not on the beautiful Oregon coast.