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Vampires are demon lovers - courtly but toxic beaux, your dreamiest, most dangerous blind date. That's been the movie norm, from the Bela Lugosi Dracula in 1931 to today's Twilight saga. But there's another view of the tradition, an alterna-vamp, that begins with the first important horror movie, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, and was touched on in Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark and the Francis Coppola Dracula. It's the vampire as pure predator, a gaunt, subhuman pestilence, the ultimate parasite whose host is the rest of us. Nothing sexy about these creatures, or their...
...stop laughing so much. He did. I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do. I think at the beginning I had a nervous laugh. I was trying to appear more relaxed than I was and it manifested itself in some sort of Dracula chortle. I don't do it anymore, at least I hope...
...proven himself to be the reigning master of self-mockery. TIME spoke with the Emmy Award-winning Star Trek icon turned Priceline pitchman about his off-camera relationship with Conan O'Brien, buying dinner for J.J. Abrams and why, when it comes to musical collaborations, he's not unlike Dracula...
...Blending plot elements of Double Indemnity and Natural Born Killers with the ripe sensuality of Francis Coppola's take on Dracula, the film should make audiences sit up in startled pleasure, as if they'd just received the most luscious neck-bite. So take a break from the summer's zombified blockbusters and surrender to the crimson ecstasy of Thirst...
...find the time to start a trilogy of vampire novels? I started it actually about four years ago. The idea behind The Strain was to try and marry old Eastern European folklore with an urban procedural feel. Which is very much the way, back in the day, Dracula must have read to contemporary readers. It was a very now, in the moment, modern novel. And I wanted to recapture that a little...