Tag Archives: Vampires

Rant: Monthly Dee-Lights (5/23)

Just a note of some of the funnest content I consumed last month (in no particular order): – I watched Renfield (2023), the comedy-horror film about a downtrodden “familiar” (Nicholas Hoult) attempting to escape the thrall of Count Dracula (Nicolas … Continue reading

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GothWatch: Draculaura

Hopefully I’ll be able to move on from Monster High at some point, but not before I give a shout-out to ‘Draculaura’… I mean, you can’t get much gothier than a vampire who [SPOILER?] also practices witchcraft, can you? As … Continue reading

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Rant: “Monster High: The Movie” (2022)

After seeing the trailer a couple months back, I thought this might make for a fun Halloween-y watch… and despite being kinda corny and “childish” (considering it was directed by Todd Holland, who helmed 50x eps of The Larry Sanders … Continue reading

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R.I.P. Alan Grant (1949 – 2022)

Sadly, Alan Grant, the legendary Scottish comic-book writer has passed on, at the age of 73. Besides co-creating badass vampire bounty-hunter Durham Red (with John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra) for 2000 AD, he also wrote a number of stand-out stories … Continue reading

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R.I.P. Helen McCrory (1968 – 2021)

Damian Lewis has announced the tragic death of his wife (and occasional-co-star), Helen McCrory, at the age of just 52, stating that she passed “peacefully at home … surrounded by a wave of love from friends and family.” Technically, the … Continue reading

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Rant: Monthly Dee-Lights (1/21)

Just a quick note of some of the funnest content I consumed last month (in no particular order): – Netflix released a short (comedic) documentary series hosted by Nicolas Cage, exploring the History of Swear Words. Besides actual experts in … Continue reading

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Rant: Monthly Dee-Lights (8/20)

Just a quick note of some of the funnest content I consumed last month (in no particular order): – Bailey Meyers posted a new (feature-length!) GooseDrunks video, and this time around she tackled the goofy-gothy Vampire Breath (1996), resulting in … Continue reading

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Lockdown Uplift (7/20)

Just a quick note of some of the funnest online content I watched this month (in no particular order): – TV Guide challenged D’Arcy Carden to rank every iteration of her character ‘Janet’ from The Good Place, and thus provide … Continue reading

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“Vampire-Only Laughing!”

Although I enjoyed Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s flatsharing-vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows (2014), like a lot of shaggy semi-improvised comedies it left me a little underwhelmed… so I was surprised to see it go on to … Continue reading

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R.I.P. Carlos Ezquerra (1947 – 2018)

Sad to say, Carlos Ezquerra, the legendary Spanish comic-book artist who co-created futuristic/fascistic lawman Judge Dredd, bounty-hunting mutant Johnny Alpha, and badass vampire “bitch”* Durham Red (among many other characters), has passed into the infinite, at the age of 70. … Continue reading

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