Impact Winter is an audio drama released as an episodic podcast. It takes place in the modern world, except a comet impact has blotted out the sun. With no sun, the world has turned into an endless winter and vampires can roam freely during the day. The story is about a group of humans hiding in an abandoned castle in England, with the main character being a vampire hunter who's trying to keep them safe.

The story is pretty neat because there are essentially three types of vampire. The first type is a feral animal that simply attacks and has no humanity. The second type can pass as human long enough to trick humans into dropping their guard so they can attack. And the third type are intelligent with magic powers like shapeshifting or telepathy.

You can listen to it as an audiobook on Audible or as a podcast on Prime Music.

Jim Crow-era vampire drama directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan hits theaters April 18.

For as long as there have been movies, there have been vampire movies. Obviously, not every vampire movie will be good. Or even tolerable. Or should ever have been made at all.

I was browsing through the vampire movies available on Tubi and found classics such as Vampire Time Travelers, Planet of the Vampire Women, and Aleta: Vampire Mistress. You're welcome to watch those movies if you want, but it got me thinking... what is the worst vampire movie you actually sat through and watched to the end?

For me, it was probably Dracula 3000.

The poster made me think there'd be a cyborg vampire or something, and it stars Cas

There isn't much in this video other than a reminder that this game is actually happening and is now scheduled to release in October of this year (21 years after the original Bloodlines game).

What type of vampire do you like most? Do you want them to be mindless killing machines, monsters that can think but can't exactly pass as human, or something perfectly capable of blending in with humanity? Or should there be stages? Would they become mindless killing machines after they've drank too much blood? Or when they haven't had enough?

For example, in Priest they're completely mindless, mostly just animals. Yet in 30 Days of Night they're human-shaped but don't hide or blend in with humans (or even speak human languages). And... I couldn't think of a good example of an aristocratic vampire so I went with Interview with the Vampire. I know there are lots of other aristocratic vampires but couldn't think of a good example of one that can blend in perfectly well with humans.

Sometimes vampires can

In the 1930s, Universal Pictures made a bunch of movies starring horror monsters from classic novels. Movies like Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy. Universal milked those characters for all they were worth, to the point that they started showing up in weirder and wackier things like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein all the way to Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Obviously this had diminishing returns. By the 1950s, Universal finally stopped throwing those characters at anything they could (and after Abbot and Costello had "met" pretty much all of them).

Anyway, in the 2010s the Marvel Cinematic Universe was basically printing money so Universal decided

John Carpenter's Vampires doesn't have a very complicated plot, but it doesn't really need one. It was written and directed by John Carpenter and he knows what he's doing.

The movie is about a group of vampire hunters just... hunting vampires. This is a "modern day" vampire movie though (where "modern day" is 1998) so the hunters use the tools available at the time. You can tell they thought a lot about how to effectively kill a vampire in today's world without magical objects. There are nice little touches like the characters putting on chain-mail neck-guards before entering a vampire nest to prevent bites.

Of course, there is a plot here. A "master" vampire has a plan to perform some ritual which should give him the ability to walk in the daylight. And he needs the main character for that ritual. That leads me to my main complaint about this movie. James Woods is the main character and head vampire hunter and there's just something about him in this movie that I don't lik

And that's it. That's all the vampires memes I've got. I tried stretching it out as long as I could, but I'm done now.

Look, I'm not going to argue with anyone who says this is a bad movie. But that doesn't stop it from being fun. Just turn off your brain and enjoy it.

There's a movie from 2003 called The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (yes, yes, I know it was a graphic novel first). That movie took a bunch of fictional characters (Tom Sawyer, Captain Nemo, Dorian Gray) and throws them into a wacky action-adventure movie. Van Helsing does something similar but uses horror monsters like the Wolfman, Frankenstein's monster, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Dracula to make a wacky action-adventure movie. It makes no sense, and that's perfectly fine. At least it's a more fun mash-up of horror movie monsters than The Monster Squad. You might have some nostalgia for The Monster Squad but I'd argue that Van Helsing has aged much better than it.

Anyway, the plot is almost a

I've watched a lot of random old/bad horror movies on Prime Video, to the point that Prime now recommends even more old/bad horror movies to me. I guess the algorithm is working. Anyway, Prime suggested Subspecies to me and the cover looked like a perfectly bad horror movie so I gave it a try. And it was a fun vampire movie; I really enjoyed it. Not a "good" movie of course, but a "fun" movie. So then Prime suggested I watch Subspecies 2. So I did. And then Subspecies 3. And then I was hooked. I finally looked online for this series that I had never heard about in any discussion of vampire movies and found there were 6 movies, with the most recent being from 2023!

The series even has a surprisingly cohesive storyline and each movie directly leads into the next. It's primarily about a vampire named Radu who falls in love with a woman and spends 4 movies desperately trying to convince her to join him as a vampire. He doesn't want to kill her; he wants her to join him. He

I've never read any Anne Rice novels and don't really have any nostolgia for the Interview With The Vampire movie. I'll absolutely admit it's a good movie, it's just not the type of vampire story I typically enjoy. I guess I'm too low-brow and prefer vampire action/horror over the more introspective stuff. And I guess that's why I probably won't be posting anything here about Only Lovers Left Alive or Let The Right One In. I understand these are good (great?) movies, but they're not for me.

Anyway, I've heard good things about the new Interview With The Vampire TV show. I'm curious if any of you have seen it and how you'd compare it to the movie. Is it any good? What'd they do differently from the movie? Does it follow the books more closely? If you haven't seen it, here's a trailer. You can currently watch it on [Netflix](https://www.ne

First of all, let's get this out of the way. There's a lot of 70s nudity in this movie. It's also billed as an "Adult Vampire Sex Comedy" so they really lean into it. Also, it's a low-budget movie from the 70s so expectations are a bit different. I can't quantify this as a "good" or "bad" movie, it's just an oddity in my opinion.

The movie is about an American actress who inherits a castle in Transylvania (pretty standard so far). She moves into the castle and learns she looks just like her ancestor, who was supposedly a vampire. The caretaker shows the actress the tomb where her ancestor was buried. She opens the tomb and finds her ancestor still looks exactly like her (hasn't decomposed) and runs away, leaving the tomb open. The vampire ancestor (played by the same person, of course) wakes up and climbs out of her tomb. Then we have a lot of wacky misdirection where the human actress and vampire ancestor constantly swap places to seduce/bite men in the village.

Anyway, the