Wednesday, November 21, 2018

AMC's Visionaries : Eli Roth's History of Horror - Vampires (2018)


Made for AMC , airing November 11th in the US.
Season 1. Episode 6.
The story : Vampires are about sex and death.
Dangerous and seductive. Sexy and beautiful. Charming and terrifying....
They are romantics , serial killers , addicts and historians.
Dracula was created in 1897 by writer Bram Stoker.
In 1922 , Nosferatu was the first German film adaptation of a vampire.
He represented war.
1931 , Bela Lugosi was Dracula in the first American adaptation which came out at the beginning of the great depression.
Three decades later , in 1958  , Christopher Lee became Dracula...
Since then there have been many vampires to be seen on the big screen.
Some movies/shows that can be seen in this episode :
FW Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)
Tod Browning's Dracula (1931)
James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Lambert Hillyer's Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Chuck Jones' Transylvania 6-5000 (1963)
Harry Kumel's Daughters of Darkness (1971)
John Badham's Dracula (1979)
Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot (1979)
Tom Holland's Fright Night (1985)
Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys (1987)
Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987)
Neil Jordan's Interview With the Vampire (1994)
Abel Ferrera's The Addiction (1995)
Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1996 - 2003)
Robert Rodriguez' From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Stephen Norrington's Blade (1998)
Len Wiseman's Underworld (2003)
David Slade's 30 Days of Night (2007)
Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight (2008)
Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In (2008)
Allan Ball's True Blood (2008 - 2014)
Julie Plec & Kevin Williamson's The Vampire Diaries (2009 - 2017)
Genndy Tartakovsky's Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Stars John Landis , Stephen King , Quentin Tarantino , Mary Harron , David J Skal , Eli Roth , Greg Nicotero , Rob Zombie , Leonard Malton , Josh Harnett , Candice King , Michael Dougherty , Anne Rice , Jack Black , Kristin Bauer van Straten , John Edgar Browning , Rutina Wesley , Mick Garris , Alex Winter , Diablo Cody , Joel Schumacher , Tony Timpone , Ryan Turek , Joe Hill , Bryan Fuller , Catherine Hardwicke , Stephanie Meyer , Steven Niles
Directed by (& story written) Kurt Sayenga
Not Rated
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/SERIES/HALLOWEEN

"Listen to them , children of the night. What music they make."

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