Vampires Galore - Contests, Polls and Pop Culture.

So over at Suburban Vampire blog, there is a new poll and contest titled:
Who should be the winner of the Best Vampire Crossover Music Video Contest: http://suburbanvampire.blogspot.com/

At EW.com posted from May 11th, there is the 13 great pop culture vamps:
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20153015,00.html?iid=top25-13+great+pop%2Dculture+vampires

Then over at the Fang-tastic blog there is an interview/blog by author Lynda Hilburn talking about: Sexy Vamps:
http://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/guest-author-lynda-hilburn-talking.html
With a contest: a description of your ideal, gorgeous vampire. She'll give away a copy of one of her books (your choice, either The Vampire Shrink or Dark Harvest) to the winner.

Sexy Vampires

Here's a set of sexy Vampires in motion, set to a sexy song ( Three Days Grace - "Animal".)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cltbzURsgag&feature=player_embedded

True Blood Season 2 Trailer

So HBO's True Blood will return for its second season come Sunday June 14th @ 9pm.

Here's a link to the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qufAFY7FL0U

And here's sneak peak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLkQnotUD7g

Anita Blake Tv Movie

As announced at the Vampire Cafe site, L.K Hamilton's Anita Blake will be coming to the small screen as a tv movie. The tv movie will focus on the 1st books.
More info. can be read at link below:
http://community.livejournal.com/vampirecafe/161921.html

No word yet on who the cast will be!

Damn Sexy vamp videos

And just to throw a little music video vamp action into the mix, here's for all you Dracula 2000 and Lost Boys - Damn sexy vamps - fans.

Dracula 2000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CM9H1q-J6A

Lost Boys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o375ke8Csio&feature=related

Enjoy!!

Twi-Lite

Okay, so I had been meaning to write a review on Twilight for a while now (since having seen it 2x last Nov. '08). Well the DVD is soon to be released, so still, this review is better late than never.

As much as I had looked fwd to the film - because I had read the books (well the 1st 3 anyway, as I still have yet to read bk 4) - as much as I'd looked forward to it, I didn't have too many high expectations (nor did I have low ones). I just went in there to see what a/o how it was being brought to the screen.

So, yes. I liked it, yet I didn't like it!

On it's own, not taking into consideration it was based on a book, it was good.
But when comparing it to the book it's based upon, I would say it fell short in (some / so many) areas.

But I guess those are some of the sacrifices that are made from book to film.

Nevertheless, the cinematography of the film itself, left a lot to be desired in my opinion. The continuity issues in some scenes ( Edward and Bella when she was in the hospital. Edward in a diff. position almost each time the camera flashes to him, when he is supposed to be pretending to be asleep. The forever moving/changing breathing tube in Bella's nose, when it was supposed to be a one clean shot).

In some scenes, it was almost as if the director threw all rules that apply to cinematic continuity out the window.

In other scenes, there were the long uncomfortable silences (Bella and her father in the kitchen). This scene (as an example of one) could have used some non-diegetic background music in it.

In all, Twilight was just simply "good" as the movie it was... but in juxtaposition to its' source, i.e.: the book : Twilight , it could have been better.

New Photos of Kyle @ IMDB.

There are some (3 to be exact) new photos of Kyle Schmid on display at his IMDB page (click on post title to go there).
Here's a look of one of them: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1923255040/nm0772704

Blood Ties DVD release date - June 2nd

FINALLY! The long awaited release date of the now cancelled Tv sho Blood Ties (starring Kyle Schmid, Christina Cox, Dylan Neal and Gina Holden) has been announced.
Come this June 2nd 2009, BT will be available on DVD "with loads of extras" according to one source.

More can be seen here: http://www.bloodtiescentral.com/index.shtml

And you sign up to pre-order via Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Ties-Complete-Season-One/dp/B001UGJUSG/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1236981949&sr=8-1