So crowed we could not get in after 20 minutes in the queue!
Big success
At the 2012 Fantasporto (20 February - 04 March) in Porto, Portugal, the festival paid tribute to some of the best blood sucking films in the vampire canon: "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), which screned at the Rivoli Theater follwing a screening of another vampire classic, F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922).
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Director: ZACHOS SAMOLADAS.
DARK LEGEND is the fourth film of director ZAHOS SAMOLADAS. The film goes back to the roots of vampirism, Lamia and the ancient fables of Greece. It is the story of two brothers with leathal forces, two vampires Manoyil and Drakon, both children of Lamia. Their different origin, separates them in the path that leads to the dark side of their existence. The snob and vicious Drakon, wants simply to dominate on all mortal and immortal and Manoyil the son of a mortal, who wants to collaborate with humans. Between them two women, Thalia and Niki accept the call of the night creatures. But the moral code of Manoyil brings him confronted with his dark substance. In the path of history and Time Manuel will fall in love with Niki a girl that saves from the death from the hands of Germans in 1943, and the pain. Two vampires that become the terror of their opponents and will keep up to the end their scary secret.
It's the final day of Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival in Ljutomer, Slovenia. Preparations for this evening's grand Vampire's Ball are already taking place at the Main Square! Numerous vampire candidates are being transformed into nocturnal ghouls by the experts of Mad Squirrel FX team. Our merry program will continue until the night when the stage at the Main Square will be thoroughly shaken by UK psychobilly legends The Meteors, along with Hungarian rockers Yellow Spots and Hollywood...
Director Mark Bessenger Answers Q-Questions
Posted on June 23, 2011 by Le Anne Lindsay
We sent out a missive to all our QFest Film Directors to Answer 3 Questions for our QBlog.
Mark Bessenger, Director of Bite Marks was the first to respond!
Q: What was the first LGBT film you ever saw? Did you watch it openly or in secret?
MB: A gal pal of mine in college rented My Beautiful Laundrette, then gave it to me,
saying she wasn’t going to have time to watch it, ...
The results are in for the 2009 International Vampire Film Festival are as follows:
http://www.vampirefilmfestival.com/
"All of the films selected were exceptional in one way or another, but The Revenant stood out because it worked as pure vampire fiction and as a contemporary commentary on socially relevant issues. Plus, it was funny." Tim Cogshell, Programmer Vampire Film Festival
Outstanding Vampire Feature: The Revenant (USA) Directed by Kerry Prior
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The Vampire Film Festival (Vampire Fest) is finally coming home! "After two years in Los Angeles we wanted to permanently move the festival to the city most connected to the vampire myth - New Orleans. This glorious city is a place of mystical allure, the city where Anne Rice rethought the myth of the vampire. With its Gothic architecture, above the ground graves, voodoo and colorful history, New Orleans is the perfect location to celebrate the vampire myth and build the foundation fo...
Daybreakers is set in a world after the bat-spawned vampire plague converted the vast majority of humans into blood-sucking chain-smoking nocturnal regular joes who have to shave by watching themselves in a video feed.
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Vampire Fest 2009 has a created a unique opportunity for aficionados of vampire cinema. We are allowing you, a member of the most discerning audience on earth, to help us select which films get into the festival in this special Audience Category. The Vampire Trailer Contest has premiered on our own YouTube channel. Please join us at our revamped site at www.vampirefilmfestival.com to watch and on our YouTube channel. The films connected to those trailers with the highest ratings and comments...
Mario Dormisnky at make up before the party.
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Reel Energy Entertainment and the Vampire Film Series and Festival (aka Vampire Fest) is proud to announce that Bridget Morrow, author of two unique contributions to the vampire lexicon, the novels, Master and Alex, will be one of the guests of Vampire Fest 2009. Her first novel, Master, is the story of Lila, a young slave in the American South who is released from one type of bondage only to find another in the hands of her vampire lover, Alex. Master was published in 2004 and won the Los Ange...
