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Those Vampires. They're So Hot Right Now. PDF Print E-mail
Written by Arya Ponto   
Thursday, 13 November 2008

Movies, like fashion or technology, is cyclical. They like their fads as much as any other business. So now that we've enjoyed a decade of superhero movies, where to go next? With True Blood being a steady mainstay at HBO (Season 2 a go) and Twilight set to kick off a new movie franchise, we might be on the verge of a vampire comeback.

This might be the first of many: The Hollywood Reporter reveals an indie vampire comedy called Suck, which features appearances by Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Moby and Carol Pope.

The film, from writer-director Rob Stefaniuk, is about a group of rock n' roll wannabes in search of fame and vampires (whatever that means). It stars Malcolm McDowell, Jessica Pare and Dave Foley. It is probably the lowest on the radar among the slew of vampire films about to come out in the next couple of years.

Next year we'll see John C. Reilly play a vampire in Paul Weitz's Cirque du Freak and also Max Payne's John Moore is directing Virulents, about US soldiers encountering vampires in Afghanistan.

lettherightoneinJohn Carpenter is still doing anthology horror film L.A. Gothic (there are vampires in it!) after finishing Riot. Alex Proyas is attached to Dracula: Year Zero, a sympathetic look at the Count as a tragic hero. Cloverfield helmer Matt Reeves is set to do a remake of the awesome Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In.

We have Paul W.S. Anderson's adaptation of the Castlevania games to look forward to, of course (not). Don Coscarelli is doing his Bubba Ho-Tep sequel Bubba Nosferatu. And once their schedules cleared up, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp will team up to do a film version of the vampire soap opera Dark Shadows series. Other adaptations being developed are the Vlad the Impaler novel The Historian and the Korean comic book Priest, which I've heard had been bastardized into a generic Pastor-versus-Vampires story.

All this, without counting the Twilight sequel that's already being prepped.

There's a lot of suck going our way.

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