Tim Burton
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
In recent years, the mash-up novel, a work of fiction which combines a pre-existing text, often a classic work of fiction, with elements of popular genres such as vampire or zombie stories, has become quite popular. The first and arguably most successful of these was Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Now the mash-up novel has been brought to movie screens with a...[Read More]
Movie Review: Dark Shadows
Having never watched the original 1960s daily soap opera Dark Shadows and holding a steady grudge against director Tim Burton for the abrasive Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland (not to mention Johnny Depp’s last run of disappointments), I went into Burton’s gothic-comic update of the original camp-cult favorite with more than a little trepidation. After two hours of gorge...[Read More]
Win Tickets to Dark Shadows
Congratulations to the winners of our “Win Tickets to Dark Shadows” contest! Here they are: Gary G, Kristen G., polwu, Momto4babas, Donaldthemovieman, Jessica Boroniec, Kandace Meade, softrose, KathleenB, Lempo4, RRichmond, Aswallow14, Billy0806, Lauren T, Nixie72, Teddi, Diana R, Dkitain, Msdoreen, ryan1476, Oldham_april, Teehee3syd, shondira, Daddysb4by, and Charisseryden. If you won, you should...[Read More]
Bela Lugosi’s Not Really Dead: A Vampire Movie Primer
Vampires are so commonplace in entertainment these days that I cannot fathom how anyone could find them mysterious, otherworldly, or especially frightening. In our narcissistic age, people romanticize vampires because the idea of staying young forever trumps any of the existential sadness of such a proposition. Furthermore, the horror aspect of the undead has been entirely co-opted and taken to ex...[Read More]