Vampires are big right now... and whenever you have vamps, you are going to have vampire hunters. Even when vampires are portrayed as good, people are conditioned to think they are bad and try to kill them. That is just the way vampire stories go. So the gang over at Cheeszburger decided to collect all the critical data on the most famous vampire hunters throughout fiction. Suspiciously Abraham Lincoln was left off of this list. You would think with the current success of the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter film he would be in there, but no... at least we get an appearance from Simon Belmont!!!! Click after the jump for the full infographic....
Tomorrow I am attending not one, but two advanced screenings of upcoming films that I was looking forward to. Jealous yet???
First, at 10 am I will be seeing Stake Land, a very cool looking vampire movie which stars Gossip Girl's Connor Paolo and Scream Queen (and fellow former Howard Beach resident) Danielle Harris. This one sounds really dope:
America is a lost nation. When an epidemic of vampirism strikes, humans find themselves on the run from vicious, feral beasts. Cities are tombs and survivors cling together in rural pockets, fearful of nightfall. When his family is slaughtered, young Martin (Gossip Girl's Connor Paolo) is taken under the wing of a grizzled, wayward hunter (In the Cut's Nick Damici) whose new prey are the undead.
Simply known as Mister, the vampire stalker takes Martin on a journey through the locked-down towns of America's heartland, searching for a better place while taking down any bloodsuckers that cross their path. Along the way they recruit fellow travellers, including a nun (Kelly McGillis) who is caught in a crisis of faith when her followers turn into ravenous beasts. This ragtag family unit cautiously moves north, avoiding major thoroughfares that have been seized by The Brethren, a fundamentalist militia headed by Jebedia Loven (Tony award-winning actor Michael Cerveris) that interprets the plague as the Lord's work.
Then at 12 pm its off to see the really intriguing documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. This one sounds absolutely sick:
Beginning in the early 1980s, hundreds of tiles carrying this cryptic message were found embedded in the asphalt of city streets as far apart as New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. Street art? A prank? A message from space?
Filmmaker Jon Foy recounts how young artist Justin Duerr became fascinated with the strange plaques and, with two other "Toynbee tile" enthusiasts, Steve Weinik and Colin Smith, spent years trying to discover what they meant and who made them. The unlikely investigators uncovered increasingly bizarre clues: a newspaper article, a David Mamet play, a Jupiter colonization organization, and a Toynbee message that "hijacked" local news broadcasts
That the origins of a street tile can be so captivating is testament to both Duerr's passion and Foy's film making. Artfully constructed, RESURRECT DEAD thrusts us into the black hole of this fantastic mystery but also reflects on Duerr himself, and the personal connection he develops in his attempt to find an answer.
Um, so yeah... pretty fucking awesome!!! Reviews to come.... don't you wish you had a blog to??? Hehehehe...... Big ups to Adam K from Brigade Marketing for making these screenings happen for us. We appreciate it!!!
The Brave and The Bold: The Lost Issues is an excellent idea for a blog that is brought to us by Ross. Ross uses MS Paint to take certain aspects of comic covers and come up with team ups for Batman ala the way they used to in DC Comics The Brave & The Bold. At first he only used DC characters from the particular era of the orginal run, but soon after he started popping Marvel characters as well as all other types of cool people from different mediums into the team ups. They are a great quality and look fantastic... and you can view all of his posts by clicking here. Since it is CCD's All Horror Week, I chose to highlght the supernatural type covers that Ross has presented throughout his run. I hope you enjoy them. Please check out Ross, tell em CCD sent you and make some suggestions in the comments section below that you would like to see... we will pass em on to him!!!
70's Ghost Rider & Bats
Gargoyle & Bats
Big Red & Big Blue
Bat... it's whats for dinner in the swamp!!!
This is a cover even Suydam would be proud of!!!
The real Mephisto... not Peter Fonda from Nic Cage's Ghostrider
Real Vampires don't twinkle in sunlight... they try to kill superheroes
Just like the precision kills that Eric, Bill and the rest of the vamps on True Blood are so fond of making, we were treated to an awards show style "In Memoriam" clip to commemorate all the lovely folks who have met their demise on the show. From Bon Temps to Mississippi and back again, they hit on anyone who has met "The True Death" on the show. Yup, you got humans, vamps, wolves, manaeds, and all sorts of people catching a bad decision in this one. If you missed this on Sunday, here it is for your viewing pleasure. And if you seen it, watch it again... this shit is great!!!!
What did you guys think??? Tell us in the comment section below.
In the past three episodes we have seen the convergence of a good chunk of the more important storylines in the show. Sookie, Bill, Lorena, Eric, King Russell, Talbot, Pam, the Magister, Sophie Ann, Alcide, Debbie and the V-addicted wolves, Tara, Franklin and most recently, Hadley, are all in some way taking part in the same storyline, even if they took separate paths to get there.
For my own completely selfish reasons I am starting this recap with Tara. I know! I can’t believe it either but, in episode 5, Tara and her undead kidnapper/stalker became interesting! Last we saw, Tara and Franklin arrived at King Russell’s house. Tara was still tied up and Talbot was still being Talbot (gracious host? Housemaker? Aspiring contestant on Bravo’s reality show Top Design?).
Bill, Lorena and the King arrived back home from their hot-lonely-stripper-in-a-limo feast. Tara asks Bill to help her and he coldly says no. Clearly, he doesn’t understand what Tara is doing there and I am pretty sure he was just maintaining his cover as the king’s man.
We then lose sight of Tara briefly while Franklin talks to the king. He gives him the file on Sookie that he found in Bill’s dresser and now the king knows that Bill has definitely been hiding SOMETHING from him. He’s pretty sure that Bill is in Bon Temps on Sophie-Anne’s orders. After all nonsense ends, we finally get a taste of what I guess is the real Franklin.
When he asked the king for his payment, the king warned him that the last time he had that much money, he slaughtered a church group because they wouldn’t let him have a turn at the slot machines. The king also warns him about dragging around a human but Franklin just doesn’t care, because he and Tara are both “disasters” and that their chemistry is “electric.” Can chemistry be electric? Probably not but for the sake of this blog, it is.
What follows this is quite possibly one of the funniest moments I have seen yet on this show, beating out many scenes of Jason genius. Watch it!
Okay, seriously. That was a pure bit of Alan Ball genius. For a second, it almost surprised me, and I said “oh!” out loud. But then, like he knew I missed it, he did it again! He typed motherfucker really, really fast. Then he said love you and made a kissy sound. From that moment on I wanted to see more of Franklin and Tara. They really stepped up their storyline in this episode.
It was quite unfortunate a few hours later when Franklin was sleeping and Tara chewed through the ties binding her to the bed and ran for it. It was also unfortunate that Coot was standing guard in wolf form and dragged her ass back to incur the wrath of Franklin. With much persuading she was able to convince him that he didn’t frighten her, but the other vampires did.
Tara told Franklin that they needed to talk. He said that usually, when women say that, everything goes black and he wakes up surrounded by bodies. Anyone who wasn’t convinced by the Speed Texting champion of the world scene should totally love this amazing character by now. Tara assures him that its not that kind of talk and tells him that she actually is crazy about him, but he needs to remember that she is human and needs to do things like eat. He told her he would take her out the next day for dinner to celebrate her last day as a human… because he was going to make her his vampire bride. I would like to give some props to Tara here… or her writers or creators. If crazy ass Franklin wanted me to be his vampire bride, I don’t think I would be able to react as calm as Tara did, even with the look of horror on her face. I knew that Tara was most likely not going to become a vampire. But it was cool that she thought it for a minute.
Let’s go downstairs for a little while. Now that King Russell has Bill’s dossier on Sookie, he knows that Bill was lying to him about something. But before the king can say anything, the awesome and beautiful Eric shows up to tell the king that he is in search of Bill for selling V in his district. Bill comes out and says that Eric can’t pin that on him. Eric admits to the king in seconds that it was Eric selling the V at the behest of Queen Sophie Anne. Bill and Eric also briefly discussed Sookie’s singleness. Eric deduced that if Bill was not TAKEN from Sookie, he LEFT Sookie, and was therefore no longer “his”. Eric looks very interested. The King also seems interested… but by Eric. He invites him to stay at their house. Now Talbot looks interested. Talbot has good taste.
Talbot later takes Eric on a tour of the King Russell’s Castle of Catastrophe (I know, I’m not sure of that one either). While they are looking at some of Russell’s treasure, Eric sees a Viking crown that causes us to flashback. Eric, when he was a human Viking prince, was being scolded by his parents for screwing the redhead servant too often and not taking life seriously enough. Now I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, I always wanted to be a princess. Now I can see points in wanting to feed the goats. When he goes back to his favorite pastime (and we spied a little bit of Eric’s hot man ass), his parents are attacked by wolves, with the Project Werewolf symbol on them. He chases them and sees a mysterious cloaked figure that tells him he shouldn’t bother fighting him. He doesn’t but later, Eric promises that he will avenge his father. The Viking crown belonged to his father, which leads us to correctly assume that Russell killed his parents and infant sister. I guess this is why Eric wants these wolves and their leader so bad!
The king is finally able to have his talk with Bill and puts him under guard again. Cooter (hehe) tells him that Sookie is banging a werewolf (Alcide) there in Jackson and says all sorts of other raunchy things about Sookie. He called her a blonde ho. As a former blonde, I resent that on a personal level. He also said something along the lines of “suck that dick” similar to how someone might have said, “In your face!” 20 years ago. I think I may have to start using that! Bill finds out where Sookie is, burns a vampires face on the silver door and makes a run for it.
Now Sookie and Alcide barely escape Lou Pine’s alive. When they get back to Alcide’s place, Sookie goes to sleep but is awoken when Debbie shows up there to tell Alcide that the V-wolves would come after him if they knew what he saw at the bar. Then her and Sookie bitch fight for a little while and Sookie gives up too much info. Debbie clearly has no idea who Bill is when Sookie asks her about him, but now she knows he’s important and probably said something to Coot about her.
We see Alcide tell his pack master about the V-wolves, but the Colonel doesn’t think they should do anything. Seems he’s frightened of them.
Next, Bill shows up to see Sookie, but after briefly reuniting, Russell and Coot show up. When Coot tries to take Sook, she hits him in the face with the light from her hands. The king thinks that that is just fantastic, while we are still wondering where the hell that light comes from!
Now Sookie, Bill, Eric, Lorena, the king, Talbot, Tara and Franklin are all in the same place. As Sook is dragged in with Bill (but not Alcide), Bill stakes one of Russell’s henchmen and tries to get Russell, but is easily thrown off of him. Bill begs Eric to help Sookie, but Eric instead tells the king that he should hold on to “it.” While Eric goes off with Sookie, Russell tells Lorena to go kill Bill in the slave quarters. Now honestly, if you wanted Bill dead, would you send Lorena to do the job? NO. She really has nothing but pain to gain by killing her child and great love. Send Eric. I think he would have gladly done it at this point. But since Lorena threatened to kill Sookie and wear her ribcage for a hat, I doubt that she would have been a very good guard for her.
Once alone Sookie tells Eric that she hates him for putting her and Bill through this, while Eric pretty much tells her that he will not allow her to screw something up that he’s been working toward for years. Its obvious that he’s playing some sort of a role here. Why can’t Sookie see it? She was so confident that Bill was lying to her on the phone to play a role.
The king finally sits down with Sookie and they begin to answer each other’s questions. Now, if I was a vampire I would have beat this bitch senseless for thinking she had any right to ask ME any questions when she was MY prisoner, but for the sake of the storyline, Russell played along with Sookie’s feisty stupidity. Sookie learned about Bill’s dossier on her but she annoys Russell when she can’t tell him about her magical light powers. He then locks her in a bedroom.
Now back to the awesomely crazy FRANKLIN who tells Tara that he shaved for her and their wedding. Now that Sookie has been delivered to the king, his work for Russell is over. Now though, Tara knows that Sookie is in the mansion, and knows that she can contact her with her thoughts. Tara plays Franklin perfectly, getting him to untie her so that she can use both hands on him. She also convinces him that she wants to drink his blood so that she can be high on it the last time that they hump as humans. He then lets her bite down on his neck. Did you notice the gross piece of flapping skin… ewwwww. She then stays awake as he falls asleep in his arms. She tells Sookie that she is coming to get her out of there.
Now, when Franklin is good and asleep, Tara walks over to the wall, takes a spikey mace down and beats Franklin several times over the head with it. Now, I don’t think that Franklin’s dead, but to date we haven’t seen him again. We haven’t seen him explode in to red goo though, so I am sure he will be back at some point this season.
Next, Tara, in a moment of genius, stops by the kitchen to get some almonds, and tells Sookie’s guard that Talbot wants to serve Sookie’s blood that night and that he demands that she eats all of the almonds first. He let her in to the room, and together Sookie and Tara knock him out. She tells Sookie that she is there to kill vampires and save her ass (awesome) and they run to get out of there. But wait! Sookie needs to save Bill! Tara went to go find a car to escape in, while she searches for him. Tara runs in to another wolf, but fortunately, this time it’s Alcide, there looking for the Sookster. He has a van and together they go to find her.
Bill has not been having a good day so far. Lorena, sad about killing him, is slowly draining him. She then allows Cooter and Debbie to drink from him. By the time Sookie gets there, Debbie and Coot are as high as kites and running around outside the slave quarters. Sookie gets in there to save him, but Lorena grabs her first and throws her against the wall.
Meanwhile, Eric is trying to win the king’s graces through flirtation. It was sort of working. Russell takes Eric with him to Queen Sophie Anne’s house so that he can once again propose marriage. He also tells Eric that he is playing boss man over the werewolves not because he likes working with them, but because he is using them to gain control of the human. He believes that vampires are way superior to humans and that there should be a system that proves that much. He went as far as to say that Hitler was right about a master race, but that master race was not human. Sounds very Voldemort-ish to me also.
When they get to Sophie-Anne’s, she is sitting by her pool doing scratch-offs (hilarious) and whooping like a child whenever she wins. In the books, Sophie-Anne was 14 or 15 when she was turned over. Maybe that’s where her love of things like scratch-offs and Yahtzee comes from. In walks Russell, who offers to pay all of her debt if she marries him. Eric shows up as a guard and we find out that Sophie-Anne actually framed him to be the only person behind selling the V. Eric shows that he is now loyal to Russell and kills the queen’s guards. The Queen has no choice but to agree to the marriage pact.
Look, I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve always found that the second episode of any season usually sucks compared to everything else that happens. If that is the case with “Beautifully Broken” then we must know that we are in for something spectacular this season.
Bill:
The opening scene saw Bill with an ear in his mouth! Obviously this guy got his strength back after drinking some 80-year-old poorly oxygenated blood. I wonder if there is any difference between old blood and young blood, French blood and Chinese blood… obviously there is something good about Thai blood, but we’ll get to that later on. Anyway, Bill is kicking some major werewolf ass and up rides The King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington, on a horse and in full riding gear. Are all vampire royalty totally freaking eccentric, or what? This guy and his riding; Sophie-Anne and her Yahtzee… a little kooky, right? Anyway, Russell saves one of the last werewolves, Cooter, who definitely has the worst name ever for a badass biker werewolf, and shoots the one with the missing ear after finding out that they drank from “his guest.” Apparently they were only supposed to be bringing Bill to him, not drinking the sacred stuff.
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I am a huge horror movie fan and have been my whole entire life. I have been enamored with maniac killers and werwolves, zombies and monsters, and especially vampires ever since I was a little boy. I love it. But lately with Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diares, etc. things just seemed to have spiraled out of control. Vampires are supposed to be dark and sexual creatures that seduce their victims and then eat them. Thats kinda missing from Twilight... although I hope one of those rogue vampires happens to get a hold of Kristen Stewart and rips her constantly depressed looking throat out (I know, its not gonna happen) But I figured I would turn to freind of CCD Gwendolyn Eve Hill to put the sexiness back into being a vampire. In this next photo spread, Gwendolyn was shot turning Linsey Russell into a creature of the night by photographer Michael Drew. Do you like what you see??? Check out Gwendolyn's Facebook Photo Albums here. If I gotta become a vampire, god I hope these are the chicks who turn me. You wont have to chain me up. I'll be there with bells on!!! Enjoy the pics.
True Blood on HBO is a summer fave over here at CCD, and the show looks to be getting even crazier in the upcoming season. I came across these great publicity posters the other day and wanted to share them with you. True Blood may be about vampires, but deep down inside the show is really about regular people learning to deal with different types of craetures in their real lives... most notably creatures that want to drain you of your blood and eat you. Anyway, here are the Season 3 Promo Posters. Look for the season premiere on June 13th over at HBO.
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