Tag Archives: Blacula

When I asked Horror News readers and Facebook friends to tell me their favourite vampire films, I received a terrific response. The suggestions poured in, and all kinds of weird, wonderful and outlandish films fronted up for selection. So while I can’t deny the quality or appeal of films like Planet Of The Vampires (1965), Count Yorga Vampire (1970), Vampyres …

SYNOPSIS: After a voodoo priestess has passed on a dispute arises as to her may be her rightful heir. While the common consensus seems to be to vote in young protégé Lisa Fortier (Pam Grier) Willis Daniels (Richard Lawson) has another agenda in mind. To extract his revenge from being exiled from the community he conjures up the spirit of …

SYNOPSIS: An ancient African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula himself, finds himself in modern Los Angeles. REVIEW: Before we begin, I would like to point out that this movie is quite a bit before my time. Blacula was created in 1972, I didn’t come into this world until the mid to late 80s. This movie is older than …

Blacula and Scream, Blacula, Scream Blaxploitation Classics Make Their Blu-ray Debuts March 3rd, 2015 in a Scream Factory Double Feature The eternally cool William Marshall puts a fresh spin on the age-old legend of the vampire, condemned to wander the Earth with an insatiable lust for blood in the riveting Blaxploitation classics Blacula and Scream, Blacula, Scream. Available on March …

Remakes are a touchy subject with horror fans. For every Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986) and Verbinski’s The Ring (2002), there are dozens of films that remake a classic horror film with little reasoning and imagination. For this week, coinciding with the release of the Carrie (2013) remake, Doc Rotten and guest-host, Dave Dreher from Horror News …

In 1897, Archibald Constible & Co. first published Bram Stoker’s epistolary horror novel, Dracula, and introduced the literary world to the vampire Count: a legend was born. When the motion picture business matured, the story became fodder for film adaptation, first with F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), where the names were changed to avoid copyright, and then with Todd Browning’s Dracula …