THE SHIP OF MONSTERS
Mexican made lunacy with a difference: it’s a sci fi-western-vampire movie!
ROVERS
An action-oriented vampire odyssey that’s equal parts Bram Stoker and Sam Peckinpah
THE VAMPIRES OF ALFAMA
A most interesting and unprecedented addition to vampire lore from the French filmmaker and sometime novelist Pierre Kast
SOY LEYENDA
This 1967 adaptation of I AM LEGEND is interesting enough to at least warrant some attention
R.I.P Joel Schumacher
For those of us who came of age in the 1980s, the name Joel Schumacher, a film director who died on June 22 at age 80, has great meaning
VIRGINTOOTH
You have to admire a writer who thinks big. Case in point: Mark Ivanhoe, author of VIRGINTOOTH, about vampires who can fly, shapeshift and alter the fabric of reality at will
1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles
VAMPIRE (1979)
Another of those terrific ABC TV movies—actually the pilot for a never-made series—that went largely unappreciated in its day
THE INFINITE MAN
This was the first collection by the late William Relling, Jr.—or would have been, at least, had its publisher not gone belly-up before THE INFINITE MAN’S scheduled 1989 publication