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Horror God Vincent Price Never Actually Played a Vampire Twitter 0 comments I feel like this might be one of those Mandela Effect things. I was sure Vincent Price, one of the exalted, untouchable pillars of the horror movie world, had played a vampire at some point in his career. Why wouldn’t he!? He looks like a vampire all the time. He wears capes and stuff with ease. Heck, he even narrated “Thriller” and starred in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. Surely he’s been a vampire, right? Wel...

0 comments Dracula has been around for *checks notes* a long-ass time. And he’s made his way to movie screens *checks notes* a butt load of times dating back to 1922. We love ourselves some Christopher Lee, some Bela Lugosi, some Leslie Nielsen, but for our money, the story of Dracula was never as bombastic nor as weirdly faithful to every facet of the story than Francis Ford Coppola’s FFC’s BS’s D is as lush and atmospheric as any Gothic horror ever put to screen, with gorgeous sets...

7 Real Life Killers Who Were Labeled Vampires Twitter 0 comments Whether or not vampires really exist, that hasn’t stopped societies throughout history from accusing people of being vampires. Quite a few disturbed serial killers have earned the “vampire” label. Below is a list of some of the most infamous stories of people given this title… be it before or after death. (Check out more of Nerdist Vampire Week here!) Sava Savanović One of the most, if not the most, famous vampires in S...

12 Great Female-Directed Vampire Movies Twitter 0 comments While vampire stories find their roots in gothic literature, and early vampire films are mostly calibrated as horror, modern vampire stories can be found in a myriad of genres. You’ll also find that vampire films tend to be highly eroticized, and thus often filled with a great deal of male gaze. With this in mind, I present twelve vampire films from a variety of different genres, each directed by a woman. The male gaze is gone, but t...