Vampires, in literature and folklore, were much like zombies, fairies, and other monsters. They hurt people and drank blood because that's just what they existed to do. They were creatures people ...

Radu Jude is the internet’s favorite filmmaker. Or at least its most controversial. Despite their regional particularities—unfolding across what he calls “the margins of Europe”—Jude’s films reflect ...

There is, as anyone who has attended a film festival or repertory cinema screening of a classic foreign film can attest, a kind of laughter that pervades such dark spaces. It is a knowing laughter: ...

There is one place in the world where Halloween isn’t just celebrated, it’s part of the heritage. Welcome to Ireland — the true home of Halloween, where ancient Celtic traditions and Gothic legends ...

The audience is immediately immersed in a dark, indistinct, hazy stage, filled with crypt-like details and atmospheric lighting. Shadowy figures chant a haunting “the blood is the life” repeatedly. As ...

Comic book legends Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones have been busy reimagining the unnaturally long life of Vlad Dracula through their graphic novel collaborations. The first of those, Dracula: The ...

Warning: The following contains spoilers for 2024's Nosferatu.Director Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is based on the original film ...

Bram Stoker’s classic horror, Dracula, has haunted the stage and screen for over a century. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s thrilling adaptation at the Lyric Hammersmith breathes new life into the Gothic tale ...

The prolific director of 'Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World' and 'Kontinental ‘25' premiered his latest feature in competition at Locarno. By Jordan Mintzer Although Count Dracula is ...

Count Dracula wasn't only a fictional character created by Bram Stoker. The character was based on a real-life man named Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, or Vlad the Impaler. And history shows he was ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It all began in 1897 when Bram Stoker wrote a novel about a legendary monster called Dracula. The ...