I’m going to get you sucker

To some degree the portrait of a vampire is an examination of human loneliness. What are Carmilla or Count Dracula, but beings who have lived out of time. The vampire take life to live without time and because of this, along with a host of religious, sexual, and cultural mores, the supernatural figure is as...

Death in a Small Town

Tobe Hooper’s television miniseries Salem’s Lot is an interesting example of the new horror of the seventies interacting with more traditional horror elements, which emphasized Gothic settings like haunted mansions, traditional monsters like vampires and scares built on suspense rather than brutality. Translated from Stephen King’s book about a tiny New England town slowly overrun...