Tag: Vampires
Dir. Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is gearing up for a European film festivals. The latest Farsi-language French-subtitled trailer is above. In case you too are beautifully lost, here’s its campy description from Sundance: Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, […]
Not long after Jarmusch’s genre-redefining Only Lovers Left Alive confirmed that vampires are cooler than you, the new Greek film Norway by Yiannis Veslemes is here to tell us vampires also have more fun. Veslemes’ film follows a dancing vampire named Zanno as he parties and murders his way through a crazy night in 1984 Athens. Norway “could be […]
In True Blood, a softcore porn series about a southern restaurant, vampires are allowed to roam the earth freely because Japanese scientists discovered a way to synthesize blood. The vampires have always been around, you see, but now that they don’t depend on mauling and feeding on humans for sustenance, they can come out of the dark […]
So, first of all: NYC has a “vampire community.” Some of them meet regularly at the Houston Street bar Madame X, they have (assumed) names like “Valerus,” and “Crucifane,” they participate in ceremonies called “Keeper of the Blood” and “Scroll Induction Rites.” Many wear fangs and suck blood (consensually, of course). As part of a […]
Yesterday in the East Village, 28-year-old Melissa Scott attempted to steal a pair of $350 Jimmy Choo boots, then bit a store employee and drew blood when she was apprehended. Scott then fled from Cadillac’s Castle on 9th Street to St. Mark’s Place, where a police officer made an arrest. Then Scott bit the cop, […]
