Vampires Can’t Even Agree on Who to Have for Dinner

LOL!!

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“Today’s vampires have very little in common with each other, but can they still take over the world? This video puts Dracula, Edward Cullen, Angel, and Sesame Street’s The Count in the same room as they plot to overthrow humanity.”

What If Zombies Ate Most Of The Mystery Team?

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“Imagine that Fred, Daphne and even Shaggy were eaten by zombies, vamps and other big bad beasties. Where would that leave Velma? In supernatural slayer mode, of course. Check out this awesomely wicked Velma-centric Scooby-Doo fan art.

Quick someone get Dr. Monster a comic book deal stat, we want to see what happens next.”

‘The Wolfman’ Trailer 2

This looks awesome, like the wolfman version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula…

Cool Stuff: The Zombie Horde T-Shirt

/Film:

“Threadless has done it again, this time with a zombie themed t-shirt by Aled Lewis. Titled “The Horde”, the t-shirt shows the last stand of one living human surrounded by an epic giant horde of zombies. The artist explains his inspirations for the design:

“This design is an homage to a bunch of different zombie related influences: Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of The Dead, The Evil Dead, Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil and MJ’s Thriller to name a few. I imagine this guy is probably making a last stand as a distraction whilst his friends get to the chopper.”

The tshirt even features a cool little easter egg: a zombie Michael Jackson (as seen in the music video “Thriller”) hidden in the undead horde.”

Blood Energy Potion For A Quick Refill

Nerd Approved:

“Nothing will pick your energy level up like an IV bag full of blood. While this blood potion has the look and consistency of blood, it is full of iron, proteins and electrolytes to give you an energy boost for up to 4 hours. Satisfy the vampire in you by getting a 48 pack of these as soon as they are released.”

Product Page ($191.52 for 48, available Jan 2010)

Bram Stoker’s Descendant Pens “Official” Dracula Sequel

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“Over the decades, hundreds of authors have imagined the post-Dracula adventures of Van Helsing, Mina Harker, and the vampiric Count. But the Bram Stoker estate is about to release the official sequel to Dracula, based on Stoker’s own notes.

Dacre Stoker, the author’s great-grandnephew, along with Ian Holt, a Dracula historian, has put together Dracula: The Un-Dead, which Stoker’s estate is calling the official sequel to Stoker’s original. The younger Stoker claims the book is based on excised portions of Bram Stoker’s original book, as well as his additional notes. The book takes place a quarter century after the events of Dracula, when disaster befalls the first novel’s survivors:

Dracula The Un-Dead begins in 1912, twenty-five years after Dracula “crumbled into dust.” Van Helsing’s protégé, Dr. Jack Seward, is now a disgraced morphine addict obsessed with stamping out evil across Europe. Meanwhile, an unknowing Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school for the London stage, only to stumble upon the troubled production of “Dracula,” directed and produced by Bram Stoker himself.

The play plunges Quincey into the world of his parents’ terrible secrets, but before he can confront them he experiences evil in a way he had never imagined. One by one, the band of heroes that defeated Dracula a quarter-century ago is being hunted down. Could it be that Dracula somehow survived their attack and is seeking revenge? Or is their another force at work whose relentless purpose is to destroy anything and anyone associated with Dracula?

Dracula: The Un-Dead arrives October 13, and two studios are reportedly already in negotiations for the movie rights. But it would be nice to see the authors release an annotated edition as well, so we could see to what extent the book comes from Bram Stoker’s own ideas, and to what extent we’re simply seeing another pair of hands tackling the classic characters.”

[ShockTillYouDrop]

Tongue-Eating Parasites Attack Fish Near Normandy

I think I’m gonna have nightmares…

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“Weaver fish off the Jersey coast have fallen prey to a horrific parasite: an isopod that devours the fish’s tongue and then replaces it with itself. Fortunately, it doesn’t eat human tongues, though it will bite.” [Image via Warren Ellis]

THE WOLFMAN trailer

Apparently today is Trailer Release Day…

Fan Made Music Video: A Zombie Infested World is Wonderful

/gamer: “Someone decided to edit a music video together of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” but used the game Left 4 Dead for inspiration. If you watch the video with a group of people, there won’t be a dry eye in the room.Make sure you watch out for 1:00 minute mark when the lyrics talk about a rainbow — totally a beautiful thing.

Valve, take note. You should definitely do something like this for the next trailer for Left 4 Dead 2.”

Poltergeist Remake Gets a Release Date

/Film:

“For the last year now, we’ve been hearing rumblings of a Poltergeist remake over at MGM. Last August we told you that the studio had hired Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, the team behind the modern horror classic (sarcasm) Boogeyman to write the screenplay. And we soon after learned that House of Sand and Fog director Vadim Perelmen was in talks to helm the unnecessary remake.

But until a release date is announced, I sometimes tend to convince myself that these projects could easily find their way into the depths of development hell. Until there is a production start, or a release date, the movie really doesn’t exist.  Well, I have some bad news. MGM has announced a release date. According to Shock, the “studio” has slated the haunted house remake for November 24th 2010. No further details have been released at this time.

Tobe Hooper’s 1982 film was co-written, produced and highly supervised by Steven Spielberg, and told the story of a family’s haunted home which had been built over an Indian burial ground. The film is notorious for it’s PG rating, which it obtained after an appeal to the MPAA. The movie spawned two sequels, neither of which were as acclaimed or as successful as the original.

Perelman debuted with 2003’s House of Sand and Fog, a well received literary adaptation that garnered three Oscar nominations, including a Best Actor nod for Ben Kingsley.  In addition to Boogeyman, Snowden and White’s screenwriting credits also include the remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds for M.Bay’s Platinum Dunes and Alex Proyas’ Knowing.”