Daydreamers doesn’t stray too far from vampire movie narratives we’ve seen before; there are warring clans of bloodsuckers, a brother versus brother face-off, and visits to flashy clubs stuffed with fang-faced partiers. But it’s one of very few vampire movies to come from Vietnam, which makes it a curiosity worth seeking out. And once you start watching, Daydreamers‘ stylish execution and ridiculously good-looking cast just might hook you in.

Daydreamers opens in select theaters May 2; it’ll hit all the major VOD platforms June 3.

Here's a trailer.

As I said before, this game looks like a Weird West version of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past to me, but the developer calls it a souls-like. I plan on giving the demo a try to see how souls-like it really is.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3308200/Tombwater/

Impact Winter is an audio drama released as an episodic podcast. It takes place in the modern world, except a comet impact has blotted out the sun. With no sun, the world has turned into an endless winter and vampires can roam freely during the day. The story is about a group of humans hiding in an abandoned castle in England, with the main character being a vampire hunter who's trying to keep them safe.

The story is pretty neat because there are essentially three types of vampire. The first type is a feral animal that simply attacks and has no humanity. The second type can pass as human long enough to trick humans into dropping their guard so they can attack. And the third type are intelligent with magic powers like shapeshifting or telepathy.

You can listen to it as an audiobook on Audible or as a podcast on Prime Music.

This trailer doesn't show anything about the gameplay but the setting seems to be Weird West. Personally, I'm not too sure about the animation style here. It looks a little too cartoony for a horror-based game. But who knows, maybe it'll work. The description says:

Solve puzzles, fight monsters, and introduce yourself to the inhabitants of the manor in this third-person survival horror game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3410390/Hear_Tell_of_Hauntings/

Jim Crow-era vampire drama directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan hits theaters April 18.

For as long as there have been movies, there have been vampire movies. Obviously, not every vampire movie will be good. Or even tolerable. Or should ever have been made at all.

I was browsing through the vampire movies available on Tubi and found classics such as Vampire Time Travelers, Planet of the Vampire Women, and Aleta: Vampire Mistress. You're welcome to watch those movies if you want, but it got me thinking... what is the worst vampire movie you actually sat through and watched to the end?

For me, it was probably Dracula 3000.

The poster made me think there'd be a cyborg vampire or something, and it stars Cas

There isn't much in this video other than a reminder that this game is actually happening and is now scheduled to release in October of this year (21 years after the original Bloodlines game).

What type of vampire do you like most? Do you want them to be mindless killing machines, monsters that can think but can't exactly pass as human, or something perfectly capable of blending in with humanity? Or should there be stages? Would they become mindless killing machines after they've drank too much blood? Or when they haven't had enough?

For example, in Priest they're completely mindless, mostly just animals. Yet in 30 Days of Night they're human-shaped but don't hide or blend in with humans (or even speak human languages). And... I couldn't think of a good example of an aristocratic vampire so I went with Interview with the Vampire. I know there are lots of other aristocratic vampires but couldn't think of a good example of one that can blend in perfectly well with humans.

Sometimes vampires can

In the 1930s, Universal Pictures made a bunch of movies starring horror monsters from classic novels. Movies like Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy. Universal milked those characters for all they were worth, to the point that they started showing up in weirder and wackier things like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein all the way to Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Obviously this had diminishing returns. By the 1950s, Universal finally stopped throwing those characters at anything they could (and after Abbot and Costello had "met" pretty much all of them).

Anyway, in the 2010s the Marvel Cinematic Universe was basically printing money so Universal decided

John Carpenter's Vampires doesn't have a very complicated plot, but it doesn't really need one. It was written and directed by John Carpenter and he knows what he's doing.

The movie is about a group of vampire hunters just... hunting vampires. This is a "modern day" vampire movie though (where "modern day" is 1998) so the hunters use the tools available at the time. You can tell they thought a lot about how to effectively kill a vampire in today's world without magical objects. There are nice little touches like the characters putting on chain-mail neck-guards before entering a vampire nest to prevent bites.

Of course, there is a plot here. A "master" vampire has a plan to perform some ritual which should give him the ability to walk in the daylight. And he needs the main character for that ritual. That leads me to my main complaint about this movie. James Woods is the main character and head vampire hunter and there's just something about him in this movie that I don't lik

I was reading some discussions online about recommendations for vampire novels and a bunch of people recommended GRRM's Fevre Dream. I'd never heard of it so I read the description and it sounds... pretty bland? It's about a riverboat captain on the Mississippi River in the 1850s who gets hired by an aristocratic vampire. While I'm sure the description is avoiding spoilers, that all sounds very boring to me. Yet the amazon page proclaims it "A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL" so I must be missing something.

I'm guessing this is one of those dramatic period pieces with thought-provoking conversations between well-defined characters. And maybe I'm just a simple-minded idiot who prefers action movies like Underworld, Blade, and Van Helsing and this novel simply isn't for me. That's fair. Or maybe that description is leaving out too much and it's actually an action-packed thrill-ride. I have no id

And that's it. That's all the vampires memes I've got. I tried stretching it out as long as I could, but I'm done now.

Look, I'm not going to argue with anyone who says this is a bad movie. But that doesn't stop it from being fun. Just turn off your brain and enjoy it.

There's a movie from 2003 called The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (yes, yes, I know it was a graphic novel first). That movie took a bunch of fictional characters (Tom Sawyer, Captain Nemo, Dorian Gray) and throws them into a wacky action-adventure movie. Van Helsing does something similar but uses horror monsters like the Wolfman, Frankenstein's monster, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Dracula to make a wacky action-adventure movie. It makes no sense, and that's perfectly fine. At least it's a more fun mash-up of horror movie monsters than The Monster Squad. You might have some nostalgia for The Monster Squad but I'd argue that Van Helsing has aged much better than it.

Anyway, the plot is almost a

Comparisons of scenes in each of the three Nosferatu movies. But beware, the video compares scenes all the way to the end of the movie!

I won't say Suck is a masterpiece, but it's a surprisingly fun movie. It also has quite a few big names considering it's a small indie release. Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Moby, Dave Foley, Malcolm McDowell... a lot of cameos.

The movie is about a group of friends trying to start a band and they... suck (a movie title with double meanings!). One of the band members gets turned into a vampire and suddenly the band starts getting some success, so the rest of the band decides to become vampires too. It's pretty ridiculous. As I said, the movie isn't great, but it's pretty fun.

Here's a trailer. You can watch it right now on Tubi.

Ok, forget whether it's a "favorite" and just tell me any video game you've played with a vampire protagonist.

There are plenty of games with vampires as enemies but I want more games where I get to be a vampire. Especially games where you can refill your health by drinking an enemy's blood. That's just a fun game mechanic. I think the only games I've played where you can actually drink an enemy's blood is probably Dark and Bloodrayne. I need more.

The Blade movies are awesome but I've always seen the trilogy as being a different genre for each movie. Blade is a horror movie, Blade 2 is an action movie, and Blade: Trinity is basically a comedy. It's similar to how Alien is a horror movie, Aliens is an action movie, and Alien3 is a... boring movie. Ha, I only said that last bit to make Alien fans angry.

Anyway, in the first Blade movie, vampires are something to be feared. Just a single vampire is a real threat. Throughout the movie there are scenes with real tension and fear like in any horror movie (especially that opening scene with the blood rave). There are still plenty of daytime scenes and scenes without tension but out of the whole trilogy, this one feels like a vampire horror. Also, Stephen Dorff is awesome.

The second movie is more of an action movie. In this one, no individual vampire is a threat. Not in a "horror movie" sense, anyway. This is the one where they mow down crowds of vampire "reapers" with mach