From Screen to Book: Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro, acclaimed director of "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy," is writing a gory vampire trilogy to come out in June. "Del Toro’s vampires will lack all humanity and will be 'as threatening, as real, as absolutely disgusting and alien as possible,' he said." (Latin American Herald Tribune) The first in the series, The Strain, is co-written by Chuck Hogan.Kerreylyn Sparks, author of the Love at Stake series, guest blogs about her first book sale. "Something weird happened in my brain, and I got an idea about a debonair, sophisticated vampire losing one of his fangs from biting something he shouldn’t have. How embarrassing! He might be condemned for all eternity as a lopsided eater." (Dear Author)
Read an excerpt from Kerrelyn Sparks' upcoming novel, Forbidden Nights with a Vampire. "“He did a dance with a fifteen-foot-long python, and it got loose and wrapped itself around one of my customers. She had to teleport away before it could crush her. I told Max to take his snake and hit the road.”
Read a review of Mark Henry's new zombie-fest, Road Trip of the Living Dead. "If you enjoyed Happy Hour of the Damned, the first book in Mark Henry’s Amanda Feral series, you will thoroughly enjoy the sequel, Road Trip of the Living Dead." (Love Vampires)Here's another review of Mark Henry's Road Trip of the Living Dead. "This time around, Amanda's vampire best friend Gil has started a new business - Luxury Resurrections, Inc. If you want to become a vampire, Gil will arrange, for a hefty price, of course, for you to become 'resurrected' just the way you want it. " (Mrs. Giggles)
New Vampire Movies: Last year, all the buzz was about the Swedish vamp film, "Let the Right One In," and this year everyone's excited about Park Chan-wook's "Thirst," which will be premiering at Cannes. It's about a priest who becomes infected by a vampire. Talk about your internal conflicts.
"In this story inspired by Emile Zola’s 'Therese Raquin,' Park creates a sinister parallel universe where 19th-century French realism and the Western vampire myth melt naturally into modern South Korea. Visually, things are familiar yet exotic, with local Catholic churches evoking a European flair; gaudy, outdated boutiques that are set in a Japanese colonial-era style home; and striking claustrophobic spaces a la Stanley Kubrick." (Korean Times)
You can read more about the movie at Slash Film, and here's the Korean trailer. U.S. release will happen sometime later this year. It looks great, but I always love trailers.
To learn more about the director, visit Park Chan-wook's website.
GRATUITOUS VIDEO OF THE DAY
Okay, I'm bummed that "Ashes to Ashes," the sequel to "Life on Mars," won't be on again until next year. BBC America can go to hell for replacing it with a DINOSAUR show. Here's a video tribute from SadBaby01 to the gorgeous, delightful Keeley Hawes who plays DCI Alex Drake, a police psychologist who finds herself in 1981. Of course, she knows that the world she's in is her own imaginary construct.
Ivgarfitt has a great video tribute to Gene Hunt, played by the fabulous Philip Glenister, and Alex Drake, played by Keeley Hawes. Glenister is one of those actors who proves that sexy is not the same as pretty.
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