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Snowed in at last!
🕑 Added 2021-12-22 13:46:32 +0000 UTCAs winter is finally upon us, I am thankful for my warm Hobbit hole and a full larder. My family is safe and healthy as we head into Christmas week. Thank you to everyone who reached out last month, it really meant a lot.
My wife and I have two quirky traditions around this time of year. The first is watching the 6th season X-Files episode "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" every Christmas Eve. Ed Asner and Lilly Tomlin are just delightful. The second tradition is to watch a vampire movie on New Years Eve. After 17 years together we have seen quite an array of films. We don't have one picked out yet for this year, so I wanted to ask for suggestions!
I hope everyone is doing well and keeping their Elder Signs handy. We'll meet the horrors of 2022 together...
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Moritz Schubert
My suggestion would be “The Addiction”. It's set in modern-day NYC and draws parallels between vampirism and drug addiction. It can be quite philosophical in its dialogue and hence is not always the easiest watch, but rewarding in my view. Besides, it has also lots of style, a great cameo by Christopher Walken and some wonderfully vicious vampire attacks
These will all be obvious suggestions but you never know when someone has't seen a classic, so here goes: Near Dark, which is a brilliant film by Kathryn Bigelow. Plus it practically had an Aliens cast reunion. And was so ahead of its time with the tropes of the vampire in the modern age. Let the Right One In, the Swedish original, not the remake. Really a different, dark, and beautiful in a disturbing way. If yo have seen this maybe the other Swedish vampire flick Frostbite, which isn't a bad film and has one of the funniest scene in a horror movie I'd seen for a long time Fright Night-The original from the 80s, although surprisingly the remake is pretty good too, as is the 80s sequel. Horror and comedy done right. Planet of the Vampires, which is an odd movie and kinda-sorta a vampire film but weird and stylish and will have things any horror fan will recognise got ripped off and into later films. Lifeforce. Which is very much a B film with a big budget, and is heavy on the nudity, but a fun watch if you like 80s-ness turned up to 11. Tobe Hooper of Texas Chainsaw infamy directed this one. Martin. Romero's orphaned little vampire flick, stylish and strange and filled with psychological oddness, and is very far fro a traditional vampire narrative, yet oddly traditional in many ways. Some obvious choices left off--Lost Boys, 30 Days of Night, Blade I & II etc--but as a final definitely oddball suggestion Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein--not a bad film if you like their schtick, but this is the second and final time Lugosi actually played Dracula in a film, and worth seeing just for that.
