Strange Blood is going to Extrême Cinéma in Toulouse

Strange Blood is going to Toulouse!

I'm happy to be invited to the festival Extrême Cinéma, where I've programmed and will be introducing the vampire movies Female Vampire and Ganja & Hess.

Mystics in Bali

To celebrate the recent release of my book Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies, I was given the opportunity to program a film to be screened at Cinema RITCS in Brussels. My choice fell on Mystics in Bali, an Indonesian cult film featuring a new kind of vampire. I'll be giving an introduction to Mystics in Bali on November 5, 2019. The film is so offbeat and crazy it has rarely been screened outside of Indonesia, so don't miss this opportunity.

More info => http://www.offscreen.be/en/mondo-culto/mystics-bali

Halloween Book Giveaway

Who doesn't want to dive into a good, creepy book this time of the year? With Halloween around the corner, we're giving away ten books, written by the contributors of Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies (released April 2019).

From vampires and werewolves to ghosts and serial killers, these terrifyingly brilliant books will have you enjoy the creepy season that much more.

You can win all of them by filling in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of the page. The giveaway is open worldwide and ends October 31st, 2019. Good luck!

Night Owl

To celebrate the book release of Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies, BUT (B-movies, Underground & Trash) Film Festival in Breda, the Netherlands, asked me to select a vampire film for their program. My choice was Jeffrey Arsenault's Night Owl. I'll be giving an introduction to this film on Thursday, August 29th. Night Owl will be preceded by the short film Orlok's Return, produced by one of the contributors of Strange Blood, Declan Lynch.

If you want to get your personal copy of Strange Blood, you can do so on Saturday, August 31st, where I'll be signing books at the BUT film market between 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm. Harry Kümel, the director of the vampire cult classic Daughters of Darkness, will also be present at the book signing.

Vampire cocktail recipe

Did you know that in Mexico, there's a spicy cocktail called El Vampiro? It's the ideal drink to celebrate the release of Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies, so here's the recipe for one drink:

2 shots tequila

1 shot tomato juice (or pomegranate juice)

1 shot orange juice

1/2 shot lime juice

7 drops hot pepper sauce

1 pinch salt

1 grind black pepper

Mix all the ingredients with ice. Shake well. Enjoy.

About Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies:

An overview of the most offbeat and unique vampire movies spanning nine decades and 23 countries.

Strange Blood encompasses well-known hits as well as obscurities that differ from your standard fang fare by turning genre conventions on their head. Forget about Dracula and sparkling vampires. Here, they come in the form of cars, pets, aliens, mechanical objects, gorillas, and floating heads. And when they do look like a demonic monster or an aristocratic Count or Countess, they break the mold in terms of imagery, style, or setting.

Leading horror writers, filmmakers, actors, distributors, academics, and festival programmers present their favorite vampire films through in-depth essays, providing background information, analysis, and trivia regarding the various films. Some of these stories are hilarious, some are terrifying, some are touching, and some are just plain weird. Not all of these movies line up with the critical consensus, yet they have one thing in common: they are unlike anything you've ever seen in the world of vampires.

Just when you thought that the children of the night had become a tired trope, it turns out they have quite a diverse inventory after all.

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Strange Blood is now available for pre-order

Title: Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies

Editor: Vanessa Morgan

Genre: horror, vampires, movies, non-fiction

Cover design: Gilles Vranckx

Release date: April 28th, 2019 (paperback & eBook)

Blurb

This is an overview of the most offbeat and underrated vampire movies spanning nine decades and 23 countries.

Strange Blood encompasses well-known hits as well as obscurities that differ from your standard fang fare by turning genre conventions on their head. Here, vampires come in the form of cars, pets, aliens, mechanical objects, gorillas, or floating heads. And when they do look like a demonic monster or an aristocratic Count or Countess, they break the mold in terms of imagery, style, or setting.

Leading horror writers, filmmakers, actors, academics, and programmers present their favorite vampire films through in-depth essays, providing background information, analysis, and trivia regarding the various films. Some of these stories are hilarious, some are terrifying, some are touching, and some are just plain weird. Not all of these movies line up with the critical consensus, yet they have one thing in common: they are unlike anything you've ever seen in the world of vampires.

Just when you thought that the children of the night had become a tired trope, it turns out they have quite a diverse inventory after all.