Thanks to Janet for this. Incidentally, the guy who wrote this article used to be my former managing editor at Zap2it before he left.<\/p>\n
Calendar; Entertainment Desk
\nCover Story The Resurrection of the Undead With their eerie ability to change according to the times, vampire filmsreturn. In a sense, they never really went away.
\nHUGH HART<\/p>\n12\/21\/2000
\nLos Angeles Times
\nHome Edition
\nPage F-6
\nCopyright 2000 \/ The Times Mirror Company
\nDracula is back. So is Count Orlock. And Lestat. Plus Nick the slacker
\nand Queen Akasha and Jeri Ryan as a bloodsucking concubine. Call them
\nwhat you will, dress them in jeans or tuxedos or gowns with plunging
\nnecklines, vampires are once again in the air, swarming their way to
\ndarkened cinemas this Christmas season and well into next year.<\/p>\nNot that they’ve ever really gone away. Francis Ford Coppola’s sumptuous “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” set the bar for technical artistry, winning three Oscars back in 1992; horror meisters John Carpenter and Stephen King have paid homage to the genre; actors including Gary Oldman, Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise and Susan Sarandon have all felt the urge to sink their teeth into vampire roles; and even cute-as-a-baby-bat Jonathan Lipnicki donned a black cape to play a vampire’s best friend this fall in “The Little Vampire.”<\/p>\n
The vampire legend has been reworked so many times–nearly 200 movies and counting–you’d think filmmakers would want to drive a stake through any story pitch that included “fangs,” “garlic” and “porcelain-skinned neck” in the same sentence.<\/p>\n
Instead, at the box office, vampires manage to remain forever young.<\/p>\n
* “The Forsaken” (Screen Gems, April 2001). Inspired in part by a
\nreal-life gang of Florida teenagers who believed they were vampires,
\nthis contemporary story tracks the journey of Nick, an “infected”
\nhitchhiker ( Brendan Fehr from the WB TV series ” Roswell “) who
\nwanders Arizona’s back roads in search of a 400-year-old predator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Janet for this. Incidentally, the guy who wrote this article used to be my former managing editor at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2376,3],"tags":[9,43,238],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brendan-fehr","category-leading","tag-brendan-fehr","tag-mentioning","tag-the-forsaken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28487,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/28487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}