First trailer for Moffat/Gatiss Dracula released (video)
The first trailer for Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ new version of Dracula has been released to accompany the panel at MCM London. This retelling of the classic story follows […]
More stars and directors for Dracula
Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ new interpretation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula has added to its cast. Variety reports that Jonathan Aris, Sacha Dhawan, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Catherine Schell will be […]
Moffat & Gatiss’ Dracula unveiled
Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’ new version of Dracula will be a three-part miniseries for the BBC and Netflix. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Dracula will begin in Transylvania in 1897, […]
Fright Night returns to Radio 4
Two chilling dramas come to Radio 4 this Halloween as the station celebrates Fright Night: Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula and Jake Lake. Mark Gatiss directs Hammer Horror’s Unquenchable Thirst of […]
Moffat and Gatiss tackling Dracula
With production on his era of Doctor Who rapidly approaching its conclusion, Steven Moffat is looking at fresh projects – and one of them will include teaming up with Mark […]
Universal’s “Legacy” Horror Collection coming to Blu-ray
Universal Pictures is unleashing its classic monsters onto Blu-ray™ on 8th May in four bonus-packed box sets: The Mummy Legacy Collection, The Frankenstein Legacy Collection, The Dracula Legacy Collection and […]
Varese Sarabande to release 12-CD horror soundtrack box set
Varèse Sarabande will release the Little Box Of Horrors 12-CD limited edition set on November 18, 2016. The box set features original scores composed by Hollywood and horror favorites including […]
RIP Frank Finlay
Respected British stage and screen actor Frank Finlay has died, aged 89. Although renowned for his mainstream work, Finlay’s career was bookended with genre appearances, with one of his earliest […]
Van Helsing slaying on Syfy in 2016
Syfy has picked up a new version of the Dracula story for airing in 2016. Van Helsing focuses on Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula’s nemesis Abraham Van Helsing. Resurrected five years in the future, she discovers that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to […]
The Brides of Dracula descend on New York
Brides, a new reimagining of the Dracula story, has received a pilot production commitment from NBC. Devised by comicbook writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and TV producer Greg Berlanti, Brides suggests that Dracula’s […]
Nanotechnology horror Small Things coming from Fox
Fox has assigned Dracula adaptor Cole Haddon to work on a version of Daniel H. Wilson’s novella Small Things, one of the stories in the recent collection Robot Uprisings. According to the report at Deadline, the story will centre on “a disgraced scientist who is sent to an island that has been overrun by advanced forms of nanotechnology that swirl […]
Merlin’s Katie McGrath headlines Slasher TV series
Former Dracula and Merlin star Katie McGrath is one of the headline stars for Chiller’s new series, Slasher, a psychological horror thriller just starting production in Canada. McGrath stars as Sarah Bennett, a young woman who returns to the small town where she was born, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying copycat murders based on […]
RIP Sir Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Lee, star of countless genre roles from Hammer Horror to Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, has died aged 93. The Daily Telegraph is reporting that […]
RIP Louis Jourdan (updated)
Louis Jourdan, whose long acting career included an appearances as 007’s nemesis in Octopussy as well as starring as Count Dracula for the BBC, has died aged 93. Jourdan started appearing in movies before the start of the Second World War, but after France was occupied by the Nazis, refused to make German propaganda films. He moved to America after […]
Alex Kurtzman & Chris Morgan reviving Universal's Monsters
Star Trek/Transformers writer Alex Kurtzman and The Fast and the Furious franchise scripter Chris Morgan will be revitalising Universal’s classic roster of horror characters, according to a report at Deadline. The idea is that the films will be interconnected in a similar way to the Marvel Universe, starting with a new version of The Mummy, to come out in 2016. Horror icons involved in this […]
Morgana joins Dracula!
Morgana actress Katie McGrath has been cast in Sky’s lavish new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The former Merlin star will play Lucy Westenra, aristocratic London’s sexy, social butterfly who has a penchant for gossip, flirting and all things glamorous. A best friend to Dracula’s muse, Mina Murray (played by Jessica De Gouw), Lucy gradually becomes entwined in a web […]
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