It was the year 1992 when Keanu Reeves (who hadn’t quite found his fame for The Matrix) worked alongside Gary Oldman and veteran director Francis Ford Coppola in the film Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Keanu Reeves in a still from John Wick: Chapter 4 | Credits: Summit Entertainment
In the movie, Reeves portrayed the role of Jonathan Harker, the fiance to Winona Ryder’s Mina Murray. Well, a concept trailer released on the internet asks whether Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldman had swapped their roles.
Keanu Reeves Will Shine As Count Dracula
Although Dracula shouldn’t shine, technically, you get our point. Keanu Reeves made a name for himself when he starred in iconic films like The Matrix, Speed, and, the John Wick franchise.
Keanu Reeves in Constantine (2005) | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures
The actor was attached to Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and although the film received some criticism,...
Keanu Reeves in a still from John Wick: Chapter 4 | Credits: Summit Entertainment
In the movie, Reeves portrayed the role of Jonathan Harker, the fiance to Winona Ryder’s Mina Murray. Well, a concept trailer released on the internet asks whether Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldman had swapped their roles.
Keanu Reeves Will Shine As Count Dracula
Although Dracula shouldn’t shine, technically, you get our point. Keanu Reeves made a name for himself when he starred in iconic films like The Matrix, Speed, and, the John Wick franchise.
Keanu Reeves in Constantine (2005) | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures
The actor was attached to Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and although the film received some criticism,...
- 9/1/2024
- by Visarg Acharya
- FandomWire
By Nubia Jade Brice
“As Mina struggles to find her place as Whitby School’s first and only female student, a devilish horror is unleashed upon the academy and its unsuspecting students: Count Dracula. However, when this unspeakable evil lays claim to her beloved Lucy Westenra, Mina stands ready to join forces with her fellow students and fight against it with everything she has.” (Viz Media)
on Amazon by clicking on the image below
Released just in time for the spooky season, comes a tale of otherworldly terror and the ill-equipped children forced to confront these horrors head-on. In Shinichi Sakamoto’s latest release, #Drcl midnight children, he puts his spin on the Bram Stoker novel, adapting Dracula to make it more approachable for modern audiences, especially younger readers who may be unfamiliar with the original story.
From the opening pages, readers are immersed in the action aboard the Demeter.
“As Mina struggles to find her place as Whitby School’s first and only female student, a devilish horror is unleashed upon the academy and its unsuspecting students: Count Dracula. However, when this unspeakable evil lays claim to her beloved Lucy Westenra, Mina stands ready to join forces with her fellow students and fight against it with everything she has.” (Viz Media)
on Amazon by clicking on the image below
Released just in time for the spooky season, comes a tale of otherworldly terror and the ill-equipped children forced to confront these horrors head-on. In Shinichi Sakamoto’s latest release, #Drcl midnight children, he puts his spin on the Bram Stoker novel, adapting Dracula to make it more approachable for modern audiences, especially younger readers who may be unfamiliar with the original story.
From the opening pages, readers are immersed in the action aboard the Demeter.
- 9/25/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Gen-z Media (www.GZMShows.com), the leading producer of audio programming for tweens, teens and families, announces its newest spooky comedy adventure, just in time for Halloween.
The 20-episode serialized podcast, Mina & Lucy’s Guide to Slaying Dracula launches on Thursday, September 21 across all podcast platforms, with additional episodes releasing in the lead up to Halloween.
Penned by Lauren Wells (FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows”) and based loosely on the classic novel by Bram Stoker, the comedy adventure stars Bradley Whitford (“The West Wing”), pictured above, as the legendary vampire hunter, Professor Van Helsing.
The serialized story chronicles best friends and monster enthusiasts who discover something shocking about their new classmate, and when strange occurrences begin rattling their small town, the friends find themselves confronting the most powerful vampire of legend, Dracula himself.
Whitford voices Professor Van Helsing, Mina’s eccentric and protective grandfather, who guards his...
The 20-episode serialized podcast, Mina & Lucy’s Guide to Slaying Dracula launches on Thursday, September 21 across all podcast platforms, with additional episodes releasing in the lead up to Halloween.
Penned by Lauren Wells (FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows”) and based loosely on the classic novel by Bram Stoker, the comedy adventure stars Bradley Whitford (“The West Wing”), pictured above, as the legendary vampire hunter, Professor Van Helsing.
The serialized story chronicles best friends and monster enthusiasts who discover something shocking about their new classmate, and when strange occurrences begin rattling their small town, the friends find themselves confronting the most powerful vampire of legend, Dracula himself.
Whitford voices Professor Van Helsing, Mina’s eccentric and protective grandfather, who guards his...
- 9/21/2023
- Podnews.net
Exclusive: Three-time Emmy winner Bradley Whitford (The Handmaid’s Tale) has lent his voice to Mina & Lucy’s Guide to Slaying Dracula, a 20-episode serialized podcast from Gen-Z Media, producer of audio programming for tweens, teens and families. Whitford stars as the legendary vampire hunter, Professor Van Helsing, in the series, which launches Sept. 21 across all podcast platforms, with additional episodes releasing in the lead-up to Halloween.
Penned by Lauren Wells (FX’s What We Do in the Shadows) and based loosely on the classic novel by Bram Stoker, the serialized spooky comedy adventure story follows best friends and monster enthusiasts who discover something shocking about their new classmate, and when strange occurrences begin rattling their small town, the friends find themselves confronting the most powerful vampire of legend, Dracula himself. You can listen to a trailer below.
Whitford’s Professor Van Helsing is Mina’s eccentric and protective grandfather,...
Penned by Lauren Wells (FX’s What We Do in the Shadows) and based loosely on the classic novel by Bram Stoker, the serialized spooky comedy adventure story follows best friends and monster enthusiasts who discover something shocking about their new classmate, and when strange occurrences begin rattling their small town, the friends find themselves confronting the most powerful vampire of legend, Dracula himself. You can listen to a trailer below.
Whitford’s Professor Van Helsing is Mina’s eccentric and protective grandfather,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and Peter Bergting, the creative team behind last year's stunning illustrated prose horror novella Festival, reunite for the new horror comic series Mortal Terror! A complete reinvention of Dracula, Golden and Lebbon write the series with art by Bergting, colors by Chris O’Halloran, and letters by Clem Robins.
"Vampires Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Murray live in underground London, trying to keep the undead city safe from the rumored mortals above who seek to give them life, only to kill them. But when the authorities refuse to believe mortals, let alone the mysterious Count Dracula, are anything more than myth, they are on their own to keep their city eternally dead."
Mortal Terror #1 (of 4) creeps into the light and comic shops everywhere on November 22, 2023 thanks to Dark Horse Comics. It is now available to pre-order for $4.99 from your local comic shop, and be on the...
"Vampires Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Murray live in underground London, trying to keep the undead city safe from the rumored mortals above who seek to give them life, only to kill them. But when the authorities refuse to believe mortals, let alone the mysterious Count Dracula, are anything more than myth, they are on their own to keep their city eternally dead."
Mortal Terror #1 (of 4) creeps into the light and comic shops everywhere on November 22, 2023 thanks to Dark Horse Comics. It is now available to pre-order for $4.99 from your local comic shop, and be on the...
- 8/17/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
“The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” which spotlights the doomed ship in Bram Stoker’s oft-adapted 1897 novel, is the second Dracula film released in 2023 after “Renfield.” Both take generous liberties with the source material, which brings up the question: Out of the 200-some films about the famous Count, which ones are the most faithful?
Here’s our ranking of some of the most popular, and a few lesser-known, Dracula adaptations.
Universal
8. Renfield (2023)
Pretty much the only thing this horror comedy has in common with the novel is Nicholas Hoult as the bug-eating title character and a delightfully campy Nicolas Cage as his bloodthirsty boss. The movie brings them both into the 21st century, makes Renfield an ass-kicking hero and swaps out Lucy and Mina for Awkwafina’s incorruptible cop.
Miramax
7. Dracula 2000 (2000)
The film begins with a shot of the wrecked Demeter and footprints in the sand as Dracula heads to town.
Here’s our ranking of some of the most popular, and a few lesser-known, Dracula adaptations.
Universal
8. Renfield (2023)
Pretty much the only thing this horror comedy has in common with the novel is Nicholas Hoult as the bug-eating title character and a delightfully campy Nicolas Cage as his bloodthirsty boss. The movie brings them both into the 21st century, makes Renfield an ass-kicking hero and swaps out Lucy and Mina for Awkwafina’s incorruptible cop.
Miramax
7. Dracula 2000 (2000)
The film begins with a shot of the wrecked Demeter and footprints in the sand as Dracula heads to town.
- 8/12/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
The Last Voyage Of The Demeter Photo: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment This is going to be a bizarre claim, but the seventh chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula—specifically the section colloquially referred to as “The Captain’s Log”—might be one of the best found-footage horror stories ever...
- 8/11/2023
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
Ok, class, get out your copies of Dracula and open them to Chapter Seven. Now, skim past the newspaper clipping from the Dailygraph that Mina Murray has pasted into her journal, the one about the storm off the coast of Whitby, and go directly to the part listed as “Log of the ‘Demeter.” You’ll see that Bram Stoker has replicated what appears to be a captain’s diary, detailing the curious goings-on of a voyage from the Bulgarian town of Varna to London; it’s one of the more...
- 8/11/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
The Last Voyage Of The DemeterPhoto: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
This is going to be a bizarre claim, but the seventh chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula—specifically the section colloquially referred to as “The Captain’s Log”—might be one of the best found-footage horror stories ever … it...
This is going to be a bizarre claim, but the seventh chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula—specifically the section colloquially referred to as “The Captain’s Log”—might be one of the best found-footage horror stories ever … it...
- 8/11/2023
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
If there was anything about "Renfield" worth getting excited for, it was Nicolas Cage playing Dracula. Though the movie sadly sucks, he's genuinely good. It's not even an out-there performance destined to be made into memes like the kind Cage has become infamous for. Cage is the only one in "Renfield" acting like he's in a horror movie and is thus the only one with a compelling screen presence. Frankly, I'd rather see a straightforward Dracula movie starring him than have him stuck in the confused schlock that is "Renfield."
Cage is the latest in a long line of silver-screen Draculas, so how does he stack up? Ranking Count Dracula performances can be difficult because different actors and storytellers interpret the character differently. Depending on the movie, he can be a hero or a villain. Is Dracula a foreign invader, a tragic romantic, or a bloodthirsty monster? Let's look at...
Cage is the latest in a long line of silver-screen Draculas, so how does he stack up? Ranking Count Dracula performances can be difficult because different actors and storytellers interpret the character differently. Depending on the movie, he can be a hero or a villain. Is Dracula a foreign invader, a tragic romantic, or a bloodthirsty monster? Let's look at...
- 4/20/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Horror films in the '90s have a dubious reputation. Depending on who you ask -- and often how old they are -- the last decade of the 20th century is either a wasteland filled with one or two terrifying films or the years when they fell in love with scary movies. The '70s and '80s dominated horror with the birth of many slasher franchises. "Friday the 13th," "Halloween," and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" gave us iconic killers, a seemingly endless number of sequels, and a new and empowering archetype to root for: the final girl. But horror films in the '80s mostly centered on the killers, with few final girls appearing in more than a single film series entry. Genre icon and legendary scream queen Jaime Lee Curtis started moving away from horrors in the '80s. By the '90s, the horror genre needed a change.
- 12/17/2022
- by Jenn Adams
- Slash Film
“In space, no one can hear you scream.” That tagline isn’t amazing just because it’s attached to Alien, one of the greatest movies of all time. It also captures the inherent horror of space: the vast emptiness, the utter solitude, the complete helplessness. It’s no wonder that horror has been a part of space stories since the beginning, as seen in not only the Alien franchise, but also forerunners such as It! The Terror From Beyond Space and Planet of the Vampires.
With that in mind, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that several horror franchises have sought to shake things up by sending their monsters to space. Yes, it might initially sound odd to launch a gothic castle dweller like Count Dracula or the campground-bound Jason Voorhees through the stars, but the premise allows moviemakers to enhance the threat posed by their monsters...
With that in mind, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that several horror franchises have sought to shake things up by sending their monsters to space. Yes, it might initially sound odd to launch a gothic castle dweller like Count Dracula or the campground-bound Jason Voorhees through the stars, but the premise allows moviemakers to enhance the threat posed by their monsters...
- 10/10/2022
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
The modern dating scene can be murder. You meet someone at an event, a club, a bar ... you never know if you're seeing the real them. You likely aren't. What's lying underneath the surface of your boozed-up interlocutor? Are they kind? Better than you're seeing? Or more likely, are they worse? And for women meeting men, the latter's undoubtedly a frightening potential outcome. "House of Darkness" centers itself entirely around an ironic subversion of that fearful commonplace situation. Here, a man drives a woman home from a bar to her isolated mansion and finds himself beset by powerful women, the womanizer becoming the hunted late-night target.
While horror fans may better know writer-director-playwright Neil Labute for his ill-fated "The Wicker Man" remake, relationship games, power, and their consequences are frequent themes of his wider oeuvre. "House of Darkness" fits well within that vein, but here with a twist inspired by Dracula's long-fabled brides.
While horror fans may better know writer-director-playwright Neil Labute for his ill-fated "The Wicker Man" remake, relationship games, power, and their consequences are frequent themes of his wider oeuvre. "House of Darkness" fits well within that vein, but here with a twist inspired by Dracula's long-fabled brides.
- 9/9/2022
- by Jeff Ewing
- Slash Film
“Silence. Darkness.” Those two words appear up front in most of Neil Labute’s stageplays, though his latest feature, “House of Darkness,” opens with a more playful “Once Upon a Time …” The film — Labute’s first in a bumpy seven-year stretch since “Dirty Weekend,” during which the provocateur was abruptly dropped by longtime Off Broadway partner McC Theater — starts out as a standard hookup scenario and twists into edgier, potentially supernatural “Promising Young Woman” territory. Part cautionary tale, part post-#MeToo ghost story, this sly chamber piece uses silence and darkness to its advantage, allowing audiences’ imaginations to fill in the spaces and shadows of an atypical one-night stand.
It’s pretty clear what Hap Jackson (Justin Long) is hoping will follow when he offers Mina Murray a ride home from the local bar. Guys like Hap refer to nights like this as “getting lucky,” though he’s almost certain...
It’s pretty clear what Hap Jackson (Justin Long) is hoping will follow when he offers Mina Murray a ride home from the local bar. Guys like Hap refer to nights like this as “getting lucky,” though he’s almost certain...
- 3/11/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Christine Prouty, Stuart Packer, Ryan Woodcock, India Lillie Davies, Jake Herbert, Michael Ironside | Written by Michael Varrati | Directed by Maximilian Elfeldt
It’s interesting to see that the classic monsters of yesteryear, the kings of horror storytelling – Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolfman – are all returning to the [small] screen in new and different takes on the existing mythos. Us Brits had a go with films like The Mummy Reborn and its sequel and the more recent Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing; both made on a low budget by indie filmmakers. Now it’s the turn of American indie king’s The Asylum to have a crack at a legendary horror icon with Dracula: The Original Living Vampire – a film whose title would suggest was Supposed to be a cash-in on the Sony/Marvel film Morbius… after all, in the comics Morbius if dubbed “The Living Vampire” too!
But this is definitely no Morbius.
It’s interesting to see that the classic monsters of yesteryear, the kings of horror storytelling – Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolfman – are all returning to the [small] screen in new and different takes on the existing mythos. Us Brits had a go with films like The Mummy Reborn and its sequel and the more recent Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing; both made on a low budget by indie filmmakers. Now it’s the turn of American indie king’s The Asylum to have a crack at a legendary horror icon with Dracula: The Original Living Vampire – a film whose title would suggest was Supposed to be a cash-in on the Sony/Marvel film Morbius… after all, in the comics Morbius if dubbed “The Living Vampire” too!
But this is definitely no Morbius.
- 2/1/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Written by Rich Davis | Art by Henry Martinez | Published by Source Point Press
I’m not going to lie, as a comic reader most of my time and money is spent on books from the genres big two, Marvel and DC. I very rarely stray from the two, and when I do its usually because a friend has either lent me a book or recommended something they know matches my taste entirely or its a licensed title and I’m a fan of the property… Why am I telling you this? Well because, for the first time in a Very long time, I picked up an indie book and one from a publisher that – honestly – I’d never heard of. And on top of all that I bought it literally based on the stunning cover by artist Gyula Nemeth! I hadn’t read a single thing about the book, I...
I’m not going to lie, as a comic reader most of my time and money is spent on books from the genres big two, Marvel and DC. I very rarely stray from the two, and when I do its usually because a friend has either lent me a book or recommended something they know matches my taste entirely or its a licensed title and I’m a fan of the property… Why am I telling you this? Well because, for the first time in a Very long time, I picked up an indie book and one from a publisher that – honestly – I’d never heard of. And on top of all that I bought it literally based on the stunning cover by artist Gyula Nemeth! I hadn’t read a single thing about the book, I...
- 4/12/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Ahead of Cult of Dracula #1's release on March 31st, we have a look at preview pages from the anticipated comic book series from Source Point Press!
"Dracula has never been so dangerous. Learn the depth of her influence in ‘Cult of Dracula,’ written by Rich Davis with art by Henry Martinez. The first issue of the latest horror mini-series from Source Point Press is available for pre-order now and will be in shops Wednesday, Mar. 31.
Special Agent Malcom Bram arrives at the House of the Rising Sun. This secluded compound is the home of the secretive Ordo Dracul and the scene of a horrendous crime coined, "The Cult of Dracula Mass Suicides."
Mina Murray leads a documentary film crew to uncover the secrets of the mysterious cult by interviewing its enigmatic leader, Robert Renfield. Neither investigator is prepared for the gravity of the truths they will uncover.
Dracula is eternal.
"Dracula has never been so dangerous. Learn the depth of her influence in ‘Cult of Dracula,’ written by Rich Davis with art by Henry Martinez. The first issue of the latest horror mini-series from Source Point Press is available for pre-order now and will be in shops Wednesday, Mar. 31.
Special Agent Malcom Bram arrives at the House of the Rising Sun. This secluded compound is the home of the secretive Ordo Dracul and the scene of a horrendous crime coined, "The Cult of Dracula Mass Suicides."
Mina Murray leads a documentary film crew to uncover the secrets of the mysterious cult by interviewing its enigmatic leader, Robert Renfield. Neither investigator is prepared for the gravity of the truths they will uncover.
Dracula is eternal.
- 1/18/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Tony Sokol Jan 8, 2020
Greg Berlanti and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to empower bloodsucking diversity with Dracula series The Brides
The weird sisters of Bram Stoker's Dracula are doing it for themselves. Greg Berlanti and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who brought the devil out of Riverdale to spawn Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, got an order from ABC to shoot a pilot for The Brides, according to Variety.
According to its official synopsis The Brides will be "a sexy, contemporary reimagining of the Dracula saga as a family drama with a trio of powerful, diverse female leads. With strong horror elements, The Brides is a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy—and their non-traditional family."
The project goes back to 2015, when NBC put in an order for a script. For ABC's desanguinated re-incarnation, the script will be written by Aguirre-Sacasa, who will executive produce alongside...
Greg Berlanti and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to empower bloodsucking diversity with Dracula series The Brides
The weird sisters of Bram Stoker's Dracula are doing it for themselves. Greg Berlanti and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who brought the devil out of Riverdale to spawn Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, got an order from ABC to shoot a pilot for The Brides, according to Variety.
According to its official synopsis The Brides will be "a sexy, contemporary reimagining of the Dracula saga as a family drama with a trio of powerful, diverse female leads. With strong horror elements, The Brides is a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy—and their non-traditional family."
The project goes back to 2015, when NBC put in an order for a script. For ABC's desanguinated re-incarnation, the script will be written by Aguirre-Sacasa, who will executive produce alongside...
- 1/8/2020
- Den of Geek
This week, a new adaptation of Dracula aired on the BBC from the minds of Sherlock creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. It’s intended as a follow-up to the smash-hit detective drama – as it’s another retelling of a Victorian literary classic – but two easter eggs found in the show’s first episode actually seem to confirm that it takes place in the same universe as the other TV show the pair used to work on: Doctor Who.
First of all, near the beginning of the premiere, titled “The Rules of the Beast,” Jonathan Harker (John Heffernan) reads a letter sent to him from his fiancee Mina Murray (Morfydd Clark). In the letter, Mina teases him that her affections might wander now that they’re separated, joking that she might spend some time with “the adorable barmaid from The Rose & Crown.”
This is a direct reference to the events...
First of all, near the beginning of the premiere, titled “The Rules of the Beast,” Jonathan Harker (John Heffernan) reads a letter sent to him from his fiancee Mina Murray (Morfydd Clark). In the letter, Mina teases him that her affections might wander now that they’re separated, joking that she might spend some time with “the adorable barmaid from The Rose & Crown.”
This is a direct reference to the events...
- 1/5/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Dracula - he'll suck your blood, turn you into a creature of the night, and . . . accidentally cause you and your costar to get married on the set of your latest film? At least, that's what may or may not have happened to Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves. While sitting down with Entertainment Weekly to promote their latest collaboration, the rom-com Destination Wedding, the pair began to reflect on a previous film they'd done together, 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula.
In the horror-drama, Ryder plays Mina Murray to Reeves's Jonathan Harker, while Gary Oldman was tasked with playing a version of the iconic vampire. And, apparently, there was also a real-life Romanian priest on set for a wedding scene, meaning the vows Ryder and Reeves say as Mina and Jonathan could, technically, have bonded them for real.
"We actually got married in Dracula. No, I swear to god I think we're married in real life,...
In the horror-drama, Ryder plays Mina Murray to Reeves's Jonathan Harker, while Gary Oldman was tasked with playing a version of the iconic vampire. And, apparently, there was also a real-life Romanian priest on set for a wedding scene, meaning the vows Ryder and Reeves say as Mina and Jonathan could, technically, have bonded them for real.
"We actually got married in Dracula. No, I swear to god I think we're married in real life,...
- 8/23/2018
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Who said movies can't reflect real life? Unless, of course, the lines between film and reality are a bit blurred. Winona Ryder can sympathize. The Stranger Things actress explained to Entertainment Weekly that she and Keanu Reeves might have actually gotten married while filming Dracula in 1992. In the Francis Ford Coppola rendition of the Bram Stoker novel, Ryder plays Mina Murray, the fiancée of Jonathan Harker (Reeves). As it turns out, Coppola called in a real Romanian priest to preside over the fictional characters' marriage, but perhaps it wasn't all make-believe. "I swear to god I think we're married in real life," she said. "We shot the master and he did the...
- 8/19/2018
- E! Online
Book-a-Day 2018 #141: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
Alan Moore is a deeply self-indulgent writer, always wallowing in his particular obsessions and loves. He gained huge fame for the times his obsessions lined up well with those of a wide audience — and, of course, for being really good at making compelling stories out of those obsessions.
But the downside of being a writer driven by obsessions is that they can leave you vulnerable to making a major work hinge on something really trite.
For example, the central premise of the three-part third major “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” story, Century , is essentially that everything in the western world went to hell about 1969. To put that another way: the world is now a fallen place, utterly broken from the paradise it was when Alan Moore was younger than sixteen.
Well, duh. Most of us call that growing up. It takes a Baby Boomer to apply mystic, cosmic significance to his personal adolescence.
But the downside of being a writer driven by obsessions is that they can leave you vulnerable to making a major work hinge on something really trite.
For example, the central premise of the three-part third major “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” story, Century , is essentially that everything in the western world went to hell about 1969. To put that another way: the world is now a fallen place, utterly broken from the paradise it was when Alan Moore was younger than sixteen.
Well, duh. Most of us call that growing up. It takes a Baby Boomer to apply mystic, cosmic significance to his personal adolescence.
- 5/21/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Sarah Dobbs Oct 21, 2019
A selection of horror shorts and creepy web series to get you in the Halloween mood, wherever you are…
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
In need of some seasonal creepiness but haven’t got time for a whole movie? Looking for something to watch on your lunch break, or on your phone on the bus home from work? You’ll find just the thing on this list of horror shorts and web series, available on YouTube now…
He Dies At The End
The title’s kind of a spoiler here. But it’s also a clever hook, because it means you spend the entire four minutes and 29 seconds wondering how, exactly, he’s going to die. The 'he' here is an office worker, tapping away at his computer after hours, apparently alone - until someone starts asking him creepy questions via his computer screen.
A selection of horror shorts and creepy web series to get you in the Halloween mood, wherever you are…
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
In need of some seasonal creepiness but haven’t got time for a whole movie? Looking for something to watch on your lunch break, or on your phone on the bus home from work? You’ll find just the thing on this list of horror shorts and web series, available on YouTube now…
He Dies At The End
The title’s kind of a spoiler here. But it’s also a clever hook, because it means you spend the entire four minutes and 29 seconds wondering how, exactly, he’s going to die. The 'he' here is an office worker, tapping away at his computer after hours, apparently alone - until someone starts asking him creepy questions via his computer screen.
- 10/13/2016
- Den of Geek
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