Vampire Daze

Darkness.

I taste dirt. There is dirt in my mouth and dirt in my nose.

Oh my God I can’t breathe.I realise I don’t have to.

I’m in the ground – oh Lord I’m buried. I can feel the weight of the earth on my body. How can I be alive if I’m not breathing? What is happening? I have to get out! I start to scratch and claw at the dirt that envelops me. Finally my fingers break through and I can hear my heart rapidly beating (more. . .)

The folks at HBO used a very unique campaign to advertise the arrival of True Blood. It was mainly viral marketing which worked enormously well for them. Billboards started popping up all over the world advertising “Tru Blood” such as these:

There were vending machines with Tru Blood and some even more inventive billboards like those that popped up around New Zealand with little snap off stakes.

Videos started getting posted to youtube from Bloodcopy.com. Truly inspired little pieces such as this White House press release stating (more. . .)

A while back, knowing my taste in horror movies and all things scary, someone strongly suggested that I watch Night Watch – or Nochnoy dozor as it is known in its native Russian. Seeing it on sale in a local department store I thought I’d give it a whirl. So amid the frantic chocolate eating of Easter I settled in with a friend to view a film I confess I knew absolutely nothing about except that it was a horror movie. I was actually quite (more. . .)

Sarah-Michelle Gellar – Buffy Summers

Since leaving Buffy, Sarah’s career has continued to be quite varied. She has provided voice-overs on The Simpsons, fellow Buffy regular Seth Green’s animated series Robot Chicken, the long-delayed Happily N’Ever After, providing the voice of Cinderella and the CG Animation TMNT. Gellar reprised her role of Daphne in the Scooby Doo sequel and went on to scare the pants off us in the American remake of the Japanese horror film Ju-On: The Grudge – known just as The Grudge for the Western (more. . .)

Bill Compton – or Vampire Bill as the Bon Temps locals call him – is one sexy vampire. From the moment he walked into Merlotte’s and swept Sookie Stackhouse off her sneakered feet, Bill has slowly but surely started winning over the townsfolk. Well, at least some of the townsfolk. The ones who don’t want to drain him or stake him.

Bill is deep and brooding with pale skin and dark haunted eyes. Eyes that have seen a lot in his 173 years on earth. He lived (more. . .)

In deep and swampy Bon Temps, rural Louisiana, a tall dark and handsome stranger walks into Merlotte’s bar making Sookie Stackhouse’s heart beat just a little faster because this cool customer’s heart doesn’t beat at all. He’s Bill Compton – gorgeous, brooding and very undead.

Welcome to True Blood, the newest hit series from Alan Ball, producer of Six Feet Under. Based on New York Times Bestselling Author Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels, this wonderfully dark, atmospheric and bitingly funny show take us into America’s (more. . .)