Dracula

I just watched Abraham Lincoln The Vampire Hunter. I think that Abraham Lincoln could have actually been a vampire slayer. The reason I think this is because some of the facts in the movie is true. I am going to state real reasons as to why I believe that Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer. The first reason I believe that the facts about this movie could be true is because Abraham's son actually died. Yes, they could have looked up that Abraham's son died, but they could have covered up…

Since the last time I wrote a journal, I have finished reading Richelle Mead’s Shadow Kiss. This story is about the main character, Rose, and how she has to research deeper into her mind to figure out why she feels all sorts of emotions, what her fate is, and why the Queen’s nephew, Adrian, keeps telling her she has a ‘dark aura’ around her. Rose, in addition, has to make sure her best friend, Lissa, is okay through their magical bond, which allows Rose to see what Lissa can see. This is a…

Gothic Setting The night falls early due to the start of the cold season. He walks through the haunted, dark forest, feeling the branches hit against him and spiders crawl up his face as he ruins their cobwebs. The air smells like toxic gas and he can taste the unpleasant sand as he opens his mouth as wide as he can to yawn. He stands at a safe distance from an abandoned, ominous castle that looks like a huge, cursed mansion. This castle holds the secret of what he is looking for. The…

The ball had ended abruptly for Juliet. One moment, a tall, slim figured was smiling at her across the room, making her heart pound. The next, he was asking her to dance. He introduced himself as Romeo. As they danced, his movements felt in perfect sync with hers, and they glided across the floors through every song. Before she realized, his cool lips were brushing against hers, sending a shiver throughout her entire body. Soon, his teeth scratched her lip, drawing blood. After that, she pushed…

Under the Shadow is Horror At Its Finest Under the Shadow is an Iranian low-budget horror movie from first-time writer/director Babak Anvari. It is about Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her young daughter Dorsa (Avin Manshadi) who are haunted by an evil force during the 1980s in Tehran, Iran. It is similar in many ways to the 2014 Australian horror movie The Babadook. In fact, it is almost shockingly similar. But does that negate Under the Shadow’s right to exist? In short, no. It is no secret that…

The Chosen One High school is tough enough on its own, but imagine having to defeat supernatural creatures while studying for mid-terms! "In every generation a Slayer is born," is the tagline for the hit television show Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. The show is centered on sixteen-year-old Buffy Summers chosen to slay all the evil supernatural beings of the world. Buffy has touched thousands of televisions across the nation, not to mention the hearts of all the viewer’s tuning in every week to see…

Vampire Squid Very Strange Squid Species Of all the different varieties of squid, the Vampire Squid is a very strange squid species that makes its travel far below the waters nearly a half-mile down near the bottom of the ocean. Even though by its name you would think it sucks blood, the vampire squid actually just eats zooplankton, and is actually part of the animals in the Cephalopoda Class (animaldiversity.org/accounts/Cephalopoda), which means it has a lot in common with some of the oldest…

Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan open up with describing imagery of a “Year Without a Summer,” a dark time that gave birth to much darker children, monsters that lurk still in our society to this day. Creatures of the night were fixated and empathetic about our humanity, except for one—vampires. Vampires since the beginning of their creation are perceived as these erotic, sexy, lust evoking, blood thirsty, irresistible terrifying creatures. Creatures that have lost all connection to their…

Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, published in 1872 is a vampire story that exemplifies elements of female sexuality and of Gothic vampirism. Vampire fiction in English literature often embodies the fears of a society. The Victorian Era was not as accepting of female sexuality or, even more fearsome, homosexuality. It was common for vampire stories during this era to reflect upon these fears in society. The story of Carmilla was seen as a definitive tale that portrayed the unthinkable,…

Remember this scary creature called Dracula. The vampire that would suck the blood out of any human he caught. Dracula was actually real or I should say was real at one time. In Transylvania, Romania was count Dracula, otherwise known as “Vlad IV, 1431?–1476, prince of Wallachia (1448, 1456–62, 1476), known as Vlad the Impaler. He was the son of Prince Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Devil) and is therefore also called Dracula or son of the Devil”. He was a gruesome king of Transylvania; during his reign…