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i just have to say i adore your blog. i hope you’re having a good day!! ❤️🦇

and just for fun, i ask, have you read the original dracula? :)

thank uuuu!!! that means a lot to me ❤️‍🩹 i hope your day is going well too :3c

to answer your question, yes i have read it! though it was a very long time ago and one of those like, free ebooks you get on a reader. i recently got a nice hardcover copy actually with gold guilding, so im slowly reading through again when i get the spare time at work<3

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Luke George Evans was born on Easter Sunday, 15 April 1979, in Pontypool, and brought up in Aberbargoed, the only child of Yvonne and David Evans. He was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, though he left the religion when he was 16 and left school at the same time.

At age 17, he moved to Cardiff, where he studied with singing coach Louise Ryan. In 1997, he won a scholarship to London Studio Centre, then in Kings Cross, London. He graduated in 2000.

He is a Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 actor and singer. He began his career on the stage, and performed in London's West End productions of Rent, Miss Saigon, and Piaf before making his film breakthrough in the Clash of the Titans 2010 remake. Following his debut, Evans was cast in the action and thriller films Immortals (2011), The Raven (2012), and the re-imagined The Three Musketeers (2011).

In 2013, Evans starred as the antagonist Owen Shaw in Fast & Furious 6, and also played Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. 

Evans also portrayed the vampire Dracula in the character's 2014 film origin story Dracula Untold. 

Evans then portrayed Gaston in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (2017), psychologist William Moulton Marston in the biographical drama Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017), and the Coachman in Disney's live-action remake of Pinocchio (2022). He released his debut album, At Last, on 22 November 2019. In 2020, he starred in a three-part miniseries The Pembrokeshire Murders. In 2021, he had a main role in the Hulu drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers. He then starred in the black ops military series Echo 3 (2022).

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Movie - Dracula Untold (2014)

Discover the legend of Vlad Tepes, who sacrifices everything to protect his family. Embrace the darkness in 'Dracula Untold' (2014), as he becomes the iconic vampire. A tale of heroism, sacrifice, and transformation!

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Best vampire movies? In asking for a friend...

Oh. Well, this is just my opinion and recommendations (and I know Cora made a list too) so…

Interview With the Vampire (1994) - Honestly a classic. Who doesn’t love Louis and brat prince Lestat and their love-hate relationship and attempts to keep their family with Claudia together over the passage of time? 100% recommend the books too to anyone who hasn’t read Anne Rice’s work. 

Dracula Untold (2014) - A take on Vlad Teppes becoming Dracula. Looks amazing, has incredible acting and I assure you, you’ll cry. Give me a sequel already. 

Fright Night (2011) -  Oooh controversial opinion time! Yes, I picked this over the original. It’s definitely less scary than the original but the comedic elements/general aesthetic of the movie more than make up for it. Also Collin Farrell as a vampire. 

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) -  Bank robbers and the family they’ve kidnapped end up in a club full of vampires and have to try to survive until day comes. Wasn’t a box office hit but has a cult following. There’s also now a tv series inspired by it that develops the characters and background witch I recommend too! 

Blade Trilogy (1998-2004) - Based on the Marvel comics. It follows the titular Blade - a ‘daywalker’ - on his endless battle against vampires. The third film does have a lot of controversy surrounding it and it’s not as good as the other two but give it a watch if you like. 

Only Lovers Left Alive (2014) - Probably the most human vampire film in existence. It’s emotionally powerful and deals with depression after centuries of existence. It’s a slow-burning movie and a beautiful tale. 

Dracula (1931) - Honestly the movie we have to thank for vampires becoming such a pop culture staple. Bela Lugosi’s Dracula still continues to define the character and is responsible or the persistent ‘vampire accent’.

Let the Right One In (2008) - Follows a young boy and a vampiric little girl. Another one that’ll make you emotional. Watch the Swedish version over the American remake. Check the book out too!

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) - Mockumentary following vampire flatmates and various other supernatural beings. It’s basically about mundane life but… with vampires and it’s comedy gold. 

Byzantium (2012) - Follows a mother/daughter vampire duo. No high class vampires here, our girls are portrayed by as the lowest rung by society’s standards. The movie is gorgeous and again, a more emotional take on vampires and the problems vampirism can bring. 

The Addiction (1995) - This movie uses vampires to make social commentary. It deals with some heavy issues: AIDS for one, drug abuse for another. But it also explores new age religion and a generation rebelling from what they’ve known. It’s a pretty philosophical movie dealing with peoples’ fluctuating and shifting mindsets. 

Dracula’s Daughter (1936) - Follows - you guessed it - Dracula’s daughter (The Dracula from the 1931 movie). This movie is astounding for its time because it’s a big ol’ lesbian fest and Marya’s quest to rid herself of her vampirism is symbolic of ‘curing’ gay/lesbian individuals.

 Kiss of the Damned (2013) - A screenwriter falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a vampire and is turned by her. They survive by feeding on animals, and everything is going well until our leading lady’s vampiric sister shows up to cause chaos. 

Hotel Transylvania (2012) - An animated movie in which Dracula owns a hotel where the monsters of the world stay, and is about to celebrate his daughter’s - Mavis  - birthday. Things go awry when human Jonathan shows up. Honestly, people dismiss animated movies far too much. This one is high-energy, funny and definitely enjoyable for adults as well as children. 

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)  - Another take on the iconic novel. The movie is, honestly, hit-or-miss and at times over the top, but Gary Oldman as Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina and Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing are delights you can’t pass up on. Even if it’s kind of a wild ride with how OTT it is, it’s a fun one. 

Thirst (2009) - A South Korean movie that follows a young priest. He tries to help with aid work during an epidemic but ends up infected himself. A blood transfusion saves his life but that blood was vampiric and thus he himself is now a vampire. You can imagine the deep moral and spiritual struggle this causes the devout man as he tries to keep a hold of his humanity.

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Since you seem to like classical films from back then, I wanted to ask you with Universal's Dark Universe picking up, and then announcing Bride of Frankenstein being the next film after The Mummy, who would you like to see play the Bride?

I have a lot of thoughts about this, they’re somewhat contradictory and will likely become clearer as more information, and an actual movie, comes out.

So, this is something Universal has been trying to do for decades, mainly reintroduce their iconic monsters to a new generation of fans who they can then sell related merchandise to. And they’ve actually done it, once. In 1999 they had a big hit with their reboot of the 1932 Boris Karloff chiller The Mummy, which is actually a really good popcorn flick, even if it retooled the horror film into an action-comedy (the mummy’s name and backstory are about all that made it into the remake). The movie spawned a ton of sequels and tie-ins, and Universal tried to do it again with Van Helsing from the same director and starring Hugh Jackman with every non-Mummy monster in Universal’s library. It flopped, the Mummy-sequels were bad, and so in 2010 Universal tried a back-to-the-basics approach by remaking The Wolfman as a straight up horror flick. It also flopped, then in 2012 The Avengers came out and Hollywood went crazy for Shared Cinematic Universes, so Universal decided to build their SCU around their monsters. It was supposed to launch in 2014 with Dracula Untold, but that flopped so they retooled their plans, shilled out big bucks for A-List stars, and now they’ve gone all in.

On top of all that, the studio has hired Alex Kurtzman to oversee the franchise, the man behind such beloved classics as Transformers, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and Amazing Spider-Man 2. And it’s hard not to watch the Mummy trailers and feel a sense of dread. Does this movie have anything in common with the Karloff version? Is Kurtzman so determined to shake off the dames of decades of official and unofficial parodies (The Munsters, Mel Brooks’ masterpiece Young Frankenstein) that he’s buried what made the originals special under cgi action? Why is Dr. Jekyll serving as the franchise’s Nick Fury character when he’s not even a Universal Monster? Why does this franchise even need a Nick Fury character?

The thing is, despite the ample reasons to be skeptical I just outlined, there’s also a very good reason why this could work and be spooky fun. the images the movies created still influence our culture so clearly something about them resonates with modern audiences. These characters have been crossing over since the 1940s, there’s actually an argument to be made that they pioneered the SCU, and so why shouldn’t they be allowed in on the current craze? And even if Kurtzman seems to just be copying Marvel, Bride of Frankenstein director Bill Condon is a legit fanboy. Whether that saves him from studio mandates remains to be seen. Bride is best known today for its gay subtext, which isn’t the sort of thing studio’s want in their summer tentpoles. The studio is allegedly looking for an A-List actress to play the Bride, but the character only appears in the last 15 minutes of the original (and she doesn’t speak, just hiss), so obviously the remake will be very different. I’ve heard they want Angelina Jolie, she’d be good. Personally I think AHS alums Jessica Lange or Sarah Paulson would kill it. And hopefully Condon will at least keep Dr. Pretorius, the ultimate queer coded bad guy, in the movie, and he has to have at least thought of his frequent collaborator Ian McKellen for the role. Please Bill, make it happen!

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'The Invisible Man' is Universal's Scariest Monster Movie in Decades [Review]

Universal Pictures has struggled in recent years with reintroducing their classic lineup of iconic movie monsters to the main stream in a way the audiences respond favorably to, but they have finally hit the bullseye with The Invisible Man, easily the studio’s scariest film in decades.

While I loved Joe Johnston’s 2010 The Wolfman, and enjoyed the 2014 prequel story Dracula Untoldenough, the…

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Ferdinand Kingsley

Facts

February 13, 1988

English actor

He is of Indian descent

Filmography

Hob [The Sandman: 2022]

Angus [A Portrait of the Artist Angus Fairhurst: 2018]

Mr. Francatelli [Victoria: 2016-2019]

Aldo [Still Star-Crossed: 2017]

Hamza [Dracula Untold: 2014]

Young Druid [The Last Legion: 2007]

Appearance

black hair

brown eyes

Roleplay

playable: young adult, adult

Icons: Dracula Untold

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‘Sherlock’ Creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss Confirm ‘Dracula’ Series

Last year there were rumblings about a new gothic series from Sherlock creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, but the new commission has only just been confirmed.

In a statement released through BBC Media Centre, the pair revealed they’re working on a drama called Dracula, inspired by the 19th-century novel: “There have always been stories about great evil. What’s special about Dracula is that Bram Stoker gave evil its own hero.”

The first season of Dracula will consist of three 90-minute episodes, which will air on BBC One in the U.K. and Netflix in the U.S.

Irish author Stoker unleashed the vampire Count Dracula on the world in 1897. The original story begins with Dracula living in Transylvania, but he’s working on a plan to move to England. When he finally sets off, he brings soil from Transylvania, which he needs to keep up his strength.

Once in England, a woman by the name of Lucy catches his attention and he begins stalking her. When Lucy begins to grow weak, Professor Abraham Van Helsing is called in to investigate.

There have been a number of on-screen adaptations of Dracula, including 1931’s Dracula, 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula and, more recently, 2014’s Dracula Untold.

Knowing Moffat and Gatiss’ previous work, they could take the story in any direction. Though judging by the brief official synopsis, they’re keeping it close to the original: “In Transylvania in 1897, the blood drinking Count is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.”

Earlier this year, Gatiss shut down rumors about the series being modernized and him starring, when pressed by the RadioTimes. In the same interview (1:15), he was asked, “What sort of person do you think you’d have in mind for Dracula himself?”

Piers Wenger, controller of BBC Drama, provides some more insight, saying, “Steven and Mark’s ingenious vision for Dracula is as clever as it is chilling. In their talented hands, the fans will experience the power of Bram Stoker’s creation as if completely anew. We are thrilled to be collaborating with them and the brilliant team at Hartswood on yet another iconic British series.”

Moffat and Gatiss adapted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Sherlock Holmes stories — the first of which was published in 1887 — brilliantly. We wouldn’t expect anything less from this new venture.

Are you okay with these two working on something else besides our beloved Sherlock? 

NO!!!

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Movie Mania: Dracula Untold

What a bore!

Hey guys! It’s time for another review. Today we’ll look into Dracula Untold, the 2014 take on the story of the Transylvanian prince. Let’s see how it turned out!

  The Plot: In short: Dracula Untold focuses not on the bloodsucking vampire but on the man Dracula was before. We find out how he finally became one of the most iconic…

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Film Review: The Mummy (2017)

Shared universes are all the rage in Hollywood today, as both Warner Bros. Pictures and Disney headline the idea with big projects of their own. Universal wants to join in all the fun with their monsters universe (Dark Universe), beginning with a reboot of The Mummy (2017). Film critic Jordan Samuel brings us the official ComiConverse review. 

Film Review: The Mummy 

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in our current day bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

Credit: Universal Studios

A shared universe can be a daunting task in the current age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, adding new stories in a movie series can also make it seem more alive. Universal are known to have attempted pushing famous dark monsters into box-office gold, with various bombs ruining any chances for efforts like Van Helsing, The Wolfman remake, and Dracula Untold.

Earlier this year the studio announced their “Dark Universe”, which brings monster icons like Frankenstein and Dracula into a shared world, concentrating on the strange rudiments of such characters. Universal’s Mummy franchise started with the 1932 Boris Karloff (The Mummy) classic, and has become iconic in modern culture spawning various iterations. Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy (1999) made the series popular again in the early 2000s, shifting tone from grounded horror into one grand adventure; making it’s a family friendly affair.

I grew up with those movies, as their wide accessibility brought the family together for a few hours. They also gets replayed countless times on television, due to the balanced tone. But after the lackluster sequel The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), all that positivity was thrown out the window.

2017 brings us a Mummy reboot focused on the horror roots of the franchise, but retaining the adventure themes found in the more recent films. As the hype surrounding it has been silent, I’ve always been optimistic. But does it wrap around modern cinema tightly? Find out as our film critic Jordan Samuel gives us his thoughts on the picture.

Credit: Universal Studios

The Mummy is a bad start to the Dark Universe, being an incomplete meshing of iterations without the charm and imaginative direction seen in the last couple films to bare this title. Unoriginality blares out from the film’s Marvel Studios-style introduction, which from the get-go feels like a rushed goal. Alex Kurtzman takes on the classic tale, and forgets to make the audience feel engaged with the story. Instead, drops us into the battleground head on.

Introducing bland characters, and assuming that we would already be accustomed to their personalities, the connected storytelling bogs the film down in universe set-up; reminding me of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).

Alex Kurtzman tries his best in elevating beyond those constraints, but the terrible script limits his vision, building walls which block any sense of style and tone. The film ends up seeming like an unnecessary journey towards a larger film franchise.

The Mummy (2017) focuses on an ancient princess, Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), who is awakened from a crypt in the dessert by Nick Morton (Tom Cruise); an explorer overly taken with his discovery; but that all changes when he is cursed by a great power.

The story is basic and doesn’t expand upon the previous incarnations, as Alex Kurtzman plays everything extremely safe.

Lacking much needed scary moments, The Mummy (2017) comes across like a generic superhero origin movie, with some painful universe set-up thrown in. Instead of being the franchise refresh imagined in the trailers, The Mummy (2017) relies heavily on clichés that feel alien in the current generation of Hollywood.

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Tom Cruise (Mission Impossible) is Nick Morton a soldier of fortune, specializing in treasure-hunting and tomb-raiding.  He is hired alongside an American military unit in Iraq to retrieve an ancient sarcophagus from Egypt and bring it back to London. Cruise provides one decent performance, bringing his beloved physicality into the role, but ends up being wasted due to some bad screenwriting

Cruise is always great in his movies, he just painfully doesn’t get to do much in this pointless 2-hour reboot. He acts circles around the co-stars, which didn’t shock me, but the audience is not given the chance to care about Nick Morton.

Annebelle Wallis plays the archaeologist Jenny Hasley, The Mummy’s female lead, who is also searching for the lost tomb. Her performance is sadly thrown out in the cause of a blindly dumb female protagonist.

I’m quite disappointed that Alex Kurtzman (Transformers) didn’t provide a nice sidekick for the main character, just leaving us with one giant sour taste of old-school Hollywood horror clichés.

Now on to the focus, Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service) as The Mummy. This actress is beautiful in the classic role looking both fierce and intense.

Sofia just lacks any connection with the audience, due to her laughably bad motivations for taking over the world. Alex Kurtzman directs her towards some terrifying moments, but these are disconnected from the big-budget action.

Credit: Universal Studios

The screenwriters make her life before the while undead thing, a story of pure evil, limiting any sadness felt but her terrible plans. I feel bad for Sofia Boutella, as the actresses deserves better than this frankly boring villain. The action is uninspired and isn’t enough to keep you distracted from the terrible storyline. The editing is also very average.

The Mummy (2017) is one silly attempt at an unnecessary larger universe, which fails in giving us a good movie; which is surely how every successful shared universe must start. This movie forgets what made those earlier films so precious and beloved for all time. Universal could have done so much better, I would have preferred a lower-budget horror movie focused on the franchise’s roots.

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A new world of gods and monsters is coming, as Universal Studios is relaunching all of their classic horror movie icons, officially starting this summer with The Mummy, and the third and final official trailer for the new film starring Tom Cruise has arrived online today

The Mummy sets up future films in Universal’s new Avengers-style interconnected movie universe of monsters, which will eventually include The Invisible Man to star Johnny Depp and The Bride of Frankenstein likely to star Angelina Jolie, and it already is confirmed to feature a cameo appearance by Russell Crowe in the role of Dr. Jekyll. (The 2014 prequel Dracula Untold is reportedly not connected to the new monsters universe.)

As horror historians are well aware, Universal Studios is not jumping on a bandwagon created by Marvel, as it was Universal who invented the whole idea of a “shared” cinematic universe when they put two of their biggest monster franchises under one roof for the first time in the groundbreaking 1943 crossover Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man.

 I enjoyed Dracula Untold for it was, which is admittedly much more of a super hero action movie than the scary horror movie I think most fans really want to see, and I fully expect The Mummy to have a similar tone, but I still have high hopes for the future of these iconic monsters, many of which are older than most of their comic book counterparts.

And as these characters are the foundation of the horror genre, they have all become synonymous with Halloween to the point of being among the most recognized symbols of the holiday.

The official synopsis: Thought safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen (Sofia Boutella) whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension.

From the sweeping sands of the Middle East through hidden labyrinths under modern-day London, The Mummy brings a surprising intensity and balance of wonder and thrills in an imaginative new take that ushers in a new world of gods and monsters.

Tom Cruise stars in The Mummy, along with Sofia Boutella (Star Trek Beyond), Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle), Jake Johnson (Jurassic World), Courtney B. Vance (American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson), and Russell Crowe (Gladiator, Man of Steel) as Dr. Jekyll, directed by Alex Kurtzman.

The Mummy rises from her crypt on June 9, 2017.

Check out the newest official trailer and poster, as well as the previously released videos, for Universal’s The Mummy below!

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