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[Priest of Evil]

Also Lestat in Anne Rices books hardened anought that he developed a tan.

Lumley's vampires were a little less hardened, but did recover from a suntan if their leech was up to it.

NECROSCOPE!!! WAMPHYRI! I'd almost forgotten all about that series, that was pretty cool, I'm sure I've still got them at home. Great Vampire tales for those who want to ditch the romanctic side of the genre.
http://www.brianlumley.com/necroscope/
I never followed it beyond the Necroscope series though, did you Shannow?

Anne Rice & Poppy Z.Brite vamped it up the best IMO.

In that new tv series Moonlight, the vamps can go soak up plenty of rays and staking only paralyzes them...

 

[Priest of Evil]

Of course I haven't read Dracula!
zombies. They don't fuckin run. They stumble around as if they're on some sort of sleepwalkin' autopilot.

Dracula is a good read, any library will have it. I was reading a penny dreadful series - a mid-Victorian era gothic horror - a while back but I never finished the final book. Picked up a classic line from it (Varney the Vampire or The Feast of Blood), "He's an odd fish", bizarre sailor talk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varney_the_Vampire

 

[Stonewall]

I saw Interview With the Vampire for the first time only recently, and actually thought it was fantastic. Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise bug me a little these days but they had a lot of chemistry in that film.

Anyone have a comment on what it is like to read?

 

[Shannow]

Stonewall, the first few books are pretty good.

The Vampire Lestat rocks pretty hard, the Queen of the Damned sort of shows Rice's concept of where vampirism came about Really good read. Then she wrote some book (I think it had "bones" in the title), and it sucked and I didn't finish it...haven't read anything of hers since.

 

[Shannow]

NECROSCOPE!!! WAMPHYRI! I'd almost forgotten all about that series, that was pretty cool, I'm sure I've still got them at home. Great Vampire tales for those who want to ditch the romanctic side of the genre.
http://www.brianlumley.com/necroscope/
I never followed it beyond the Necroscope series though, did you Shannow?

I read all of the Lumley Vampire books. The Starside/sunside ones, and the e-branch series (they even came to the Gold Coast in that one).

I wish he'd write something else vampiry...his other stuff is pretty good too.

I reckon that with current graphics that a necroscope movie (maybe covering a couple of books) would be truly awesome.

BTW, my old elkhound (sadly passed) was named Akasha, my husky/samoyed is Bonnie Jean Mirlu, and Kerry's evil cat is lestat.

 

[Winmar]

I started reading an Anne Rice book once, but had to stop before too long, because it was bloody horrible. It was all in the second person i.e. "you didn't know what to do. Then you killed yourself. You didn't feel too good after that."

 

[Spiff]

I read Interview With the Vampire and thought it was OK, but only got halfway through The Vampire Lestat and had to give up. Not my cup of tea, really.

 

[Priest of Evil]

I was looking at my Lumley collection last night. I only had the first 3 Necroscropes! ARGHH. I also had Psychosphere.

There was another book I had also forgotten about, which I loved, called They Thirst by Robert McCannon, that was a great read! Apparently, its out of print but you can check out some reviews for it via the following link.
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/They-Thirst-Robert-McCammon/dp/0671735632[/ame] the review below was lifted from that site
Forget Anne Rice and her wimpy "Interview With a Vampire" series, here is a REAL vampire saga. The undead horde is loose in L.A. and Hellbent on taking over the entire city. And when an epic dust storm enshrouds the city, their time has come. McCammon has created a fast-paced nerve tingling story that along with Stephen King's "Night Shift" and Skipp and Spector's "The Light at the End" is among the best of the modern graphic vampire stories. But be forewarned, this stuff isn't for the faint of heart.
They Thirst would make an incredible movie.

And this one, Nancy Baker's "The Night Inside" (which by the way is also "Kiss of the Vampire) was solid.

 

[Shannow]

I'll have to look at that one.

I am Legend is obviously a good one.

Fevre Dream was another that I enjoyed immensely.

 

[Priest of Evil]

http://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/they_thirst.html talks about how he wrote it

 

[Priest of Evil]

DIARY OF THE DEAD
Want more Romero & his Zombie brood? here it is, independently produced.

Romero calls it "a rejigging of the myth"

the plot: A group of film students are making an independent horror film when they become trapped in a world being consumed by flesh-eating zombies. They then turn their attention toward making the film into a documentary on their personal horror experience.

[ame]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=25823794[/ame]
all info taken from wikipedia

 

[Priest of Evil]

 

[Winmar]

I like that idea. It's something different at least.

 

[Priest of Evil]

I like that idea. It's something different at least.

Sounds alright, aye. I hope its out soon.

 

[Stonewall]

But we only call them that because of the classic films that portray zombies as slow and lumbering.

Just like there are many versions of the vampire legend, so there can be of zombies.

 

[Shadow298]

I represent the legion of vegan zombies.


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[Shannow]

I'd imagine that the zombie of Marjorie Jackson would manage a fair trot !!

 

[Iron Zombius]

What about the zombie of Spike Cheeny shannow?

 

[phlogiston]

I represent the legion of vegan zombies.


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That's my joke!

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/maiden-downunder/362061-zombies.html#post6872910

Come back here after god knows how long and start ripping off other peoples material, I don't know, kid's ain't got no respect nowadays mutter mutter

 

[Shannow]