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  • Vampire Book Reviews: Hollow By Celina Myers & The Fox And The Devil By Kiersten White

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    Vampire books are so back—almost like they never left…just lurked in the shadows. Gather round, lovers of Twilight, Vampire Diaries, and beyond. Because 2026 is shaping up to be a big year for vampire fans, and we’re here to bring you two new vampire novels.

    Celina Myers’ debut novel, Hollow, is a tale about Mia, a young woman who becomes a vampire and finds herself caught between two rival families and their complicated history. Kiersten White‘s new novel, The Fox and the Devil, follows Anneke, the daughter of a vampire hunter who becomes obsessed with taking down an immortal serial killer.

    These two vampire tales feature a bisexual and sapphic romance that we absolutely live for. Not to mention the powerful, unstoppable female protagonists. Here is our dual review of Hollow and The Fox and the Devil!

    Book Overview: Hollow By Celina Myers

    Vampire book: Hollow by Celina Myers
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    Content warnings: death, parent death, murder, attempted murder, attempted suicide, gore, bodies, corpses, violence, car accident, miscarriage, needles, poisoning, mentions of transphobia

    Summary: Mia Adair isn’t even twenty-five yet, but she’s starting to wonder if her peak has already passed. She’s spent years working at her local bookstore, a job that was supposed to be temporary. As a kid, she experienced a strange sort of fame within the paranormal community thanks to her inclusion in a book that revealed Mia’s ability to talk with the dead. But that was then, and Mia’s “gift” dried up once adolescence set in. These days, she feels like she’s nobody special.

    Until she dies in a tragic car crash and reawakens as a vampire…

    Forced to leave behind everything she knew, Mia must choose to live with one of two rival vampire families. The Bellamy and Sutton clans share a dark, complicated history that spans centuries. As Mia learns about their age-old traditions and extraordinary powers, along with their forbidden romances and betrayals, she’s drawn toward two very different loves. And as she feels her gift returning, more potent than ever before, Mia realizes she’ll need it to protect innocent lives—and save the only family she has left.

    Our Review

    Let’s start with Hollow by Celina Myers. You may know her online as CelinaSpookyBoo or have watched her journey writing this book until now. Maybe you haven’t seen her content but are open to a new vampire book featuring a bisexual protagonist trying to get back her ability to see ghosts. Whatever the case, Hollow is such a quick and easy read that you won’t want to put down. Seriously, we read it all within a few hours.

    Mia Adair’s vampire journey is as rocky as one might expect, given that she didn’t ask to turn. But the method of turning people changes from injecting just one vampire’s blood to injecting the blood of a whole family of vampires. This adds a deeper layer as we meet the members of the Bellamy and Sutton families and hear their stories. With a weakening matriarch at the helm, Mia soon regains her powers and discovers the crucial role she plays in both families.

    We also want to highlight the narrative flow of Hollow. When there are so many characters in play, it can be difficult to remember who someone is and why they’re important. But this novel gives us just enough information about each one before we get into their actions that move the plot. Every character adds to the story. It felt so seamless to read, and we know how much effort it takes to make the narration seem so effortless. We were hooked!

    Release date: January 13
    Order Hollow here!

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    Book Overview: The Fox And The Devil By Kiersten White

    Vampire novel: The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White
    Image Source: Penguin Random House

    Content warnings: death, death of loved ones, murder, gore, bodies, corpses, violence, themes of trauma and grief

    Summary: Anneke has a complicated relationship with her father, Abraham Van Helsing—doctor, scientist, and madman devoted to the study of vampires—until the night she comes home to find him murdered, with a surreally beautiful woman looming over his body. A woman who leaves no trace behind, other than the dreams and nightmares that now plague Anneke every night.

    Spurred by her desire for vengeance and armed with the latest forensic and investigatory techniques, Anneke puts together a team of detectives to catch this mysterious serial killer. Because her father isn’t the only inexplicable dead body. There’s a trail of victims across Europe, and Anneke is certain they’re all connected.

    But during the years spent relentlessly hunting the killer, Anneke keeps crucial evidence to herself: infuriatingly coy letters, addressed only to her, occasionally soaked in blood, and always signed Diavola.

    The closer Anneke gets to her devil, though, the less sense the world makes. Maybe her father wasn’t a madman after all. Diavola might be something much worse than a serial killer…and much harder to destroy. Yet as Anneke unearths more of Diavola’s tragic past, she suspects there’s still a heart somewhere in that undead body.

    A heart that beats for Anneke alone.

    Our Review

    Our next vampire book is The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White. We were drawn in by the sapphic vampire story, and we stayed for the incredible storytelling. Told in two overlapping timelines in the late nineteenth century, we follow Anneke as she devotes years to chasing after her father’s killer. All the while, we start to get closer and closer to the present threat, which was so much bigger than Anneke had assumed.

    We absolutely loved traveling all over Europe, solving murder mysteries alongside Anneke and her chaotic found family: Dávid, Maher, and Igne. They are true ride-or-dies, even when they don’t agree with one another. But Anneke’s target seems to constantly stay two steps ahead and evade them no matter how hard they try. It doesn’t help that Diavola haunts Anneke’s dreams and thoughts every night and day, either.

    The buildup of romantic tension is also done beautifully in this Gothic novel. We really get a sense of intense yearning and curiosity on both sides, as evidenced in the letters that Diavola leaves for Anneke. And Anneke eventually uncovers Diavola’s true identity and reasoning for leading her on this never-ending hunt. We couldn’t see the plot twist or the bittersweet ending coming, but that just made the emotions even more heightened.

    Release date: March 10
    Preorder The Fox and the Devil here!

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    What do you think of these new vampire novels? Have you added Hollow by Celina Myers or The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White to your reading list? Let us know on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram!

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  • Get Bloodier and Boozier This Halloween with Drunk Dracula – Houston Press

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    Halloween season is upon us, and it’s about to get bloodier and boozier thanks to the Drunk Shakespeare Society, which will once again present Lori Wolter Hudson’s Drunk Dracula at The Emerald Theatre from October 2 through November 15.

    If you’re not familiar with Drunk Shakespeare, here’s the set-up: At the start of each performance, one actor takes five shots of their liquor of choice before leading the rest of the cast through one of Shakespeare’s classic plays in under 90 minutes.

    “If somebody hasn’t seen the show before and they’re planning to come, what they can expect is drunk, professional, and outrageous performances from five actors who are all trying to keep the show going, while one of them is blasted, completely obliterated, with alcohol,” says actor Joey Herrera, who will don the Count’s fangs in Drunk Dracula.

    Herrera, an original member of Houston’s Drunk Shakespeare Society, says when it comes to The Bard, all the actors are “huge nerds,” and the alcohol just lets that nerdiness out.

    “The whole point of the drinking is that it enables us to geek out as much as we want,” explains Herrera. “If we’re the drunk actor, we’ll do a monologue, and we can cut in between and talk to the audience, break the fourth wall a little bit. It’s almost like you’re preaching to your friends. It’s that back-of-the-bar-room vibe where it almost feels like a bunch of Shakespeare nerds are getting together.”

    A graduate of Texas State University, where he studied acting, Herrera says a “party animal instinct kicks in” for the drunk actor that makes acting become “like second nature.”

    “As an actor, you’re always in your head about something…And then, as soon as you get five shots of tequila in your body, all that goes out the window, the confidence level goes up, and you’re like, ‘You know what? I don’t care. I’m just going to be me. I’m going to be as authentic as I can be. I’m going to nerd out about Shakespeare, or I’m going to nerd out about Halloween, and I’m going to take you guys along for the ride,’” says Herrera. 

    Drunk Dracula returns to Houston for Halloween. Credit: Travis Emery

    In honor of Halloween, the ensemble will take audiences on a drunken ride through Bram Stoker’s 1897 vampire tale Dracula.

    “We have the book that we reference, and then the drunk actor has the freedom to mess around with it,” says Herrera. “And there’s a lot of inclusion of pop culture references. We stay with the times, with the zeitgeist, and what’s currently trending, and we have a lot of fun with it.”

    For his own take on the Transylvanian bloodsucker, Herrera says he found inspiration in Stoker’s source material and every single film he could get his hands on featuring Dracula. He also pulled from some unexpected places.

    “A little bit of my own twist into it is pulling from a lot of performers, like I pull from Michael Jackson and Prince and anybody who has stage presence, because with a character as iconic as Dracula, you have to command the room,” he says. “I think leaning into campiness has done wonders for the production, because at the end of the day, we’re all being silly, and we’re all portraying these heightened versions of these characters. But at the same time, I’ve taken bits and pieces from every iteration of the character.”

    The production marks Herrera’s second year in the role of Dracula, and he says the show developed something akin to a cult following last year.

    “I didn’t know so many people were into vampires,” says Herrera. “We had a lot of people come see the show multiple times, and then they’d bring their friends, and they’re really there for the vampire. They’re there to see some blood sucking and get hypnotized. They love it.”

    One thing that pleasantly surprised Herrera was the number of people who showed up in costumes for the show. “We don’t really get that for Romeo and Juliet or any of the other Shakespeare things that we’ve done.”

    Actor Joey Herrera posing as Dracula in Drunk Dracula.
    Actor Joey Herrera as Dracula in Drunk Dracula. Credit: Travis Emery

    For those big spenders that would like a few guaranteed audience participation opportunities, there’s “The Royal Experience,” a package which offers its buyers a chance to be a Count or Countess for the evening, complete with a throne and crown, a bottle of champagne, two hand-crafted cocktails, treats, and a little bell, which they can ring twice, at any time during the performance, to have the drunk actor complete a challenge or take another drink.

    “They kind of become characters in the story themselves,” Herrera explains. “They love it. They just soak it up.”

    But even if you’re not royalty for the night, Herrera says you may still find yourself in Dracula’s crosshairs.

    “As Dracula, drunk or not, I like to lurk around the audience. And by the end, you won’t know who’s bit or not bit,” he says with a laugh. “It’s fun connecting with the audience that way, and that’s essential—to make them feel included, even people in the back rows. To give them a memory to leave the show with.”

    The result of it all is a show that can be completely different from night to night, with Herrera saying there is “a lot of unpredictability to it.”

    “You never really know what kind of performance you’re walking into. The configuration of the cast, whoever the drunk actor is, it always changes. And it’s just ever evolving.”

    One thing, however, does not change, and it’s the message Herrera wants anyone considering Drunk Dracula to know: “We will welcome you with open arms and open fangs.”

    Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, and October 28; 7 and 9 p.m. Fridays, with an additional 5 p.m. performance on October 31; 3, 5, 7, and 9 p.m. Saturdays; and 5 and 7 p.m. Sundays through November 15 at The Emerald Theatre, 412 Travis. For more information, visit drunkdracula.com. $49-$199, with The Royal Experience available for $500.

    Drunk Dracula is an adult-only show (21+) featuring strong language, vulgarity, sexual humor, and audience interaction, with potential elements of nudity. It also contains fog, strobe effects, and loud noises.

    This article appears in Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2025.

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  • Get Bloodier and Boozier This Halloween with Drunk Dracula

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    Halloween season is upon us, and it’s about to get bloodier and boozier thanks to the Drunk Shakespeare Society, which will once again present Lori Wolter Hudson’s Drunk Dracula at The Emerald Theatre from October 2 through November 15.

    If you’re not familiar with Drunk Shakespeare, here’s the set-up: At the start of each performance, one actor takes five shots of their liquor of choice before leading the rest of the cast through one of Shakespeare’s classic plays in under 90 minutes.

    “If somebody hasn’t seen the show before and they’re planning to come, what they can expect is drunk, professional, and outrageous performances from five actors who are all trying to keep the show going, while one of them is blasted, completely obliterated, with alcohol,” says actor Joey Herrera, who will don the Count’s fangs in Drunk Dracula.

    Herrera, an original member of Houston’s Drunk Shakespeare Society, says when it comes to The Bard, all the actors are “huge nerds,” and the alcohol just lets that nerdiness out.

    “The whole point of the drinking is that it enables us to geek out as much as we want,” explains Herrera. “If we’re the drunk actor, we’ll do a monologue, and we can cut in between and talk to the audience, break the fourth wall a little bit. It’s almost like you’re preaching to your friends. It’s that back-of-the-bar-room vibe where it almost feels like a bunch of Shakespeare nerds are getting together.”

    A graduate of Texas State University, where he studied acting, Herrera says a “party animal instinct kicks in” for the drunk actor that makes acting become “like second nature.”

    “As an actor, you’re always in your head about something…And then, as soon as you get five shots of tequila in your body, all that goes out the window, the confidence level goes up, and you’re like, ‘You know what? I don’t care. I’m just going to be me. I’m going to be as authentic as I can be. I’m going to nerd out about Shakespeare, or I’m going to nerd out about Halloween, and I’m going to take you guys along for the ride,’” says Herrera. 

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    Drunk Dracula returns to Houston for Halloween.

    Photo by Travis Emery

    In honor of Halloween, the ensemble will take audiences on a drunken ride through Bram Stoker’s 1897 vampire tale Dracula.

    “We have the book that we reference, and then the drunk actor has the freedom to mess around with it,” says Herrera. “And there’s a lot of inclusion of pop culture references. We stay with the times, with the zeitgeist, and what’s currently trending, and we have a lot of fun with it.”

    For his own take on the Transylvanian bloodsucker, Herrera says he found inspiration in Stoker’s source material and every single film he could get his hands on featuring Dracula. He also pulled from some unexpected places.

    “A little bit of my own twist into it is pulling from a lot of performers, like I pull from Michael Jackson and Prince and anybody who has stage presence, because with a character as iconic as Dracula, you have to command the room,” he says. “I think leaning into campiness has done wonders for the production, because at the end of the day, we’re all being silly, and we’re all portraying these heightened versions of these characters. But at the same time, I’ve taken bits and pieces from every iteration of the character.”

    The production marks Herrera’s second year in the role of Dracula, and he says the show developed something akin to a cult following last year.

    “I didn’t know so many people were into vampires,” says Herrera. “We had a lot of people come see the show multiple times, and then they’d bring their friends, and they’re really there for the vampire. They’re there to see some blood sucking and get hypnotized. They love it.”

    One thing that pleasantly surprised Herrera was the number of people who showed up in costumes for the show. “We don’t really get that for Romeo and Juliet or any of the other Shakespeare things that we’ve done.”

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    Joey Herrera as Dracula in Drunk Dracula.

    Photo by Travis Emery

    For those big spenders that would like a few guaranteed audience participation opportunities, there’s “The Royal Experience,” a package which offers its buyers a chance to be a Count or Countess for the evening, complete with a throne and crown, a bottle of champagne, two hand-crafted cocktails, treats, and a little bell, which they can ring twice, at any time during the performance, to have the drunk actor complete a challenge or take another drink.

    “They kind of become characters in the story themselves,” Herrera explains. “They love it. They just soak it up.”

    But even if you’re not royalty for the night, Herrera says you may still find yourself in Dracula’s crosshairs.

    “As Dracula, drunk or not, I like to lurk around the audience. And by the end, you won’t know who’s bit or not bit,” he says with a laugh. “It’s fun connecting with the audience that way, and that’s essential—to make them feel included, even people in the back rows. To give them a memory to leave the show with.”

    The result of it all is a show that can be completely different from night to night, with Herrera saying there is “a lot of unpredictability to it.”

    “You never really know what kind of performance you’re walking into. The configuration of the cast, whoever the drunk actor is, it always changes. And it’s just ever evolving.”

    One thing, however, does not change, and it’s the message Herrera wants anyone considering Drunk Dracula to know: “We will welcome you with open arms and open fangs.”

    Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, and October 28; 7 and 9 p.m. Fridays, with an additional 5 p.m. performance on October 31; 3, 5, 7, and 9 p.m. Saturdays; and 5 and 7 p.m. Sundays through November 15 at The Emerald Theatre, 412 Travis. For more information, visit drunkdracula.com. $49-$199, with The Royal Experience available for $500.

    Drunk Dracula is an adult-only show (21+) featuring strong language, vulgarity, sexual humor, and audience interaction, with potential elements of nudity. It also contains fog, strobe effects, and loud noises.

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  • ‘I‘ve seen them before at Boardners in Hollywood’: Woman says she’s spoken to vampires who ‘run might life’ in NYC and L.A. She’s not alone

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    A psychic and vampire enthusiast has gone viral after sharing her theory about modern-day ‘vampires.’ In the clips, which have collectively amassed over 700,000 views, Lotty Luxe (@lottyluxe) invites viewers into a whole new, hidden world.

    “A lot of other people come out about their experience and the allegations that they’re coming out with about the nightlife scene and how it is ran by vampires here in New York and Los Angeles,” she explained in one clip. “And I can confirm that to be true those allegations because I have spoken to them, and they’re not just running it in New York and Los Angeles.”

    What are vampires?

    The type of vampires Luxe is dedicating her TikTok account to explaining isn’t the traditional blood-sucking type. She’s talking about astral vampires. As the name implies, these vampires, which are embedded in supernatural folklore, feed on people’s astral energy, emotions, and life energy.

    According to Villains Wiki, these types of vampires can show up in the astral plane and harvest people’s energy—especially those who are unwell or vulnerable for any reason. While these vampires are more concerned about the astral plane, the Wiki states that they can be found in the real world, seeking people to steal energy from.

    Some commenters mocked this theory. “This is why millennials aren’t ageing,” one joked.

    “I’ve been on this app for 5 minutes and have officially come across people convinced of: Aliens coming in November, mermaids sinking ships, werewolves being spotted by rings, and vampires running the clubs,” another added.

    While a third quipped, “They’re not vampires, they just do a bunch of cocaine. Be nice to them.”

    However, others agreed with Luxe, sharing their own experiences. One commenter claimed that these vampires are also present in Tampa, Florida and Miami. Another claimed, “Vampires in Dayton Ohio used night club for rituals, look it up.” While a third said that they’ve “seen them before in Boardners, Hollywood.”

    Celebrity doppelgangers

    In the second clip, Luxe highlighted a recent theory about Kourtney Kardashian having a doppelganger from 1912. She suggests it is all related to vampirism.

    “I personally do not think that these people just don’t conk out,” Luxe theorized. “I think that they’re just recycled. And from what I’ve seen, this all goes back to Luciferian rituals, where people are not getting source energy from the source. So they need to get it from the DNA of others, and the vampirism that they’re participating in. It is energy harvesting.”

    She then went on to warn people that in order to protect themselves from energy vampires, they cannot touch them or be in the same vicinity as them. “There are real-life monsters out there,” she concluded.

    @lottyluxe #vampires #fyp ♬ original sound – Lotty Luxe

    Luxe didn’t immediately respond to The Mary Sue’s request for comment via TikTok comment.

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    Charlotte is an internet culture writer with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Master’s degree in Magazine Journalism from City St George’s, University of London.

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  • Dom Dolla and Tove Lo’s “Cave”: A Vampire’s Anthem in Time For Spooky Season

    Dom Dolla and Tove Lo’s “Cave”: A Vampire’s Anthem in Time For Spooky Season

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    Still fresh off bringing the heat from her EP of the same name, Tove Lo has nonetheless graced her fandom with yet another danceable ditty. This time, one that’s seasonally appropriate—a.k.a. “spooky.” After all, what could be more ominous than a cave (especially at night)? Except, in this instance, the word refers to “succumbing.” In other words, “caving in” to something…or, more precisely, someone.

    With the help of DJ and producer Dom Dolla, the frenetic backbeat of the song lends urgency to Tove’s simultaneous resistance to and gravitational pull toward the object of her affection. And to establish the tone for the moody ambience of the single, Dom Dolla and Tove set their video, directed by Grant Spanier, in the darkness of some creepy woods (but then, all woods are creepy, whether it’s dark or not). Driving through them at exactly 3:33 a.m.—because the time 6:66 doesn’t exist—a shot of Tove coolly wearing her sunglasses at night in the front seat is the first indication that this is a vampire story. That and, well, bats live in caves, so the song title is more than a slight “Easter egg.”

    As for the driver, Dom, he needs no sunglasses, wearing only his baseball hat as a shield for his eyes from the night. It’s then that Tove opens the track with the ethereal, hyper-romantic verse, “I’ve got this hunger/Are you alone?/Make me feel better/Fuck to our song/I can feel my walls coming down/Late at night when I fade/You can cut me deep with a line/Like a cold sharp blade.” While it might initially be presumed that the pair is each already a vampire on the prowl, we soon see there’s more to the narrative than that.

    So it is that, jostling around in what Tove calls a “buggy thing,” the two roll up to what looks like an abandoned warehouse where an underground rave is in progress. Albeit one that is in rather scant attendance. Even so, the red lasers flitting around the room almost make up for the fact that this is a vampire rave, as the attendees’ pointy ears immediately indicate (less cliché than a baring of fangs, to be sure). It is at this moment that Tove and Dom pull out their crossbows—suggesting they’re vampire hunters and not yet vampires (maybe this is why Tove is dressed like she got inspired by The Matrix)—and aim to kill…or at least tranquilize.

    Alas, their dart is easily caught by one of the vampires, prompting the two to look at one another in horror as the subtitle “run.” shows up at the bottom of the screen for a touch of silent movie cachet (after all, Nosferatu is one of the most classic silent and vampire movies of all time).

    Having poked the bear—or rather, vampire—Dom and Tove flee the scene back into the woods, with many subsequent shots channeling The Blair Witch Project thanks to unsteady handheld camera work and plenty of scenes done in “night shot” mode. An overhead shot with the camera going into the woods as though it’s a 3D model also lends an eerie “this is a simulation” quality to the narrative.

    But if it is, it doesn’t make it any less daunting/frightening for Dom and Tove to be “turned.” To have to “cave” to their pursuers by eventually becoming one of them. Hence lyrics like, “I can feel my walls coming down/Late at night I forget/You can make me weak with a line” and “I know all your tricks and you lick your lips ‘cause you know I’m gonna cave/I’m gonna cave/You pull me closer I feel your skin/Memories wash over, I let you in.”

    But not without a fight as Dom and Tove run through the woods during Spanier’s chaotic, intercut scenes of the woods appearing as though turned upside down while he focuses in on the male vampire who then gets the subtitle that warns them, “Game over.” His cohorts also join in pursuit of the duo through trees punctuated by giant cobwebs—as though their method for ensnaring humans is decidedly spidery.

    In the end, we can see that Dom and Tove have, indeed, caved. This indicated by the flashing of vampire fangs (it was bound to happen sooner or later). And also, in Tove’s case, red eyes. The final scene then shows them hanging upside down in what appears to be the very same abandoned warehouse where they first tried to overtake the vampire ravers. But hey, as it is said: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” In other words, surrender Dorothy. Cave.

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  • Blockbuster BFFs Michael B. Jordan & Ryan Coogler Celebrate 5th Big Screen Collab In Bromantic Video, Tease Fans With Sliver Of ‘SINNERS’ BTS Footage

    Blockbuster BFFs Michael B. Jordan & Ryan Coogler Celebrate 5th Big Screen Collab In Bromantic Video, Tease Fans With Sliver Of ‘SINNERS’ BTS Footage

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    After months of loud whispers about a secret Ryan Coogler-Michael B. Jordan vampire epic, Warner Bros. dropped the long-awaited trailer for SINNERS that delivered genre-elevating Horror Noire from Hollywood’s most dynamic actor-director duo (not named Denzel and Spike).

    In a surprise link-up posted on social media, the prolific pair celebrated their fifth big screen collab in the bromantic video that included a sliver of SINNERS BTS footage toward the very end.

    With friendship breakups seemingly at an all-time high, it’s nice to see MBLJ and Coogler continue to make history together.

    Michael B. Jordan Star Ceremony

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    In SINNERS, twin brothers (played by Jordan) return to their hometown to start over after leaving their troubled lives behind only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Whew!

    Check out the intriguing trailer below:

    In the trailer, Jordan’s character says he’s been all over this world and never seen demons, ghosts or magic… ’til now. What’s never mentioned in the trailer, though, are vampires who we suspect are being saved for a big reveal in the official trailer closer to the film’s release next year.

    Written and directed by Oscar-deserving Coogler, the highly anticipated film stars Jordan in a dual role, Oscar-nominee Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller and Delroy Lindo who was previously attached to Marvel’s troubled Blade movie.

     

    Will you be seated for SINNERS slithering its way into theaters March 7, 2025? Do you think one of the MBJ twins is a vampire in the film? Tell us down below and peep the social media hysteria over the SINNERS teaser trailer on the flip.

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  • Renaissance Theatre’s immersive ‘Nosferatu’ to return for a fourth spooky season

    Renaissance Theatre’s immersive ‘Nosferatu’ to return for a fourth spooky season

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    The Renaissance Theatre Co.’s immersive production Nosferatu will return, “re-vamped,” for a fourth year starting September. The “immersive vampire experience” will kick off Friday, Sept. 13. It features 25 live performers stationed throughout the nonprofit theater company’s warehouse building, who will emerge from their “secret corners” to scare and entertain Orlando vampire lovers.

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  • Tropes Course: Vampires

    Tropes Course: Vampires

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    This is the pod of a killer, Bella! Joanna is joined by friends and vampire experts Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs to give you an intensive tropes course on vampires (07:32). From Twilight to Dracula and familiars to fatal attractions, they are here to teach you everything you need to know about the eternal creatures of the night that are seen throughout fiction.

    Host: Joanna Robinson
    Guests: Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
    Senior Producer: Steve Ahlman
    Additional Production: Arjuna Ramgopal
    Social: Jomi Adeniran

    Subscribe: Spotify / Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Pandora / Google Podcasts

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  • Fallout’s Costume Designer on Creating Its Ghoulish Characters

    Fallout’s Costume Designer on Creating Its Ghoulish Characters

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    Fallout’s a pretty good show, and one of the big reasons why is the ever-reliable Walton Goggins. As the Ghoul—or Cooper Howard, once upon a time—he’s a menace to Lucy and everyone else throughout the season, while being enjoyable to watch both in the irradiated present and the pre-nuclear past. Creating him and others like him took some time, partially because they are and aren’t like anything else you’ve seen before on TV.

    Will the Fallout TV Series Radiate the Tone of the Video Games?

    Talking to Polygon, associate costume designer Amy Westcot explained how the costuming team concepted different “ghoulness” stages, of which there are “so many different degrees.” In the games, ghouls can exist as an average person with the right meds, otherwise they become Feral and attack basically anything that moves. They’re that world’s zombie equivalent, just in two different flavors where one is “kind of on their way out” and considerably deadlier. But watching ghouls go from normal to Feral isn’t a pleasant experience, one the show’s creators clearly wanted to make as clear as possible.

    For the show, keeping the ghouls in a mostly human state was “super important,” particularly as it pertains to their humanity. Westcott revealed the costuming department worked hard with the textile team to make sure they looked right for their age while still garnering sympathy from the audience. “These were people once, and that was important to remember—even the Feral ghouls,” she noted. “They were supposed to be in rags, but…you get some remnant that they were a person once, and I think that we all empathize with them as well.”

    In the case of the Ghoul, Westcott said that he couldn’t help but be the least grotesque of the bunch we see. Throughout the season, we see him guzzle down those aforementioned meds, which enable him to “still [have] his wits about him” and stand out from the other ghouls. He’s not fully one way or the other, but it was vital to have him seem like a regular (albeit irradiated) person while also “at a stage of ghoulness, [he just] couldn’t be Feral.” With a second season in the cards, it may be that he ends up sliding closer into Feral territory.

    The first season of Fallout is fully available to watch over on Prime Video.

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  • Robert Pattinson wasn’t hot enough to play Edward in “Twilight”

    Robert Pattinson wasn’t hot enough to play Edward in “Twilight”

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    Robert Pattinson’s looks were called into question by studio executives ahead of his casting in the Twilight film franchise.

    The English actor was cast in the star-making role of vampire Edward Cullen in the films based on the books by Stephanie Meyers.

    But the studio was not sure if he was good-looking enough to be cast, according to director Catherine Hardwicke, who revealed a conversation she had with studio executives after they met Pattinson in person.

    Robert Pattinson attends the GO Campaign’s Annual Gala 2023 on October 21, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. The actor was thought not to be good-looking enough to star in ‘Twilight’.
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    “They call me back and go, ‘do you think you can make this guy look good?’” she said on Josh Horowitz’s podcast,Happy Sad Confused.

    The director revealed Pattinson had turned to the meeting in a stained shirt, which was “so funny,” but she promised the studio bosses that they would give the actor a makeover and would start working out.

    “He’s going to be gorgeous,” she tried to assure the executives. “But they didn’t believe it at first.”

    Hardwicke also opened up on how Pattinson felt he was not good-looking enough for the role in Twilight.

    “He’s a very modest and humble person and self-deprecating in a way,” she explained.

    “So he was nervous about, you know, ‘am I living up to the book? Am I gorgeous enough for the book?’”

    Hardwick added: “I tried to give him a lot of love and encouragement. And we did, of course, do a makeover on him too. I mean, the hairstyle, the eyebrows, even the teeth. He started working out with a trainer, he put a lot of effort in.”

    Pattinson, 37, previously starred in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Cedric Diggory before rising to fame in 2008 in the first Twilight film.

    He has since starred as the Caped Crusader in the 2022 film The Batman.

    Last year, director David Cronenberg sent Twilight fans into a frenzy when he suggested the potential of Pattinson reuniting with his co-star and ex-girlfriend, Kristen Stewart, on a new film project.

    “It was Robert who actually introduced me to Kristen. They have developed beautifully, separately, as actors,” Cronenberg said in an interview with World of Reel.

    “Making arthouse movies and successfully carrying that off. Kristen and I had a great time and Rob and I had a great time. For me, yeah, I can definitely think of a movie, or idea, that would be great to have them both together,” adding that at the stage it was still an idea.

    It was revealed this week that Pattinson is expecting his first child with partner, Suki Waterhouse.