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Dracula Untold (Reimagining evil as a cultural hero)

I’m really excited for the Dracula Untold movie – for lots of reasons, but let’s start with the obvious. For over a decade, traditional heroes and monsters have been reinterpreted as misunderstood tragic heroes. Villains becoming heroes – not only [...]

September 28, 2014 Movies, Paranormal, Romania, Supernational, Uncategorized

Only Lovers Left Alive vs. The Vampire Academy (Reflections on High and Low Art, Life and Death, and Creative Production)

I underestimated vampires. I thought the trend was mostly dying down. I thought we, as an international culture, had decided to focus more on zombies, post-apocalyptic survivors, and dystopian, authoritarian governments. I thought Johnny Depp in Dark Shadows or Adam [...]

July 20, 2014 Movies

“Werewolf: The Beast Among Us”: a new Western Romance Stereotyping Eastern Europeans as Gypsies, Peasants, Drunkards and Idiots

On location in Romania and Transylvania outside Bucharest, Universal Studios shot “Werewolf: The Beast Among Us”. As paranormal fantasy playing off the trendy vampire/werewolf motifs that have their roots in Eastern Europe, this might have seemed like a natural move. [...]

July 20, 2014 Movies