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The Biggest Movie Milestones Of All Time

The Huffington Post | Matthew Jacobs | Posted 05.07.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Elizabeth Taylor, Twister, Movie Firsts, Titanic, First Movie on DVD, The Wizard of Oz, First Movie to Make $100 Million in Opening Weekend, Movie Milestones, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Video, Psycho, First Vampire Movie, Movie Records, Box Office Records, Spider-Man, First Movie Shown on TV, Nosferatu, Entertainment News

Eleven years ago, on May 5, 2002, the Sam Raimi-directed "Spider-Man" swung its way into theaters and shattered box office records, wrapping up $100 m...

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Xan Cassavetes Makes an Un-vampire Movie

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.03.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: John Cassavetes, Werner Herzog, Xan Cassavetes, Klaus Kinski, Movies, Isabelle Adjani, Marshall Fine Interview, Marshall Fine, Gena Rowlands, Zoe Cassavetes, Xan Cassavetes Interview, Kiss of the Damned, Vampire Movie, Nosferatu, Z Channel: A MAgnificent Obsession, Nick Cassavetes, Jonathan Caouette, Allen Hughes, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Xan Cassavetes didn't set out to make a vampire film. In fact, though her newest film is called Kiss of the Damned, opening today (5/3/13), she's still not convinced she has.

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Let's Take a Stab at the Medical Myths Surrounding Vampires

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 12.29.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Werewolves, Halloween, Werewolf, Vampires, Vampire, Dr. Braunstein, Dr. Glenn Braunstein, Undead, Porphyria, Pellagra, Dracula, Blood Donors, Nosferatu, Vampire Myths, Vampire Medical Myths, Los Angeles News
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

A considerable body of scholarly work seeks to explain what might have created the folklore of the vampire or Nosferatu -- a name that comes from the Greek nosophoros, or plague-carrier.

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The Temple of Doom Halloween Party, Family Day At Newseum, Marine Corps Marathon: HuffPost DC Top 5 For October 26, 27, 28

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 10.26.2012 | DC
Read More: Day of the Dead, Red Palace, Brightest Young Things, Marine Corps Marathon, Qualia, Half Street Fairgrounds, Nso, Comic-Con, Washington International Horse Show, AIDS Walk, Bettye LaVette, The Sphinx Club, Story League, Punk Rock Flea Market, Video, Ben Kronberg, Newseum, Dc Around Town, Halloween Party, Nosferatu, Kennedy Center, DC News

TOP 5 FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 1. Brightest Young Things & The Temple of Doom At The Sphinx Club Have you ever partied at The Sphinx Club? Did you k...

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Cara Santa Maria

Are Vampires Real?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 08.16.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Renfield's Syndrome, Talk Nerdy to Me, Clinical Vampirism, Vampires, Disease, Blood, Cara Santa Maria, Vampirism, Psychology, Dracula, Science News, Nosferatu, Science News

I always thought vampires were the stuff of legend, but after doing a little digging through the scientific literature, now I'm not so sure. If you yo...

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3 Fascinating Flubs in Films in the Sci-Fi/Horror Genre

Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D. | Posted 05.09.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Nosferatu, Dr.Ruehl, Curse of the Demon, Flm Flub, Bela Lugosi, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Weird News News
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.

Flubs are endemic to movies and television programs of all ilks! Some are continuity errors caused by multiple shooting days. Some are so-called "reve...

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A Conversation With Werner Herzog, Part II: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Avatar, & the Hostility of Nature

Govindini Murty | Posted 02.01.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Encounters at the End of the World, Grizzly Man, Warren Commission, Werner Herzog Into the Abyss, Avatar, Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Weimar Cinema, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Video, Entertainment News
Govindini Murty

2011-12-02-Screenshot20111202at9.13.57AM.jpg Werner Herzog has strong feelings about the proper relationship between humanity and nature.

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The Vampire: A Historic and Cinematic View

John W. Whitehead | Posted 12.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Fright Night, The Addiction, Near Dark, Vampires, Vampire's Kiss, Cronos, Dracula, The Lost Boys, Blade, Nosferatu, Entertainment News
John W. Whitehead

Halloween is associated with many strange creatures, but none more so than the vampire. Yet the vampire, an amalgamation of ancient lore woven through with sex, fear, danger and gore, is no mere Hollywood creation.

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Niles Essanay in Fremont Goes Goth

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 12.21.2011 | San Francisco
Read More: Niles, Horror Movies, Dracula, Silent Film, Horror Films, Horror, Nosferatu, Halloween, Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, San Francisco Around Town, San Francisco News
Thomas Gladysz

Just in time for Halloween, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum will screen a handful of spooky films sure to make the dark hearts of horror film lovers skip a beat (should they still be beating at all).

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Should Rock Musicians Accompany Silent Films?

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: The Gold Rush, Black Francis, Harold Lloyd, Phantom of the Opera, Dennis James, Charlie Chaplin, Matti Bye, Daniel Handler, Nosferatu, Donald Sosin, Stephen Horne, Laurel and Hardy, Silent Film, Buster Keaton, Stephen Merritt, Arts News
George Heymont

The bottom line is that if the music commissioned for a silent film does nothing to support the work being shown on screen, then a genuine effort should be made to hire more talented composers.

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Vampires: Why Here, Why Now?

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Count Chocula, The Vampire Diaries, Dark Shadows, Bela Lugosi, Syracuse University, Random House, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Charlaine Harris, Hammer Films, Colin Farrell, Sesame Steet, Nicolas Cage. Con Air, Interview With a Vampire, Wheaties Breakfast of Champions, Lord Byron, Stephanie Meyer, Anne Rice, Lady Caroline Lamb, The CW Network, Tracey Bateman, Bram Stoker, The Vampyre, Twilight, Charlie Huston, General Mills, Drew Silver, The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vampires, WaterBrook Publishers, Rosemary Laurey, Robert Thompson, True Blood, Tanya Huff, John Polidori, Bill Compton, Nosferatu, Sookie, Entertainment News
Tom Alderman

If fiction often reflects a nation's culture, why, oh-why-oh, do we have so many vampires, in so many places, sucking up so many entertainment dollars with such blazing success today?

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