Tag: Carmilla
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The Best Vampire Romance Isn’t ‘Twilight,’ It’s This
Vampire romance has existed almost as long as vampire fiction itself. Someone thirsting (pun absolutely intended) over an attractive bloodsucker is as prevailing a practice as stakes through the heart or avoiding the sunrise. The original Dracula and Carmilla novels posit lusting for sexy vampires as sinful, but that’s the appeal. The pull toward these…
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This Sexy 1983 Horror Movie Put a Modern Spin on Vampires
Vampires have always been sexy. Since it came into public and literary consciousness in the 19th century, vampirism has had sexual connotations, and Sheridan le Fanu’s novel Carmilla more or less invented the idea of a sexy lesbian vampire. By the 1960s, lesbian vampires had become a central fixture of horror and exploitation movies, from…
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How Nosferatu Director F.W. Murnau Queered The Cinematic Vampire Forever
Celebrating its 100th birthday this year, F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” is the first widely-known vampire film. The unauthorized retelling of Bram Stoker’s 1896 novel “Dracula,” Murnau’s “Nosferatu” is one of the most celebrated works of German expressionist cinema. While “Dracula” took inspiration from the lesbian vampire novella “Carmilla” and Bram Stoker was rumored to be a…