Truly blood-curdling stuff
Live in the Studio - Vampires Buffed and Fanged
Live in the Studio sinks its teeth into the new wave of vampirism this Thursday evening.
Our fascination with the un-dead has reached fever-pitch in recently with the new wave of vampirism on film and television.
Re-popularised by Stephanie Meyer's Twilight (including the film franchise that followed) and Charlaine Harris' The Southern Vampire Mysteries (adapted into the series True Blood), vampires have re-emerged as the ultimate horror - both seducing and terrifying us.
Early films such as Nosferatu (1922) and Dracula (1931) depicted vampires as fanged and caped characters living in coffins but our thirst for these mythical creatures was not yet quenched. Two Anne Rice books from the 1970s were adapted into screenplays depicting handsome vampires; Interview With the Vampire (1994) and Queen of the Damned (2002). And who could forget Buffy (both the 1992 film and the TV series that followed), Francis Ford Coppola's remake Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Blade (1998), Underworld (2003), Van Helsing (2004) and most recently, the Swedish remake Let the Right One In (2009).
The panel, led by Dr. Saige Walton, lecturer in the Screen Studies program at The University of Melbourne and Assistant Curator with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, will investigate the popular resurgence of horror as a genre across media, with a specific focus on supernatural bloodsuckers and the fandom that erupts around each reincarnation.
Joining Walton to dissect these ideas will be Associate Professor Angela Ndalianis (The University of Melbourne), Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (Latrobe University) and Martyn Pedler (University of Melbourne and film critic for j-mag).
ACMI's Live in the Studio is a monthly event analysing television at its best - and worst.
Vampires Buffed and Fanged is on at ACMI on Thursday 5 November from 7pm in Studio 1 and promises to be a truly blood-curdling experience. BYO garlic lei.
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Published Monday, 2 November 2009
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