Vampire

Image: AMCAMC’s beloved messy vampire drama will soon return for second bites. In season two of Interview with The Vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) continues to recount his life story to Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian)— but this time, with his partner Armand (Assad Zaman) chiming in.Why Are Vampires Associated With Queerness?Season two will delve deeper into their journey meeting at the Theatre Des Vampires in Paris, along with Claudia (Delainey Hayles)—and how their love affair in the wake of Louis’ escape…

Pedro Pascal at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images)Pedro Pascal is currently living his absolute best life; after rising to fame on Game of Thrones and Narcos, he’s now an A-list star of screens big (Fantastic Four) and small (The Mandalorian, The Last of Us). But things weren’t always golden for the affable star, who recently spoke about his long, long road to fame.Why Was Now the Right Time To Return to Buffy?In a lighthearted red-carpet interview with…

The band's midday set on April 8 — coinciding with the astronomical event — will broadcast live on Veeps To celebrate the 2024 total eclipse — and the release of their new album, Only God Was Above Us — Vampire Weekend will play a special midday show in Austin, Texas, which will also be available to livestream. The gig will take place April 8 (three days after the album’s release) at the Moody Amphitheater in Austin, which is directly in the path of the total eclipse. To coincide with the…

Developer Poncle and iam8bit have announced that the soundtrack to indie hit Vampire Survivors is being released on vinyl this month. Set to launch on March 14, the set will feature 22 songs across two LPs. Priced at $42.99, the soundtrack has been pressed on “blood-splatter coloured red wax”, while its slipcase has an original illustration by artist Nimit Malavia. Discussing the score with NME, composer Daniele Zandara (who scored Vampire Survivors along with Filippo Vicarelli and Will Davies) reveals that he originally…

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a wildly popular '90s show, one that has remained a cult classic part of pop culture in the decades since it ended. Buffy's cast included Anthony Stewart Head as the title character's Watcher Rupert Giles, who appeared in a whopping 123 episodes throughout its run on TV. And there are 32 great pieces of advice Giles gave during that time.While Buffy changed networks for its final two seasons on the air, the starring cast stayed the same. Giles was a father figure to the entire Scooby Gang,…

Roughly 183 million years ago, a deep-sea vampire squid was so caught up in the present that it became a frozen remnant of the past.The hungry, eight-armed creature had just gotten its tentacles on two tasty fish when it suddenly suffocated to death. Distracted by its prey, the predator probably sank into a region of oxygen-less water near the bottom of the sea and perished with an empty stomach.Scientists today are now learning from that one fatal mistake.In 2022, a trio of paleobiologists in Germany discovered the…

Poncle has abruptly dropped a new update for Vampire Survivors with a trailer that includes some well-timed Final Fantasy references. Just a few. The Space54 update is available today. Is the update at all related to Final Fantasy? Hmmm, no. It doesn’t look like it. However, for some reason, the team decided to release a trailer alongside it that is a shot-for-shot remake of the 1997 Final Fantasy VII trailer. Well, as shot-for-shot as they can manage with Vampire Survivors.…

Call it what you want, but the genre popularized by Vampire Survivors has become a veritable sensation, with countless attempts to capitalize on its popularity. (Seriously, the number of these--and propensity for using the word Survivor in their name--is astounding.) I've found and enjoyed a number of these, particularly those that introduce some kind of added wrinkle: Boneraiser Minions with its companion-based action, 20 Minutes Till Dawn's more active combat, and the distinct classes and equipment of…

While Dawn's place in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was a bit rocky following her pivotal Season 5 arc, these are decidedly bad choices, partially because of the real-life details that came out in 2022 involving behind-the-scenes allegations of inappropriate behavior on the part of Joss Whedon. Of particular note is that the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator has said many times that Xander is meant to be his avatar in the franchise, sharing his obsession with pop culture and other key aspects of Whedon's…

Vampire Weekend will hit the road this summer for a lengthy tour in support of their upcoming album Only God Was Above Us. Following the band’s sold-out, album-introducing, solar eclipse show in Austin, the 45-show trek kicks off in earnest April 27 at New Orleans’ Jazz Fest, and loops around North America before concluding back at Austin’s Moody Center on October 17. Along the way, Vampire Weekend will make stops at Berkeley’s The Greek Theatre, Chicago’s Huntington Bank Pavilion, and New York’s Madison…