The Iranian Vampire Tale of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

The girl of Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is not like other girls. She is, for one thing, a vampire, but she's not like other vampires, either. She wears a hijab and prowls the fictional Iranian town called Bad City (actually Bakersfield, Calif.). Her inevitable feeding seems to come as much…
Transylvanian "Scientist" Not Even Trying to Hide that He's a Vampire
A kind-eyed Romanian doctor announced this week that he, along with a team of colleagues at Babeş-Bolyai University, had made a marvelous and potentially life-saving stride for medicine, science, and humanity following the successful completion of a round of testing on the artificial blood product they have devoted…
Rabid Bat's Oblivious Victim Roams Mojave Desert
A man attacked by a rabid bat in the Mojave National Preserve will probably die if not found and treated by health officials. Eyewitnesses say the bat landed on the mystery man's neck outside the desert park's book store at the Kelso Depot between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The man wandered off, oblivious, and the bat…
Kindergarten Teacher Terminated After Bringing Vial of Her Blood to Class, Letting Children Taste It
The Secret to Eternal Youth: Injecting Young Blood Into Your Bloodstream. Also: Dancing Like Nobody's Watching.
Researchers from Stanford University have finally discovered a use for all that young blood you've got lying around (just as it was about to turn, thank God): inject it into your bloodstream to become young and beautiful again. Or, anyway, slightly better at memory tasks.
Nicolas Cage, Please Return Your Overdue Rentals (UPDATE: He Did)
If you're reading this, Nicolas Cage, you have $224.48 in late fees on movies you rented a few months ago.
Homeless Man Attacked by Transient with 'Vampire Teeth'
The last two weeks have been nothing but stories of homeless men being attacked by zombies, so it's nice to take a break from all that — and read about homeless men being attacked by vampires instead.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: All the Nightwalkers Get the Axe
As we approach our fifth consecutive summer of the great vampire trend, we are finally rewarded with the trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Adapted from the Seth Grahame novel of the same name and directed by Timur Bekmambetov (resident strigoi director and occasional James Gandolfini impersonator), the…
Are Nicolas Cage and John Travolta Undead?
There were those who laughed off a recent eBay listing claiming to offer a Civil War-era photograph of Nicolas Cage (he went by Jack Mord back then, but that was probably just an anagram) for the cool asking price of $1 million. "Personally," the seller wrote, "I believe it's him and that he is some sort of walking…
Teen Vampire Arrested For Breaking, Entering and Feeding
Lyle Bensley, a 19-year-old from Galveston, Texas, broke into a complete stranger's apartment early Saturday morning wearing only his boxer shorts. He then walked into the resident's bedroom, and began making "growling and hissing noises" while "biting and hitting" her, according to Galveston police.
Twilight: Breaking Dawn: Vampires Have Pillow-Biting Sex, Too
Here's a trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, which premiered during tonight's MTV Movie Awards (right before Robert Pattinson made out with Taylor Lautner). Now, I'm no Twilight expert, but it appears that things will go down thusly: Jacob receives an invitation to Edward and Bella's nuptials and…
Watch Lindsay Lohan Pretend to Be a Vampire
What's Lindsay Lohan up do these days? Well, when she's not busy serving the homeless without a bra, she's apparently donning fake teeth and fake blood while starring in some sort of weird, vampire-themed photo shoot. [NYM, Daily Mail]
Billy Crystal and Helen Mirren Are Vampires in When Sharon Bit Harry
Funny or Die videos often suck. Once in awhile they're great. This is one of those times. Here's a fake trailer—plus some behind-the-scenes footage—for Grampires: When Sharon Bit Harry, starring Billy Crystal and Helen Mirren. [Funny or Die]
The Simpsons' Halloween Episode Vampirifies Daniel Radcliffe to Skewer Twilight
In tonight's after-halloween Simpsons, Daniel Radcliffe lays down the gauntlet in the battle between the hugely succesful recent fantasy franchises. Watch him just kill it as "Edmund", Lisa's new undead love interest.
