Cool Joy that freakin is rockin. The original Buffy Movie is so different than TV Buffy even though the screen play was written by the same person Josh Weddon who produced the Buffy series. I think Charlaine Harris owes allot of her idea's to TV Buffy. I just can't see anyone other than Sarrah Gellar as Buffy. But then again they might find someone even cooler. Sarah is to old to play Buffy now anyway.

Not sure if this has been mention but one of my favorite vampie novels is Fledgling by Octavia Butler, I've added it to the book shelf if members want to check it out. It's really good. Unfortunately is was suppose to have another book after it but the author died before she could finish. The book is still worth reading though I highly recomend it!

I just wish they would make a real true to the story movie of Carmilla. Exactly like the book with really good actors. It is a story that even set in the 1870s is very much up to date for modern audiences. Just as it was way ahead of it's time when written.

Cary wrote: " Cool Joy that freakin is rockin. The original Buffy Movie is so different than TV Buffy even though the screen play was written by the same person Josh Weddon who produced the Buffy series. I thi..."
Some people were speculating that they might make the new Buffy the Vampire Series about a new slayer, instead of making it about buffy.
Oh, and my husband finished "Dead and Gone" in the sookie stackhouse series, and he says it is really depressing. Just a warning, he regrets reading it. :(

Well I knew Dead & Gone would be the end of Sookie Stackhouse series. The title implies that much. I just am winding down the big witch fight with Hallow. Sookie is such a wimp. She can only kill people in self defence. It almost got her killed twice. It was a pretty outlandish fight to be sure. I think the only thing that would depress me is if Sookie got killed. Lonesome Vampire Bill being my favorite and Eric and Pam. Any or all of them dying would bum me. It would be cool if Sookie got turned tee hee. But if she got turned and staked. Now that would be a bumber. So are you talking about a Vampire Slayer TV show or full feature movie. Brittany Vampire Slayer, LOL. They should keep Buffy going on just like Star Trek. It it's as ground breaking almost as Star Trek and just as cool. Cooler if your into vamps. TrueBlood is good enough for now. They are only on book two of Charlaine Harris original books. They are following the story a book at a time. So that means TrueBlood unless something happens could last around ten years which is as long as TV shows can last. Matter of fact the actress Anna Paquin that plays Sookie now will be to old in 5 years to play her role. I was hoping in the book when Sookie got to be in her late about 28, which to me is just perfect she would ask Bill or Eric to turn her. The the books would change too. Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Queen, LOL

Its a full feature movie. I think it would be weird to call it Buffy the Vampire Slayer if they don't actually have Buffy in it...

Well yes and no. The new Star Trek movie is called. Star Trek. The Orignial TV series was called Star Trek. The second TV series was called Star Trek. However the names of the Enterprise Capts change. So maybe they will work it like that. Brandi the Vampire Slayer. It is a remake and not a brand new series. So they could get away with making it Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All they would need was a brand new super hot Buffy,and it would work great. I can think of allot of examples. Dracula, for instance as the name of a vampire movie. That one name is so fixed in the mind as the Vampire name. They made tons of Dracula movies. I think they should use the first serial vampire story name. Varney the Vampyre and make it into a movie. Only movies have to have action and romance. Varney in the Penny Dreadfulls was just to creepy. However they could make a swave Vampire like John Polodoris, Lord Ruthven. I think they never used Carmilla as the source of a big movie. Because of the lesbian or bisexual nature of Carmilla. Which audtiences are no more ready for than now than Victor the swinging Vamp,LOL. The Crying Game is probably one of the best dramas of the 90s. But because the main charater is a Black Drag queen. The movie was largely overlooked. It is one bad ass movie. In TrueBlood they have gay people & vampires and blackulas left, and right. Hell everyones favorite charter other than Sookie is probably Laffayette. But in the books. Lafeyette gets knocked of right at the start of the second book and is found stinking in his car. Ouch! Just have to wit and see I guess. I still want CARMILLA!

If you go to this site and click on films it will give you a list of films that are about, or based on Carmilla. I don't know if any of them are good, but you might find something close to what you're looking for...
Did you also know that there is a book called Carmilla:the return?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla#Fi...

Oh yeah trust me Joy searching out stuff on Carmilla has been one of my pastimes. Carmilla the Return is low budget porn. Carmilla was first published in Londons "Dark Blue" magazaine in 1872 as a long short story by Irish horror writer and resident of Dublin, Sheridan La Fanu. The Irish love their ghost stories. So at the advise of his publisher in London. La Fanu wrote a book based on old Irish ghost & supernatural stories. The result was " In a Glass Darkly". It is about occult metaphysical physician Dr Martin Hesselius. The book is his case files on occult illness he attended in the capcity of a doctor. Carmilla is the last case file in that book. Really a cleverly written book. It makes you believe Dr. Hesselius is a real guy and these are real stories. All the movies based on Carmilla are not even close to the original. No Schloss in Styria and mysterious meeting as a child or the second meeting when Carmillas carriage crahes in front of the now grown Laura's house. The closest yet is Carmilla 2009 with Simmone Kayne. It at least was filmed in Styria and has a castle instead of a Schloss. There is a carriage crash and there all similarity ends. It turns into a porno film with a love triangle between a guy and two girls. The blonde Simmone does not even look vaguely like the description of Carmilla. Medium height long curly thick brunette hair. Extremely good looking, and slender. Best of all she is warm to the touch. If anyone had the brains to do a really acurate Carmilla they would have a hit. It really is a good love story and not that long. A Moravian noble man was one of Carmillas many male lovers. He loved her enough to hide her grave even though he knew she was Vampire. Camrilla was turned into a vamp by a man. So she avoids men in her after life. Carmilla is very secretive and will not tell Laura anything of her past. When Laura says "Carmilla I am sure when you finally tell me something of yourself there will be some great love story you have to reaveal." Carmilla answers "Yes there was,a cold cruel love. But it will upset me and I cannot talk about it." Hmm.

The best book on the origins of vampires is "The Phantom World a treaties on vampires and revelants" by Dom Augustine Calmet. It discusses the Magian Posthuma which you just can't find in print, and other early gothic vampire folk lore and documented true stories. The cheapest copy I could find was $73.OO plus shipping. So I am going to have to save a few more pennies. This book is without a doubt the last word on the real origins, and beliefs surrounding western Gothic vampirism as depicted in Moravia, Stytria, Transylvania, and other Romanian states cira 1700 to 1850. I have read some pieces of it, and it is the source for real deal info. A book every real vampire fan should have in their library.

Coolio for real. They have a cheaper version of "The Phantom World" at Amazon.com that is a paper back with fewer illustrations for $35 new. Or you can get a used copy like I just did for $10. Now I have the straight dope on Vampires & Revelants, The Magia Posthuma is in this book as well as other vampire cases from circa 1700 to 1850. Plus disertations on the habits of vampires. This was written by a guy who really was a believer in vampires and the gothic legends that surrouned them. It's sraight dope from the horses mouth. Also dont forget TrueBlood season 2 http://us.mg201.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch...

Season 2 starts on the 14th, I think! :) I'm excited!
Hey, cary did you read any of charlain harris's other books? If so, were any of them good?

Joy wrote: "Season 2 starts on the 14th, I think! :) I'm excited!
Hey, cary did you read any of charlain harris's other books? If so, were any of them good?"

Well yes Joy I am half way through Dead As A Doornail, and I only have Dead and Gone to read left. You told me your husband says it was depressing. Why? Does Sookie die?, Bill,Eric,Sam,Pam, Claudine. Those are the only characters I care about. Does Sookie get turned. Does she have to leave the magic kingdom. What could be so depressing. I am dying to know. I was bumbed when the Queen of Lousiana Josephine Le Clerque got offed. But I could handle it. Do the Las Vegas Vamps get out of hand? Eager minds are dying to know, LOL

LOL He's not home at the moment, but I'll ask him later tonight. Are you sure you want to know, though? LOL I dont want to tell you, and then you get ticked cause it ruins the book for you...I'll have him send you an email from my account cause I dont want him to say in this forum in case someone else reads it...I dont want to ruin someones day... So check your email tomorrow! :)

Yup I want to know. What may be depressing to your husband might not be depressing to me. But maybe I dont want all the gory details. Just a slight hint. Does Sookie live? Does she get turned? Does she have to leave the magic world behind here. Thats all I want to know. There is a new Vampire show on the CW chanel 19 this Fall called The Vampire Diaries. So now there will be two vampire shows. Whoo hoo!

I know I am so excited for it! I thought that it was coming out later, in a few months.

I can't imagine Sookie getting killed. I don't think she wants to be turned either. But she may when she hits 28-30,LOL. Some one important dies. Jason,Sam,Alcide,Tara,Nial,Amanda,and Quinn I could handle getting wacked. But Sookie,Bill,Eric,Pam,and Claudine would be upsetting to me if they got hurt. Or if Sookie got tired of the magic kingdom and just left than would really bumb me.

Cary wrote: " I can't imagine Sookie getting killed. I don't think she wants to be turned either. But she may when she hits 28-30,LOL. Some one important dies. Jason,Sam,Alcide,Tara,Nial,Amanda,and Quinn I coul..."

Read your email, b/c My hubby sent you something else about the sookie series

OK I will do that.