Steven King's "Night Flier" 1997

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"The story centers on Richard Dees, a deeply cynical reporter from a trashy supermarket tabloid called The Inside View. Dees' current subject of investigation is the Night Flier, an apparent serial killer who travels between small airports in a Cessna Skymaster, gruesomely killing people in a way that leads Dees to think the man is a lunatic who believes himself to be a vampire." Wikipedia

A Fool There Was 1915

Silent Film inspired by Rudyard Kipling's poem "A Fool There Was"
A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman

A Fool There Was

by Rudyard Kipling

A fool there was and he made his prayer

(Even as you or I!)

To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair,

(We called her the woman who did not care),

But the fool he called her his lady fair–

(Even as you or I!)

Oh, the years we waste and the tears we waste,

And the work of our head and hand

Belong to the woman who did not know

(And now we know that she never could know)

And did not understand!

A fool there was and his goods he spent,

(Even as you or I!)

Honour and faith and a sure intent

(And it wasn’t the least what the lady meant),

But a fool must follow his natural bent

(Even as you or I!)

Oh, the toil we lost and the spoil we lost

And the excellent things we planned

Belong to the woman who didn’t know why

(And now we know that she never knew why)

And did not understand!

The fool was stripped to his foolish hide,

(Even as you or I!)

Which she might have seen when she threw him aside–

(But it isn’t on record the lady tried)

So some of him lived but the most of him died–

(Even as you or I!)

“And it isn’t the shame and it isn’t the blame

That stings like a white-hot brand–

It’s coming to know that she never knew why

(Seeing, at last, she could never know why)

And never could understand!”

2011 Fright Night (trailer)

Fright Night is a 2011 3D comedy horror film directed by Craig Gillespie. It is a remake of Tom Holland's 1985 film of the same name. ~Wikipedia link  

The Vampire Princess (47:11)

The Smithsonian Channel

"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath

Daddy

by Sylvia Plath

You do not do, you do not do

Any more, black shoe

In which I have lived like a foot

For thirty years, poor and white,

Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.

You died before I had time--

Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,

Ghastly statue with one gray toe

Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic

Where it pours bean green over blue

In the waters off beautiful Nauset.

I used to pray to recover you.

Ach, du.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town

Scraped flat by the roller

Of wars, wars, wars.

But the name of the town is common.

My Polack friend

Says there are a dozen or two.

So I never could tell where you

Put your foot, your root,

I never could talk to you.

The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare.

Ich, ich, ich, ich,

I could hardly speak.

I thought every German was you.

And the language obscene

An engine, an engine

Chuffing me off like a Jew.

A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.

I began to talk like a Jew.

I think I may well be a Jew.

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna

Are not very pure or true.

With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck

And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack

I may be a bit of a Jew.

I have always been scared of you,

With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.

And your neat mustache

And your Aryan eye, bright blue.

Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You-- 

Not God but a swastika

So black no sky could squeak through.

Every woman adores a Fascist,

The boot in the face, the brute

Brute heart of a brute like you.

You stand at the blackboard, daddy,

In the picture I have of you,

A cleft in your chin instead of your foot

But no less a devil for that, no not 

Any less the black man who

Bit my pretty red heart in two.

I was ten when they buried you.

At twenty I tried to die

And get back, back, back to you.

I thought even the bones would do.

But they pulled me out of the sack,

And they stuck me together with glue.

And then I knew what to do.

I made a model of you,

A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.

And I said I do, I do.

So daddy, I'm finally through.

The black telephone's off at the root,

The voices just can't worm through.

If I've killed one man, I've killed two--

The vampire who said he was you

And drank my blood for a year,

Seven years, if you want to know.

Daddy, you can lie back now.

There's a stake in your fat black heart

And the villagers never liked you.

They are dancing and stamping on you.

They always knew it was you.

Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.

2000 Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire (1:22:54)

A Disney Channel Original Movie (part one)

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Dr. Judith Orloff on Vampires and Victims

Narcissists believe the world revolves around them. They lack empathy; they lack the ability to understand YOUR experience. So how do we spot narcissists? Ask yourself the following questions: 

Does the person act as if life revolves around him or her? Do I have to compliment and flatter them for their approval? Does he or she steer the conversation back to him or her? Are my feelings and interests downplayed? If you disagree, does the narcissist becomes cold and withholding?

Dealing with a Victim Mentality

Apologies to Kostika Collaku (Dracula 1931)

Dracula (1931) - Kostika Çollaku from glass000 on Vimeo.

I received a note from Kostika Collaku about the Dracula film posted on my blog. I had inadvertently failed to credit Kostika Collaku for writing the music for Dracula. This required some research on my part, the result of which explains a brief history of Dracula 1931.

The original film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi, did not have a musical score because of technical difficulties in film making during 1930-1931. I must have watched this film ten times, never realizing an original soundtrack had been added in 1999, after commissioning Philip Glass to compose a musical score played by the Kronos Quartet.

In 2009, Kostika Collaku 'rescored' Dracula 1931 as an exam for his music college. He writes on his website: "I tried to modernize the mood of the film beginning from a new musical point...I didn't want to compose a classic soundtrack with that "horror'' feeling. I found Dracula more romantic than a horrifying creature that drinks blood. When I was composing, in my mind was the new generation of people and how they watch the film. I was trying to fill the "distance" between the two generations and the next ones.''~excerpted from Kostika Collaku's website

To watch other YouTube videos, visit Kostika Collaku's YouTube Channel. You can also listen to the soundtrack composed by Collaku on YouTube. It is beautiful! 

Sincere apologies to Kostika Collaku. 

Thank you for bringing this oversight to my attention!

Hugs,

CZ

BBC Drama 1977: Count Dracula

Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the famous novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired in December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Louis Jourdan played the title role.

Vincent Price: Mystery Guest

This was too fun! A clip from "What's My Line?" in the 1950's. Vincent Price starred in a vampire film listed titled The Last Man on Earth (1964). It's similar to apocalyptic zombie movies today.

The Last Man on Earth was remade as The Omega Man and recently, I Am Legend. 

Visit: The Sound of Vincent Price Blog