Vamps on TV: Eddie Money Music Video from 1982

The great Eddie Money sounds as love-struck as Spike in this atmospheric video from 1982 for "I Think I'm in Love.

New Vampire Documentary "A Place Among the Undead"

The force behind the documentary "A Place Among the Undead" is none other than Juliet Landau (Drusilla from BTVS), with funding through IndieGoGo ~ send in the money to get this made!!!

Here's Juliet via Nerdist

I had the opportunity to play Drusilla on Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel and now, I am making A Place Among the Undead, which is fast becoming the most definitive vampire documentary ever made. The film is a tapestry with interlinking narrative films inspired by the conversations.
I had the extreme pleasure of interviewing Anne (Rice) in Los Angeles and filming with her at the Vampire Ball in New Orleans last year. As I have been wending my way through the project, all roads continually lead to Anne. Each interviewee has talked about the influence of her writing and how her books inspired them to create. Without her, there is no modern interpretation of the undead. She has become as mythic as her beloved Lestat.
If Bram Stoker is the father of the genre then she is the mother, or should I say the queen… Yes, she is “The Queen of the Dammed.” We are all her children and grateful to be so.

Enjoyable discussion video concerning author Anne Rice, including comments by Joss Whedon, Tim Burton, and Charlaine Harris (author of the True Blood novels).

Vamps on TV: Ice Skaters Spin Darkness at Sochi Olympics

Lots of interesting dark music in this year's Sochi Winter Olympics! Buffy and Spike would have felt right at home.

Note: the videos below are not the actual Olympics but earlier performances at various competitions.


Russia's pairs-skaters Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov captured the Silver medal at Sochi with The Addams Family. Ironically another Russian couple won the Gold skating to "Jesus Christ Superstar."



Denis Ten of Kazakhstan won the Men's Bronze dancing to Danse Macabre (see this previous post about the Buffy episode "The Gentlemen")



Javier Fernandez of Spain performed to "Satan Takes a Holiday"



Italy's Stefania Berton & Ondrej Hotarek skated to "Dracula" by Philipp Glass

Vamps on TV ~ Retro Halloween

Great old commercials, some retro trick or treat footage, and an extra vintage filmstrip! Happy Halloween!





















And not really TV but just for fun:

Vamps on TV ~ Commercials

Vamps are good at selling things to consumers! Even in daylight! Well, maybe not . . .

Kellogg's Nutri Grain Fruit Crunch Bar Vampire Commercial 2013


Audi 2012 Dusted by Daylight - with homage to Twilight tree climbing


Sonic Burger Commercial 2011 (thankfully not the double-meat palace)



Doritos Vamp



Diesel Jeans 2009



Cute 1990s Retro Duracell Battery Vamp

Vamps on TV ~ Marceline the Vampire Queen

Marceline, the Vampire Queen is a main character of Cartoon Network's "Adventure Time," a show that is much more for teens and adults than children. Marceline is an ancient rocker-chick vampire who sings and plays guitar with her band The Scream Queens. Her guitar is a red battle-ax reminiscent of Buffy's in Season Seven. She doesn't drink blood, but drains the color red out of objects like apples and strawberries - quite fitting for a 2-dimensional ink-drawn character.



From LA Times Hero Complex

The Emmy-nominated cartoon is one of the Cartoon Network‘s most popular shows, consistently ranking No. 1 in its time slot among boys 2 to 14, according to Nielsen. But the show has developed its most devoted following among adults, who appreciate the dark humor beneath the inviting rainbow storybook exterior. It’s rare for an animated series to be equally informed by the likes of “Meatballs” and “An American Werewolf in London” as by fairy tales.
As whimsical as the “Adventure Time” world may appear, the series is dappled with hints that the Land of Ooo is, in fact, a post-apocalyptic version of Earth — a dark origin story for a colorful world. After all, Finn is the only human he knows, and although he is unfailingly positive, that knowledge comes with a profound loneliness."
. . . The Land of Ooo is home to a host of zany characters, including Marceline, an immortal vampire queen who feasts on the color red and turned her heirloom battle ax into a bass guitar;

From ComicVine

Wild and fearless, Marceline the Vampire Queen's origin is somewhat vague and ambiguous. She is over a thousand years old, and as her title suggests a vampire queen. She is also half demon, as confirmed by her alternate Farm World self.

. . . She is said to be a survivor of the great Mushroom War, a near cataclysmic event which dramatically altered the world at the time. Her relationship with her father Hunson Abadeer "King of the Nightsphere" was also strained after an incident in the past where he partook in eating her fries, and was further exacerbated when he stole her axe bass guitar. Although Marceline will often try to convey that she is evil and dark, it is much more of a pretense and act, unlike her actual father who is actually the lord of all evil.

. . . Despite her wild, scary and unpredictable nature, she is friends with Finn and Jake. She also appears to have a complicated love hate relationship with Princess Bubblegum hinting at a deeper and more complicated relationship. She often likes to jam on her custom made battle-axe bass guitar, she sustains herself on shades of the color red, as opposed to blood, and there is said to be no Vampire King, as Marceline is said to have killed him.