What more could I have wanted out of this, the premiere episode of the final season of the show? Not much, honestly, except that it could have been a two-hour special. I got lots of Quinlan, the most badass vampire on television, maybe EVER (I will always and forever love Barnabas Collins from DARK SHADOWS…
TheCheezman • July 17, 2017
Regular readers know that I’m a big mark for THE SHADOW, the character and, by extension, the radio series that ran from 1930 (or 1937, if one counts only those broadcasts wherein The Shadow was the star of the program, as before that the character had served as merely a narrator) to 1954. Those same…
TheCheezman • July 16, 2017
By the time you all read this, it will be considerably less than one week! That’s cause for celebration! Less than one week until the new season of THE STRAIN! Here’s one last video teaser to watch before we delve into this fateful final season of the best vampire show on television. I want to…
TheCheezman • July 14, 2017
My first novel is now available for sale. It’s called THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER: WEREWOLF, and I’m pretty proud of it. It is based on real-world legend, specifically the legend that St. Christopher, the patron saint of travelers, among other things, was a “Cynocephalus,” a “Dog-headed man” who killed and ate human beings. This…
TheCheezman • July 14, 2017
Last week I reported on the problem with inbreeding among various royal families, and on the birth defects, illnesses, and deformities such inbreeding can cause. This week I chanced upon a review my online friend Taliesin had written about a book titled THE VAMPIRE, DRACULA AND INCEST: THE VAMPIRE MYTH, STOKER’S DRACULA, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY OF…
TheCheezman • July 13, 2017
I’ve reported a few times on the work of sculptor Bryan Moore, and even tried to raise some funding for him, to help him complete his task of rendering author Bram Stoker in the form of a bronze bust. It would appear the sculpting part is finished, and all that is left now is the…
TheCheezman • July 13, 2017
In Colonial times, Dave Warner operated a sawmill on the Tar River in North Carolina, near the town of Tarboro (Did the name of the river influence that of the town, or was it the other way around?) in Edgecombe County. When hostilities broke out with the British, the Redcoats, knowing Warner to be pro-revolution,…
TheCheezman • July 11, 2017
I can’t help but think of that scene in THE PRINCESS BRIDE where Billy Crystal’s Miracle Max proclaims that Wesley is not dead but “mostly” dead. There it was funny, and in the movies–and on paper–it’s intriguing, this concept of a human body being almost–but not quite–dead. In reality, though, it kinda creeps me out…
TheCheezman • July 11, 2017
That’s “everywhere” in pop culture and entertainment, not necessarily everywhere as in geographic location. Sure, every culture in the world has some version of a vampire myth, but this is easily explained by the fact that every culture in the world experienced people dying, and the vampire is really nothing more than the instinctive human…
TheCheezman • July 9, 2017
A couple’a weeks back, I provided a book review of BLOODSTAINS by author Jeff Mudgett. This particular Mudgett claims to be the great-great-grandson of one Herman Mudgett, aka H.H. Holmes, one of this country’s first (and worst) serial killers. If Mudgett the junior’s tale is to be believed, he had to struggle for his own…
TheCheezman • July 7, 2017
July 16th, y’all! We’re getting close! It’s almost July, and THE STRAIN promos just keep a’comin’. Check out “Push.” Who is that chick giving birth, and why is Dutch helping her? Is this supposed to be Dutch’s former girlfriend, or ANOTHER former girlfriend? That would be lame on her part. But wait–what is she giving…
TheCheezman • July 7, 2017
You can’t keep a good vampire down. I really enjoyed the NBC television series DRACULA. I can’t say I out-and-out LOVED it, as it deviated a little too far from what I feel a proper Dracula story must constitute. Also star Jonathan Rhys Meyers was just too short to play Dracula. When the NBC series…
TheCheezman • July 6, 2017