Every year on The DreamCage website we celebrate the run up to Halloween with our own version of an advent calendar, thanks to the sterling efforts of one of our writers David Ames who writes 31 articles in 31 days...
David Ames explains more...
"It’s that time of year again! The time when the leaves begin to fall, the weather begins to get rough, and all the small, nondescript towns begin to look strangely like Haddonfield, Illinois. Now, if you were here last year, you understand that my best friend, Andy Fox, and I always do something horror-themed for every day of October. Classically, it was always a movie a day and I think I will continue that classic trend on my own but this year, instead of a movie review a day, I think I want to switch up the layout a bit. Instead of constant movie reviews, I am going to pepper in books or graphic novels that also fall into this genre. Horror, as a whole, is easily my favorite genre of anything and because of this fact, this time of the year is refreshing for me. It is a time where Fox and I can unwind, pop in a slasher movie, and relax, laughing all the way at the clichés and tropes.
This year, I am trying to keep a theme going: Vampires. They are one of my favorite creations in all of media. I have been obsessed with them since I was around eight years old. Most of the horror this year will be based around Vampire films and literature.
Strap in and join me for the Dreamcage’s second annual Hallow-vent Calendar."
Click on the date number to read that day's Hallow-vent entry - there's a list of the articles under the calendar. You can also find last year's Hallow-vent Calendar HERE.
The articles are:
- Stake Land
- Blood of the Tribades
- Plasma
- Severed
- The Transfiguration
- Dracula Untold
- Near Dark
- Fright Night
- Byzantium
- Embrace of the Vampire
- the book Let the Right One In
- the film Let the Right One In
- David's article on The Sexuality of Vampires
- Let Me In
- Thirteen Bullets
- Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
- the graphic novel 30 Days of Night
- the film of 30 Days of Night
- the sequel 30 Days of Night: Dark Days
- The Delicate Dependency
- The Addiction
- Innocent Blood
- Nosferatu the Vampyre
- Shadow of the Vampire
- Interview with the Vampire
- Blade II
- Subspecies
- Curse of the Mutants
- Kiss of the Damned
- The Lost Boys
- American Vampire Vol 1
