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Top 13 Depictions Of Vampires In Comics

Hey Horror Comics fans! It’s me, Shane AKA Deadman, your comic reading and reviewing fiend here at ZADF.ORG . Here is my list of the Top Thirteen Depictions of Vampires in Comics: (This list will include entries from Comic Books, Manga, and Graphic Novels) 13. Vampire Guardian Angels Lia Scott Price’s Vampire Guardian Angels (TM) is a creator-owned comic book series written and created by Horror Author Lia Scott Price, based on her Vampire Trilogy Novel “The Guardian, Revenant, and Dominion”, and drawn by Artist Andrew Setter, with Colorist/Letterer Chad Hammontree. In the series, guardian angels from Heaven have become vampires who kill people who pray for help to them, and both humans and “good” angels have to work to stop them. 12. I…Vampire I…Vampire was created by writer J. M. DeMatteis. The series followed vampire Lord Andrew Bennett as he tries to stop a vampire he created, Mary Queen of Blood, and her group of evil vampires, The Blood

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Capt McNeely
Sep 26, 2015
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Just As We Feared, Someone Is Rebooting ‘The Exorcist’

It’s been forty years since 1973’s horror film, ‘The Exorcist’, appeared in theaters, leaving people passed out in their seats, and began it’s reign as one of the most frightening and beloved films in history. Hollywood has been on a remake binge lately and it seems that ‘The Exorcist’ is to be one of it’s latest victims. Deadline reported today that Morgan Creek Productions has hired a firm to sell the domestic rights to over one hundred of their titles. Morgan Creek will be holding on to the rights to remake a handful of films, including the rights to ‘The Exorcist’. Morgan Creek CEO Jim Robinson told Deadline “I’m selling the library strictly for economic reasons,” He continued “It will go back into the company to fund more production. We have a number of properties that we are looking to move forward on.” When Deadline asked if ‘The Exorcist’ was one of those films Morgan Creek is looking to reboot

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 25, 2015
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‘The Witch’ Conjures A Release Date

‘The Witch’, written and directed by Robert Eggers, who won the award for ‘Best Director’ at this years’ Sundance Film Festival, where the film premiered. Studio A24, the studio behind ‘Ex Machina’, announced release date for ‘The Witch’ yesterday via Twitter as February 26th. In ‘The Witch’ old traditional fears of magic, witchcraft, and possession combine to create a dark tale that explores one family’s fears and superstitions. ‘The Witch’ stars Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Anya Taylor Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger and Lucus Dawson. The movie, set in the 1630’s, takes place in New England. A farmer has been cast out of a colonial plantation, along with his family. They are forced to move to a remote piece of land bordered by a forest, rumored to be the home of witches and dark magic. Soon, strange things begin to occur, animals act oddly and crops wilt. A child disappears, only to return possessed. As things worsen, everyone begins to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 25, 2015
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‘Pet Sematary’ Documentary Slated For Release in 2016

‘Pet Sematary’ is the latest classic horror film to be the focus of a documentary. The documentary, titled ‘Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary’, has been acquired by Terror Films and is set to be released in early 2016. The documentary was written and directed by John Campopiano and Justin White, who began the project in 2011. The 1989 film was an adaption of the Stephen King novel by the same name. ‘Pet Sematary’ is a rare adaption that pleased both horror fans and Stephen King fans and remains one of the most loved films in the eyes of horror fans. Stephen King has a cameo in the film, as the priest in the funeral scene. It is also considered one of the best films to ever be directed by a woman, period. It’s director, Mary Lambert, went on to direct the film’s sequel, ‘Pet Sematary II’as well as many other horror films. She is still working in

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 25, 2015
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Clive Barker’s Weaverworld Being Adapted For TV

Horror Master Clive Barker will be serving as Executive Producer for an upcoming TV series based on his 1987 novel ‘Weaverworld’ for the CW. The series will be written by Jack Kenny (Warehouse 13). The series is said to be an updated version of the novel. In the TV adaption an app designer teams up with a pastry chef who has just discovered that she is destined to be the guardian of a mythological realm. The portal to the world can be found inside an old Savannah mansion. Together the two must fight evil forces who want to rule the magical world. Barker’s novel is set in the 1980’s in Liverpool, England. Many decades before the book is set “The Seerkind” used their magic to create a secret world known as “The Fugue” (a carpet) where they could hide themselves and their most precious possessions and creatures from the humans out to destroy them. The carpet is left in the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 24, 2015
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Ridley Scott’s Prometheus Sequel Is Titled ‘Alien: Paradise Lost’

We reported in August that during an interview for the September issue of Total Film Magazine, director Ridley Scott stated that he would “begin shooting Prometheus 2 in January.”. The sequel’s official name has just been released, the name of the 2016 film is ‘Alien: Paradise Lost’.‘Prometheus’ (2012) was part of the world that began with Scott’s brilliant 1979 film ‘Alien’. ‘Prometheus’ was not a sequel or prequel to ‘Alien’, but more of an expansion on the universe. In the film a group of scientists travel to a new world, following the clues that the once great civilization, who called the planet home, may be the linked to the origin of the human race. We are waiting for more information on the film. Scott has stated the sequels will need to connected to 1979’s ‘Alien’. The synopsis for ‘Alien: Paradise Lost’ has not been revealed at this time, but it is now in early pre-production. The word is, it will

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 24, 2015
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Doug Jones To Star In ‘The Bye Bye Man’

The horror-thriller ‘The Bye Bye Man’ has now entered pre-production and will begin principle photography on November 2, in Cleveland according to Variety. The film, produced by Los Angeles based Media Fund and Intrepid Pictures, will be directed by Stacey Title with the script written by Jonathan Penner, who is adapting the story based on Robert Damon’s short film ‘The Bridge to Body Island’. ‘The Bye Bye Man’ stars Doug Jones (Hellboy,The Strain), Douglas Smith (Terminator Genisys), Cressida Bonas (Doctor Thorne) and Lucien Laviscount (Scream Queens). In the film three Wisconsin collage students experience a series of terrifying events. The three come up against a sinister being known as ‘The Bye Bye Man’.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 24, 2015
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Eli Roth’s Next Project ‘Meg’ Stars A Giant Shark

Eli Roth has become known for blood and gore and just as his last movie, ‘The Green Inferno’, opens in theaters (9/25), news comes about his next project, ‘Meg’. We reported back in June that Roth had signed on to direct the film about a prehistoric giant shark , a Megalodon. ‘Meg’ has been in development at Warner Brothers for a while now and is finally entered preproduction. The movie is said to be an adaption of Steve Alten’s book series ‘Meg: A Novel Of Deep Terror’. The novel series follows a deep sea diver named Jonas Taylor. Taylor believes that a prehistoric Megalodon is alive and lurking in the Marianas Trench. The giant shark has escaped the temperature barrier that has kept it prisoner for so long. Now the shark is loose on the waters of the California coast. In an interview with Collider Roth had this to say about the film: “We just turned in the script to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 24, 2015
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Alec Gillis’ ‘Harbinger Down’ Now Out On DVD

‘Aliens’, ‘AVP’ and ‘Tremors’ are just a few of the movies Alec Gillis and his special effects company Amalgamated Dynamics (StudioADI) have worked on. Now Gillis has added writer and director to his resume. In ‘Harbinger Down’ a group of graduate students are in route to the Bering Sea to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas, when the ship’s crew dredges up the remains of a Soviet space wreckage containing the frozen remains of a cosmonaut. What the crew does not know is that the Russians had experimented with tarigrades, microscopic creatures that can withstand the effects of space. The creatures survived, but were effected by the radiation in space. Now the crew has been exposed to the mutated microscopic beings. ‘Harbinger Down’ stars ‘Aliens’ actor Lance Henriksen, Matt Winston (A.I. Artificial Intelligence), Giovonnie Samuels (Freedom Writers), Winston James Francis (Little Boy) and ‘Whiplash’ actress Camille Balsamo, among others. With Gillis’ talent for special effects,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 24, 2015
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A Halloween Attraction That Will Scare You Right Out Of Your Clothes (Literally)

It’s that time again, Halloween is approaching and haunted attractions around the world are gearing up to open their doors and scare the hell out of visitors. Every year haunted attractions are getting more hardcore. If you’re living in the UK, we have a haunted attraction you might want to check out, that is if you don’t mind them scaring you right out of your clothes, literally. Scare Kingdom’s park features an attraction that is the only attraction, as far as we know, that requires you to roam it’s corrodes in the buff. You read that right, to enter you have to be willing to go in completely naked. Scare Kingdom’s ‘Night of Naked Horror’ will have you face a lineup of scary staff to experience the theme of 7 Deadly Sins. Don’t worry, there are plenty of other attractions at the park for those of you who want to stay clothed. The park opens September 26th. For more information

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 23, 2015

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Top 13 Depictions Of Vampires In Comics

Hey Horror Comics fans! It’s me, Shane AKA Deadman, your comic reading and reviewing fiend here at ZADF.ORG . Here is my list of the Top Thirteen Depictions of Vampires in Comics: (This list will include entries from Comic Books, Manga, and Graphic Novels) 13. Vampire Guardian Angels Lia Scott Price’s Vampire Guardian Angels (TM) is a creator-owned comic book series written and created by Horror Author Lia Scott Price, based on her Vampire Trilogy Novel “The Guardian, Revenant, and Dominion”, and drawn by Artist Andrew Setter, with Colorist/Letterer Chad Hammontree. In the series, guardian angels from Heaven have become vampires who kill people who pray for help to them, and both humans and “good” angels have to work to stop them. 12. I…Vampire I…Vampire was created by writer J. M. DeMatteis. The series followed vampire Lord Andrew Bennett as he tries to stop a vampire he created, Mary Queen of Blood, and her group of evil vampires, The Blood

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Capt McNeely
Sep 26, 2015
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Just As We Feared, Someone Is Rebooting ‘The Exorcist’

It’s been forty years since 1973’s horror film, ‘The Exorcist’, appeared in theaters, leaving people passed out in their seats, and began it’s reign as one of the most frightening and beloved films in history. Hollywood has been on a remake binge lately and it seems that ‘The Exorcist’ is to be one of it’s latest victims. Deadline reported today that Morgan Creek Productions has hired a firm to sell the domestic rights to over one hundred of their titles. Morgan Creek will be holding on to the rights to remake a handful of films, including the rights to ‘The Exorcist’. Morgan Creek CEO Jim Robinson told Deadline “I’m selling the library strictly for economic reasons,” He continued “It will go back into the company to fund more production. We have a number of properties that we are looking to move forward on.” When Deadline asked if ‘The Exorcist’ was one of those films Morgan Creek is looking to reboot

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 25, 2015
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‘The Witch’ Conjures A Release Date

‘The Witch’, written and directed by Robert Eggers, who won the award for ‘Best Director’ at this years’ Sundance Film Festival, where the film premiered. Studio A24, the studio behind ‘Ex Machina’, announced release date for ‘The Witch’ yesterday via Twitter as February 26th. In ‘The Witch’ old traditional fears of magic, witchcraft, and possession combine to create a dark tale that explores one family’s fears and superstitions. ‘The Witch’ stars Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Anya Taylor Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger and Lucus Dawson. The movie, set in the 1630’s, takes place in New England. A farmer has been cast out of a colonial plantation, along with his family. They are forced to move to a remote piece of land bordered by a forest, rumored to be the home of witches and dark magic. Soon, strange things begin to occur, animals act oddly and crops wilt. A child disappears, only to return possessed. As things worsen, everyone begins to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 25, 2015
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‘Pet Sematary’ Documentary Slated For Release in 2016

‘Pet Sematary’ is the latest classic horror film to be the focus of a documentary. The documentary, titled ‘Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary’, has been acquired by Terror Films and is set to be released in early 2016. The documentary was written and directed by John Campopiano and Justin White, who began the project in 2011. The 1989 film was an adaption of the Stephen King novel by the same name. ‘Pet Sematary’ is a rare adaption that pleased both horror fans and Stephen King fans and remains one of the most loved films in the eyes of horror fans. Stephen King has a cameo in the film, as the priest in the funeral scene. It is also considered one of the best films to ever be directed by a woman, period. It’s director, Mary Lambert, went on to direct the film’s sequel, ‘Pet Sematary II’as well as many other horror films. She is still working in

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 25, 2015
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Clive Barker’s Weaverworld Being Adapted For TV

Horror Master Clive Barker will be serving as Executive Producer for an upcoming TV series based on his 1987 novel ‘Weaverworld’ for the CW. The series will be written by Jack Kenny (Warehouse 13). The series is said to be an updated version of the novel. In the TV adaption an app designer teams up with a pastry chef who has just discovered that she is destined to be the guardian of a mythological realm. The portal to the world can be found inside an old Savannah mansion. Together the two must fight evil forces who want to rule the magical world. Barker’s novel is set in the 1980’s in Liverpool, England. Many decades before the book is set “The Seerkind” used their magic to create a secret world known as “The Fugue” (a carpet) where they could hide themselves and their most precious possessions and creatures from the humans out to destroy them. The carpet is left in the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 24, 2015
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Ridley Scott’s Prometheus Sequel Is Titled ‘Alien: Paradise Lost’

We reported in August that during an interview for the September issue of Total Film Magazine, director Ridley Scott stated that he would “begin shooting Prometheus 2 in January.”. The sequel’s official name has just been released, the name of the 2016 film is ‘Alien: Paradise Lost’.‘Prometheus’ (2012) was part of the world that began with Scott’s brilliant 1979 film ‘Alien’. ‘Prometheus’ was not a sequel or prequel to ‘Alien’, but more of an expansion on the universe. In the film a group of scientists travel to a new world, following the clues that the once great civilization, who called the planet home, may be the linked to the origin of the human race. We are waiting for more information on the film. Scott has stated the sequels will need to connected to 1979’s ‘Alien’. The synopsis for ‘Alien: Paradise Lost’ has not been revealed at this time, but it is now in early pre-production. The word is, it will

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 24, 2015
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Doug Jones To Star In ‘The Bye Bye Man’

The horror-thriller ‘The Bye Bye Man’ has now entered pre-production and will begin principle photography on November 2, in Cleveland according to Variety. The film, produced by Los Angeles based Media Fund and Intrepid Pictures, will be directed by Stacey Title with the script written by Jonathan Penner, who is adapting the story based on Robert Damon’s short film ‘The Bridge to Body Island’. ‘The Bye Bye Man’ stars Doug Jones (Hellboy,The Strain), Douglas Smith (Terminator Genisys), Cressida Bonas (Doctor Thorne) and Lucien Laviscount (Scream Queens). In the film three Wisconsin collage students experience a series of terrifying events. The three come up against a sinister being known as ‘The Bye Bye Man’.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 24, 2015
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Eli Roth’s Next Project ‘Meg’ Stars A Giant Shark

Eli Roth has become known for blood and gore and just as his last movie, ‘The Green Inferno’, opens in theaters (9/25), news comes about his next project, ‘Meg’. We reported back in June that Roth had signed on to direct the film about a prehistoric giant shark , a Megalodon. ‘Meg’ has been in development at Warner Brothers for a while now and is finally entered preproduction. The movie is said to be an adaption of Steve Alten’s book series ‘Meg: A Novel Of Deep Terror’. The novel series follows a deep sea diver named Jonas Taylor. Taylor believes that a prehistoric Megalodon is alive and lurking in the Marianas Trench. The giant shark has escaped the temperature barrier that has kept it prisoner for so long. Now the shark is loose on the waters of the California coast. In an interview with Collider Roth had this to say about the film: “We just turned in the script to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 24, 2015
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Alec Gillis’ ‘Harbinger Down’ Now Out On DVD

‘Aliens’, ‘AVP’ and ‘Tremors’ are just a few of the movies Alec Gillis and his special effects company Amalgamated Dynamics (StudioADI) have worked on. Now Gillis has added writer and director to his resume. In ‘Harbinger Down’ a group of graduate students are in route to the Bering Sea to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas, when the ship’s crew dredges up the remains of a Soviet space wreckage containing the frozen remains of a cosmonaut. What the crew does not know is that the Russians had experimented with tarigrades, microscopic creatures that can withstand the effects of space. The creatures survived, but were effected by the radiation in space. Now the crew has been exposed to the mutated microscopic beings. ‘Harbinger Down’ stars ‘Aliens’ actor Lance Henriksen, Matt Winston (A.I. Artificial Intelligence), Giovonnie Samuels (Freedom Writers), Winston James Francis (Little Boy) and ‘Whiplash’ actress Camille Balsamo, among others. With Gillis’ talent for special effects,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 24, 2015
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A Halloween Attraction That Will Scare You Right Out Of Your Clothes (Literally)

It’s that time again, Halloween is approaching and haunted attractions around the world are gearing up to open their doors and scare the hell out of visitors. Every year haunted attractions are getting more hardcore. If you’re living in the UK, we have a haunted attraction you might want to check out, that is if you don’t mind them scaring you right out of your clothes, literally. Scare Kingdom’s park features an attraction that is the only attraction, as far as we know, that requires you to roam it’s corrodes in the buff. You read that right, to enter you have to be willing to go in completely naked. Scare Kingdom’s ‘Night of Naked Horror’ will have you face a lineup of scary staff to experience the theme of 7 Deadly Sins. Don’t worry, there are plenty of other attractions at the park for those of you who want to stay clothed. The park opens September 26th. For more information

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 23, 2015
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