#his peter vincent is so hot and pathetic

[david-tennant-in-chairs]

It's scary how badly I want him

[lydialimpetslibrary]

★ FILL IN THE QUESTIONS AS IF YOU ARE BEING INTERVIEWED FOR AN ARTICLE AND YOU WERE YOUR MUSE.

TAGGED BY: @thegreatvampirekiller

TAGGING: Anyone who wants to I guess.

Originally posted by moubrave

1. WHAT IS YOUR NAME?  “Lydia Scarlet.”

2. WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME? “Lydia Agatha Scarlet.”

3. DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU’RE CALLED THAT?  “Well, my pathetic excuse for a mother thought that Lydia Bennet was the ideal daughter, loved parties and got married to some asshole who took advantage of her when she was sixteen? Obviously the life any parent wants for their daughter. I picked my middle name myself, after Agatha Christie.”

4. ARE YOU SINGLE OR TAKEN?  “I’m very much taken by my darling husband, Alexander Scarlet.”

5. WHAT ARE YOUR POWERS AND ABILITIES?  "I can play piano, manage a school library, and according to my husband write decent poetry.”

6. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES?  “They’re brown.”

7. HAVE YOU EVER DYED YOUR HAIR?  “I have, yes. I dyed it blonde at one point. It’s back to it’s normal color now, but I wouldn’t be opposed to dying it again.”

8. DO YOU HAVE ANY FAMILY MEMBERS?  "Oh gosh, a whole list of them. Peter and Neena, a plethora of siblings through Peter, and some nieces and nephews I think. Theo, who basically became my older brother, and his husband Nathan, then their son who I suppose would be my nephew. Molly’s my ghost sister, and then Lea is another sister. Alexander, of course. A plethora of adopted and honorary children. Catherine, the twins, and my half sister Janice are the only blood family who count.”

9. DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?  “Three cats. Ernest and Hercule are tuxedo cats, and Lloyd’s an asshole cat. But they’re all great, and wonderful around the kids.”

10. TELL ME ABOUT SOMETHING YOU DON’T LIKE.  “Some former Arkham employee who lost her doctorate. I never had to deal with her in a major capacity and she still traumatized me.”

11. DO YOU HAVE ANY HOBBIES OR ACTIVITIES YOU DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME?  "Reading, listening to music, spending time with my family.”

12. HAVE YOU EVER HURT ANYONE BEFORE?  “Yes. And, excluding when I hurt someone to protect a loved one, I do regret hurting people.”

13. HAVE YOU EVER… KILLED ANYONE?  “The bitch mentioned in question 10, I didn’t kill her, but I wanted to. I mean, what monster tells someone that their loved one almost died and then laughs? If I had actually been able to breathe, I don’t think Theo would’ve been able to stop me in time.”

14. WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU? “I have absolutely no idea.”

15. NAME YOUR WORST HABITS.  “I suppose my excessive worrying could fit, not that it’s really a habit.”

16. DO YOU LOOK UP TO ANYONE?  “I do, mostly classical literature authors. I also look up to Peter Vincent because he’s the first person who actually was a good parent to me.”

17. GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?  “Demisexual, grey-aromantic.”

18. DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL?  “I did, I graduated just before I turned seventeen, and I have a master’s degree in library sciences.”

19. DO YOU EVER WANT TO MARRY AND HAVE KIDS SOMEDAY?  “If you had asked me this when I was twenty, I would have said hell no. But, I’m happily married, and I have several adopted children, and three biological children. So my answer now would be yes, and I already have.”

20. DO YOU HAVE ANY FANS?  “I don’t know, I doubt it.”

21. WHAT ARE YOU MOST AFRAID OF?  “Losing my family.”

22. WHAT DO YOU USUALLY WEAR?  “Some black slacks, with ankle high boots, and some sort of blouse. At least for work.”

23. DO YOU LOVE SOMEONE?  “Pardon my language, but, fuck yes!”

24. WHAT CLASS ARE YOU?   “I’m not a teacher dear. If this is a economic thing, middle class. If this is a fantasy thing, a mage or a wizard.”

25. HOW MANY FRIENDS DO YOU HAVE?  “More than I ever thought I’d have.”

26. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON PIE?  “It depends on the pie, though I do enjoy it if it’s well made.”

27. FAVORITE DRINK?  “Earl grey.”

[No. 28 seems to have disappeared…]

29. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE?  “The office/library in our house. It’s so cozy, and there’s always at least one family member in there.”

30. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SOMEONE?  “If you haven’t figured out by now how much I am interested and in love with my husband, I don’t know how much this answer will help.”

31. WHAT’S YOUR DICK SIZE?  “I don’t have one. Next question please.”

32. WOULD YOU RATHER SWIM IN THE LAKE OR THE OCEAN?  “I suppose ocean, just because the beach around is nicer.”

33. WHAT’S YOUR ‘TYPE’?  “Alexander Stirling Scarlet.”

34. ANY FETISHES?  “If answering this will make you stop asking about my bedroom life... A loving relationship, built on mutual respect and trust.” “Also, neck kisses are pretty hot. But only if they’re from Alexander”

35. TOP OR BOTTOM? DOMINANT OR SUBMISSIVE?  “That’s none of your damn business.”

36. CAMPING, OR INDOORS?  “I do love this little cabin Alexander and I have taken the kids to. But I suppose since that has some electric commodities and running water it’d qualify as indoors. So I’ll say indoors.”

37. ARE YOU WAITING FOR THIS INTERVIEW TO BE OVER?  “Apart from a few rather prying questions, it was a good interview. So not necessarily.”

[thenightling]

Just saw Fright Night 2 (2013  version)

@mrgoldsshopofhorrors  @thesaramonster

So I decided to give the 2013 Fright Night 2 a chance.  I was feverish and needed a new horror movie to watch and besides, I wanted to see how well Jaime Murray (the Black Fairy from Once Upon a Time) did as a vampire because I love her girlish (original Dark Shadows' Angelique Collins-esque) giggle.

At first I was ready to heckle it, from the cheesy blue-green tint and an explosion at the one minute and thirty second mark but it fast improved. Unfortunately it started to deteriorate back to shlock value near the end. First: this isn't really a sequel.  It's more like another remake.  A remake that unfortunately went direct to video while the 2011 version got a theatrical release.  I say unfortunately because... I honestly think this was (at least for the first forty five minutes or so) better than the 2011 version despite 2011's abomination of a remake having David Tennant (Even that couldn't save it).

This film was a LOT more respectful to the original 1985 Fright Night than the 2011 Fright Night.

The plot is Charley Brewster, Amy, and Evil Ed (as I said it's not the same continuity as the 2011 film, so yes, Ed is alive) have decided to attend college in Romania.  Their new professor is Gerri Dangridge (a female version of Jerry) is a vampire.  

Much like the original Fright Night Charlie sees her taking victims from his window and at first no one believes him.  She follows traditional Dracula-esque rules such as needing an invitation to enter a home, but unlike the gutter trash version of Jerry from the 2011 film she also has a lot of Dracula's traditional powers.

Her shadow can move as if of it's own accord (I like that a lot).  She can leap great heights and probably even fly.  She can read thoughts and enter dreams.  She can stop a moving car and damage it, with her own body.  And she heals fast even from a cross impaling one of her eyeballs.  She growls and makes animal and insect-like noises.  Her powers put the 2011 Jerry Dangridge to shame.  She also has more of the charm you would expect from a traditional vampire.  Suave and seductive yet dangerous. I just wish that like the original 1985 Jerry Dandridge and 1988 Regine she could take bat, wolf, and mist form.

She keeps making animal noises.  Let her change form, damn it!

Also, much like how the original 1985 Fight Night suggested that Jerry Dandridge was really Dracula (at least in it's novelization), this film heavily suggests (actually it out right tells you) that Gerri is Elizabeth Bathory, which I don't mind at all.  She even has a hidden bathtub of blood in her flat along with a collection of clocks (much like the 1985 Fright Night).

There's a bit of a twist though that she has been searching, for centuries, for someone born on the blood moon (and still a virgin) whose blood can cure her of her curse.   So though we see her revel in predatory behavior and seem to wickedly enjoy it, apparently she does not actually like being a vampire.   The new Evil Ed is a LOT better than the 2011 version as well.  This Evil reminded me of the original, right down to the facial expressions and eyebrows.  He even has the laugh.  He felt like Evil Ed, like he studied the original.   And unlike the 2011 Jerry Dangridge, who idiotically lived in a Las Vegas suburb with foil over his windows, this version is in Romania and has UV filters over her windows, a very nice modernization that didn't feel low brow or trashy.   I wish I had seen this when it first came out.  It's not as good as the 80s version or even the 1988 sequel but it makes up for the 2011 Fright Night in it's own way. 

This shouldn't be called Fright Night 2.  It should be it's own movie, stand on it's own, as it's own attempt at a Fright Night remake since that's what it actually is.   This version deserved to be more than a direct to video sequel to the 2011 film.  Unfortunately it does have it's flaws...

The new Peter Vincent is a TV host for a cheesy Syfy Channel style monster hunting reality show.  I'm glad he has a TV show again but he's still disappointing.  He's too much like the 2011 version.   I miss the timid horror host who finds his place as a real monster hunter like Roddy McDowell's Peter Vincent.  Becoming the hero he always wanted to be.  The way the 2011 and 2013 Peter Vincent is tackled is all too cynical.  

Amy's a bit stand-off-ish and keeps ignoring Charley trying to give her chocolates and flowers but I still like her better than the "Hot chick" version from the 2011 film that completely obliterated her Girl Next Door quality from the original 1985 film.

Evil Ed and Gerri Dandridge are fantastic and they make this movie! There are parts in this that actually managed to make me laugh.   Nothing in the 2011 version made me laugh.  This should have gotten it's own theatrical release as it's own Fright Night remake.  It's NOT a sequel, it is its own reboot.  This should not be called Fright Night 2.

I miss the 1985 gay overtones with Ed being in the closet but this version of Evil Ed is fun just the same. Every time a vampire screeches and all through the chase scene and later climax there is a flickering light effect that I absolutely hate.  That's not scary.  It's annoying and potentially headache inducing.  The flickering lights during the chase scene are really annoying and unnecessary.  The scene would have been a lot creepier without it.   This is one of the film's flaws, falling back on modern tropes and cliches like this when it had the potential to be so good otherwise.  Skip the chase scene if you are prone to seizures or are photophobic in any way.

The chase scene and Peter Vincent are the biggest let downs of the movie but I love Evil Ed and I love Gerri Dandridge and her new array of powers that make the 2011 Jerry look pathetic in comparison.  I just wish she would take wolf, bat or mist form.

I also don't like that the vampires won't show up on camera, a trope lifted from the 2011 film.  Cameras never stopped Regine in the 1988 Fright Night Part 2, in fact part of the plot was her taking Peter Vincent's TV show and becoming it's new host.  Not showing up in a mirror doesn't necessarily mean you won't show up on camera.

They should shed all trappings of the 2011 Fright night, the parts that tried to mimic the 2011 remake actually hurt it.  Though I did like when Peter Vincent claimed to have the weapon that killed Dracula and that he had found it in the props department.

The ending is a bit incoherent and has it that a mere bite will change you into a vampire and yet in the original 1985 Fright Night, despite the feeding decapitations we distinctly saw Jerry feed Amy his blood.

The stupid flicker effect every time a vampire screeches is really obnoxious too, during the chase and the climax.

 Despite it's flaws the movie was kind of fun.  I would give it a 6.5 out of 10.  Gerri, you deserved to exist in a better Fright Night.