#vampire sets

[kentnaturaltribrid]

Stay calm and avoid wooden stakes 🚫🌳

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[secretdazedragon]

[wafflehouseyuri]

Louis and Armand’s martial bedsheets have a pattern that looks like little stones…. I’m gonna be sick Armand never truly let Louis out of that coffin huh

[lizardkingeliot]

You dance that close, you ought to be married.

[ophelialoveshandsomemen]

Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

[lazylittledragon]

reintroducing the vamp fam bc it's been a LONG time since i last drew them

[wildeoscars]

hey has anyone pointed this out yet

[kandelia-mangrove]

Can we talk about how in the show Lestat and Armand are framed as narrative foils. Armand and Lestat who are both so aggressively theater kids, but Lestat who acts, who draws in the attention and holds it, and Armand who directs, who shapes and manipulates the narrative. Armand and Lestat's obsession with Louis and his love and frustration with his melancholy over Lestat and Claudia respectively. Who both felt second in his heart. Who fear loneliness above all else. Lestat taking what he wants to excess - no impulse control, and Armand letting things happen to him and trying to manipulate situations to get what he wants but never taking it. Armand, who even in the end, so much more powerful, never physically imposes himself on Louis. Armand who seeks complete control in subtle insidious ways. Lestat who seeks control in the physical. Armand and Lestat brought into vampire life in horrifying ways tangled up with SA. Armand who still talks about his maker with reverence, Lestat who hates his maker. Armand who pours all of himself into his partner, willing to shape himself into what they desire but ultimately needing control to feel safe. Lestat who pours all of his love into his partner but unwilling to change himself and ultimately cedes control in moments to maintain the relationship. Armand who clings to his breaking apart relationship for 77 YEARs, Lestat who let Louis go. Lestat and Armand who watch Claudia die, but one as a father and one as a murderer. Lestat and Armand so intense in their love but Lestat so painfully external and Armand so painfully internal as characters. Both constantly acting and putting on a face. Lestat as Mozart and Armand as Salieri (in the flashback scene!). Armand who loves routine and structure and repetion, Lestat who craves change and excitement. The calling cards are echos, who learned from who. Armand teaching Lestat the vampire gifts, Lestat teaching Armand a new way to live. on and on....

[idontwikeit]

Favorite shots of Interview with the Vampire Part II

[harveyguillensource]

Behind the scenes photos featured in Vulture's WWDITS set visit and final season preview!

[alexisrosemullens]

@pscentral​ event 31: faceless ↳ loustat + hands (part 1)

[sandushengshou]

Interview with the Vampire | 2.01 "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned"

[talesfromthecrypts]

And lo, the maiden fair did offer her love unto the beast and with him lay in close embrace until the first cock crow.

Nosferatu (2024)

Interview With the Vampire (2022- )

Shiver of the Vampires (1971)

Thirst (2009)

The Hunger (1982)

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)

30 Days of Night (2007)

With a Kiss I Die (2018)

[sauerhundz]

Yan!Vampire who has been alone for so long that history has forgotten him. Who hasn't felt the touch of another in eons.

Yan!Vampire who thought he would spend the rest of eternity in solitude until he met you, his cute little human.

Yan!Vampire who is more than happy to share his home (and heart) with you. Who can't wait to show you everything he has to offer.

Yan!Vampire who find your very human traits adorable, even when you get embarrassed.

Yan!Vampire who sought to impress you with his knowledge of many subjects.

Yan!Vampire who can't help but dress you in the finest silks and gold.

Yan!Vampire who doesn't let any of your precious blood go to waste.

Yan!Vampire who calls you his 'Beloved'.

Yan!Vampire who thought you were too perfect for a soul as damned as his (but also couldn't let you go).

[lizardkingeliot]

louis whispering in lestat's ear and kissing his face gently is all i care about this is all i'm talking about until season 3 goodbye