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Dracula on NBCTitle: Dracula
Created by: Cole Haddon
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica De Gouw, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Victoria Smurfit, Thomas Kretschmann, Katie McGrath, Robert Bathurst, Miklós Bányai
Network: NBC
Airs: Friday nights on NBC

Synopsis borrowed from IMDB: Series introduces Dracula as he arrives in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who maintains that he wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality, he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier. There’s only one circumstance that can potentially thwart his plan: Dracula falls hopelessly in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife.

I wasn’t interested in this show at first, as I’d caught part of episode 2 and it was too hard to figure out what was going on. Then episode 4 was airing after Grimm, and I got curious. So I went on Hulu and caught myself up from the first episode and…

This show is amazing.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a Dracula that was captured by the Order of Drago, locked in a coffin, and entombed. He is awakened centuries later and given the chance to enact his revenge against those that killed his wife, tortured and beat him, and have been hunting his kind with impunity.

Taking on the identity of Alexander Grayson, an American entrepreneur that’s come to London to introduce a science that will replace the need for oil and destroy the finances of his enemies, he is sexy, heartless, and cruel.

During his introduction to Society, he meets the reincarnation of his dead wife Ilona, who is known as Mina Murray and is a medical student desperate to prove that a woman can be a doctor. She is accompanied by her handsome beau, the journalist Jonathan Harker, and her friend … Read the rest “RE TV SHOW: Dracula [drama, horror]”

Title: The Faculty (1998)
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Written by: David Wechter (story), Bruce Kimmel (story), Kevin Williamson (screenplay)
Actors: Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Clea Duvall, Famke Janssen, Jordana Brewster, Laura Harris, Jon Stewart
Genre: sci-fi, horror
aStore: DVD, Blu-Ray

So this is one of those teen movies where a bunch of kids fight the alien invasion by killing people and doing drugs. Basically, it’s high school.

Btw, this movie has a crazy number of famous actors in it — Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Shawn Hatosy, Salma Hayek, Famke Janssen, Christopher McDonald, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, Usher, and Jon Stewart.

*spoiler alert* Elijah Wood is Casey Connor, a nerdy kid being bullied. At the very beginning, he’s grabbed by his arms and legs by a bunch of jocks and slammed crotch first into the flag pole. So at the end of the movie, I hate the fact that Casey doesn’t use his newfound popularity to help that poor kid getting his ass kicked. He was totally hating life while he was being bullied, but he doesn’t do anything to help some other poor shmoe? Forget that you just saved the world or whatever, you’ve lost a ton of cred with me.

Anyways, watching this movie, I like to imagine what would have happened if it turned out they were just hallucinating the alien invasion and they went on a drug-fueled killing spree. It’s like, what if the Matrix isn’t real, and Neo is just some crackpot with a bunch of machine guns running around in too much leather.

Also, the ending was weak because in real life, they totally would have blamed those kids for everything during the clean up, and there would have been a massive government cover up. Maybe the guys who came … Read the rest “RE MOVIE: The Faculty [sci-fi, horror]”

Through a window darkly gazing
At a sight afraid to see
Breathing deep the salted water
Dreaming dreams, of you and me.