Blood is Life: The Immortal Lessons in Dracula

One of the most adapted literary characters of all time is Count Dracula. Played as a romantic anti-hero, a demented monster, and an empathetic but misguided devil, audiences cannot get enough of Bram Stoker’s creation. It is not difficult to fathom the reason why, for beneath the interesting tale of heroism pitted against an ancient...

Lessons from An ISFJ Vampire

Note: this references shortened terms for cognitive functions: Si (Introverted Sensing, a subjective mythology based on personal experience), Fe (Extroverted Feeling, or objective emotions centered around the welfare of others), Ti (Introverted Thinking, or subjective reasoning and the desire to understand the WHY), and Ne (Extroverted Intuition, or seeing the potential possibilities around an object...

Movies I Love: Dracula (1979)

  Last night, as I watched this film for the first time in HD (but not for the first time!), I pondered what to say about it. I have interesting reminiscences about my discovery of it, funny anecdotes about introducing others to it, and an obscene amount of knowledge about the filming process, stage production...

Why I Hate Elena Gilbert on The Vampire Diaries

  I have a confession to make: I used to like Elena Gilbert. But that affection has long since died. I’m not sure where it started, but my dislike of her shifted into full-blown hatred last season, when her vampire emotions amplified that nasty little habit she has of making everything about her, all the...

Christians, Vampires & Magic

I really do keep up on what people search for on this blog, and sometimes it prompts me to write posts about it, if I haven’t addressed that particular topic in the archives. So, one particular search term this week stood out to me: “should Christians read about vampires and magic”? My response? It depends...

Is Fiction How We Misbehave?

Christians girls are an unusual breed. Most of us behave ourselves rather well. We don’t date jerks. We (usually) don’t drink. We don’t sleep around. Our parents don’t have to stress out over our behavior, and we’re in church at least once a week, if not more. But, if other Christian girls are anything like...

Dracula & Company

Some movies come with good memories. Just sticking the disk into the player reminds you of happier times, of sharing the experience with friends or an incident that transpired during the film. I rather suspect that for some things, my appreciation of a film is directly tied into the people that I have shared it...

Saving Caroline

Caroline Forbes is not your ordinary heroine. Her friend Matt calls her neurotic and insecure. And when you first meet her on the television show The Vampire Diaries, you just might agree with him. She first seems to be a typical high school cheerleader: empty-headed, interested in dating cute boys, and a tad bit jealous...

Can Christians Watch Vampires?

If you hear a high-pitched, murderous scream of rage at any point this evening, you will know it is me and a plot twist on one of my shows is headed in a direction of which I Do Not Approve. =PBut that is still a few hours off (three if you want to be exact)...