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Not a week after Dracula premiered and I contemplated how nice it would be to see some gay action, then we were rewarded with a second episode featuring several males kissing, including Dracula himself. Of course this could have an a one-off or it could hint to a greater subplot emerging in the Dracula series.
After months of waiting, Dracula has premiered on NBC (the UK will have to wait until Halloween to watch) and already we’ve had a taste of the storyline preparing to unfold. Still set in Victorian London, the series has deviated from the original novel in some significant ways, but it’s clearly been done to make a better drama. Dracula is still a vampire, other characters are still there, but their roles have changed including Van Helsing’s relationship with Dracula/Grayson. From there the plot diverged.
It’s now been four whole years since I first received my Count Cockula sex in a can Fleshjack. Back then I had just complained that we were experiencing a gay vampire draught, but then the draught ended and it seemed for a few years that we were spoiled for choice with gay vampire films, books and even it seemed, toys!
The direct-to-video remake of Fright Night 2 is part pseudo-sequel to the 2011 Anton Yelchin & Colin Farrell remake of the 80s classic vampire film, and part third-attempt retelling. Soon after the 1985 film was released, Fright Night 2 followed with Charley encountering a vampire, the sister of Jerry Dandrige, when he goes off to college. One might then think the remake and sequel would follow a similar story line, but it doesn’t. In fact, Fright Night 2: New Blood adopts the original film’s plot and creates what could be a better remake even with a disappointing ending.
While I continue to watch The Vampire Diaries, I don’t trip over myself to watch every episode immediately. So I also didn’t rush to watch the premiere of The Originals. I have been looking forward to a storyline that finally will include a gay vampire, of course what I wasn’t expecting with the first episode was a repeat of the pilot originally shown last spring.
Come To My Brother, written by Christopher Zeischegg (who’s better known on screen as Danny Wylde), follows the story of David, a film student and fetish porn actor, who is reunited with Daniel, his childhood best friend (and step-brother who became his high-school boyfriend), after Daniel had suddenly gone missing for many years.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, the first instalment in Cassandra Clara’s series was released in theatres this weekend and I took the plunge and saw it, hoping for some good vampire action, maybe with a bit of gay love too. Only I discovered vampires play a small part in the first book and then their role was cut down even further in the film. One tidbit did remain, though that would be spoiling the series (so read about it below).
Hot shirtless guys. Gay characters. A quick moving plot with less teen angst. And plenty of fangs, though werewolf fangs. Teen Wolf has it all, and better than Vampire Diaries (yet it’s also missing that key ingredient, vampires). But why is this, how can MTV’s furry drama be better when the CW has the vampires.
Taking a hint from another site I thought it would be interesting to share with you my top vampire books or stories (mostly gay) and ask you to share yours[...]
Thanks to a casting call, we now know that the upcoming The Originals series will feature a hot gay character named Josh. The spin-off show will premiere on October 15 (though I’ve heard it may start Oct 3) with Klaus and his family of original vampires plus a few werewolves.
We will have to wait until October 25 to finally see the premiere of Dracula the television series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, but NBC has released the series’ trailer to tempt and tease us.
