Drac is back: Dracula sequel sets original apart from today’s ’sparkly vampires’
Chris Lackner, Canwest News Service
Where: Ottawa International Writers Festival, St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts and Humanities, 314 St. Patrick St.
When: Oct. 25, 8:30 p.m.
While today’s vampires seem more intent on wining us than dining on us, something truly wicked this way comes. Again.
That seemingly toothless pretty-boy Edward Cullen better start baring his fangs, and True Blood’s Bill Compton may want to go elsewhere to do his brooding and down his synthesized blood: Drac is back — and with him, a reminder that true vampires are far more monster than man.
Just when the pop cultural craving for all-things-vamp seems like it couldn’t get anymore bloodthirsty, Dracula is returning in a sequel to Bram Stoker’s classic. Dracula: The Un-dead, co-written by Canadian Bram Stoker descendant Dacre Stoker, will be released today. Stoker reads later this month at the Ottawa International Writers Festival.
Read the full article on the Ottawa Citizen website: Drac is back
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