At the Daybreakers sponsored site Capture Humans, there's a Facebook video that, once hooked up to your page, will explain the viral "gift" that is vampirism — by establishing you and all your Facebook friends as the original vampires. It's actually pretty fascinating and helps build the vampire world that exists in Daybreakers. See if you can catch the picture I used for "patient zero." It also gives a bit of background to the Bromley and Marks "blood bank," where future vampires will keep their currency. The "population control" is pretty intense as well.

If you're not keen on putting in your FB stats, you can just watch the video we provided above.

Also on the Capture Humans site are a few tips from the site on what to do if you encounter one of the few humans left on the planet:

Plus from their home page here are a few lovely wallpapers that show vampire rides, and what happens when a vamp is thrown out from the front of their car. Fire!

And here are awesome new posters:

Additional writing and reporting by Caitlin Petrakovitz.

Edward Reminds You To "Be Safe" In Bed


Get a shadowy Edward Silhouette wall decal to stand guard over your bed and remind you all that you shouldn't have sex until you're married and it kills you — or ride dirt bikes. It's $60, but think of it this way: it's an investment in your sex life. Contraceptives are expensive, but this wall decal will keep everyone out of your bedroom for years.

Share The Dream Together Sheets

Surround yourself with vampire love, hearts, and shame. Available at ebay.

Go Green With Twilight

Now you can be sparkly and Green. Team Jacob And Team Edward water bottles, sold at a fast food joint. Hypocrisy, thy name is Edward!

Smell Like Your Favorite New Moon Character

Vampire and Werewolf body lotions, soaps and oils. Poor Alice: her trademark scent is described as "spirited" while Edward is "intoxicating" and Bella is "irresistible." Anyone else wishing Jacob's smelled like wet dog?

Twilight Bed Crown

Live in your own moody death shroud, for a mere $14.00.

Twilight Checkbook Cover

This might be a really clever joke, since Twilight is one of the biggest cash cows in history — but we have a feeling there's no sardonic wit involved in this Twilight checkbook cover.

Bella's Womb

Well, it was bound to happen, someone was bound to make a felt version of Bella Swan's womb... wait WHAT. HER WOMB? SOMEONE FELTED HER WOMB? WITH THE MUTATED BLOOD-CRAVING ADULT BABY RENESMEE INSIDE? TELL US WHY. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THIS??

Twilight Mosaic Table

Maybe Joseph Fiennes would want to decorate his back patio with this. Ha ha ha ha ha it's a FlashForward joke. But seriously, he probably would want this exquisitely crafted piece of furniture.

My Mommy's a "Bella" Onesie

If your mommy really is a "Bella", that means you are a demon spawn whose father had to rip through your mommy's stomach with his vampire teeth to release you from her womb. You also will grow abnormally fast, be a child forever, and have a totally consensual love affair with a werewolf 17 years your senior. So that's good.

Twilight Converse

Better not scuff these up, y'all. There is no greater art form than puffy paint-decorated Chucks.

Bella's St. Jude Bracelet

Bella's St. Jude bracelet from Hot Topic keeps the apocryphal apostle close to your heart, but we have no idea why - THIS IS NOT IN THE BOOK; THIS IS NOT CANON, PEOPLE.

Cross Stitch Abs

Who doesn't want to spend hours cross stitching abs on your sweat shit? Well now you can.

Bella's Wedding Ring

Yes you guys. You too can rush into a teen marriage prematurely, so that you can have sex without remorse. And have a demon grow in your uterus. And name her Renesmee. All because of this heavenly bauble.

Twilight Pillow
Apparently MS Paint is still the preferred mode of digital creativity in the wonderful world of Stephenie Meyer, so here is an artfully designed pillow featuring a lamb jumping off a cliff. IT'S A METAPHOR. For... Twilight girls with suicidal urges after their boyfriends break up with them. It's beautiful.

Golden Contacts

Fangs are so passé, everyone knows that eye color are the real indicator of a propensity for blood sucking and sex-abstaining.

Twi Shower

Nothing says "early morning heart attack" quite like a greeting from a giant, pissed off, floating vampire head in your bathroom. It's the Twilight shower curtain, and it's only $60.

Wolf Pack Packaging Tape

Now you can give your gifts a Wolf Pack tattoo when you wrap and send them! Not to mention the hours of entertainment you'll get out of "giving" some poor unsuspecting boy a tape tattoo ("I promise it won't hurt to take off!") . Available at the Twilight center for entertainment joy, Hot Topic.

Salt & Vampire Pringles

Now you don't need to continue stalking R-Patz to find out that vampires apparently taste exactly like vinegar and are in fact used as a substitute for it. Just try these limited edition Pringles!

Hey, if vamps can eat us, why not the other way around?

Cullen Crest bra

The jury's still out on whether or not this one is real, but if so, you had better be a well endowed girl who doesn't mind showing off that space where cleavage usually goes. If you're good with that, then show off this crest of a family you'll never belong to! Because they're fake! And not real! HEAR ME? IT'S A MOVIE, PEOPLE.

TwiCrotch: Edward Panties

I'm sure the vamp facing panties we introduced you to a few weeks ago are already high on your wish list, but we definitely wanted to remind you of the awesomeness of them. I mean, who doesn't need panties where the crotch faces INSIDE. Yeah, mull that one over, fans.

Some of the most sensational, embarrassing and frankly gross Twilight saying tees, buttons and bags.

Love at First Bite Cookbook

In Twilight, Esme and company invite Bella over for some Italiano, so now you too can extend a lil vampire hospitality to your favorite friends who will gaze at you in silence, shaking their heads with sadness that you trust Stephenie Meyer with your discerning palate, as you try to whip up some favorites from Love at First Bite including Bella's Lasagna, Harry's Famous Fish Fry, and of course mushroom ravioli as the main course. See Twilight lunchbox for further instructions.

Twilight board game
The Twiboard game (So I have a thing for prefacing random words with Twi. Sue me.) was first glimpsed with the release of the New Moon logo, and for that reson, I fear it my have been swept under the table. Not to worry, I'm here to remind you of all its cute family-crest play pieces, and the wonderfully poorly done Monopoly rip-off. Rush your order now, for hours of love and blood-sucking enjoyment. I mean, I'm just guessing.

Bella's Birthday Dress
For maximum effect, make sure your hair isn't done and you wear black cons - this is like the American Girl Doll dress up gone horribly wrong. Especially since this is the dress Bella gets smacked around in, for her protection. Available at Hot Topic not that we tried it on or anything, shut up!

Twilight Barbie replicas
Added to the category of slightly creepy yet totally keeping in tune with the rest of the great merch, Mattel commissioned replicas of Bella and Edward whose plastic skins are whiter than white (though Eddie doesn't seem to sparkle as much as we would have thought). They're not available yet, but come November 25, snatch one up for the Twilhards in your life, so they can creepily act out the books on their own!

The Vamp: The Sparkly Dildo
If nothing else on this slightly disturbing list can help you get as close to Edward as you'd like, please consider Tantus's sparkly The Vamp dildo in its cool pink color. Back when we showed you it was available, don't forget to throw it in the fridge before using it though, so you're sure to get that cold, lifeless feeling a real vamp's sparkly cock would be sure to have.

Eddie's Volvo

Are you a relatively affluent middle aged man or woman who loves both Twilight and midrange luxury vehicles? Then you should enter this contest. We don't think you will have that much competition.

Twi-Socks

So your ankles can be "beautiful."

Bumper Stickers

Two things about these bumper stickers and window decals. First, the Cullens are terrible drivers. And second, remember when moms used to be proud of their kids with those horrible "I have an honor students at such and such High School"? We miss those stickers.

Dell Twilight Skins

Yup, in additon to swathing your monetary woes (presumably from spending so much on Twilight junk) in your Twilove, you may now keep your poor Dell warm with Twilight skins!

Don't forget to rip that giant sticker off carefully when you grow up though.

Yes, vampires. You knew they were coming, and here they are: Mainstream Culture's Favorite Super Creeps. But here's the question: Can a witch defeat a vampire? Which is quicker on the draw, the hypnotic gaze of a vamp or some kind of speedy spell to stake toothy nemeses? You'd think that years of watching Buffy would've given me an answer for this, but I'm turning to you for it instead. Don't let me down, people.

For those looking for clarification: This is a hypothetical generic vampire versus an equally hypothetical generic witch we're talking about here. Yes, Dracula would probably be able to defeat all but the most wizened witch because he's a particularly big and bad Big Bad, but what about Joe B. Vampire? We know the general vamp characteristics, but how useful is any of that against someone who can overrule the rules of reality with enough practice and preparation?

As with all the earlier polls, this one will be open until midnight PST tonight, and the winner will be named... and, perhaps, given a particularly fitting prize... tomorrow. Vote before you head out to your Halloween party of choice.

As you know, we only deal with science fiction and urban fantasy here, so Hannibal Lecter and the like are absent from this list — but feel free to call out your favorites in comments.

Get started with 71 - 80!

Additional reporting and writing by Lauren Davis and Caitlin Petrakovitz. Special thanks to Sean Dooley, and Kyle Rowe and IFC's non horror list, which made me remember donkey boy.

The LA Times is reporting that New Moon is selling out earlier than any other movie in history. We're not surprised, but what does shock us is David Slade, the director for the next Twilight movie, Eclipse, is talking about how the next film is going to appeal to guys with violence.

"The first one was very focused on this love story and really sweet and it was beautiful, but it didn't have a lot of stuff that guys would go, 'Yeah, I want to go see that,'" she said. "There's going to be a lot more focus on [action], and the fight scene will have more emphasis on it. I definitely think it will be a little more guy-friendly."

If you didn't know, the 3rd movie has a war between vampires and werewolves paired up with the Cullens. It's supposed to be violent... but not as violent as the last book where Bella gets — Spoiler — impregnated with Edward's evil baby and it judo kicks right out of her chest breaking her rib cage. Sex is BAD, people.

[via MTV]

Here's the full promo:

So where did we leave off? Oh right Sookie was screaming, Bill's going to sex-kill Maryann, and Sam is taking care of wild children. Might as well start from the assumed beginning.

Bill walks into Sam's bar and tells Sammy boy what's up. You may be able to change into a flying puppy person but I'm a f-ing vampire now get up and help me save my lady, because while I was playing the world's most boring game of vampire yahtzee, she managed to get herself kidnapped, which is usually what happens with her when I'm not around. Here is my, "I'm serious face."

Sam says No Way, but then remembers he's a giant push over so you know he will end up with Bill begrudgingly headed to Maryann's meat house as a swap sacrifice. And from the looks of it, he does, Bill at his back telling Maryann he's got her puppy. Then she makes an approving claw hand.

Meanwhile Eric is getting tuned on...because fangs are vampire *cough cough* well you know.

Eric is feeling frisky because the Queen Vampire of Louisiana is making sexy mouth movements on his face and then, after countless hours of fanged dry humping, they move to New Orleans together, or so say the tabloids. The two of them live happily ever after with messy sex hair feeding off the blood from ladies' upper leg parts, making it look like they are doing something way sexier but in reality they're just drinking blood. So that's nice for them.

Back in Bon Temps, Andy and Jason get ready to fight the crazy Maryann, but not before Jason accidentally shoots a baby bird with his gun and cries about it.

Andy takes Jason aside and reassures them that the bird went to heaven, and they change clothes and suit up for battle. Seriously that whole earlier scene is such a set up. But who cares it's Andy and Jason versus the world with their nifty stocking caps and casts. I love seeing Andy being paired up with Sam and Jason lately, and I'm happy to see it continued on in the finale.

Even if it doesn't go well. Since Jason presumably gets kidnapped and Andy gets rudely pushed to the ground by Maryann's black eyed minions.

All the naked crazy people are now in clothed in bridal white, including Sookie and Terry. After showing off her light finger power, she's most likely Maryann's new sacrifice - hence Sam and Bill teaming up.

Jason and Andy are kidnapped, the minion Maryann and Sookie are all wearing white, ann And Tara is almost showing full frontal but never actually going totally naked. Because while all the other lady characters have gotten naked Tara has managed to eek out just shoulders and silhouettes thus far, which is kind of BS.

But anyways the entire cast is moved to the front lawn of Sookie's house, where Sook tells them all this is so much worse than the time she almost got raped, again, just so you know it's been a hard week on her. Sam and Bill show up with a switcheroo deal for the troublemaking Maryann. And Bill says, "MARYANN I'll SWAP you one cocoon SUUKIE for this HERE-RAH puppy transformer-ah." Maryann takes the deal and throws in something extra, she tells Eggs to take off his shirt and stab himself because we're all tired of his character anyways. So he does...

Let's go ahead and assume that a much more important character other than Eggs also gets severely wounded, like Sam, or even dead because Sookie is really torn up about something in the end... And I can't imagine anyone being upset about a cracked Egg.

Still, I'm not getting the feeling that Sam is dead, especially with these pictures below, but they could be from a flash back so hey what do I know? Maybe Sam gets stabbed and Eggs gets dead, or that's just wishful thinking. Also don't think I've forgotten about my little Jessica! This exceedingly blurry pic leads me to believe that Jessica eats some poor trucker. Remember she was really hungry and all but dumped in the last episode. Time for some splurging I say.

So Jessica gets her fix, and Eggs dies... if we keep saying it maybe it will come true! Some way or another Vampire Bill out-clevers Maryann, because that's what he does, saves Sookie, and it's business as usual in Bon Temps. Charlaine Harris comes in and orders a Tru Blood because she's a vampire doncha know and Sam asks her if he can start wearing shirts less tight on his biceps. She says no.

And Vampire Bill and Sookie throw a big "Eggs Is Dead" party and dance and laugh, have blood sex, and laugh and dance and we all do the same.

After waiting hours in line and sitting through trailers for gorey slasher films, Twilight fans were rewarded with two clips from the sequel New Moon. Did they get their money's worth? Only if they like staring at half-naked vampires and werewolves.

So here are the clips we watched:

Team Jacob Fanservice

At La Push, a long-haired Jacob is teaching Bella how to ride a dirt bike. As he tells her to release the clutch slowly, she sees an apparition of Edward at the handlebar. She falters, nearly falling off the bike. Jacob is about to halt the lesson, but she says, "Let me try again."

This time, she takes off, but she sees another apparition of Edward, and she watches him as she rides by. Apparently, Jacob's lesson didn't include keeping your eyes on the road and not on phantom ex-boyfriends. She starts to lose control, crying to Jacob for help. "Bank it!" he shouts. "Hit the brake!"

The bike catches on the edge of the path and Bella goes flying face-first into a rock. Jacob hops on his bike and catches up with her. He pulls her up and tsk-tsks, "No more bikes."

Bella touches the blood streaming from her forehead. "Oh, I'm bleeding," she says, and then automatically adds, "I'm sorry."

He gives her a bemused look. "Are you apologizing for bleeding?"

"Oh yeah, I guess I am."

"It's just blood, Bella."

Of course, all this business of blood and rocks is a mere set-up for the most fanservicey moment of the clip, when Jacob pulls off his shirt and just stands there for a moment, showing off all the hours of gym work Taylor Lautner put in for the film. The pause is, I assume, to allow sufficient time for the screaming to die down. Finally, he bends down and uses his shirt to wipe the blood from Bella's brow.

She looks at him dazed with what could be lust or a concussion. "You're so beautiful," she tells him. The audience seems to agree.

And he replies, amused but wary, "How hard did you hit your head?"

Team Edward Fanservice

Alice — looking like an undead Audrey Hepburn in her sun-shielding scarf and glasses — is driving through the narrow streets of Venice, while Bella is having a panic attack in the passenger seat. Bella asks why everyone outside is wearing red robes and Alice explains that it's for the Saint Marcus Day Festival, the perfect opportunity for Edward to reveal himself and provoke the Volturi. When she can't drive any further, she kicks Bella out of the car to chase down Edward. Bella protests, but Alice insists, "You have to do this, Bella. You're the only one he won't see coming."

Bella races through the streets toward the Piazza Grande, shoving red-robed celebrants out her way as she goes. Finally, she reaches the piazza and spots Edward, in the entryway of a building. Slowly, he slips off his dress shirt. His abs are much paler than Jacob's, but the crowd doesn't seem to be complaining. As he steps forward to reveal himself in all his sparkly glory, Bella cries out, "Edward, don't!"

But Team Jacob scored a point during the Q&A session with director Weitz. When asked how filming in Vancouver compared with filming in Portland, Taylor Lautner complained that both places were cold and wet. "Don't get me wrong, they're both beautiful, but it's no fun to be filming there with your clothes off."

Later, in the press roundtables, we were able to talk to director Chris Weitz about stepping into Catherine Hardwicke's shoes. He says:

They're ladylike shoes... There's nothing wrong with that, there's nothing bad about [taking over a franchise from another director], if someone gives you a chance to make a movie that you know a lot of people are going to see. I've inherited a great cast, a book that people love, a screenwriter who adapted the first one successfully and did a great job of taming the huge amount of material from the first one. At first the notion of a male director was a tough sell to fans of the books. Little do they know how much like Bella I actually am. We all identify with being broken up, except for the part where you get them back in the end, it rarely works like that in real life.

We asked Weitz about how he approached the challenge of presenting the Volturi, the ancient vampire society, in the new movie. He said casting was the key piece of that puzzle. "I got a chance to add to this cast, and get Michael Sheen, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Heyerdahl (who's an extraordinary Canadian actor) and Jamie Campbell Bowers. If you get actors of that caliber, it's easy for you." As for the look of the Volturi's lair, "I wanted to take every cliche possible, and throw it out. You're not going to see Dracula's castle, and dripping wax, that sort of thing... Or if you do, you'll see it briefly on your way to something totally unexpected."

And did you know that Weitz's grandmother was a silent movie star in Mexico, who starred in the first Spanish-language Dracula movie? So he's a third-generation vampire movie person. (Well, I guess it skipped a generation.)

Also, in the new movie, Lautner finally gets rid of the wig that he had to wear in the first outing. "I was very excited to ditch the wig. I did not have a fun experience with it in the first film." Now, with shorn locks, he can "give some competition to Robert's spectacular hair." As for Bella's hair, Stewart told us:

I think my hair is kind of like this character in the movie. It's flowing, it's good though, because it's untouched. She doesn't want to change, she's so terrified of anything being different. By Breaking Dawn, it's just going to be at my feet.

The Horde
I'm getting very excited for the zombies cops and robbers flick The Horde by Benjamin Rocher and Yannick Dahan. All of the set reports and stills we've seen so far have been lovely, and I'm hoping it's as pretty as it appears to be. The basic premise is a high rise stake-out/shoot-out between a gang of cops and a bushel of robbers has been interrupted by a herd of zombies. Will foe become friend to help escape the tower of doom? Who knows, but please let there be at least one French Mime zombie, please. Here's the latest teaser trailer:

Planet Of The Vampire Women
A cute little graphic poster and a few sexy stills have been released from this campy film, still in production. The vampire ladies themselves are band space pirates who:

pull off the ultimate heist only to crash into an unknown world. Finding themselves trapped on a storm-shrouded planet overrun with monsters, the intergalactic outlaws unknowingly awaken an unspeakable horror that causes the dead to walk...with an insatiable lust for blood!

For more stills check out Monster Island.

Humpty Dumpty
Remember a few weeks back when we talked all about alien rape and the film Humpty Dumpty? Well, new concept art was released of the backwater abode of Brakk Brothers Swamp House. We can only guess that this is the classy habitat of the villains that brutally assaulted a crashed down UFO, thus ending in the unholy human/alien half breed the movie is calling Humpty Dumpty.

Human Centipede

Ok now this is something so disturbing I'm not even 100% sure it does or should exist. The comedy Human Centipede is screening at London's Fright Fest (which is worth a look on it's own) and it's all about a mad scientist hell bent on making a real life human centipede by conjoining bodies butt to face, no seriously:

Outside the more outré work of Takashi Miike and David Cronenberg, you won't have seen anything quite like Dutch avant-garde artist Tom Six' totally bizarre off-the-wall oddity. Internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter has a demented vision for mankind's future existence. He wants to remove human beings' kneecaps so they have to exist on all fours and then surgically graft them mouth-to-anus to form a centipede chain. When two stranded female Americans arrive at his luxury home-cum-hospital looking for help, his long-gestating plan swiftly moves into chilling action with a shocking force. Kidnapping a third Japanese male tourist he begins the tissue matches, teeth removal and buttock moulding to create his triplet creature… The First Sequence in Six's intended trilogy features truly unforgettable imagery, clinically dazzling direction and a so-far-round-the-bend mad doctor performance from German superstar Dieter Laser you'll scream. Behold the grotesque New Flesh. If you dare!

So, you can see where I had my doubts about the mere existence of this flick, and yet in these tiny pictures (I can't make them any bigger I'm sorry) you see a group of people with bandages on their knees, attached face to backside. Make of it what you will readers, it terrifies me.

Deadgirl

And finally, last week we showed you the new trailer for the deeply disturbing story about a group of teenaged boys and their love for a naked zombie girl tied up in their basement. In this new, highly NSFW clip, watch as one boy lovingly rubs dark lipstick all over his undead girls lips, because who wants to spend their days raping a zombie if she looks all tired?

Deadgirl is getting a small little release on July 24th, at these particular theaters:

Landmark Sunshine Cinema - NY
Screening July 24th & 25th @ midnight

Nuart Theater - LA
Screening July 24th @ midnight

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - AUSTIN
Screening July 24th & 25th @ midnight

Landmark Tivoli - ST. LOUIS
Screening July 24th & 25th @ midnight

Music Box Theater - CHICAGO
Screening July 24th & 25th @ midnight

Grand Illusion - SEATTLE
Screening July 24th & 25th @ midnight

Inwood Theater - DALLAS
Screening July 24th & 25th @ midnight

River Oaks Theater - HOUSTON
Screening July 24th & 25th @ midnight

Fantasia Film Festival - MONTREAL
Screening July 24th @ midnight

Now that the whole world has seen the New Moon trailer, tweens everywhere are holding their breath is anticipation of the film's November release. In the new film, a perpetually petulant Bella becomes distraught when Edward leaves town, and starts running with a pack of werecubs, including buff and brooding Jacob Black.

Does this sound a little familiar to anyone else?

It should, since Stephanie Meyer's supernatural love triangle follows the same lines as Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Series, now better known as HBO's True Blood. Sookie Stackhouse, in season one, falls for tall, dark and undead Bill, and when he disappears she is left to be comforted by the shaggy werecollie Sam. At least Sookie has a superpower all her own, and Bon Temps vampires certainly do not sparkle in the sunlight like the vegan vamps in Twilight.

The Underworld series, despite its other faults, at least gave us a few twists on the vampire/human/werewolf triangle. Kate Beckinsale's Selene hooked up with a hybrid vampire-Lycan, thereby having her cake and eating it too. And the Lycan leader Lucian, as a well-oiled slave boy, had a doomed dark-ages romance with his vampire mistress in Rise of The Lycans, the third installment of the steadily declining series.

True Blood season two premieres tonight, and is steering away from what, thanks to New Moon, has become tween territory and instead is giving us a fresh new love story in the sultry southern swampland. Boy falls for girl, boy is a glowering moody vampire, girl has supernatural abilities and perky personality, and girl falls for terrifyingly blond bad-boy vampire. Joss Whedon must be proud that his influence has continued to affect vampire television.

There is a lot to look forward to with season two, especially the storyline exploring how Sam Merlotte became a shapeshifter (a family of werebeings to which Jacob Black also technically belongs). In Harris's later novels, Sookie falls for yet another wolfboy... let's hope HBO gives us more puppy love in the seasons to follow.

The series, which literally is about a young werewolf, vampire and ghost all sharing a flat in Bristol together, is like Friends, if the cast mates sometimes murdered people and turned them into bloodsucking immortals and wolf people.

The bumbly little fellow who plays the mild-mannered werewolf, George, is awfully endearing, you should tune in just for him. The ghost is a obnoxious dead lady, but pehaps I would be too if I was stuck wearing the same clothes forever. All in all, its a cute little series (from what I've seen) and if it stays on the "troubles with dating a werewolf" path it will continue that way. Sadly it looks like it's veering off into some strange vampire war that I can't particularly understand, and I'm not sure I care for.

George "Turning" In The Apartment:

Being Human premieres Saturday, July 25, at 9 PM on BBC America.

Between 1630 and 1631, the plague killed one third of Venice's population, wiping out 50,000 people out of a population of 150,000 in just one year. The panicked population, trying to stop the disease from spreading, often blamed female "vampires" for infecting the living. It was believed that people who chewed or bit their shrouds might be vampires (a dead body might appear to be chewing its shroud if it had post-mortem motor movements, which is fairly common; or bloody fluid released from the mouth after death might make it seem as if the shroud had been soiled by vampire nastiness).

To stop these "vampires," grave diggers would sort through bodies in mass graves and try to find ones who had bitten their shrouds and then shove a brick in their mouths to stop the threat. Yesterday researchers on an island near Venice announced they'd excavated a mass grave and found possibly the earliest example on record of a "vampire" who'd been buried with a brick in her mouth.

via The Hindu

Photo via Matteo Borrini and National Geographic

Upon learning that I would be attending the Vampire, Werewolf and Zombie Round Table panel here at Comic Con, I was ecstatic with the promise of changelings and shape-shifters sitting around an actual round table, sipping blood from coffee mugs, eating flesh and tufts of hair uncontrollably erupting from their bodies. I was disappointed, therefore, to arrive to the panel and find mere humans sitting tamely behind a long rectangular table at the front of the stage - some actually filtering in late, clearly lacking the extra-human instinct to check their watches.

The panel primarily consisted of authors such as Caitlin Kittredge, whose Nocturne City series features a werewolf detective as its protagonist, and c-oauthors of Zombiemania, an exhaustive guide to zombies in film, Andrew Hershberger and Arnold T. Blumber. A vampire detective series also was mentioned, as apparently the heightened senses of these monsters leads to a lucrative career in crime scene investigation.

But still I stood there blinking waiting for the panelists to change their form and start fighting, biting or attacking the crowd. This panel is a lie.

To be fair, the ancient battle between werewolves and vampires was a touched upon, as well as the gang mentality of zombies and humans' fascination with the creatures that once were human themselves. The panel did have an interesting discussion about the increased demand for horror and dark fantasy during times of political unrest and hardship, obviously illustrated by the Twilight craze and demand for books of that ilk. But, although the panel were arguably experts on their monsters of choice and answered audience members' questions happily, I remained disappointed that I would not in fact be speaking directly to lycanthropes and the undead and couldn't really focus on the marketing distinctions between dark fantasy and horror discussed by the panel.

And of course, to top it all off, disparaging remarks about Twilight were made by all.

The Lesbian Vampire Killer site is open for business, giving us a short little movie-still comic explaining the plot of two sad sacks who stumble upon the ultimate horror-movie jackpot, lesbian vampires.

The two unlikely heroes get dumped by their girlfriends and jobs. Alone, they set out and their tide quickly turns as they end up slaying a pack o' hottie blood-suckers, or as the byline explains on facebook, it's “Shaun of the Dead with tits.”

Here is a close up on the many ladies that will be joining us on our lesbian vampire jamboree which includes The Descent's adorable MyAnna Buring.

Here's the short comic that explains the hidden complexities of this lesbian vampire slayer backstory:

Serializing a print comic that will also include backstory on the series as well as an interview with the show's creator, Six Feet Under's Alan Ball, Top Cow Productions' True Blood: The Great Revelation aims to fill in some of the history of TruBlood, the show's synthetic blood substitute, as California's "vampire king" visits Japan to meet with its creators.

Following it's San Diego Comic-Con debut, True Blood: The Great Revelation launches on HBO's website July 24th.

Exclusive: "True Blood: The Great Revelation" Preview [Comic Book Resources]

Based on a popular Spanish horror film, Quarantine looks like it's loaded with stir-crazy residents willing to face a hail of government gun fire over being stuck in a building with a vampire virus. While the fake reporter video could get old, I'm always excited for a virus that changes the human form and most importantly doesn't omit kids or animals from its infectious path. Did you see the creepy half-naked vampire kid? Shudders. Quarantine will be out October 17, 2008.

Hitler was apparently a nut on the subject of the occult, to borrow a phrase from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, and he had a crackpot team of Nazi scientists pursuing everything from human experimentation with brainwashing to looking for the mythic Spear of Destiny, which was the spear purported to have pierced Christ's side during the crucifixion. According to legend, whoever wielded the spear was unbeatable. That sounds like a much cooler subject for a movie than Nazi vamps, so let's hope Hollywood is paying attention.

Leaked photos [BloodyDisgusting]

The numbers you see are kilowatt hours used per year, and the money is amount spent. Red is for devices that stand by in passive mode, and blue is for ones standing by in active mode. Oops, I think I own all the ones that suck most. But I love my plasma screen electron-guzzler! Good magazine [via TreeHugger]