The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

Vampires are indiscriminate hunters, and those facing them can expect no quarter, no matter their standing in life:



Giuliano de Medici and Simonetta Vespucci

Florence's Number One Couple

d. 1476

See Historical Tales: Guiliano and Simonetta



Lucretia Borgia

Daughter of Pope Alexander VI.

1480-1519

The femme fatale of the murderous, incestuous Borgia clan met her match when brother Cesare, recently transformed into a vampire, cornered her inside the Vatican.



Ivan the Terrible

Russian Tsar

1533-1584

After transformation, Ivan used his family as a personal smorgasbord, drinking the blood of his son and daughter-in-law before he was killed by palace guards.



Percy Bysshe Shelley

English Romantic Poet

1792-1822

While vacationing in Italy with wife Mary and friend and fellow poet Lord Byron, Shelley decided to pay a call to the vampiric residents of a lakeside castle. The hosts, unimpressed with his reputation, drank his blood then threw him over the castle ramparts into the lake.



Nat Turner

Slave Revolt Leader

1800-1831

Turner turned his bloodlust into a full-scale insurrection by leading other transformed slaves on a hunting spree across the Virginia countryside. All told, his pack killed 50 before a local militia put an end to them.



Edgar Allen Poe

Writer

1809-1849

The Master of the Fictional Macabre met up with the real thing when he stumbled into a couple of vampires while on a bender along the Baltimore waterfront. He was later euthanized at a nearby hospital.



Rasputin

Russian mystic and advisor to Tsar Nicholas II's wife, Alexandra

d. 1916

Russian aristocrats, fearful of Rasputin's undue influence over the Tsar's wife, lured him to a vampire hideout in St. Petersburg. After transformation, the "Mad Monk" was shot, bludgeoned and thrown into the Neva River, yet he still turned up at the palace the following night, whereupon he was beheaded by the Tsar's guards.



Warren Harding

29th President of the United States

1865-1923

see Famous Cases: Who Killed Warren Harding?



Rudolph Valentino

Movie Star

1895-1926

While in New York City to promote his new movie, the Italian sex symbol was lured into a speakeasy, then set upon by a hunting pack. He managed to get back to his hotel, where he was eventually euthanized. The studio claimed his death was caused by a bleeding ulcer.

Wow before I say anything, anyone who knows me(which doesn't leave many people in this group)knows that I have been a huge fan of Peter Jackson's, way before Lord of the Ring's and before most people even knew who he was. Now on to my review, which will probably scare more people than the movie does. Most of you will probably hate me after this one but I have to vent....

I wanted to believe that because Peter Jackson did this movie that it would be incredible. I wanted to believe that it would be the best movie of this year. I went in to the theatre with all the hopes of this winning my title as the best movie of 2005 but alas....To put into words how I feel about this movie all I can say is this: I won't see it again. I won't buy it. I don't want to rent it and have no desire to pay to view it one more time. I would rather have Chinese water torture done on me for three hours than go through that again! The movie started out great! My heart was racing with excitement!! Then suddenly we were in Jurassic Park with King Kong as a new character! From there we forward to a scene that only makes me think of a King Kong/T-Rex mobile or an upgraded version of a Donkey Kong game with King Kong and three T-rex's hanging from vines! Things could only get better you say or could they?!

There was a scene in the movie with killer grasshoppers(I think?!)?!Then inches from the killer grasshoppers in the water was the killer condoms(If you saw the Troma movie of the same name you will recognize these things!) that devour a man!!The movie is filled with tons of good action scenes! If that helps...

But the thing that topped it all was the "romantic" scenes between King Kong and Ann Darrow. Wow, I know it was supposed to be depicted as the love of a pet but I don't know of many people who give that kind of look to a pet. The love in Ann's eye was breathtaking and how many times she cried for her poor helpless 25 foot beast!! And then poor Kong he was always trying to be romantic and the gorilla just kept getting interupted!! First there was the romantic night of ice skating in Central Park (Kong and Darrow fall on some frozen pond in Central Park and Kong proceeds to slip and slide,even belly flop, while holding Ann as she laughs and giggles with snowflakes flying in her face.)only to have the Army interrupt them! Then Kong tries to sit on the top of the Empire State building and share the sunset with his girl only to be once again interrupted by the Army! Finally the last chance at romance, Kong is at the top of the Empire State building and Ann frantically climbs up to be with her gorilla. She reaches the top and gets so close to him I thought she was going to kiss him and just then the army finally finishes Kong off! The damn government is always intefering with romance!!

I think the thing that killed this movie the most for me was seeing what I perceived to be a very romantic loving look in the actress that played Ann Darrow's eyes when she looked at King Kong. And her wanting to remain on an island full of natives and dinosaurs to be with her gorilla?! Maybe it's just me but folks I have 32 pets and I don't look at any of them that way! It doesn't mean I don't love them because believe me I do, just not that way! I think another scene that really bugged me was when Ann Darrow started juggling trying to get Kong to laugh (I Guess?)? All I can say is that I really wish Peter Jackson would not have redid this movie. Before I saw it I was so thrilled but by time the end of the movie came and Ann was standing on top of the Empire State building trying to get the Army to quit shooting at Kong I was actually wishing they would shoot her too! It was one of the most gruelling 3 hours I have been through in a long time...and I never thought I would say that!!