Seven travelers stranded in the Italian countryside accept the hospitality of a kindly castle lord, but what horror awaits them: the family has a curse on it that dooms the eldest daughter of each generation to become an agent of the devil, and guess who's coming home. After a striking opening scene (involving a Nazi officer in 1944 overseeing the birth of his child, which turns out to be... an accursed daughter!), this horror tale drags along at a glacial pace until the visitors settle in enough to take a little time out for sex, which serves as an appetizer to sadistic murders. The guests, ostensibly representative of the Seven Deadly Sins, die in appropriately thematic twists at first, though after gluttony, greed, and lust the point gets stretched. This low-budget example of horrotica has its entertaining moments, an appropriately lurid style (courtesy of Belgian director Jean Brismee), and even an appearance by former French matinee idol Jean Servais (Beauty and the Beast). Included are trailers for this and three other Italian exploitation films and an extended introduction by British horror hostess Eileen Daly (which was actually recorded for a different film!), a black-leather Elvira with a whip and a penchant for kink that may not be to the tastes of all audiences. -Sean Axmaker

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Angelina Jolie's vampire antics

June 17, 2008 (The Daily Telegraph) -- Angelina Jolie has revealed she and a boyfriend used to "experiment" with knives when younger - because she was curious about vampires. Jolie has also told of how her interest in knives as a teenager left her with scars on her body.

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Marilyn Manson is a 'vampire of love'!

May 16, 2007 (Yahoo! India News) -- Rocker Marilyn Manson has named himself a 'vampire of love' who loves to prey on young women and craves to 'consume' them. The 38-year-old, who is dating young actress, Evan Rachel Wood, said that he always thought that his association with vampires is very obvious.

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Chapter 21

Reginald's revelations were followed by a long silence, interrupted only by the officiousness of the waiter. The spell once broken, they exchanged a number of more or less irrelevant observations. Ethel's mind returned, again and again, to the word he had not spoken. He had said nothing of the immediate bearing of his monstrous power upon her own life and that of Ernest Fielding.

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Vampires: Urban Legend of the Middle Ages?

Did people in the middle ages believe in vampires? While surfing the internet I came across a really good site on urban legends and some of the red flags for identifying urban legends sounded familiar. It was then that I started thinking about vampires in terms of an urban legend.

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Chapter 19: Awake

*blinking her eyes open she feels as if she's had the worse blood hangover ever*

"Aiiiiiiigh! What the...*looks around*Well, Hello Demon, nice howdoyoudo huh?"

*rubs her head and sits up feeling woozy and trying to get her eyes to focus*

"Ven? is that you?" *squints* "Mercy Girl, you've been away awhile *smiles to her*Welcome back!"

*tries to stand and go to the bar for a little 'hair of the dog' but quickly sits again*

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