According to folklores blood sucking vampires rule the night world seeking vengeance. The myth and mystique of vampires have inspired many novels, poetry, more recently movies and even a HBO serial. Vampires have been box-office hits too. So no wonder vampires have now started haunting the virtual world too!

Vampire related websites have gained popularity and vampires related pages have dedicated followers on Facebook and Myspace too. People are getting hooked to online vampire wars. The official Twilight movie site had 553,000 visitors in June 2009 alone. HBO’s second season campaigning of True Blood series focused more on online advertising too. It hired Digital Kitchen to design the campaign. The campaign was a great success.

Is all the advertising and buzz making vampires popular? Or are the film makers and storytellers, new media and the marketing world cashing in on the myth and popularity of blood sucking mysterious vampires? For the advertising world vampires must be inspirational for their creative teams too.

Whatever it is vampires have found new hunting grounds in the online world and are lurking people away into imaginative dark world. This new trend is good news too – we all need a break from boring real world!

Via Adweek

Recently was launched the DVD of Religulous (religion + ridiculous), a documentary / comedy of Bill Maher.

Bill Maher is the host of “Real Time” on HBO, comedian that since early in his career has mock the behavior and beliefs of evangelicals.

Bill Maher is the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, and tin the film he interviews his mother and shows some family pictures.

In the movie, Bill Maher interviews ordinary people and reveals the sad American political scene where some politicians still do not believe in the Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, and even senators who believe in the talking snake. He interview Jews, Muslims, priests, scientists and even an “ex-gay”.

The funny part of the movie are the answers of the evangelicals and their extreme faith in their religions. Besides the problem of the large movement of money from evangelical churches is also questioned.

Bill Maher visited various places, considered sacred, from temples and churches in the United States and mosques and synagogues in Israel. Often he was kicked out of places, such as the temple of the Mormons.

This movie is special in its way of presenting religion as something totally ridiculous, but is not that type of documentary that makes you think for hours, it is “light”, without revelations about secret informations or conspiracies theories, Religulous presents a kind of series of interviews with most varied various people with different beliefs.

Via: IMDB

In a new era of scientific development, the vampires succeeded only be legendary monsters to become ordinary citizens.

This change, which happened the day to night, is due to Japanese scientists, who invented a synthetic blood, which meant that humans would not be their main dish.

Humans still do not feel completely safe living side by side with all the legion of vampires that is coming out of their coffins. Around the world, each chose their side for or against this revolution, but in a small town in Louisiana, people are still forming his opinion.

Sookie, a small coffee shop waitress, has the power to hear the thoughts of people and sees no problems in integrating these new members to society, especially when it comes to Bill Compton, an attractive vampire of 173 years of age.

That is precisely the factor that makes this series so interesting. In this universe of fiction, is quite interesting to note the issues they bring with them vampires. Will (or should) they be accepted as citizens?

Like the X-Men brought to light the question of mutants and humans, Alan Ball (creator of “Six Feet Under”) makes the same issue, but rather than mutants, vampires.

Definitely, must-see.

Via: HBO.

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