Sheridan Le Fanu

Sheridan Le Fanu

Nacimiento : 1814-08-28, Dublin, Ireland

Muerte : 1873-02-07

Historia

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels in the nineteenth century, best known for his stories “Uncle Silas,” “Carmilla,” and “The House by the Churchyard.”

Perfil

Sheridan Le Fanu

Películas

Carmilla
Story
Miss Fontaine es la institutriz de Lara, una adolescente de 15 años que vive totalmente sola en su hogar familiar y que necesita del cuidado de una 'tutora' para controlar su madurez. Desesperada por desatar la pasión sexual propia de su u edad, Lara cae rendida bajo el hechizo de la encantadora Carmilla. Las dos se ven envueltas en una apasionada relación que comienza a levantas las sospechas de aquellos que viven en las cercanías de la casa, especialmente del doctor de la familia.
The Carmilla Movie
Novel
It has been five years since Laura and Carmilla vanquished the apocalypse and Carmilla became a bonafide mortal human. They have settled in to a cozy apartment in downtown Toronto, Laura continues to hone her journalism skills while Carmilla adjusts to a non-vampire lifestyle. Their domestic bliss is suddenly ruptured when Carmilla begins to show signs of "re-vamping" – from a fondness for bloody treats to accidental biting – while Laura has started having bizarre, ghostly dreams. The couple must now enlist their old friends from Silas University to uncover the unknown supernatural threat and save humanity – including Carmilla's.
Styria
Story
Retrata la relación intensa y fracturada entre un adolescente solitario y una hermosa desconocida.
Styria
Novel
Retrata la relación intensa y fracturada entre un adolescente solitario y una hermosa desconocida.
All Catacombs Are Gray
Novel
A collage animated adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s cult novel about vampire Carmilla, which not only inspired Bram Stocker to write Dracula, but also became a template for an entire subgenre of exploitation cinema of the 1970s, among which Jesus Franco’s Vampyros Lesbos stands out.
Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire
Story
It's a face-off against two of the most evil supernatural forces: vampires fueled by bloodlust and zombies who've come back from the dead to prey on the living. The two camps are bent on proving their superiority, so it's a race to the gory finish. Whoever wins will decide the future of humanity.
The Wyvern Mystery
Novel
After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in Wyvern Manor. Alice grows up thinking the squire is her kind benefactor, and falls in love with one of his two sons.
Carmilla
Characters
J. Sheridan LeFanu's famed, oft-adapted novel gets adapted again... but now it's in Long Island.
The Vampire Wedding
Story
Young English gentleman Richard travels with his uncle Archibald to Prague, Czech kingdom. There he meets a beautiful girl Olivia, a young noblewoman with a secret. They fall in love with each other but he doesn't know Olivia is a companion of evil count Kronberg, ruler of pack of Prague vampires.
Carmilla
Novel
Lonely young Marie and her father live on a plantation just before the Civil War. Their placid lives are invaded when they rescue a mysterious woman from a carriage wreck, and soon bodies start turning up with holes in their necks...
The Dark Angel
Novel
The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires a new governess. Madame De La Rougierre (played with considerable relish by Jane Lapotaire) is a cruel, brandy-swigging schemer with an unhealthy interest in Maud's inheritance and an approach to childcare that would make Mary Poppins faint. When Maud's father dies she has no choice but to live with her wicked uncle Silas, who will inherit the family fortune if Maud should happen to die. This is not a recipe for domestic bliss and soon it seems that everyone but Maud is either bad, mad, or both.
Carmilla
Novel
Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.
The Sleep of Death
Story
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.
Schalcken the Painter
Writer
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
Schalcken the Painter
Short Story
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas
Novel
La historia de Alucarda está influida por el clima malsano y perverso de las obras de Sade. Su protagonista, Justine (nombre, precisamente, de una de las obras más famosas del marqués), vive en un monasterio y recibirá la influencia terrible de la bruja Alucarda.
La novia ensangrentada
Novel
Una joven recién casada comienza a tener inquietantes pesadillas justo después de instalarse en la vieja mansión que ha pertenecido a la familia de su marido durante siglos. Cuando sus siniestros sueños se hacen realidad, la inocente novia queda atrapada en un enloquecedor laberinto de horrores indecibles.
Hostinec U létavého draka
Short Story
Drácula y las mellizas
Characters
Su interés por el satanismo, lleva al Conde Karstein a resucitar a Mircalla Karnstein, para que lo inicie en el vampirismo. A partir de entonces, los asesinatos se suceden sin tregua. Gustav Weil, el líder del grupo puritano "La Hermandad", dirige a sus hombres en la búsqueda y destrucción del mal. Frieda, una de sus sobrinas, ha sido vampirizada.
Lujuria para un vampiro
Characters
Un escritor visita un colegio de señoritas en el siglo XIX, allí descubre que una libidinosa estudiante es realmente una vampiresa que acecha y ataca a sus compañeras.
Las amantes del vampiro
Novel
Un joven caballero acude al castillo de los Karnstein para vengar la muerte de su hermana, muerta por los vampiros. Allí, tras apoderarse del sudario de uno de los vampiros, lo atrae hacia sí. Pero el terror lo paraliza, y sólo lo salva la cruz que pende de su cuello. Y entonces, decapita a una vampira.
Blood and Roses
Novel
The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her village.
Uncle Silas
Novel
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
El misterioso tío Silas
Novel
Una mujer intenta huir al enterarse que sus sobrinos quieren asesinarla.
Vampyr, la bruja vampiro
Novel
En esta película Dreyer nos introduce en un universo fantasmagórico por medio de imágenes expresionistas. Un joven viajero, Allan Gray, se aloja en un extraño castillo, cuya atmósfera densa y enrarecida recuerda la de las pesadillas. El joven comienza a tener espeluznantes visiones, de las cuales la más terrible es el descubrimiento de una mujer inconsciente que ha sido atacada por un vampiro en forma de bruja. El maestro Dreyer rueda en Francia esta personal visión del terror: un mundo onírico y sugerente, lleno de fantasmas y sombras que cautivan más por la fuerza de las imágenes que por lo terrorífico del relato. A pesar de que actualmente es considerada una obra maestra del género, en su día fue un rotundo fracaso, por lo que el director danés tardaría doce años en volver a rodar su siguiente película, "Dies Irae".
Shamus O'Brien
Poem
Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.