Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then along came a studio pitch for an action-horror flick inspired by Vampire$, a 1990 novel authored by the late John Steakley.

What is John Carpenter's Vampires? One of the final three films in Carpenter's filmography as a director, Vampires is adapted from a novel by John Steakley, with a story assembled by Carpenter from ...