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Communist Vampires Official website of author Thomas M. Sipos |
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Why CommunistVampires?
CommunistVampires.com went online in February 2000 to promote Sipos's satirical horror novel, Vampire Nation. Since then he's published other books, scripts, articles, reviews, op-eds, blogs, etc., none of them about Communist vampires -- yet the website's name stands. It's a cool name for a horror website, no? Sipos's most recent book is Horror Film Aesthetics: The Visual Language of Fear. The book offers practical tips for film students and aspiring filmmakers on how to make a creative and scary horror film. Sipos is also a SAG actor and film festival director. He's taught "Book Promotion for Authors" at the UCLA Writers Extension and "Haunted Houses" at The Learning Annex. He's been interviewed on over 40 radio shows, mostly about vampires, horror films, or haunted houses. He's been a panelist at several World Horror Conventions. At the 2006 WHC in San Francisco, Sipos appeared with Ringu author Koji Suzuki on a panel analyzing Japanese horror films.
He can be contacted by email at thomasmsipos at dslextreme dot com, or by snail mail at: Thomas M. Sipos, PO box 1903, Santa Monica, CA 90406-1903. |
Sipos has also done volunteer work for the Los Angeles Film Festival and the David Lynch Foundation."Communist Vampires" and "CommunistVampires.com" trademarks are currently unregistered, but pending registration upon need for protection against improper use. The idea of marketing these terms as a commodity is a protected idea under the Lanham Act. 15 U.S.C. s 1114(1) (1994) (defining a trademark infringement claim when the plaintiff has a registered mark); 15 U.S.C. s 1125(a) (1994) (defining an action for unfair competition in the context of trademark infringement when the plaintiff holds an unregistered mark).