{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Vampire Secrets.jpg | caption = | director = Diana Zaslaw | producer = Diana Zaslaw | writer = Josh Rosen<br>Katherine Ramsland | narrator = Corey Burton | starring = | music = | cinematography = Yoram Astrakhan | editor = | network = History Channel | released = {{Start date|2006}} | runtime = 100 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }}
'''''Vampire Secrets''''' is a 2006 docudrama about the mythology and lifestyle of vampires, produced by Indigo Films for the History Channel, and narrated by Corey Burton.
The documentary features the history of vampires from Indian (Hindu goddess Kali), Greek, and Chinese origins, and references to the Bible and ancient Mesopotamia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vampire Secrets |url=https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/vampire-secrets/ |website=Topdocumentary}}</ref>
== Content == Other topics include:
* Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, ''Dracula''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fEieBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Vampire+Secrets%22+-wikipedia+History+Channel&pg=PT66 |title=The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18 |date=2011-08-04 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |isbn=978-1-78033-277-2 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rocca |first=Daniele Della |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CIymDgAAQBAJ&dq=Vampire+Secrets+2006+docudrama&pg=PR137 |title=Dracula |date=2017-04-11 |publisher=Youcanprint |isbn=978-88-926-5964-3 |language=it}}</ref> * James Spalding, a Scotsman, 1632 * Elizabeth Báthory * Haidamaque, Hungary, 1715 * Blood ritual<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vampire Secrets |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/vampire-secrets/1030123428/ |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sebastiaan |first=Father |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lUvSbvRAmDIC&dq=%22Vampire+Secrets%22+-wikipedia+History+Channel&pg=PA243 |title=Vampyre Sanguinomicon: The Lexicon of the Living Vampire |date=2010-09-01 |publisher=Weiser Books |isbn=978-1-60925-314-1 |language=en}}</ref> * Anne Rice's vampire novels * ''Vampire: The Masquerade'': Rod Ferrell (VTM role-player from Murray, Kentucky who thought he was a real vampire), killed two people in Eustis, Florida, USA, and was sentenced to death (but reduced to life imprisonment)<ref>See the 2002 film ''Vampire Clan''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310298/].</ref> * Sex appeal: ''Nosferatu'' (1922 film), 1931 film with Béla Lugosi (''The Master of Horror''), Vampirella, Demonlover; and others. * Vampire underground and gothic subculture: Susan Walsh (researcher for ''The Village Voice'') who falls for a purported "living vampire" (Christian) and disappears in January 1996 * Psychic vampire (Rasputin, aura photography, Joe H. Slate<ref>Author of ''Investigations into Kirlian Photography: Final Technical Report'', United States Army Missile Research and Development Command, 1977.</ref>), Sanguine vampire lifestylers
The documentary also features commentaries by authors Katherine Ramsland,<ref>''The Science of Vampires''</ref> and J. Gordon Melton, parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach, psychic vampire author and spokesperson Michelle Belanger,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdtown.com/reviews/dvd-vampire-secrets/6815/2 |title=Review of Vampire Secrets on DVD - Page 2 of 2 - DVDTOWN.com |publisher=www.dvdtown.com |access-date=2009-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629042221/http://www.dvdtown.com/reviews/dvd-vampire-secrets/6815/2 |archive-date=2009-06-29 |url-status=dead}} </ref> Father Sebastiaan,<ref>Publisher of ''The Vampyre Almanac'' and a "living vampire".</ref> forensic biologist Mark Benecke, professor Thomas Garza,<ref>[http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/creees/news/archives/garzahistorychannel/ ''"Vampire Secrets" with Dr. Garza on the History Channel''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305150311/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/creees/news/archives/garzahistorychannel/ |date=2007-03-05 }}, director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), University of Texas at Austin</ref> and others.
==Cast== *Deborah Rombaut as Demon Woman *Adrian Balbontin as Gaspard Robilette *Lyndsey Nelson as Susan Walsh *Scott Updegrave as Richard Wendorf *Christa Bella as Elizabeth Bathory *Jack Sale as Rod Ferrell *Thais Harris as Katherine Ramsland *Dan Higgins as James Spalding *George Mauro as Bram Stoker *Kari Wishingrad as Bathory Chambermaid *Jeffery Davis as Vampire *Justin Rodgers Hall as Vampire *Peter Stack as Ficzk
== Reception == The film received rather poor critical reception,<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Holmes |first1=Linda |title=TV guide |url=https://www.npr.org/2010/02/06/114516762/so-you-are-buried-under-several-feet-of-snow-whats-on-tv-this-weekend |website=NPR |date=February 6, 2010 }}</ref> DVD Talk finding it "redundant".<ref>{{Cite web |title=DVD Talk |url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/36531 |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=www.dvdtalk.com}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0489867|Vampire Secrets}}
Category:2006 documentary films Category:2006 television films Category:2006 films Category:American documentary television films Category:History (American TV channel) original programming Category:American vampire films Category:Documentary films about the paranormal Category:Cultural depictions of Elizabeth Báthory Category:American docudrama films Category:2006 English-language films Category:2006 American films Category:2000s vampire films