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‘Talamasca: The Secret Order’ Season 1 Episode 4 (“Wet Work”) [REVIEW]
The vampire lore is running thick in Talamasca: The Secret Order this week, and it’s exactly what the show needs. “Wet Work” feels like the moment the series stops trying to balance too many factions and finally leans into the immortal side of Anne Rice’s world. The results are bloody, intimate, and deeply compelling. It’s obvious the show is confident now. This is easily the best-paced episode yet, setting up the kind of dangerous, charged energy that made Interview with the Vampire thrive.
Bloodletting, Betrayal, and the Living Dead
We open on a grotesque image: a wrinkled, sore-covered man, bedridden and begging for death as vials of his blood are drawn by the dozen. His final, rasped plea — “Kill me” — hangs in the air, a haunting mystery that sets the tone for everything to come. The show withholds the “why” for now, but this single image threads through the episode’s center.
Back at the Drop Box, Olive’s worry over Guy’s disappearance lands with genuine weight, and Helen’s visit to her parents’ graves reintroduces that slow, aching mystery about her missing twin. But the real monster of “Wet Work” lives down in the London Motherhouse’s basement where Mr. Checkers — last seen being transformed into something monstrous — awakens.
When Guy (after having spent the night in Jasper’s home) asks why they’re in the basement, Jasper answers by revealing what he’s been hiding. Checkers, now fully changed, snarling and leaking black bile from his mouth. Jasper explains that this isn’t quite like the revenant vampires that Interview with the Vampire fans know. His revenants are something else. “They’re loyal,” he says. “Submissive. Controllable.” They are his weapons of choice. The same creatures who slaughtered the first Talamasca agent back in Episode 1. And when Jasper informs Guy that they’re going on a mission to retrieve the book of 752 with Checkers as their backup, it’s both horrifying and thrilling.
“I Like You”
The Jasper–Guy dynamic absolutely dominates here, and it’s where the show shines most. Nicholas Denton and William Fichtner are magnetic together, their chemistry toeing a line between fascination and fear.
The most startlingly intimate scene of the episode — and maybe the series so far — comes when Jasper quietly tends to a cut on Guy’s forehead. He cleans the wound with eerie gentleness, then heals it with his own blood. “I like you,” Jasper says as he goes to doing something he’s not really supposed to do. It’s an unnervingly tender moment that blurs the boundaries between manipulation and confession. The tension is palpable and it’s both physical and emotional.
Before we got to this intimate moment, however, we got one of the most intriguing bits of worldbuilding yet: Jasper’s story of Vesel, a vampire who swore off human blood in 1271 and was banished for it (Louis de Pointe du Lac, I’m looking at you). Centuries of torment later, he returned and massacred the entire coven of the vampire that outed him, proof that even morality erodes when immortality stretches forever.
As Guy recoils slightly during this moment, Jasper opens up. He continues to tell the story of the slain coven — specifically how not all of them died. There was a boy who survived, fled to Central America, then to Texas, where he grew up alone. That boy was Jasper. His family, human and vampire alike, was destroyed by the Talamasca. “They broke my family apart,” he says quietly. “Just like they did yours.” It’s a confession that lands like a wound. For the first time, Guy sees him not as a monster, but as someone who has lost everything too.
You can feel the emotional current between them shift, grief braided with something and loyalty blurred into something more dangerous.
Raglan James
Then, in one perfect nod to book readers, we meet Raglan James, the psychic body thief himself. In Anne Rice’s The Tale of the Body Thief, Raglan swaps bodies with Lestat, and his brief cameo in Interview with the Vampire Season 2 already hinted that AMC was laying groundwork. Here, he’s more dangerous and magnetic than ever. When he corners Guy in a vampire-run hotel and says, “I know you’re Talamasca,” it’s the perfect collision of lore, tension, and modern paranoia.
It’s a fairly quick but crucial expansion of Rice’s universe, one that makes the next sequence hit even harder.
Monsters, Mayhem, and “We Belong”
Guy’s infiltration of the vampire hotel is a masterclass in suspense. The voices in his head, the psychic noise, the people-filled chaos, it all eventually builds to a fever pitch underscored by Pat Benatar’s “We Belong.” Meanwhile, Checkers, now unleashed, carves through the vampires in one of the goriest sequences of the season: decapitations, entrails, walls painted in arterial red (Nicholas Denton told me at New York Comic Con 2025 that this was the scene he was most excited about, and it shows).
But the most chilling discovery isn’t the carnage. It’s what Guy finds in the aftermath: a briefcase full of blood — not human, but ancient vampire blood.
Book readers know the weight of this. In Rice’s mythology, ancient blood is near-divine. It’s the type of blood that flows from Akasha, the first vampire, and it’s the same type of blood that made Lestat nearly godlike in the events of The Vampire Lestat and even more so in The Queen of the Damned. He even mentions it in Interview with the Vampire’s Season 2 finale: “I have the blood of Akasha in me.”
Jasper’s reaction to this is immediate and furious. He goes into the next room where he and Guy discover the source, which is the vampire from the opening scene. Six or seven centuries old, this vampire, kept alive only to be harvested. The creature begs for death. Jasper, visibly shaken, stands beside it, voice breaking with fury.
“When there’s more of us,” he says with a determined fury, “the ancients will return.”
He rips the vampire’s head from its body, a mercy killing drenched in gore. It’s shocking, tragic, and strangely reverent. The moment solidifies Jasper’s ideology: not chaos for chaos’s sake, but rebirth. He believes that the vampire world must repopulate itself and that through new creation, safety for their kind will be secured.
It’s a chilling thought and one that fans of Rice’s novels will recognize as the first whisper of The Queen of the Damned. The notion of awakening the ancients and restoring the vampire population defines that book’s mythos and could easily shape Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Lestat) Season 3…and a potential Season 4, should it be greenlit.
The Path to Damnation
By the end of “Wet Work,” Guy finally understands what Jasper intends to do: use the book of 752 to take down the Talamasca and rebuild the vampire world as he sees fit. Jasper’s anger, grief, and sense of divine purpose make him one of the most complex figures in AMC’s Immortal Universe. He is a character who feels tragic and magnetic. He is a character that would do well in the Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat-world.
The Verdict
“Wet Work” is Talamasca’s strongest episode yet. The pacing is tight, the lore integration feels earned, and the tone finally feels at home in Anne Rice’s universe.
Nicholas Denton continues to be phenomenal as Guy, balancing fear, doubt, and devotion with subtle intensity. William Fichtner’s Jasper is the show’s gravitational center, equal parts menace, tenderness, and even seduction. His chemistry with Denton is electric. With two episodes left, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Talamasca has found its rhythm, and if AMC’s Immortal Universe is smart, this is the energy it’ll follow — vampires, desire, and all the dangerous things that come with both.
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Friday the 13th Delivers Big News for ‘The Vampire Lestat,’ Including New Song, Title Sequence, and Premiere Date
Friday the 13th is proving to be a fruitful time for fans of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, now retitled The Vampire Lestat for its upcoming third season.
Last month, on Friday the 13th, The Vampire Lestat released the first official single from the vampire rockstar himself, “Long Face.” The track arrived alongside a press release written in Lestat’s unmistakable voice, in which he took a few delightfully snide shots at his collaborator, the incredibly talented composer Daniel Hart. (We’re still #TeamDanielHart over here, by the way.)
Now, on another Friday the 13th — this time in March — AMC has delivered three new confirmations at once.
First, a brand-new single titled “All Fall Down.”
Second, the official title sequence for Season 3, which features “All Fall Down” over a frenetic, electric montage of scenes and imagery (including the Toronto skyline, where the entirety of Season 3 was filmed). The sequence is a chaotic burst of color and performance, dominated by a shirtless rockstar Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) who takes up the spotlight. It all culminates with the burning green eyes of Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) — and a cloud-gifted, airborne Lestat.
And finally, the biggest news of all:
AMC’s The Vampire Lestat will officially premiere on June 7.
That’s less than three months away, which is a stretch of time that somehow feels like both an eternity and incredibly close.
There was also yet another press release from Daniel Hart and the Vampire Lestat himself:
Said Daniel Hart: “’All Fall Down’ is both the title track for the new season and the idea for a song by the Vampire Lestat from early in the band’s life. Much like ‘Long face’, it feels heavily influenced by Bowie, T. Rex, and other 70s rock’n’roll stars who were looking back to the blues as much as they were looking up to the stars for inspiration. ‘All Fall Down’ marks a time in this vampire band’s life when they were still figuring out exactly what their sound was, and before Lestat himself started to change personas and explore other musical styles. At the same time, with ‘All Fall Down’, we tried to capture the overall feeling of this new Lestat we get to know better and better throughout the season: more wild, more raw, more self-deprecatingly funny than ever before.”
Said the Vampire Lestat: “’All Fall Down’ is mercifully only 68 seconds long. That’s 54 seconds more Daniel Hart than anyone should suffer. I like the harmonies on the chorus. I did those.”
The Vampire Lestat might be the next big thing, but that ego of his might prove to be his PR downfall.
Just two weeks ago, the first official clip from the new season premiered during IGN Fan Fest. The scene revealed Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac flirting over FaceTime — something that likely brought every Loustat fan to a complete stop before they (or maybe it was just us) screamed.
But that flirtation doesn’t last long.
Notifications begin lighting up Lestat’s iPad (a sentence strange enough to type on its own), revealing something far more troubling: an author profile for Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), whose book Interview with the Vampire is now sitting on bookstore shelves everywhere.
An enraged Lestat storms into his nearest bookstore in Montreal to pick up a copy, very much mirroring the moment from the 1985 novel The Vampire Lestat. Once inside, however, things only get worse as he overhears bookstore workers discussing Armand with far more…affection than they have for him.
To say he’s unhappy would be an understatement.
Interview with the Vampire is, after all, the infamous interview Louis gives to Daniel as they revisit the story he first began telling in 1973. But the version that finally reaches the public is, no doubt, anything but straightforward. By the end of the second season, Louis attempts to destroy the interview entirely, hoping to erase the story rather than see it published. Instead, the book still finds its way onto shelves, and what the public reads is not exactly what Louis originally said, nor a complete version of the truth he himself only begins to understand in the Season 2 finale.
Now, with The Vampire Lestat arriving this summer, audiences will finally see what happens next.
For those looking for answers — for Lestat’s side of the story, for the continuation of Louis’ journey, and for more of those Loustat moments — we finally have a date to look forward to.
June 7.
We’ll definitely be seeing you there.
The Vampire Lestat will premiere on AMC/AMC+ on June 7, 2026. Keep your eyes on iHorror for all the news about it!
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The Rock God Era Begins in Fiery New ‘The Vampire Lestat’ Clip
The Vampire Lestat, the third season of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, is officially set to premiere in June 2026.
On February 25, IGN Fan Fest kicked off promptly at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT, launching a packed showcase of exclusives spanning film, television, and gaming. For vampire fans, the promise of a The Vampire Lestat exclusive was more than welcome after months of brief teasers released since filming wrapped in October 2025.
For lack of a better description, The Vampire Lestat is a new interview.
The first two seasons of AMC’s critically acclaimed series followed Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) as he reckoned with fractured memories, buried truths, and the devastating realization that the story he told — and believed — was incomplete. Those seasons largely adapted the first novel in The Vampire Chronicles, the 1976 book that introduced Anne Rice’s lush, violent, and philosophically tangled vampires to the world and reshaped vampirism forever.
When The Vampire Lestat novel was published almost a decade later in 1985, it flipped the narrative perspective. Lestat de Lioncourt stepped forward to tell his own story so that he could both challenge Louis and reveal everything he hadn’t (or wouldn’t) before.
The television series appears to be following that same vein, and the new clip that premiered at IGN Fan Fest makes that very clear.
Season 1 of Interview with the Vampire opens with journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) arriving at Louis’ (or, more correctly, Armand’s (Assad Zaman)) elusive Dubai penthouse for a second attempt at an interview abandoned almost fifty years earlier. Louis claimed to be seeking “truth and reconciliation.” By the end of Season 2, that truth had clawed its way into the light, and it was anything but simple. The finale closed with Louis reuniting with Lestat (Sam Reid), Daniel’s unexpected vampiric turning at the hands of the ever-manipulative Armand, and Louis seemingly ending the interview for good by burning the tapes and the laptop that contained it all.
Of course, he hadn’t accounted for cloud storage.
The new clip opens intimately: Lestat seated at a piano, humming as he works out a melody. He’s on FaceTime with Louis, and it’s a delightfully surreal image, these ancient vampires navigating modern technology. Their exchange is easy, familiar, and charged with something stronger than admiration but not something either would, at this moment, admit to be love. Lestat asks Louis what he thinks of the song. Louis offers an opinion. Lestat deems it too simple. Louis clarifies, amused and affectionate.
Then comes the invitation.
“You should come visit,” Lestat says. “I have a space above the bed in one of the guest rooms I can’t find a painting for.”
“Oh, the guest room?” Louis replies. “You want me to come and see your guest room.”
The flirtation is obvious, and it’s tender, and it feels like the precipice of something fragile and hopeful. And yet — as with everything between them, it cannot remain uncomplicated for long.
Mid-conversation, Lestat pulls up a link to an entertainment website spotlighting a bestselling author: Daniel Molloy, writer of Interview with the Vampire.
He asks Louis if he knows who Daniel is.
And from there, it all unravels.
Within moments, they’re arguing. A moment later, Lestat is shown in a bookshop, picking up a copy of Interview with the Vampire while employees casually chatter about wanting to sleep with Armand — Louis’ lover and companion of more than seventy years. The sting is immediate and layered: betrayal, jealousy, fear.
It’s a pointed callback to the 1985 novel. On page 12 of the first edition, Lestat, upon introducing himself to a band he wanted to meet, finds they are familiar with the name Lestat and, specifically, a vampire named Lestat.
“From the other room they brought it, a small pulp paper “novel” that was falling to pieces…I got a preternatural chill of sorts at the sight of the cover. Interview with the Vampire. Something to do with a mortal boy getting one of the undead to tell the tale. With their permission, I went into the other room, stretched out on their bed, and began to read…And when the night was empty and still, I heard the voices of Interview with the Vampire singing to me, as if they sang from the grave. I read the book over and over. And then in a moment of contemptible anger, I shredded it to bits.”
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, Page 12.
His anger is personal, but it’s also existential. The vampires have laws, and the greatest of them is secrecy. As Lestat explains in the novel, “Because if there is one law that all vampires hold sacred it is that you do not tell mortals about us.” Louis’ confession is not just reckless; it’s extremely dangerous. Others will come for him.
That fear — for Louis’ safety, for their exposure, for the fragile order of the vampire world — is what propels Lestat toward fame. It drives him to become a rockstar god who can seize control of the narrative before it destroys them both, and to step into a role that’s always existed within him, but is now necessary: the one who will stand in the spotlight, take the fire, and ensure that no one ever hurts Louis again.
The IGN Fan Fest clip solidifies that turning point. We are watching the moment Lestat realizes the story is no longer contained and he decides to deal with it. Loudly.
And perhaps the most thrilling thing of all: we now have confirmation of a June 2026 premiere.
What The Vampire Lestat ultimately has in store — musically, emotionally, catastrophically — remains to be seen. But if this clip is any indication, the new and old interviews are both truly just beginning.
Watch the new IGN exclusive clip of The Vampire Lestat below.
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4 Real Warren Cases That Could Be The Basis For Upcoming Series
The Conjuring franchise is headed to the small screen via HBO/Max. The movies were based on real-life hauntings. Whatever you think of Ed and Lorraine Warren, their onscreen personas played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, respectively, were very likable, and we’d love to see them come back by way of the series. Spin-offs like Annabelle and The Nun are not directly based on their case files; they are stand-alone “fictionalized” properties.
Last time we left Ed and Lorraine in the cinematic universe was Last Rites, where, Spoiler Alert, they retired at the end of the film.
Therefore, it is up in the air as to what the TV series will be about. Some think their daughter Judy will take over. She was played by Mia Tomlinson in the film. The timelines are probably going to have to be dealt with, or they could use different actors than Farmiga and Wilson to portray the younger Warrens; Hollywood has a way of working things out.
Whatever the case, we did some investigating of our own and found some Warren cases that might make for great stories should HBO/Max need any ideas. The Warrens say they investigated over 10,000 cases of hauntings and possessions, so there’s no shortage of material. But we picked four:
The Snedeker House
It’s 1986, and Al Snedeker has just rented a house in Southington, Connecticut, for his family. After they moved in, they made a grim discovery in the basement, which led them to the realization that the house was once a funeral home.
The family suffered lots of phenomena, such as the ever-present smell of decomposing flesh, and they even experienced sexual assault. Their eldest son got most of the attention as he claimed to see the ghosts that never moved on.
The Snedekers contacted the Warrens for help, and they confirmed that the dead clients of the former business were mad because the funeral director had desecrated their bodies. This was the inspiration for A Haunting in Connecticut, but might make a great remake under The Conjuring banner.
The Amityville Haunting
Probably the most overdone story about a haunted house, but still remains the most famous. This, like “The Haunting in Connecticut,” might make a great Warren interpretation under the production of James Wan. If you need a recap, the Lutzes moved into their Long Island dream home in 1975.
The Dutch Colonial-style home was a steal, and the family even came to terms with the fact that only a year before it was the scene of a mass family shooting by the previous owner’s son Ron DeFeo Jr. It wasn’t long after the Lutz’s moved in before they encountered possessions, loud banging noises, swarms of flies, and “bleeding walls.” The Lutz’s famously only stayed in the house for 28 days, and the Warrens were called in to do a cleansing.
The Donovan family
The Donovan family haunting played out much like the Amityville one, but this one was allegedly started by their daughter Patty who used a spirit board for an entire year, communicating with what she said was a young boy. The spirit would compliment Patty and foretell her future.
But things began to get out of hand as the family’s cars would inexplicably be toyed with, wallpaper would unstick itself, running water would turn into blood, and beastly snarls would emanate from the walls.
One year, it rained rocks on the house. Eventually, the Warrens were called in to investigate and they discovered that Patty had not been communicating with a young boy through the Ouija board at all, but a malevolent demon. A priest was eventually called in to cleanse the house, which apparently worked.
The Case of Maurice Theriault
This one is an odd story about Maurice Theriault, who is said to have been possessed by a demon. Theriault was a farmer whose nickname was Frenchy. Although there is a reference to Frenchy in The Nun, his real story has yet to be told.
In real life, people said Frenchy had two sides: a caring and loving side toward adults, but a very abusive side toward children. He developed near super-human strength and had knowledge of people and places that he didn’t know. The people in the New England town in which he lived began to notice that Frenchie would sometimes appear bloody. They also say that he would appear in two places at once.
The Warrens themselves claimed that they saw Frenchy bleeding from his eyes and words appearing on his back. The Catholic Church got involved and performed an exorcism on Frenchy, which they say was successful.
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