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Posted by AllentownDarkWater on 16-08-2010 at 03:12:
All these movies and TV shows about vampires. There's too many of them!
Seriously, I cannot understand why there's so many of these movies and TV shows about vampires and why people are so fascinated by them (especially the girls). I do not find vampires interesting in the slightest. The only vampires I ever liked were Demitri Maximov, and Vampire Hunter D. Well actually D is half vampire, but you get the point. But yeah, other than them I think vampires are stupid. Werewolves are better.
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Posted by Madilayn on 16-08-2010 at 03:21:
Vampires are the flavour of the month, which is probably why there are so many versions. Paranormal is the new "in thing" in books as well - and has been for a few years.
Look on the bright side, Allen. Vampires that sparkle (a la Twilight) only make it easier for Vampire Hunters to find and stake them.
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Posted by AllentownDarkWater on 16-08-2010 at 03:30:
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LMAO good one, Maddy! Yeah, why doesn't D go after Edward Cullen? That would be hilarious.
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Posted by PalyNerd on 16-08-2010 at 04:15:
It is not the first time the vampire craze has come around, I remember being a bit vampire crazy when the Lost Boys came out (but then that might have been because of Corey Haim). Back then they were evil though and I gave myself nightmares over Stephen Kings Salems lot and the Lost Boys.
I know back then the attraction for me was getting scared so I really got into all sorts of horror stories.
Later I remember reading the Lestat series but only really enjoyed the first one and it must have been around then that another adaptation of Dracula came out.
I totally missed out on the Buffy craze.
For me the Twilight series was kind of like watching daytime soapies... i just had to know what happened at the end. I have enjoyed the Sookie Stackhouse vampire series though. The attraction... not sure, I am at a period in my life where I am enjoying light fiction as I am too tired at the end of the day to read anything heavy. I have only just started watching True blood and have been enjoying it (but getting sick of the neverending Jason Stackhouse sex scenes). I dont like what they have done to my favourite charactaer (Sam - a shapeshifter) either.
I really loved both series of Being Human though - this sereies has a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost.
So I cant answer your question, I dont know what the attraction is and I wouldnt class myself as vampire obsessed but I do seem to read/watch a lot of it!
Posted by AllentownDarkWater on 16-08-2010 at 04:50:
The Lost Boys was good. I forgot about that film. I mostly liked it because of the music though. Especially the INXS, Lou Gramm and Roger Daltrey songs.
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Posted by lborgia88 on 16-08-2010 at 05:05:
Allen, you might enjoy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4uuGvmAxTI
I haven't gotten much into "Twilight" (only read the first book) or any of the current TV shows, but I was a massive fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel, back in the day.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone isn't writing a dissertation about the meaning of vampires in popular literature and culture (heck, it's probably already been done -it goes back to Bram Stoker, after all).
Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 16-08-2010 at 05:41:
American Vampires by Noreen Dresser. It's a couple decades old, but it goes into why vampires seem to be so popular.
Somewhere out there (I've seen it) is a doctored picture: the two leads of Twilight in the foreground, and behind them -- Blade the Vampire Slayer.
Over on I Can Has Cheezburger? were a number of pics with captions dissing the Twilight franchise. Yes, they had the doctored one, and most of the captions were along the lines of "Please" and "Do It."
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Posted by gatchamarie on 16-08-2010 at 07:39:
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Me too! Me too! Those were the days when I began to take interest in vampires! I still have to watch Twilight, though! What I love in such vampire stories are not vampires, in themselves, but the interior conflict of particular ones when their bit of humanity clashes with their nature and tries to come out, provoking stronger, consequent emotions!
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Posted by littlewolf on 16-08-2010 at 10:12:
I agree with Buffy, and the very old vampire movies (when vampires were preditors and not had to much touchy feely therapy)
The Stackhouse books -love the into music for the TV program
Being Human - have to wait till the new season to find out how they get Nina out
The Dark Hunter series - vampires, weres, god, demons and more
Lost Boys and the Cories - did anyone see Lost Boys II and was there a III?
and what's with the Vampire Diaries - is that just a silly teenage soapy with teeth?
Allen your right - do love the weres and 2natured more than vampires
Got to love a good zombie or apocalypt movie, especially a silly one
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Posted by amethyst on 16-08-2010 at 21:34:
I never got into Buffy or any of the others, but I did like Forever Night.
Still haven't read Twilight.
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Posted by AllentownDarkWater on 16-08-2010 at 21:43:
I didn't see Twilight, and I have no intention of seeing it either. 
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Posted by clouddancer on 16-08-2010 at 22:26:
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Oooo, Amethyst I loved Forever Night, probably because it was set close to my hometown, in Toronto. I have more recently been watching another Canadian series called Blood Ties, based on the Blood Books by Tanya Huff.
I watched some Buffy but never really got into it. Vampires, Witches, sorcerers and the Paranormal all are things that interest me but I can only take it in small doses before I loose my interest.
Allen TV shows (and movies) all run in a cyclical cycle just like everything else. We went through a phase on TV of Law shows (Dramas) , then Hospital Dramas, then Emergency workers (firefighters and Police Dramas). Now I guess we are in a phase of Vampires, the occult and paranormal events.
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Posted by nuni on 16-08-2010 at 22:51:
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UW, very funny!
Allen-I'm not sure why vampires are so popular. Perhaps it's a very romantic notion - the idea of living forever, but always as an outsider.
I remember a movie called Shadow of the Vampire a few years back. Willem Dafoe played a vampire who pretended to be an actor who was portraying a vampire. Creepy, but so over the top, it was funny at times.
Posted by amethyst on 16-08-2010 at 22:51:
Don't forget the reality tv phase that is more phony than pro wrestling. God, I hope that phase ends soon.
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Posted by nuni on 16-08-2010 at 22:52:
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I'm with you on that one!
Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 16-08-2010 at 22:57:
Survivor has been on for nearly 2 decades. 'Reality' shows are cheap and easy to produce, and will continue as long as the owners of the various networks chase the 18-39 male demographic. (Why do you think a lot of formerly cool cable channels have all turned stupid?)
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Posted by clouddancer on 16-08-2010 at 23:25:
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I have to agree with you on that. You notice I try to put it out of my mind so much I did not even put it on my list.
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Posted by gatchamarie on 17-08-2010 at 07:14:
I join all of you regarding the reality shows! ... or should we call them, "half-reality" shows, as, for me, great part of them is still all made up!
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Posted by lyon on 17-08-2010 at 21:28:
what, nobody mentioned the Anita Blake novels?
mmmm. vampires.
girls are fascinated by them because they embody every single dominant male stereotypical trait imaginable - and in their fantasies, most women eat that up like ice-cream.
it's not that hard to figure out.
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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 17-08-2010 at 22:45:
It's the fakelore vampires that do it for people, and only the more recent interpretations. Those are also the vampires that live for thousands of years (unless they meet vampire killers), burn in sunlight, and so forth.
Dracula is, if you read it without the blinders of the movies, hardly a romantic novel. The Count is a stalker and (in essence) a rapist. He's repellent old satyr when we meet him, and it's only after draining some folks that he gains the semblance of youth. Everything we think we know about Dracula starts with the Dean/Balderston play and goes from there.
Nosferatu started the 'vampires destroyed by sunlight' bit of fakelore. In Dracula, the Count's power is limited in daytime. Whatever form he's in when the sun rises, is the one he's stuck with until sunset. (Stoker does incorporate some authentic vampire lore in Van Helsing's speech.) There's even a scene where the heroes encounter him in daylight. He runs away from them because he's stuck in human form and powerless.
Folklore vampires are not sexy. Some are actual rapists, visiting their wives and assaulting them nightly until they die. All suck the life out of their victims. If they weren't pinned in their coffins by wooden stakes, iron nails, or other means, they would continue their unlife for quite a while. Deprived of food (or finally killed), they decompose and will never rise again.
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