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Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
Just saying, that was what I was discussing. It's not limited to any era or series of movies.

Maybe I wasnt clear enough. Lestat, Louis, they had moments where they were genuinely scary looking in the movies. They had their moments where they looked like a vampire, at least partially. Valik, in "Vampires", pretty boy that he was, also had moments where he looked scary as hell. The main problem I have with the whole "Pretty vampire" thing is movies like Twilight, you gotta admit, they took it to another level there.

I "completely bought" Anne Rice's interpretation of vampires, until a while back AC said something about how the 30 days of night vampires are what "real" vampires are supposed to look like. I thought about that one night as I watched Interview with the vampire, and it kinda stuck with me.

Dont get me wrong, I still love her characters and novels, and I deal with the vampires being "beautiful", let's just say that I look on it in a new light now. Now, I look at her characters being close to a perfect blend of beauty and fierceness.

The perfect vampire depicted onscreen as of late, IMO, is Van Helsing's Dracula. He could be either really handsome, or really monstrous. Same with Marcus in Underworld.

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Originally posted by Fallen
precisely, open-ended. i'm glad you acknowledge that. don't belittle me when you are the one only incorporating a narrow range of vampires that you YOU wish to address when there was never an initial distinction made.