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SelphieT
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Re: Depiction of Vampires
Originally posted by Evil_Ash
Problem I have come across with many vampire flicks (particularly modern ones), is that the vampires themselves aren't really scary like they're intended. They are often characterized too human, and performs stupid Kung-Fu moves. There also seems to be eroticism involved with Vampirism, which is usually overly done...In Stephen King's vampire mythos, once a vampire is created they become complete slaves to their hunger and epitomize evil. The best thing for them is to stake them. Salem's Lot (1979) presents vampires as what they are, not stylish conversative and sometimes stupid sentient and pretty creatures, but meta-physical representations of evil in its superlative form, that is, SCARY, and I mean TRULY SCARY things to avoid like hell itself! They are are not the twisted politically correct teenager role model vampires of the '90s. They are hideously mysterious, ethereal, chilling and extremely dangerous demonic things with human form. Foul, corrupt and evil aberrations whose eyes glow in the dark like some animals' do.
The annoying eroticism originates from succubi/incubi, creatures that have sex with the opposite gender they are at night and drink their victim's blood, which are obviously vampiric creatures.
RAG
ragesRemorse
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Re: Depiction of Vampires
Originally posted by Evil_Ash
Problem I have come across with many vampire flicks (particularly modern ones), is that the vampires themselves aren't really scary like they're intended. They are often characterized too human, and performs stupid Kung-Fu moves. There also seems to be eroticism involved with Vampirism, which is usually overly done...In Stephen King's vampire mythos, once a vampire is created they become complete slaves to their hunger and epitomize evil. The best thing for them is to stake them. Salem's Lot (1979) presents vampires as what they are, not stylish conversative and sometimes stupid sentient and pretty creatures, but meta-physical representations of evil in its superlative form, that is, SCARY, and I mean TRULY SCARY things to avoid like hell itself! They are are not the twisted politically correct teenager role model vampires of the '90s. They are hideously mysterious, ethereal, chilling and extremely dangerous demonic things with human form. Foul, corrupt and evil aberrations whose eyes glow in the dark like some animals' do.
yeah, but when you have 90 minutes to tell a visual story it is hard to tell a vampire story and keep it consistantly scary. Vampires, and werewolves are one dimensional. When your focusing on them for 90 minutes, you either focus soley on the attributes which make them scary, or try to add a new dimension and explore the personal story of the vampire. When you remove the person behind the vampire out of the story, you are left with what makes a vampire scary...,mystery. This path has a tendancy to become redundant though. You can only have a vampire leaping form the shadows so many times before it becomes typical. When you focus on the perosnal story of the vampire, it is near impossible to have fear in the story. People generally dont fear what they understand or sympathise with, its the other way around. The vampire has been done many times, it has also been perfected many times, which is why i believe filmakers try to stay away from the story. Monsters in the dark just isnt scary anymore, its already been done.