Vampires.... what's the attraction?

[father smurf]

People are just suckers for scary stories

[Brucelles]

I enjoy True Blood, and parts of Vampire Diaries, but to me the point of a vampire is that they are undead, blood-drinking, soulless destroyers of mankind for their own greed. Like politicians.

I cannot help yawning every time some pasty-faced pillock says "I don't drink blood, only jus d'framboise" or some such rubbish.

I want the vampires of The Lost Boys, evil and proud of it. Or the downright nasty vampires of "From Dusk Till Dawn" with Salma Hayek's bum in the background. I rented 30 Days of Darkness this afternoon, and I am expecting lots of dead people for my money, and no pale and wan cur saying "You guys go ahead and eat people. I'm just going to have a tomato juice".

Rend, tear, slurp, die. That's vampires.

[pollaxe]

I rented 30 Days of Darkness this afternoon, and I am expecting lots of dead people for my money, and no pale and wan cur saying "You guys go ahead and eat people. I'm just going to have a tomato juice".

Then you should enjoy it! The vamps in 30 Days of Night are pretty nasty, not a lace collar in sight!
The screams got on my nerves a bit though (plus the Neil Tennant factor is amusing.)

Almost forgot Near Dark too, that's a good one.

[Lucio]

The recent fad with vampires being attractive isn't really all that recent, there's been a long association between vampires and the erotic. Reading through this article http://horrorfilms.suite101.com/arti...x_and_vampires, shows the development of the idea.

[david@scan]

I'm sure Shaithis knows of one particular Vampire series with no sign of lace collars

[Shooty*]

I saw Twilight at the weekend.

With the sole exception of the eye candy that was Alice Cullen (Ashley Greene) it was woeful. The first half was "I'm not scared of you", the second half.. defied description, really. Lots of angst.

What the film really seemed to excel at (except promoting the whole American no-sex, abstinence thing) was conveying the whole feeling that when you're a teenager, EVERYTHING is life or death, and adults can't understand, etc.

good vampire stuff:

Lost Boys
Near Dark (about as un-sexy as you can get)
Blade
The first 3 Anne Rice books, then she went a bit OTT.
Jeri Ryan in Dracula 2000 (an otherwise totally forgetable film).
Shadow Of The Vampire.
Buffy
Angel
Underworld

Not seen:
True blood
Let The Right One In

Bad vampire stuff:
Twilight (THEY EXPLODE. THEY DO NOT F**KING SPARKLE)
That X-Files episode in LA
Blade 2
Blade 3
The Queen Of The Damned movie

[Sir Digby]

Underworld was pretty sweet. But then I suppose you could just swap around the female leads in Twilight and Underworld and I'd be suggesting that Twilight was a pretty sweet film.

I've been trying to stop myself from commenting on facebook when girls have been going batsh.. no wait, getting excited about the film.

My Immortal with a spell checker really.

[mikerr]

Best one was Ultraviolet .. the series with Jack Davenport, not the unrelated film.

[pollaxe]

^Yes I enjoyed Ultraviolet ("Code Five" etc.) though I found it a bit X-Filesy at the time but very atmospheric. When I was watching Trueblood I thought I recognised Bill from somewhere and as a vampire and it turns out it was from Ultraviolet. He (Stephen Moyer) played Jack Davenport's mate who was turned into a vampire.

[Biscuit]

might have to check ultra violet out

[[GSV]Trig]

I like trueblood as a tv thing, the bit that gets me about about Twilight is the guy that plays him, I mean, seriuosly, what is the attraction...

As for the new take on Vampires, the only sparkling they should be doing in the sunlight is just as they start to burst into flames..
I asked some girly friends yesterday why they changed the vampire rules, and I got shot down with the "why did they change something thats not real and all made up" line, pffft.

[Biscuit]

The change appeals to girls... the whole mysterious man with sparkly secrets they only share with special girls thing. It worked and it sold a lot. I dont like it and its been made clear a lot of others dont either but hey if the chicks dig it then what the hell.

[Lucio]

I like trueblood as a tv thing, the bit that gets me about about Twilight is the guy that plays him, I mean, seriuosly, what is the attraction...

As for the new take on Vampires, the only sparkling they should be doing in the sunlight is just as they start to burst into flames..
I asked some girly friends yesterday why they changed the vampire rules, and I got shot down with the "why did they change something thats not real and all made up" line, pffft.

They made them sparkly so the girls wouldn't have to be "bad" and hang around with boys after dark. At least.. not until they wanted to....

[Knoxville]

I enjoy True Blood, and parts of Vampire Diaries, but to me the point of a vampire is that they are undead, blood-drinking, soulless destroyers of mankind for their own greed. Like politicians.

I cannot help yawning every time some pasty-faced pillock says "I don't drink blood, only jus d'framboise" or some such rubbish.

I want the vampires of The Lost Boys, evil and proud of it. Or the downright nasty vampires of "From Dusk Till Dawn" with Salma Hayek's bum in the background. I rented 30 Days of Darkness this afternoon, and I am expecting lots of dead people for my money, and no pale and wan cur saying "You guys go ahead and eat people. I'm just going to have a tomato juice".

Rend, tear, slurp, die. That's vampires.

30 days of night's good

The comics are a bit better imo but only if you're a fan of Ben Templesmiths style of artwork. A few people have recommended True Blood to me, I should check it out to be honest but I'm knee deep in season one of Fringe.

[Dareos]

True Blood is basically vampire pr0n. Its callous hard hitting, in your face sex with no moralities or even a pretention to a plot line.


well, thats the first 5 mins anyways, the rest is then more sex, and plenty of story, it rocks

I watched Twilight today, mainly to see what all the fuss was about, and its crap, its teenage angsty girly crap, which is crap of the most utter crapness, unless yer a teenage angsty girl i spose.

Buffy and then Angel were series of the highest quality, tongue firmly in cheek throughout, right down to the musical. Some of the best TV i have ever seen, and vamp Willow > anything.

Anne Rice - Twilight for homoerotically charged adults - also crap

John Carpenters Vampires - Nasty, Brutal Carnage - Awesome

and so on and so on.

There has always been a vampire fetish thing going on, just that more recently there has been a vomiting of puerile drivel in the vein (in the vein, get it?) of Vampires are sexy and cool and dont really want to bite you, its just the way they're made, and with therapy we can all get through it and have lots of little vampire babies, except we cant cos they cant reproduce, but he keeps looking at me with those deep eyes and..... puerile drivel

unless yer a teenage girl with misconceptions of Goth

anyways, i digress

Violent blood sucking virgin raping ass whooping explode in sunlight or when staked Vampires = GOOD

Crappy melodramatic sparkly emo school attending tomato juice drinking pansy assed vampires = BAD

any questions?

[nichomach]

Ultraviolet was absolute genius; I have the DVD box set, and I still watch it every so often. I wish they'd made a second series - and vampires reacted appropriately to sunlight in that (I recall Idris Elba's character blasting his way out of a locked warehouse using, effectively, sunlight+coffin+vampire=shape charge, which was fun). I thought the following was appropriate:

...and I'm kind of in sympathy with cracked.com:

Vampires haven't been scary since 1994...What was once a vicious blood sucking monster has become a romantic character conflicted because the strength of his kiss will surely kill the woman he wants to love. Anne Rice cut the balls off of Vampires. They are now imaginary gay boyfriends for goth girls.