Comments on: My Favorite Monsters: the Vampire

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:03:15 +0000

HILARIOUS! I ended up on this page searching for something else and was caught by Ransom’s first words. Are there any movies/books/tv shows that don’t have vampires in them nowadays??

By: Jen Pen

Jen Pen — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:18:00 +0000

Two words: Twilight Saga. I think it proves that animals have blood so they can be drunk out of.

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By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:44:00 +0000

I suppose you could see a character like Rouge from X-Men as a modern vamp. She absorbs the energy of anyone she touches, which has the side effect of letting her adopt other mutants’ abilities, at least for a short time. If she doesn’t break contact fast enough, she can seriously injure and potentially kill someone. What’s so great about her character in a vamp sense is that her power is also a curse. Her inability to physically connect with another person is a heavy burden for her, kind of the way Louis in the Rice books initially feels the burden of taking human life.

Also, the bad terminator in T2 assumes the identities of his victims. That’s a bit vampy.

By: GuesssWho

GuesssWho — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:56:07 +0000

Lecter was SO cool . . .

By: Leizl

Leizl — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:41:00 +0000

One very recent movie about modern-day vampires would be 30 Days of Night. I think hat movie was based on a graphic novel. I wish that they make a sequel. I would really like to know more about how the vampires came to be.

By: kitsana_d

kitsana_d — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:05:21 +0000

Having spent most of high school and almost all of college doing research on cannibalism, I’d have to say that Lecter won me over early. He’s a fascinating study of manners and madness.

But Lugosi is good for a shiver or two. I think it’s the accent!

By: Timmy Harms

Timmy Harms — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:37:59 +0000

I’ve always thought of the human fascination with vampires as tied to the horrible fascination we have with perversion (the sacred made profane). One day someone is your best friend, or lover, or even mother… the next day, they are something so totally different, a being of evil. Almost as if the darkest aspects of that person have come out- a horror with the evil that can lurk within ourselves, maybe, if you want to get psychoanalytical.

By: Pepe le Pew

Pepe le Pew — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:40:37 +0000

Don’t forget that the actor who was initially supposed to play Dracula was no other than Lon Chaney.
With him as Dracula, you wouldn’t even think about debating whether Lugosi or Lee was the best.

By: Rusty Lime Admin

Rusty Lime Admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:34:40 +0000

Lugosi gave me nightmares when I was a kid, and to this day Vampires still creep me out more than any other fictional monster. Thanks for the flashbacks!

By: buhby

buhby — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:07:19 +0000

One of the best vampire stories I have ever read, besides Bram Stoker’s, is Richard Matheson’s “I am Legend”. Despite what the movie would like you to believe, they are in fact vampires. And I will not spoil it for any potential readers, but the vampires in I am Legend (the book) are very much like the vampires in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. And don’t believe you know anything about the book from watching the movie, they cannot be compared.