Playing right now on my cable system From Dusk Till Dawn 2
Lust at First Bite
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
The Thirst
A little earlier, reruns of Twilight and True Blood (rerun pretty much every night). And others I can’t even keep track of.
I am so tired of this bullshit vampire crap. I would think by now the ideas would have been bled dry from the genre.
And that goes for goddamm werevolves and zombies. And incestuous cannibal zombies, and zombie werevolves, and … and Goddamn Zilla too.
Can’t we have more movies with naked chicks who AREN’T horribly slashed or torn to pieces once the clothes come off?
I couldn’t agree more. Vampires and werewolves. I can understand it for a scare now and then. Harmless fun. But the obsession our culture currently has with it baffles me.
Haha, uh yeah, no. Now the goths have found a place to fit in and be popular, since everyone’s into it. They will keep it popular for a long time, I fear. The demographic- tweens and teens with black nailpolish, lipstick, and hair- is not going anywhere any time soon.
Seriously, though, I’m getting a little tired of the vampires also. I wish all those people who wish a vampire would come and bite them because vampires are OMGsohot would realize that the vampire would just think of them as a meal, nothing more. I saw a comic strip once in which a group of teenagers sees a couple of vampires walking by and make some comments about how sexy vampires are, only to have the vampires turn them into a mostly-sucked-dry heap of corpses. I think the tag line at the end said something like “To you, they’re hot. To them, you’re lunch.”
I don’t think so. I think that, since it’s mainstream, eventually those who would be goths will jump to something else. They already make fun of Twitards.
This is actually what bothers me, as I find goth fashion (if not the actual personality) to be quite attractive.
Everyone I know who is into True Blood and the other vampire series is a middle-aged soccer mom or similar. I’m sure this is partially a function of the fact that these days I know a lot more middle-aged soccer moms than gothy teens, but I’m saying, the demographic is a lot wider than what you describe.
You know, this idea that being bitten by a vampire is all sexy and cool would go straight out the window in a flash of screaming agony if they really did have a bunch of razor sharp teeth slashing into their jugular.
It’s really stupid “Oh, he’s the ultimate bad boy*, but he won’t hurt ME!**” lies and self-delusion.
yup, a monster who kills people to live.
** and wants to make you into one of those monsters too. Or perhaps he’s just playing with his food and will eat you later.
Goths have nothing and *want *nothing to do with it.
To put it in pompous terms : goths are into vamps for the ennui and the outsider-ness (e.g. “we are aliens lurking outside humanity’s windows, forever denied the sun’s caress, our gift is our curse etc… /slashwrist”), the current fad is aaaaall about the glamour, superiority to regular humans and grabbing a slice of the Twilight crowd (“that Edward, he’s so dreamy… and chaste !”).
Which feels kind of wrong, somehow. I mean, both ultimately stem from snobbish bullshit, but at least the goth crowd doesn’t pretend vampires are nice.
I don’t think you can say whether vampires are nice or not… after all, they don’t actually exist and there’s a myriad of different mythologies where vamps vary from mindless monsters to noble and surprisingly chaste super heroes.
In every folkloric version of vampirism with which I am acquainted, vampires are disgusting undead creatures. All that varies is just how disgusting. One South Pacific variant, the name of which I can’t recall, is just a detached head that flies about with its internal organs dangling drippily beneath.
This whole “sexy vampires” thing is the product of fiction writers and has gone on far too long for my taste. I’d like to see a vampire movie featuring a genuinely frightening and disgusting vampire like the old timey people (who actually believed in such things) feared.
I’m sick of vampires too, but how is this any more self-delusional than the previous trope about vampires being evil monsters like in The Lost Boys?
Vampires do not exist. They are imaginary. The vampires of “Twilight” are no more or less delusional than the vampire in “Nosferatu.” If the mythology changes to make vampires more like Edward Cullen than like Count Dracula, the mythology changes, but it’s not “delusional.” There are no vampires in real life. There is nothing to be “deluded” about.
