Pure curiosity… ***Love ***at first Bite?
Although IMDB does tell me that there is a Lust at First Bite aka Dracula Sucks porn movie… which interestingly also dates to 1979…
Inquiring minds and all that. 
Actually, I can’t think of the last movie that I watched. It’s been a few years. I got so bored with the whole “we gotta have titties” theme that I just haven’t been watching movies, other than things like the Toy Stories. This wasn’t a concious decision, and certainly the gratuitous sex and sexuality wasn’t the only reason, or even the main reason, why I’ve quit watching movies. But it’s part of it.
I’m a partial nudist myself. Right now, I’m wearing a pair of glasses, a pair of panties, and a pair of flipflops. It’s summer, I’m in Texas, and it’s HOT. I don’t mind other people being nude so much as I mind the notion that I should pay a small fortune in ticket and concessions to waste a quarter of the screen time looking at stuff that bores me. And female tits bore me. If I’m gonna look at nekkid peoples, I demand equal rights, I want to look at nekkid or nearly nekkid men. And no, men without shirts is NOT the same thing as women without shirts.
Science fiction has an undercurrent of rational thought. Vampires, like other fantasy, have an undercurrent of magical thought.
You guess which is more common these days.
Though you can treat magic rationally (see Poul Anderson’s Operation Chaos and S. M. Stirling’s Dies the Fire), and you can treat science magically (see Ray Bradbury’s Mars stories).
I keep hearing about it, and as a horror buff I feel I ought to read it, and if it’s good I don’t want to miss it…but vampires again? Just thinking about it makes me tired.
Maybe I’m anemic.
This is one of the worst results of the women’s rights movement. It’s OK though, we still have zombies.
They’re more like fast zombies with the caveats that they can’t stand light, and have a weakness in their chest where they can be shot or stabbed. They are strong, can jump and long lived, but not charming or really even very thinking.
It’s a long book, and the first third is pretty good. After that it fast forwards 100 years, and then it’s kind of annoying.
Yep. As a literaly figure, yep. Now if Twilight has the staying power of Dracula or Lord of the Rings, it gains some respectability.
I think we are rapidly approaching a Vampire media event horizon that will have a similar effect to the well known shoe event horizon on your civilization…
I’m planning to turn into a bat.
-XT
This thread actually turned out to be pretty interesting.
I have a Chinese-American friend who told me that in China, vampires hop. I thought, ‘‘The only thing lamer than a vampire is a hopping vampire.’’
The thing is, I still can’t think of many non-porn “mainstream” movies even from 10 years ago or so that fit your description of being full of quasi-softcore porn, bouncing breasts, etc. Certainly nothing that got a cinema release- I can’t speak for “Straight To Video” or “Made for TV” films because yeah, a lot of that stuff has gratuitous nudity/sex/lesbianism in it, but “Movies you’d go to a multiplex to see”? I’m just not recalling many.
How about vampire pumpkins? That lame enough for ya ?
I’ve had it with these motherfucking vampires on this motherfucking plane!
Just a little aside – I happened upon Twilight fanblog once. The title? “Pillow Biters.”
I got a theory.
A convergence of the social uptightening of America combined with movie production prices that require movies to appeal to almost the entire population in order to be profitable. How many NC-17 movies have come out in the last year? How many R compared to the number of PG-13 (which basically means PG with more violence or cursing).
That is fucking awesome!
For any vampire discussion, I find this necessary. If only to keep myself up-to-date on very important vampire facts.
Really, I just like to see the humorous vampires next to the “serious” ones. Count Chocula’s powers and weaknesses make me smile every time.
Hmmm . . . Are they casting any more Anne Rice movies?
You might expect TVTropes to have a “Vampire” page . . . but you would be wrong. It has a whole directory of “Vampire Tropes” pages.
(I am creeping silently to your monitor . . . I am slowly draining your time . . . Do not resist . . .)
The only pillow biter I know of is Hobbes the tiger during a nightmare.
That makes no sense at all! Who sleeps on pillows full of blood?! (I mean, you know, other than me.)