It was hobbits? When was it hobbits?!
Hobbits for 3 lousy movies. The vampire movies have been made for a century and just seem to be getting bigger and bigger. It’s like global warming.
I recall a few angel movies, but that fad didn’t even touch the vampire one.
I never liked vampire movies, so their bastardization doesn’t bother me.
Now, if they write a book about angsty, mint-smelling zombies who just want to be loved by girls 1/100th their own age, I’d probably go postal.
Although with movies like Resident Evil, zombies have already been bastardized enough…
I just saw the kids from the movie on my soda cup from some fast food place (I mean, I’ve seen them before, when I’m FFing by a commercial on my TiVo, but I thought of this thread and took a good look at them). Well, just the three main characters, two boys (the vampire and the bad werewolf?) that is. These are “dreamy”? They weren’t at all attractive to me, they’re petulant, angry, sullen-looking children, there’s nothing the least bit sexy or attractive about them.
I don’t get it either.
Ursula Vernon used them with great effect in her comic Digger. (Well, squash, but they’re based on the same folk legend.)
But they’re BROODING because they’re so DEEP!!! You just don’t get it!!!
Salem’s Lot was excellent…but…as they say…the book was better. The book was really good. You should read it sometime.
I saw a vampire once. She was at Trader Vic’s…drinking a pinacolada.
OMG how can you defile an anti-vampire thread by swapping suggestions on ‘good’ vampire books and movies. I drive a metaphorical stake through your metaphorical heart.
It WAS a good book. It was about Vampires the way they used to be imagined. Stephen King wrote it and did a good job.
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
walkin through the streets of Soho in the rain.
He was lookin for the place called Lee Ho Fooks,
gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein.
Sorry, my bad 
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
To me, Betty White is, and should be, that crazy lady with the giant crocodile.
Heeee! Silly me, I should have thought of that. Yup, I’m past it.
Maybe its just me - after all, we got rid of cable…but I don’t need to be exposed to the current vampire mania except in passing unless I choose to - i.e. t-shirts and browsing at the bookstore. I have Netflix instant play, which lets me skip right over vampire movies, a DVD collection that has only a few vampire movies, a large home library - which does contain Twilight - the worst book I couldn’t put down of the past several years - but which also contains a large selection of books that don’t have vampires in them. The internet is at my fingertips, and I can choose or not choose to look at vampire related material - but its the internet, I can spend hours looking at cats - no need to restrict myself to vampires.
I’m amused that when I go pick up a Georgette Heyer novel in the Romance section of the bookstore at the number of vampire romances that have been published. But there still seems to be plenty of room for non-supernatural chick lit and historical romances. Similarly, the SF/Fantasy section is awash in it, but its avoidable.
But perhaps cable TV has turned into “all vampires all the time, except sports and the Hitler channel - which now has six documentaries on whether Hitler was a vampire that play continually” Which would be annoying. We dropped it because around our house it had turned into “all stupid Disney channel shows all the time” - which had nothing to do with vampires, but was just as annoying.
I would totally see a movie about Vampire Hitler. But only because it would be guaranteed to be delightfully terrible.
How about a vampire Churchill, a vampire Victoria, (IIRC) a vampire Mata Hari, and a mutant vampire von Richtofen? No movie, but if you’re interested you might want to check out the novel Anno Dracula.
I like terrible movies because they make a great group activity. Terrible books, on the other hand… :dubious:
Give rise to such great group activities as “Clench Racing” (scroll down to part 2).
Doesn’t sound nearly as fun as (optionally: getting drunk and) shouting things at the screen.
Right now, I’m tripping on this guy
They should make a movie out of it.