# How do you like your monsters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-monsters/684932 "2014-03-30T21:13:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-monsters/684932/21 "2014-03-31T19:11:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I came here to say this. I like my vampires to be barely human parasites. Willem Dafoe’s version of Max Schreck in [Shadow of the Vampire](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Vampire) is probably my favorite version of a vampire. He was nominated and should have won the 2000 Academy Award. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-monsters/684932/22 "2014-03-31T19:57:43Z")
I checked max 1 per category. Werewolves: hate the Twilight (not specifically that property) idea of normal sized or slightly bigger regular wolves. I don’t like the vampire/zombie style of oral transmission of werewolfism. Of these types, I also don’t think they should be evenly matched with vampires. They kill a vampire before breakfast daily. Vampire: all are fine in small doses/certain situations. I like the idea that they are set to go off at any moment, so no sexy quasi-abuse your girlfriend by pushing her against the wall, but instead waking up covered in blood and her throat torn out, and either remorseful then or have accepted your nature. Zombies: didn’t check it. Sick of these guys. Not a big fan of voodoo zombies, but that would at least be something new! Frankenstein’s: original Godzilla: don’t care, grew up with him saving Tokyo from whatever. What about Godzooki :dubious" Dragon: Tolkien/D&D ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-monsters/684932/23 "2014-03-31T20:37:36Z")
I voted for the original Frankenstein who was my first favorite monster because you didn’t have a choice for what I’ve decided is the ultimate monster. That’s the intelligent human being who lacks sufficient human qualities, particularly conscience, and has the capacity to cause serious damage to other human beings. Think Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men.” Now that I think about it, that’s not a very large transition. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-monsters/684932/24 "2014-03-31T21:24:05Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > I voted for the original Frankenstein who was my first favorite monster because you didn’t have a choice for what I’ve decided is the ultimate monster. > > That’s the intelligent human being who lacks sufficient human qualities, particularly conscience, and has the capacity to cause serious damage to other human beings. Think Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men.” > > Now that I think about it, that’s not a very large transition. Yeah, I left out sociopaths and the like this time around; maybe that’s a whole new list, with Chigurh, Hannibal Lector, et al. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-monsters/684932/25 "2014-03-31T21:34:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I came here to say this. I like my vampires to be barely human parasites. Yeah, that’s a great choice for a vampire, and, if I’m remembering correctly, is the interpretation closest to the original folklore. Am I right about this? ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-monsters/684932/26 "2014-03-31T22:55:08Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > Yeah, that’s a great choice for a vampire, and, if I’m remembering correctly, is the interpretation closest to the original folklore. Am I right about this? Depends on which folklore we’re talking about, but yeah, I think the majority of vampire-like monsters were less like Count Dracula and more like the vampires from 30 Days of Night, or even more animalistic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-your-monsters/684932.md?page=1)