# Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, Witches, Werewolves **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154 "2012-10-09T00:36:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/1 "2012-10-09T00:36:39Z")
What’s next? Lord knows Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies are pretty played out, how are we going to create another iconic horror? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/2 "2012-10-09T00:59:49Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > What’s next? Lord knows Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies are pretty played out, how are we going to create another iconic horror? I think there’s still plenty of room for more zombie stories. Robots and aliens need more love from Hollywood too. Terminator should have kicked off a wave of robot flicks every bit as big as the vampire wave we’re riding now, but somehow it really didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/3 "2012-10-09T01:01:16Z")
Werewolves have never gotten the love that vampires and zombies get. I want some really good werewolf flicks. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/4 "2012-10-09T01:06:45Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > Robots and aliens need more love from Hollywood too. Damn right. As to the OP, we don’t need to create another horror. We just cycle through the ones we already have. Different ones will come into vogue at different times. If you want more mummies or witches, just wait a few years. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/5 "2012-10-09T03:15:07Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > I think there’s still plenty of room for more zombie stories. Robots and aliens need more love from Hollywood too. Terminator should have kicked off a wave of robot flicks every bit as big as the vampire wave we’re riding now, but somehow it really didn’t. Just wait, World War Z (With Brad Pitt, J. Michael Strazinsky, and written by the son of Mel Brooks) will light a fire under zombies, but really, 28 \ later, Shaun of the Dead, Resident Evil 772 - Milla Breaks a Hip should give you an idea of just how many zombie movies there are. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/6 "2012-10-09T03:17:42Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Damn right. > > As to the OP, we don’t need to create another horror. We just cycle through the ones we already have. Different ones will come into vogue at different times. If you want more mummies or witches, just wait a few years. Yeah, but I want something NEW…something I can use the words ‘gestalt’ and ‘protean’ with. Cthulhu didn’t get his fair shake with HellBoy…course, I guess we could go with [QUOTE=Church Lady] SATAN! [/quote] as another possibility. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/7 "2012-10-09T05:05:25Z")
I’m thinking the next ones up will be angels and mermaids. I’m seeing more and more YA and other novels with angels as the main characters, but I think there will always be a bigger market for vampires and zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/8 "2012-10-09T05:12:50Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > I’m thinking the next ones up will be angels and mermaids. I’m all for that, as long as it’s the awesome fantasy sort of angel and not the weird Christian wheel-of-wings sort of angel. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/9 "2012-10-09T05:18:54Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Werewolves have never gotten the love that vampires and zombies get. I want some really good werewolf flicks. Ditto ditto ditto! Also poor mummies have always really been the Honorable Mention of the monster world. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/10 "2012-10-09T11:59:11Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Ditto ditto ditto! > > Also poor mummies have always really been the Honorable Mention of the monster world. One might say they were the _Brendan Frasier_ of the monster world. (I keed, I LOVE Brendan…in a strictly platonic, no homo, way.) ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/11 "2012-10-09T12:06:19Z")
I’m thinking ghosts and demon possession are getting played out as well - but then again, I’ve been watching paranormal activity and such. Maybe creature from the lagoon or other such ‘monsters’? ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/12 "2012-10-09T14:25:37Z")
Pod-people / alien body-snatchers need a comeback. There’s opportunity for a genuinely tense and scary story there if it’s handled _just so_. The perfect body-snatcher movie should make the rational/sane audience feel like a zealous conspiracy theorist. ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/13 "2012-10-09T16:35:10Z")
Plague! Sentient virus plague! nanobot plague! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/14 "2012-10-09T16:47:29Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Pod-people / alien body-snatchers need a comeback. There’s opportunity for a genuinely tense and scary story there if it’s handled _just so_. The perfect body-snatcher movie should make the rational/sane audience feel like a zealous conspiracy theorist. Comeback? It never goes away. What we need is a new adaptation of something besides Jack Finney’s book _The Body Snatchers_ – which didn’t invent the field, and was in fact a latecomer to it. Robert Heinlein’s _The Puppet Masters_ predates it (and Heinlein apologized for using such an old trope when he submitted it), and the movie they made had too many compromises. It’s time for a faithful, CGI-aided adaptation. Or maybe adapt Eric Frank Russell’s body-snatcher novel _Three to Conquer_ Either of those would give you a body-snatcher story that was different from and fresher than a retread of Finney’s novel. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/15 "2012-10-09T17:14:41Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Comeback? It never goes away. > What we need is a new adaptation of something besides Jack Finney’s book _The Body Snatchers_ – which didn’t invent the field, and was in fact a latecomer to it. Robert Heinlein’s _The Puppet Masters_ predates it (and Heinlein apologized for using such an old trope when he submitted it), and the movie they made had too many compromises. It’s time for a faithful, CGI-aided adaptation. Or maybe adapt Eric Frank Russell’s body-snatcher novel _Three to Conquer_ > > Either of those would give you a body-snatcher story that was different from and fresher than a retread of Finney’s novel. Yeah, I meant the concept - not that one book. And I mean an A-list comeback - with a great director, stars, and top shelf effects. ---
**Author:** ![HenryGale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b782af/32.png) [@HenryGale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HenryGale)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/16 "2012-10-09T17:25:39Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Yeah, I meant the concept - not that one book. And I mean an A-list comeback - with a great director, stars, and top shelf effects. Expect The Host early next year, based on the body-snatching book of the same name by Stephanie Meyer. The novel doesn’t quite do for body-snatchers what Twilight did for vampires (i.e., ruin them completely). But it’ll probably be avoidable. Still, maybe it’ll rekindle this genre. I love a good body-snatcher tale. The Invasion with Craig and Kidman was pretty fun. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/17 "2012-10-09T17:37:21Z")
I liked lost girl, stars a succubus. They show all kinds of magical types, and its been re-newed. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/18 "2012-10-09T21:41:03Z")
CHUDs. CHUDs all the way down. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/19 "2012-10-09T21:46:04Z")
> [@Tapiotar](#): > > Plague! > Sentient virus plague! > nanobot plague! A nanobot plague could be the next Blob. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154/20 "2012-10-09T21:50:05Z")
Just plain magic in the real world. Dresden Files should have been a HUGE success. also wanted to say… GODZIRRAH! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-zombies-mummies-witches-werewolves/637154.md?page=2)