Category | Blood Thirsty

Since the 1970s, vampires have appeared on film in many different ways.  Who can forget movies like Nosferatu and Blackula?  We might remember the old black and white movies starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula.  Even the PBS children's television series, Sesame Street, featured a puppet called simply The Count who, cheekily enough, just loved to count.  Maybe he had OCD, or perhaps he just genuinely loved counting everything.  Who can say?

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Before there were Edward and Bella, or Sookie and Bill, there were Lestat, Louis, and Claudia -- Anne Rice's tragic vampire family whose story begins in her classic novel Interview with the Vampire, which was made into a film starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and a very young Kirsten Dunst.  The vampires in Rice's novels, while breaking the mold somewhat of the really old school vampires of the past;  while they must sleep and go unconscious during daylight hours, they are not completely vulnerable in that state.  Their bodies have been known to destroy attackers who sought to take advantage of them...

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Vampires are so in.  And why shouldn't they be?  They are beautiful, eerie, and so delightfully intriguing.  Obviously, since I write for a blog that is about vampires in films you can imagine that in any contest against spooky beings I would choose a vampire over any other character.  You would definitely be correct.  I don't break stride when in comes to the Twilight characters as well.  I am Team Edward all the way.  Sure, Jacob isn't so bad, even for a werewolf, but Edward is a vampire and he beats out Jacob any day.  Here's why: Sparkle - Um, I'm a girl, and I'm the type of girl...

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Everyone knows vampires are awesome. Blood thirsty, threatening, terrifying with sex appeal to spare. This has been the vampire most of us have known and "loved" for most of our lives. Recently, though, there's been a different type of vampire thrown into the mix and you have to wonder, does something get lost in translation when they fall in love with mortals and sparkle in the sunlight? In this post we'll discuss the vampires of the Twilight series verses the vampires found throughout the rest of literature. Historically, the first vampire to ever appear on screen was Count Orlock in the 1922...

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