The idea of a Vampire is very interesting. It offers immortality and a bunch of other powers but at the cost of eternal torment. You can even go further as it is in itself a temptation beyond your control and there is a level of desire to give in to the pleasure of being a vampire.
A vampire curse is a romanticization of uncontrollable urges in humans and how they can doom us to eternal damnation.
Remove the downside of being a vampire, the eternal punishment that will inevitably come and vampires are just marvel type characters with superpowers, vulnerabilities and an origin story.
I thought John Carpenter's Vampires was one of the best depictions of this. Eventually they just succumb to being monsters in flesh suits, completely taking over by the depravity for feasting. The degradation and eventual complete loss of humanity was depicted so well. It's a shame that movie never got a proper sequel.
vtm was always good in its understanding of Vampirism.
There are no noble vampires because the noble ones walk into the sun.
The rest are in a range of evil dastardly to begin with, or ar best a "monster I am lest the monster I become"
You give them a lust that WILL kill somebody if they lose control, and then they get immortality so thay they have infinite chances to lose control. Eventually you will. So if you haven't already staked yourself you'll permit little sins to stave off the true disaster.
The problem is you also have infinite time for you sins to grow. And what uou allow builds on itself.
Twilight made it very mainstream. IMHO the sexy part is fine if the monster part is still present. They're supposed to be alluring to prey on people. Twilight forgot all the downsides of vampires and more glorified it. Vampires are monsters and that part is entirely forgotten when you put some self insert main character in who just thirsts for sparkly gay fairy vampires.
It's also not new. So I wouldn't be surprised if they just ripped it off wholesale without giving credit.
If you want a very odd look a Vampires, you can go read Peter Watt's Blindsight. As much as I'd probably punch Watts in the face if I ever met him IRL, I do enjoy Blindsight, even if his other stuff is hit or miss.
Really? So not because they are holy? Isn’t this the same one where the writer added the usual Netflix/current year diversity?
The idea of a Vampire is very interesting. It offers immortality and a bunch of other powers but at the cost of eternal torment. You can even go further as it is in itself a temptation beyond your control and there is a level of desire to give in to the pleasure of being a vampire.
A vampire curse is a romanticization of uncontrollable urges in humans and how they can doom us to eternal damnation.
Remove the downside of being a vampire, the eternal punishment that will inevitably come and vampires are just marvel type characters with superpowers, vulnerabilities and an origin story.
I thought John Carpenter's Vampires was one of the best depictions of this. Eventually they just succumb to being monsters in flesh suits, completely taking over by the depravity for feasting. The degradation and eventual complete loss of humanity was depicted so well. It's a shame that movie never got a proper sequel.
vtm was always good in its understanding of Vampirism.
There are no noble vampires because the noble ones walk into the sun.
The rest are in a range of evil dastardly to begin with, or ar best a "monster I am lest the monster I become"
You give them a lust that WILL kill somebody if they lose control, and then they get immortality so thay they have infinite chances to lose control. Eventually you will. So if you haven't already staked yourself you'll permit little sins to stave off the true disaster.
The problem is you also have infinite time for you sins to grow. And what uou allow builds on itself.
Personal Horror indeed.
True. Which makes it laughable that Disney was unable to do a Blade movie
They're suppose to be murdering monsters but also seductive, hence why they are portrayed as nobles.
Not unlike the depraved French nobility or modern day elites.
Anne Rice was doing sexy vampires way before Twilight.
Twilight made it very mainstream. IMHO the sexy part is fine if the monster part is still present. They're supposed to be alluring to prey on people. Twilight forgot all the downsides of vampires and more glorified it. Vampires are monsters and that part is entirely forgotten when you put some self insert main character in who just thirsts for sparkly gay fairy vampires.
Same one.
It's also not new. So I wouldn't be surprised if they just ripped it off wholesale without giving credit.
If you want a very odd look a Vampires, you can go read Peter Watt's Blindsight. As much as I'd probably punch Watts in the face if I ever met him IRL, I do enjoy Blindsight, even if his other stuff is hit or miss.
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