Here Be Vampires!

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Between Twilight, True Blood, Anne Rice, Blade, Daybreakers, Being Human, et al., I figured we could use a place to discuss our love and/or dislike of this genre.

I first fell for vamps after reading Interview with the Vampire years ago. I had never thought of them as anything but horror before that. But Rice's vamps were hot & sexy.

I have eschewed Twilight because of the religious/political affiliations of its author. True Blood has renewed my lust for the nocturnal sanguine. Daybreakers looks like an interesting concept. Hopefully the execution lives up to that.

I saw the first episode of Being Human last weekend. It seemed a little rough, but I think it has potential. And no, it doesn't hurt that Mitchell (Aidan Turner) is a cutie.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

There is a relevant article in today's Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2223486/

[innerSpaceman]

Well, Eliza 1812 pointed out quite rightly to me that some incanations of Dracula are able to walk about in daylight, albeit a little weakened.


I still call shenanigans on that concept for any other vampire that's not King of Vampires like Vlad is.


I HATED Twilight for many, many reasons ... but on top of everything, I simply could not accept vampires that just had to stay out of the sun, or use UVA 100 protection, or live in Cloudy Oregon ... otherwise they'd get, OMG, glittery!!

Oh, and no fangs.


But, I loves, loves, loves me some True Blood. Except for penultimate episode aired, which was the stupidest of the series. I read the first two Sookie Stackhouse books, and didn't much care for them. Definitely bare bones plot for the 1st two seasons, but it's all the stuff added that makes the TV show So.Much.Better.

I'm told a lot of the addittions are from later books ... um, so what will they do if the show lasts many seaons? (Feh, not likely with HBO, who eats their best shows alive ... talk about vampires!)


And of course, True Blood's got one thing no other vampire show has. It's not vampire. Two Words: Jason Stackhouse.



I miss all the drug allegory of the first season ... but the second season is already so much better than the second book, I'm still happy with the show.



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Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula is BRILLIANT. I could go on and on, but this is already a long post. But I just wanted to put this out there, since some love it, lots HATE it.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula is BRILLIANT. I could go on and on, but this is already a long post. But I just wanted to put this out there, since some love it, lots HATE it.

That was the first Rated R movie I saw in the theaters. One of my favs.

Love Never Dies.

I think I still have a hat from that movie somewhere.

[BarTopDancer]

I used to love a show called Forever Knight. And of course Lost Boys and Rice's vampires.

I know I'm in the minority on LoT - I really enjoyed the Twilight books. The first movie, not so much as I felt it left a lot out, more than necessary. I also thought the make-up was terrible and the sparkles left much to be desired and what's with fangless vamps? I hope with a new director some of these issues will be rectified.

I went into the books knowing they were written for teens, they are nothing more than teen horrmance, like Christopher Pike, RL Stein and VC Andrews. I think that perspective enabled me to enjoy the books for what they were. Don't get me wrong, they were full of so much teen angst and I wanted to smack a few of the characters. But they were really nothing more than teen horrmance that came on the heels of Potter, so adults got into yet another teen series.

[innerSpaceman]

I wanted to punch the heroine of Twilight. Who would love her? She's an annoying, grumpy, lump of bah.



Francis's Dracula is one of those movies where something strange is going on in every shot. Usually employing their somewhat updated version of early film effects that so marvelously punctuate the entire movie.

And OMG, the costumes! Top notch cast with bizarre performances. The backstory that upped the romance quotient of Dracula to ELEVEN. Love, love, love and love it.


Lost Boys is the Best.Teen.Vampire.Movie.Ever.

Fright Night is my fave Vamp Comedy.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I wanted to punch the heroine of Twilight. Who would love her? She's an annoying, grumpy, lump of bah.

I wanted to punch her, Jacob and at times, Edward. He really is a bit stalkerish "you have to stay away from me because I can't stay away from you".

I really liked the Cullen family better than the main characters.

[mousepod]

iSm... I forget... did you watch Buffy?

If not, we're going to need to have a Season One weekend screening at Casa Chihuahua as soon as the Den is done (work begins Friday).

12 episodes = less than ten hours = totally doable.

[Betty]

Lost Boys is what made me hot for vampires way back when...(love me some Keifer)... which led to Anne Rice. I tried to go back and read one of her books recently and thought it sucked by the way.

But had the hots for vampires and vampire looking guys and anything spooky or whatever for quite some time.

Then I grew up, got married, and really let the vamps go.

Never got into Buffy. It was just too campy for me.

Read Twilight and got very much back into vampires. I enjoyed the books for what they are - teen lit. Light. And I hadn't read a romance in a long time and it filled the need for that. And since then I've read many vampire romance books and have enjoyed them quite a bit. The do not care for the actress that plays Bella. Blah. She seems rather bored. And the glitter effect sucks - and the meadow scene was so meh.

The Black Dagger Brotherhood series, which I've mentioed before, is very erotic! Pretty graphic and has a smidge of homoerotica in a few of the books that's pretty hot too. If you love the vampires - why are you here reading this when you could be reading the series?!? At first I was a bit put off by the naming of characters, but have no issue with that at all now. Can't wait for the next in the series.

True Blood though. So HOT! Can't stand Bill for the most part. He's so... uncool somehow. Love the parts with Jessica and Hoyt. She's pretty hot herself.

There's a good website called lovevampires.com that has reviews of vampire romance books that tend to agree with my own opinions of them.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Betty

True Blood though. So HOT! Can't stand Bill for the most part. He's so... uncool somehow.

Really? Wow, I quite like Bill. Granted, he's a bit stiff and old-fashioned, but I think that's totally appropriate for his background. I find Stephen Moyer very easy on the eyes. I kinda feel sorry for him being overshadowed by the mind-bending hotness that is Ryan Kwanten.