Oversaturation of vampire films

[Bowielee]

Basically every mythology has a different explination.

See, that's kinda what I thought...

And while I agree with the concept that explaining the unexplained usually sucks, I'm also a sucker for origin stories...and would love to see someone take on an epic attempt at this. There's gotta be some great groundwork in a "first vampire" story...[/QUOTE]

Anne Rice: Queen of the Damned

As loathe as I am to admit it, due to the fact that her novels started this whole "vampires as tragic romantic figures" craze, I loved her vampire books.

 

[Fun Size]

On a side note, I just came a cross a review for a sequel for Dracula. While I opted for The Graveyard Book at the library instead, how does everyone feel about that. Myself, I just can't imagine it not being...I don't know. Wierd I guess. Dracula is such a great book.

I suppose people said the same thing about Gone With The Wind, and that one supposedly did not suck. But look what happened to Dune.

 

[Steven Soderburgin]

While I'm not religious, I love crazy fantastical Bible shit, especially the Old Testament stuff, because that shit is CRAZY.

As such, I'd love to see an "origin of vampires" kind of movie that was a take on the Cain and Abel story except with fucked up vampires and crazy catholic wrathful god type shit going down.

 

[Bowielee]

On a side note, I just came a cross a review for a sequel for Dracula. While I opted for The Graveyard Book at the library instead, how does everyone feel about that. Myself, I just can't imagine it not being...I don't know. Wierd I guess. Dracula is such a great book.

I suppose people said the same thing about Gone With The Wind, and that one supposedly did not suck. But look what happened to Dune.

Who wrote the sequel?

Some people mistake Lair of the White Worm as a sequel to Dracula, but the 2 have nothing in common other than the author.

 

[Fun Size]

On a side note, I just came a cross a review for a sequel for Dracula. While I opted for The Graveyard Book at the library instead, how does everyone feel about that. Myself, I just can't imagine it not being...I don't know. Wierd I guess. Dracula is such a great book.

I suppose people said the same thing about Gone With The Wind, and that one supposedly did not suck. But look what happened to Dune.

Who wrote the sequel?

Some people mistake Lair of the White Worm as a sequel to Dracula, but the 2 have nothing in common other than the author.[/QUOTE]

One of his family members and a documentarian.

 

[SpecialKO]

FFC's movie was a melange of the book and the actual history of Vlad the Impaler (with a lot of fictional license thrown in). In the original historical legend, his wife committed suicide by throwing herself into a river rather than be enslaved by the Ottoman Turks besieging their home. FFC took that and turned into the reincarnation claptrap thing in the movie.

Interestingly enough, Romanians think of Vlad III as a national Christian hero, and many of the reports of his insanity and sadism (the impalings in particular) are thought to have been fabrications by his enemies. Everyone agrees that he was ruthless though, so go figure.

In Underworld, the name of the progenitor immortal, Corvinus, is actually taken from one of Vlad's contemporaries (and one-time foe), Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.

The Judas story is from the execrable Dracula 2000, starring Gerard Butler and Christopher Plummer and produced by Wes Craven. It's actually kind of weird how bad it is considering how many recognizables are in the cast.

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

While I'm not religious, I love crazy fantastical Bible shit, especially the Old Testament stuff, because that shit is CRAZY.

As such, I'd love to see an "origin of vampires" kind of movie that was a take on the Cain and Abel story except with fucked up vampires and crazy catholic wrathful god type shit going down.

Well, if John Steinbeck actually researched East of Eden - or "fact" checked it with some religious scholar - I'm confident in saying that Cain makes for a very bad choice of first vampire. The book's major theme revolves around the story of Cain and Abel, to the point where Steinbeck blatantly goes into a lecture about the meaning of the story.

And what he tells us is that we are all descended from Cain (not Abel) and, most profoundly, that Cain is the epitome of what it is to be human.

(Ha! That was the part of the book where I though Steinbeck was fucking up his story, yet it's what stuck most with me)