Ongoing Vampire Popularity

[Neurowaste]

I used to love horror monsters such as vampires, not anymore.........

 

[masher]

Wait, there was a time when vampires weren't sexy?

Anyway, real vampires are ruthless, devious animals that have no empathy, or they are insane psychopaths that kill and take what they want.

Not fun at parties.

Yeah, that's a real vampire right there, more or less.

Twilight is ruining(has ruined?) the reputation the the Undead Lords.

 

[KazNecro]

Wait, there was a time when vampires weren't sexy?

Grace Jones playing a vampire in 'Vamp' was very unsexy to me. Let's see... Christopher Lee's version of Dracula was more frightening than sexy (I saw it when I was a wee child). And Paul Reuben's comic relief vampire in 'Buffy, the Vampire Slayer'. Other than that, I can't think of any other instance.

 

[Kontar]

Vampires have been popular for quite some time, someone who is immortal, powerful, and sexy (both male and female), is always attractive, but to "balance" that out in popular culture they had to drink human blood, and commit a rather serious crime, cannibalism. Lately that idea of the classic vampire is very attractive, in a dark sort of way. Dracula being a prime example.

Now, we have things like Twilight, they make vampires out to be day walking sissies who care if a human cares about them, to me it makes me sad for the whole vampire mythos, it kind of takes the whole power and uncaring immortal thing out of the equation, which IMO made vampires interesting. I am glad there are a very few things out there making vampires look awesome, like the show "True Blood".

I agree though, the insanely popular (although I don't understand why) Twilight, makes vampires out to be complete sissies.

 

[Space Spoons]

It's a fad. Right now, the public is enamored with vampires the way it was enamored with wizards a couple of years ago. In a couple of years, someone else will write a "revolutionary" book about fantasy/horror creatures and public interest will move on.

Spoiler: The cycle continues

 

[nicholaxxx]

Wait, there was a time when vampires weren't sexy?

Anyway, real vampires are ruthless, devious animals that have no empathy, or they are insane psychopaths that kill and take what they want.

Not fun at parties.

FUN FACT: you could've replaced the word 'vampires' with 'humans' and it would have made just as much sense

 

[hotacidbath]

Wait, there was a time when vampires weren't sexy?

The pinnacle of raw masculine sexuality:

 

[ZombieVictor]

Wait, there was a time when vampires weren't sexy?

Anyway, real vampires are ruthless, devious animals that have no empathy, or they are insane psychopaths that kill and take what they want.

Not fun at parties.

Yeah, that's a real vampire right there, more or less.

Twilight is ruining(has ruined?) the reputation the the Undead Lords.

Dead and Loving it didn't exactly help matters much.

 

[axia777]

True Blood rules. Twilight and The Vampire Diaries blow dead goat. /Thread.