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DarkGryphon2048
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8-Oct-2010, 6:32 PM

Bingowings said:

Almost for as long as there have been vampire films there have been bad vampire films.

Like any character archetype there are a few good examples of usage and a much larger set of bad to middling examples of usage.

The Twilight books/films seems to be a compendium of every trope of television and cinema vampires from Rice on (though I must confess to enjoying her earlier books even if it's difficult to separate them from what they have inspired).

You have the teen/angsty vamp romance (but without the consequences of the Buffyverse) the werewolf/vamp antagonism of Underworld without the glossy Matrix inspired action or the blood (or the wit and consequences of Being Human).

Monsters generally work best as metaphors but the metaphorical action (like real decisions) are gelded without consequences shown.

Where Let The Right One In and 30 Days Of Night work is by showing the monsters (humans in one, vampires in the other) as monstrous.

It's hard to see the vamps and werewolves in Twilight as any different from the humans in that story (shiny skinned fancy dress manikins going through the motions of life while avoiding actually living).

Don't forget the Hammer Horror Dacula films with Christopher Lee. Also Shadow of the Vampire was quite good.