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I searched and couldn't find a thread, even though I tought I saw a similar-ish one recently but that might have been on another forum.
First of all, sorry if I write alot, but this is a subject that I can go on and on about.
I don't know what I want to say with my post, but I think I just want to hear where you stand on the subject of vampires. What do you think about the flicks we get now compared to the classics? Do you enjoy the romance rather than the horror? Anything you have to say, say it.
If you're only gonna bash me and my post, leave it.
I hate vampires. Atleast I always say I do when I talk to people, because I know that when we start a discussion about vampires, the films that are gonna be brought up are the crappy ones that seem to be the leading movies in the genre nowadays. I'm talking about stuff like Interview of a Vampire, Queen of the Damned, Twilight and Underworld. This kind of thing really doesn't work for me in any way. I can't stand them. They focus so much on the wrong things and the simple fact that vampires are still monsters is something they never to get right. Because of these disease ridden flicks, I've brainwashed myself into solely thinking "I hate vampires".
I watched 30 Days Of Night with my girlfriend this weekend. Obviously, since I have brainwashed myself with the opinion that vampires are fucking stupid, I had low expectations. I liked the film, even if the vamps were a bit retarded, but the filmmakers certainly remembered that vampires are monsters and they made it a horror movie, not a romantic drama flick with a horror theme or a horror version of Matrix. Watching this film made me remember why I was excited over watching a vampire movie when I was younger. Vampires can = horror. Not just faggot behavior. Other "RECENT" (they are more recent than my other favorites) flicks I like are The Night Flier, From Dusk Till Dawn and I think I liked Vampires.
We've all seen the really good ones, and when they are good they are fantastic, am I right? I'm talking Dracula ('81), Nosferatu ('22), The Lost Boys, Fright Night, Salem's Lot, Near Dark (ND might not carry too much of the horror, but it differs from the recent junk that studio's spit out on us). There's also alot of cool vampire movies that I watched as a kid but can't remember much from, not even the titles. One of them was with a woman being the Dracula-ish figure ("a leader", a count, queen, princess. Something), but I think I remember it was more a cat-thing than bats. Also a Dracula film that was good, something about a bunch of teens arriving in a minibus, he lived in a big mansion and (obviously) died from a stake through his heart but when he fell it was obvious the actor didn't wanna fall on the stake itself so he did a odd turn or something. Anyway, sorry for dragging with my post with that. There's also less good but still entertaining things like Bordello of Blood and Blood For Dracula.
I like horror comedies in general. Zombie comedies (I refuse to call them Zombedies) are something I like alot, but thinking about it, there has been a bunch of fun vampire flicks too, even though they don't stick with me as long and as "hard" as stuff like Braindead, Undead, Special Dead, etc did. We have titles like Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Vampire's Kiss with Nicholas Cage thinking he's a vampire and even Once Bitten with a young Jim Carrey is a very entertaining film, but even in this department does modern times suck hard, because I don't think I know any good ones that came recently at all.
For me, I think I just feel that there are so many good and decent vampire movies, but because of the total failures I mentioned earlier, I've become a big hater towards anything that is vampire-ish. If only more filmmakers made vampires scary instead, I would probably enjoy them just as much as I did when I was younger, and even be excited when I hear about a new title. I was even pissed when I heard that the guys behind Undead were doing a vampire film, and I didn't even know what it was gonna be about. I think maybe now I'm ready to give vampires a chance again, and I hope to let go off my hatred. Also, if anyone can recommend good OLD (unless there are superawesome new ones I've missed) vampire movies, you can go ahead and do it in here too.
Now..where do you stand?
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Originally Posted by cmurdur
