Look into my eyes |
Why does nobody love me |
Vampires; desperately need a Re-Vamp (PTP) after being brutally dry B.F'd by the (talc) Twilight bullshit. How do you make the most vicious supernatural killing machine in history camp, make it sparkle, like putting Satan in a Tutu.
I’m sure they will bounce back though, Vampire stories have been terrifying people for thousands of years, in almost every civilisation there has been some form of blood sucking demon. Bram Stokers Dracula gave people the blue print for the Vampire, and 2 movies based on the text gave the look. Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931) is the classic Vampire look everybody defaults too in all kinds of movies, Halloween parties, cartoons pretty much everywhere and Nosferatu (1922) (Obviously based on Dracula but denied/names changed to avoid legal action) gave us a more demonic/animalistic look (most notably fangs) used in films like 30 Days of Night (2007) & when vampires in movies mutate or errrrr flip out.
Vampire films have always been around from the early 1900s cinema Vampire of the Coast (1909) is credited as the first, The Vampire's Trail (1910) was another of many early Vampire films.
The long series of Hammer films throughout the 60s/70s which I grew up watching endless repeats of in the 80s, with Christopher Lee taking up the classic Dracula look, but adding the missing fangs, first in Dracula (1958) Dracula gets remade once a generation (so we are probably due another one) Francis Ford Coppola’s filmed a terrific version in the 90s.
Also in the 90’s Anne Rice was convinced Tom Cruise would ruin her Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), in the end it was alright but the end summed that whole movie up for me, Christian Slater is listening to the interview on his car stereo & Cruise pops up in the back saying “he always was a moaning fucker” (or something like that, perhaps not a direct quote) That’s exactly right it was Brad Pitt moaning “oh no I’m immortal super powerful good looking fucker boo hoo”, for 2 hours.
If Only |
People have also associate vampires as a romantic fantasy as in gothic horrors and the fuck awful Twighlight series but also “sexy time”, from the weird Lesbian sub-genres of Hammers Karnstein Trilogy, to the goddamn awesome nakedness of Mathilda May in Tobe (Texas Chain Saw Massacre) Hoopers Lifeforce (1985) & of course the Vampire slaying Buffy. Also women seem to like these dead blokes too (bloody necrophiliac’s).
Pink eye |
Different takes on the Vampire turn up every now and then, like when Nic cage wasn’t a useless A list Muppet he overacted impressively in Vampire's Kiss (1989) a movie in the same vain as Martin (1976) are they Vampires or just deluded mencs.
You wanna see me sparkle bitch |
Strangely the Vampire killer, in the a lot of these movies, even though they had a pivotal role and really should be the hero were kind usually bland forgettable characters & almost classed as the bad guys who disposed of the more interesting focus of the movie. Van Helsing was the classic nemesis of Dracula, he was alright, eventually getting his own movie. Van Helsing (2004)
Slay me Please |
In recent years Let the Right One In (2008) and its unusually, not at all bad, American remake has shown you can still put an interesting spin on the vampire story.
Blue steel |
So heres some reviews of vampire films you may not have heard of....
Sort of good guy vamps
Chinese jumping Vampires awesome |
Got Vampires Who you gonna call. Fuck Blade |
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