Frightening, but stylish.

[viktor_haag]

According to SciFi Wire, Melissa George says that the vampires in 30 Days of Night are "frightening, but also stylish". I'm getting so very, very tired of vampires that are stylish. Or sexy. Or gorgeous. I understand that repressed eroticism is an underlying theme of the vampire mythos, but I hereby propose that this mine has been tapped out. It's time to move on, people. We are not Victorian England. Our society is permissive (and post-modern) enough, surely, to begin to examine the vampire figure in another light. Aren't we? Please, say yes.

Comments

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when do we get some of those freaky Filipino monsters that consists of a severed head flying around with its host body's internal organs all in a big clump below it?

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Penangalian (sp?) I think? There's a great appearance of one of these babies in the latest Hellboy trade paperback collection!

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU FOREVER.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Hey, all Hellboy trades should be on your pull list, anyway, you know... 8)

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Except they're defeated by having barbed wire on the outside of your windowsill, so...

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

I know the creature you're talking about, from the latest Hellboy tpb comic, right? Don't remember the name, though... :)

What you say above makes sense; it's time for Hollywood and some writers in the genre to start using atypical versions of the vampyre, or perhaps give them some really weird twists. *sigh*