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

[alasdair1076.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, the vampires in the original graphic novel are anything but stylish. They're savage, brutal, bestial creatures who it's made very clear are animals wearing a human body and unpleasant animals at that. Early reports, despite what Melissa George says, suggest that it's a very, very faithful adaptation. If that's the case, this may yet be a pleasant surprise.

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Stylish in this case seems to means: half-zombie-looking, brutal, inhuman monsters. More Nosferatu stylish than Gary "Count Dracula" Oldman stylish. Judging from the previews, trailers, etc.

Doug.

[maliszew.livejournal.com]

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I'm totally with you on this.

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm concerned, vampyres are overdone in both fiction and the visual media. It's time to find some new gothic horror beastie to focus on.

[gobi.livejournal.com]

In a couple of the Blade movies and definitely in the Buffyverse, the vampires are treated as little more than cannonfodder zombie hordes. Still, the "named" vampires are of the "stylish" variety.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

"Stylish" in this sense may mean "possesses a distinct and consistant style," rather than "as seen in Vogue."

[briandorion.livejournal.com]

Don't worry Viktor, these things are not in anyway sexy or stylish. Not too smart either.