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.

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[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.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think this was a notable extension of the Vampire mythos, and dealt with the practical necessity of "vampire mooks" (because having only human servitors would have problematized the role of the "slayer" too much, I guess).