Welcome to Gaia! :: View User's Journal | Gaia Journals

Ive always loved classic movie monsters. Mummies rock hardcore, Werewolves (When done correctly like in "The Howling" wink can be rad, and Zombies are almost always a big barrel of kick a**. But the fanged bastards known as vampires...we haven't ever seen eye to eye.
First off, the idea of the vampire is a good one. Its universally creepy. An undead, unholy creature that masquerades as a human, and needs to drink the blood of the living. A great concept, and hell they have shown up in folklore around the world. European countries, Asia, and even the Caribbean all have their own vampire folklore (Caribbean vampires are the best, since they also have to do with voodoo)
And then the media had to go and ******** it all up.
I don't believe vampires should be portrayed like they are now. As high-class, fancy rich ******** that sip blood out of wine glasses and listen to classical music. That doesn't cut it with me. Go watch a movie called "From dusk till Dawn," THOSE are some hard a** vampires. I approve of them. Why? Because they don't sit around like a bunch of whiny cunts, they ride around on motorcycles and do whatever they want. One of the vampires uses the spur on his boot to cut open a guy's throat with a kick, then fills up a mug with the blood and chugs it.
I cant NOT love that.
Ill take hardcore "Ill tear your throat open and maybe even eat your organs" vampires over that suave debonair s**t ANY day. And don't even get me started on the "underworld" movies and how they went even further to ruin the image.
It also doesn't help that the vampire's main fan base is a bunch of goth kids. If I was a vampire, I sure as hell wouldn't want a bunch of Goths as fans. In fact that would bum me right the ******** out.
There is a movie coming out soon I hope to GOD will start rectifying the vampire image problems. "30 days of night." Based on the graphic novel (I have only read the first one) of the same name its about a town in Alaska where night lasts for 30 days. So the vampires roll in and begin hunting people down like animals. And these vampires are gritty, and actually MONSTER like. They don't want to sweet talk you into their bed where they can delicately bite you and make you one of their own.
No.
They want to tear your ribcage open, down as much sweet plasma nectar as they can from your bloated meat sack of a body, and then go have a smoke. They want to tear your body in half, hang it from the ceiling and gather under it to drink the falling rain of blood in unison. They will seriously ******** YOU UP.
The whole reason they go to the town is JUST to drink blood so they last the winter. I hope to god the movie stays true to that, because its like a mixture of the pure cannibalism of zombies combined with the speed and intelligence of zombies. Mathematically, that equals WIN my good people.
Now if another movie like "The howling" could come along for werewolves...that would be pretty bomb.