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Vampires (and "Nosferatu" film in its entirety)
Friday, October 3, 2008 | 12:01 am
Back when I was a mere Scream Princess, I must have spent my formative years in an era of cheesy vampire movies. And I’m the one who spent elementary school enchanted by Barnabas Collins and the “Dark Shadows” gothic soap opera.
Perhaps that’s why I’m ambivalent about vampires. Sure, I watch the movies, but you’ve probably seen more. You’ve gotta love Bela Lugosi’s frozen stare, but the only vampire I’ve found truly scary is in “Nosferatu” (1922), aka “Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens.”
Look over to the right, click on the video and you'll see the whole movie.
I think the good movies with vampires as straight-up horror predate me.
So my taste in things with a taste for blood lean toward the hard-bitten, world-weary gun slinger types of vampire hunters, with a huge dollop of action/adventure, such as “Vampires,” aka “John Carpenter’s Vampires” and I mean James Woods, not the Bon Jovi sequel, and “Blade.” (What can I say, I think Wesley Snipes is hot.) But I’ve seldom has my expectations as cruelly crushed as when I saw “Van Helsing.”
I also liked “Lost Boys” (Scary? Nope. Entertaining? Yes.) and “From Dusk Till Dawn” (good marriage of dark humor and horror, and without the pat happy ending).
Sex actual or implied — or heavily costumed as romance — is as much of the vampire legend as fangs. But I spy a trend rearing its unlovely head: It appears vampires and humans as hell-crossed lovers is becoming the next new thing.
Yes, “Interview with the Vampire” was a chick flick, but even if you hated it, it’s gotta be looking a little shinier right now.
“Twilight,” based on the book series about your typical girl-vampire-werewolf triangle, will hit movie screens next month. I think I’ll pass.
Right now, the “True Blood” series is showing on HBO. Mass production of synthetic blood prompts vampires to “come out of the coffin” and into society, a scenario played out in a small Louisiana town. I expected better from Alan Ball, who created the excellent “Six Feet Under” as well as this series based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels.
“True Blood” is jammed with sex, Peyton Place melodramas, sex and, oh yeah, there are vampires. And sex.
Dracula, please phone home.
Perhaps that’s why I’m ambivalent about vampires. Sure, I watch the movies, but you’ve probably seen more. You’ve gotta love Bela Lugosi’s frozen stare, but the only vampire I’ve found truly scary is in “Nosferatu” (1922), aka “Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens.”
Look over to the right, click on the video and you'll see the whole movie.
I think the good movies with vampires as straight-up horror predate me.
So my taste in things with a taste for blood lean toward the hard-bitten, world-weary gun slinger types of vampire hunters, with a huge dollop of action/adventure, such as “Vampires,” aka “John Carpenter’s Vampires” and I mean James Woods, not the Bon Jovi sequel, and “Blade.” (What can I say, I think Wesley Snipes is hot.) But I’ve seldom has my expectations as cruelly crushed as when I saw “Van Helsing.”
I also liked “Lost Boys” (Scary? Nope. Entertaining? Yes.) and “From Dusk Till Dawn” (good marriage of dark humor and horror, and without the pat happy ending).
Sex actual or implied — or heavily costumed as romance — is as much of the vampire legend as fangs. But I spy a trend rearing its unlovely head: It appears vampires and humans as hell-crossed lovers is becoming the next new thing.
Yes, “Interview with the Vampire” was a chick flick, but even if you hated it, it’s gotta be looking a little shinier right now.
“Twilight,” based on the book series about your typical girl-vampire-werewolf triangle, will hit movie screens next month. I think I’ll pass.
Right now, the “True Blood” series is showing on HBO. Mass production of synthetic blood prompts vampires to “come out of the coffin” and into society, a scenario played out in a small Louisiana town. I expected better from Alan Ball, who created the excellent “Six Feet Under” as well as this series based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels.
“True Blood” is jammed with sex, Peyton Place melodramas, sex and, oh yeah, there are vampires. And sex.
Dracula, please phone home.
"Nosferatu" 1922 (whole movie)
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