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[Jul. 13th, 2010|06:01 am]
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From: (Anonymous) 2010-07-12 11:50 pm (UTC)
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[GregT] The modern vampire tradition starts with Anne Rice and goes via the RPG Vampire: The Masquerade. It doesn't bother me that Twihards don't acknowledge their debt to Stoker and Nosferatu, it bothers me that they think vampires and werewolves being the pirates vs ninjas of the occult world originates with the Underworld films.
From: (Anonymous) 2010-07-12 11:52 pm (UTC)
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[GregT] Also, I'm a pretty die-hard Stephen King fan, and even I regard both the book and movie of Salem's Lot as completely missable.
Even though it is from the last 5 years, you have to count "30 Days of Night" as one of the must see's. It has excellent production values & nasty dangerous vampires.
I heard an excellent quote the other day: "Twilight is like soccer: it goes for 2 hours, no-one scores, and about a billion people say 'but you just don't understand it'". :-)
I suspect Buffy & Angel might have something to do with the craze as well.
The Anne Rice film that I can't remember the name of, and NightWatch, should both be on there IMUO*. Vampires are only part of the cast of characters in Nightwatch, but they're fundamental.
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