I like a good vampire story
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I remember reading Bram Stoker's Dracula a while ago and never cared for the romanticized version of the vampire story. I'll stick with the creepy and scary versions, like Salem's Lot and the Dracula (the one with Keanu).
Stephen King wrote:
“I wanted the vampire in ’Salem’s Lot to be a kind of supernatural hit-and-run driver, leaving chaos and misery in his wake. Barlow, the master vampire, is no suave European aristocrat; he’s as close to pure evil as one can come in the world of fiction. He doesn’t want to seduce you; he wants to bite you, suck your blood, and make you his servant. He doesn’t fly around, turn into a bat, or spread his cape like some debased magician in a traveling tent show. What he does is worse: he comes into your house like a disease.”
“I am very much a child of Dracula, but I wanted to try something new. My idea was to do a Dracula story, but to set it in America. My notion was that these vampires would not be romantic, sexy, or tragic. They would be monsters. Pure and simple. If they bit you, you turned into one. If you turned into one, your soul was gone. You’d be nothing but a shell. I wanted to strip away some of the romance and go back to the idea of these creatures as parasitic, predatory, and fundamentally alien.”
So, just in time for Christmas...
Nosferatu:
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@Jolly said in I like a good vampire story:
@Mik said in I like a good vampire story:
Interesting. But I don't have YouTube.
No YT?
Really. What's up with that? Are you in the 1990s?
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There’s a church on the upper upper west side of Manhattan, St John’s, that plays the old Nesferatu silent film every year around Christmas. Complete with the pipe organ playing the music like in the theatres a century ago. It’s been ages since I’ve seen it. Maybe next year.
