Dichotomy à
A problem that can’t be solved, with two arguments to the
idea. In this case the idea that we are attracted to the thing we fear most.
It is a traditional fear. It is a key human fear of the dead
rising again.
Vampire aren’t monsters they are humans that have turned
into monsters.
The novel Dracula: wrote by Bram Stoker in 1897. This book
is what all other films/tv shows are based on. The original book is based on
traditional Victorian fears of the time; the fear of female liberation, it is
the first book to sexualise women in a very detailed way. Showing that sexually
liberated women are evil. It also highlights the fear of foreigners moving to Victorian
England.
Arnold Powell à
He fell off of a cart and broke his neck resulting in his
death. After his death there was a spite of deaths within the village. So they
dug him up to find that he hadn’t started decomposing, he had a boner, there
was blood around his mouth and he had grown long fingernails. Resulting in the
first reported case of a vampire.
Therefore the vampire has come from a medical
misunderstanding of how the body decomposes, and all films are based on this
misunderstanding.
The drinking of the blood is significant as some religious
practices ‘drink’ Jesus’ blood. Showing the audience that blood is sacred.
Dracula à
Dracula is a hybrid of Victorian hypnotists, Serbian folk
tales and ‘vampire bats’ brought back by explorers.
The hammer vampire movies à
They were the first people to introduce the vampire fangs.
This allowed vampires to attack the female victims in a way that made the
female victims react in an orgasmic way; without actually seeing sexual
intercourse.
Vampire films mirror what is feared at the time. There are
two types of horror films. The ‘secure’ horror film where a group of people are
attacked by an outsider and the ‘sophisticated’ horror film where the monster
is inside of us and the people we trust.
An interview with the vampire à
They made the vampire human, by creating a family of vampires.
This film has a homoerotic subtext within the film.
There are two different types of vampire: Tom Cruise, who is
playing a hegemonic male who loves being a vampire and Brad Pitt who is playing
a male who is turned into a vampire by Tom Cruise’s character and hates it.
They have alternative visions of the same idea, by putting
them into more recognisable worlds.
Buffy the vampire slayer à
The young attractive female becomes the heroin not the
victim. It was brought out around the
feminist movement and remove religious aspects from the vampire myth.
Twilight à
The vampire is a love interest. The film turns the vampire
into a tortured individual and a romantic hero.
True blood à
It goes back to the idea of fearing outsiders and
immigration almost like we have gone back in time in relation to our ideologies.
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