2009: The Year of The Vampire
- 2009/12/29 16:37:57
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Bram Stoker's Dracula had me spell-bound and captivated, if not slightly confused, and The Lost Boys put The Two Corey's solidly onto my map (where, now they've fallen clearly off). The Blade movies are also wicked awesome and probably my favorite vampire movies because the action sequences are incredibly intense.
Vampires have appeared in ancient folklore for centuries and made their first appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1734. The description of the sophisticated vampire that modern fiction portrays was born with the novel The Vampyre by John Polidori published in 1819. It's Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, though, that most people consider the first vampire novel.
Although, I'd venture to guess that with the release of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series and the subsequent movies, that Dracula may have some competition for most well-known vampire novel. Because while vampire movies and books have always been around, never has vampire mania swept the nation so thoroughly. It's like the Beatles, except, uh, un-dead.
Everywhere I look, it's spawned more movies, different television series, more books, merchandise. I can't walk five feet out of my house without running into a life-sized poster of Rob Pattinson's un-dead head. It's a good thing he's so attractive.
So while others may call it the year of SuBo or the year of Jon and Kate, I'm going to mark 2009 as the year of the vampire.
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Steph the WonderWorrier 2009/12/31 00:21:02
+3Agreed. I haven't been watching this much vampire stuff since I was Buffy fan in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Now it's Twilight and Vampire Diairies and True Blood -- movies, books, TV... and when I went to Chapters to buy my boyfriend's sister a book from the YA section, it was ALL Vampire Series'. Totally unknown, overshadowed by Twilight, Vampire Series', but there they were!
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And they SO chose the wrong guy to play Edward in the movie, he may have a certain....look about him >_> but that look definitely aint the pretty kind. Vampires are more sexy like that, shame on you film makers!
I do agree tho, this is definitely the year of the vampire. I can't remember the last time there was so much hype on the damn beings!
Sorry, but they just... don't scream vampire to me.
This is the year of the Grim Reaper
I mark this year the Year of Death.
I was amused to realise that the new TV series, Vampire Diaries, is based on the books I read when I was 12 (and I'm now 27, go figure) and that the Night World series is having a new upswing in interest (again, because I read that series when I was 12) - L.J.Smith is doing rather well out of this Twilight spawning.
I used to love the Lost Boys!
I hope that 2010 will be the year some of your correspondents stop ignoring the spell checker built in to these fabulous comment forms. The word is "lore." And "illusion." And "it's" (contraction of "it is") not "its" (the possessive of it). Also, "gnashing" not "nashing." "Incisors" not "ensisors." There's a really good reason these words have red lines under them when you type them. When you ignore them, you distract the reader from your point.
Sorry, Becks - sometimes I just can't help myself. And yes, I do have a stick up my ass. :-)
Vampires will always be my every year thing! I'm not talking about that sparkly crap...