Vampires: Creepy to Pathetic

Interview with the vampire is an interesting approach. Having someone actually interviewing a vampire about his life and the experiences he’s been through. I’ve always known vampires as being bloodsucking creatures that would burn in the sunlight and feed off of humans. They were bad creatures with no emotions just the vengeance to kill and died when a stake was driven threw their heart.

            At a certain point of the book the main vampire Louis feeds off a five-year-old little girl and the other vampire Lestat turns her into a vampire. Naming her Claudia, Louis is horrified that Lestat turned a five year old into a vampire because she will look five for eternity but Louis starts to care for her like a “daughter.” Like I said before I never had known of vampires actually having emotions. The movie From Dusk til Dawn is one of my favorite vampire movies but the vampires in that movie from what I could remember were all about sex, tearing apart humans and causing chaos. Did I mention terrifying?

            Then you have the films and books that ruin the image of vampires, like Twilight. Vampires’ falling in love with humans totally takes away from the scare factor and they do not sparkle in the sunlight! Twilight was okay but vampires should not be mushy gushy, lovey dovey. They are supposed to be horrid and terrifying.

            The one movie I did enjoy though that was not horror was the Little Vampire. It was cute and adventurous yet it still had that creepy factor to it. Do vampires really live under graveyards in coffins? Suck the blood of people’s livestock and turning them into animal vampires?

            I have never seen Nosferatu but he is a vampire that I would consider is accurate. He’s hideous, creepy and haunts within the shadows. Another really good movie is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The movie not the show. The vampires in that movie are portrayed very well and give the viewer a sense of fear while watching it. Maybe not for all but that was one movie that always creeped me out when I was younger but I always loved it. Amilyn was my favorite character.

            Interview with the vampire was interesting because it described a life of a vampire. How he turned from human to vampire, his killing sprees with feeding off of humans to killing other vampires for killing his friends and burning down his own plantation and eating his slaves he once owned so they don’t speak about vampires.

** Another vampire favorite was Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant