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Vampire Movies
All the fuss about Twilight is hard for me to get, because it seems to me there isnt much in it that wasnt covered 8/10 years ago in the Buffy/Angel universe, but for many years the same view of the monster has been played out in popular culture...
The vampire seems to be a enduring romantic icon for us... but I never understood why.
To me, the best portrayal of the vampire I have ever seen is the old silent movie Nosferatu... a disgusting, creeping thing, a vicious and stupid animal clumsily aping a charade of humanity: driven not by cruelty or sex or power, but by nerveless animal need and emotionless brutality.
Which view of the vampire do you prefer or find most affecting? The tortured soul, desperate for but denied redemption, the brooding and sexy anti-hero? Or the animated corpse feeding on external and internal death, the sickly abomination given life by some disgusting curse?
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