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Vampires do eat human, you know that right?
Along with our current pop culture vampire renaissance comes the other side of the coin: the desire for a back-to-basics approach to bloodsuckers.
Sure, they’re pretty and sparkly in Twilight, sexy and dangerous in True Blood – but some purists eschew these new twists on the vampire mythology. Some just want their vampires to be vampires. As in not just bad boys, but demons.
After all, as this article points out, VAMPIRES EAT HUMANS. So some folks don’t want vampires to be made all kitty-cat friendly in their stories. “Luckily there are still stories to be told about vampires that don’t involve castrating them in the process. ‘Daybreakers,’ due in January, carves out an interesting take on the modern vampire myth without de-fanging the monster. In this world, most of the humans are now vampires, and those left with good old-fashioned blood pumping through their veins are captured and harvested. Instead of vampires as a metaphor for struggles with abstinence or racism, Daybreakers uses them as a lens to explore diminishing natural resources and even factory farming. Most importantly, they’re still kind of evil.”
Do you want your vampires good or bad?
Yet Another Vampire Flick
Can Ethan Hawke save the planet from vampires taking over? It’s a tall order, folks, but maybe with enough crossbows he can get the job done. Oh, you didn’t know the crossbow will become the key defense against the undead in 2017?
It will. Because: “In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.” That comes from “Daybreakers’” IMDB entry.
“Daybreakers” opens next year but the trailer just released, so check it out. What do you think? Pretty freaky and an interesting concept – I mean WHAT IF vampires took over the world? Well, they’d have no one left to feed on and then they’d die out and then the earth would be empty.
Boggles the mind.
