Because it is October, the basic beginning of movie nights from Friday to Sunday featuring all the classic characters: Wolf-man, Frankenstein's Monster, and the all-time horror cult classic, big-daddy Dracula. I decided to come up with the blog idea of following the Halloween and Autumn movie sub-culture and their portrayals of these magnificent monsters.
Why would you make a blog about horror movies, not to mention movies about Vampires, animated corpses, and the allusion of horny men who turn into wolves at the turn of the moon? Well my compadres, I thought that if the movies can portray our fantasies and our own ideas of the world around and within us, I might as well do blogs throughout the month of October on something we all know in common.
In the case of those beautiful creatures known as vampires, here are some of the reasons why the movie medium can impact our viewpoint on these dangerous beauties:
1. Vampires are pale and deadly. When it comes to Anne Rice's vampires, Nosferatu of the twenties, and the newly adapted vampire versions of Bennett and Darcy, we can all see that these creatures have a Poison Ivy side to them. All of them are deadly, all of them are beautiful, and all of them are dead.
2. Vampires have been used in more than just movies. If you think about it, our whole culture has been obsessed with Vampires. Some songs that include this topic can be If I Was Your Vampire (Manson, 2007), Vampyre Girl (The Awakening, 2013), and Vampires Will Never Hurt You (My Chemical Romance, 2007). But obviously there are more than just those songs that talk about Vampires. Sometimes the mention of these creatures could also be hidden within the songs meaning. You could make a song about drugs, but perhaps the one drug is in fact vampirism.
3. Vampirism is an actual psychological problem. The term Vampire means undead in current dictionaries, but Vampirism was an actual psychological problem where the person believes he is a vampire and personifies all the sexual and physical energy from being one. Of course no one has really heard of this disease unless they learn about a novel titled Psychopathia Sexualis, which was created by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, a German Psychologists who was studying sexual behaviors in the 19th century. So in the case of sexual vampirism, it means you enjoy anything sexual with vampiric twists. But the psychical adaptation of this behavior could be when the person acts and dresses like one.
4. The perfection of beauty has been modeled after vampires. The term "perfect" when applied to a man or a woman is usually how we describe our ideal candidate for mating or for any purpose in life. But as the case goes with vampires, they are considered perfect because they have not suffered any flaws to their bodies after they became blood-thirsty savages.
5. Vampires are current book topics for fictional writers. If you looked at most of the books advertised throughout the autumn season, you might notice that almost all novels are vampire fiction. This is because they are easy to adapt and transform to the writer's subconscious. Some of these adaptations might include Twilight, Evernight, The Vampire Chronicles, and Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter to name a few. But there are some that use vampires for the comical Romeo and Juliet versions for many young adult fiction. The importance of this type of horror creature being so applicable to a writer is that the only part you have to get down is just the fangs, blood-lust, and beauty where everything else is optional.
Movies might have changed the way we look at our monsters, but the necessary function of these monsters are some of the reasons why there are so many adaptations and flexibility of the phrase that the genre doesn't have to change as long as the person who is in charge of their use in culture through our notion of movies chooses to.
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