The current popularity of vampires

[Mikaela]

 
  Finally the British people have got the vampire idea and come up with a 3in1 teveseries called Being human and there you not only get vampires, varwolfs, you also get ghosts. And they all try to coexist.

Is that aired in Sweden? Do you like it? Sounds interesting!

[Sophia]

Is that aired in Sweden? Do you like it? Sounds interesting!

 First episode was aired yesterday in Sweden. If you wanna have a sneak peak you can see it on youtube. Being human S01E01

[Sophia]

Is that aired in Sweden? Do you like it? Sounds interesting!

Its different from both True blood and Buffy more low key and lower speed. Haven´t really decided yet if I like it. But I am going to give it another chance. 

[Sophia]

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  So what do you think of Alexander Skarsgård as a Swedish Danceband king, hot right 

[southendmd]

OMG!  That guy is hot!

I know, Gary, I always like Ernie.

[southendmd]

Here's a link to a rather comprehensive survey of vampires and psychological thought.  From Freud to Jung to Kohut.


http://www.answers.com/topic/psychological-perspectives-on-vampire-mythology

[Jeff Wrangler]

Later on I saw Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and detested it mightily - what pathetic misogynistic drivel!! But Gary Oldman was way cool as the fanged Count, nevertheless.

Very petty, but what annoyed me about Coppola's film was that I thought the costumes, or some of them, at least, were too "early" for a story supposedly set in the 1890s.

Gary Oldman was very good, however, and I remember liking the "backstory" of how Dracula became a vampire.

[oilgun]

American Vampire League PSA:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-EgBLcQneQ[/youtube]

[oilgun]

The Perspective's Vampire Report #2


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJeEd1MqTBE&feature=channel[/youtube]

And the trailer for  season 2-episode 4:
Oooh, looks gooooood!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Y-82QiBXo[/youtube]

[delalluvia]

Vampires are supposed to be feared, and we're supposed to be sustenance for them......not potential lovers.

Agree.  But of course, the literature and movies/shows about suave vampires have always really been about sex.  Back in the Victorian era you couldn't really write about that kind of open sexuality in decent society, but you could if it was a vampire story.

That's why I like Anne Rice, her vampires don't really hang around with humans or fall in love with them and keep them around because they're food.  They either convert them or kill them or leave.  They don't do this 'struggling to be human/express their human side' tension thing while keeping their human loved ones around.