Why do vampire movies suck these days?

[Kadarin]

<< i like The Lost Boys. 😱 >>



Now that was a great vampire movie... (of course, I haven't watched it in the last 10 years, so I imagine I'd probably think it was a bit campy if I watched it tonight..)

 

[Moonbeam]

Russ isn't one to be shy about sticking his neck out.

 

[apoppin]

<< All the good ones have pretty much seen the light of day. >>




That reelly burns me up . . . I was so looking forward to resurrecting a vampire screenplay you could sink your teeth into.

Did anyone see Dracula 2000? It carried the religious theme a bit far . . . Jesus' traitor apostle!?!?? . . . with a really weak "plot" (even J.Ryan couldn't help much . . . early on, her character got sucked in by Drac). Soundtrack was the best part. Movie sucked . . . uh . . . bit. And that Van Helsing "Safe" . . . all that waste of time breaking in when the could have got in with a stick of dynamite from the river.

I guess Hollywood has a stake in vampire films from a histerical viewpoint without the spirit of the old films . . . Something to do with big movie-making corps.

 

[azazyel]

I am a HUGE Ann Rice fan and I refuse to see this movie until it comes out on vides. And from the reviews I have heard it will be soon. Oh, well maybe one of these days the screen writer may take the time to actually read the book.

 

[vec]

I agree a lot of the newer vampire flicks aren't very good. There's good buzz on Blade 2 - looking forward to that.

Since new vamp movies suck, check out good ones that have been out a while:
Near Dark
Innocent Blood (funny + Anne Parillaud)
Salems Lot
Lost Boys (fun)
Any of the Dracula Hammer Films with Christopher Lee

 

[InfectedMushroom]

yeah, the newer vampire movies do seem to have lost some of that bite

as a little vampire in training i spent many summers in transilvania. i'm looking forward to the full moon tonight. watch out berkeley ppl 😉

 

[XMan]

All the really good ones are the ones where the vampires are the bad guys. I resent the ones (this genre has been especially been typified by Anne Rice) that try to make the vampires some sort of misunderstood hero.

That's why I liked Blade, The Lost Boys, etc. John Carpenter's film version of the Steakley's excellent novel "Vampire$" had promise, but Carpenter dropped the ball. The book is 1000% better.

 

[classy]

Yea I kinda agree. No Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing's around these days. Blade and The Lost Boys were pretty good though. I guess the reason they suck is because Vampires have changed. They ain't afraid of holy things anymore. They even go out in the day. LOL. Hollywood has messsed up the Vampire lore.

 

[vegetation]

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Isn't that every movie nowadays? Seriously, it seems that msot movies I have been to see in the last few years (with definite exceptions) are more about cramming the latest special effects down your throat, and having a plot just be the transition between special effects. I'm personally waiting for the next upsurge in movies; eventually some people in hollywood are going to realize whats going on and fix it.
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I agree. Every time I see a long-ass CGI sequence in a movie, especially in a horror flick, I just yawn and think what computer they did this on. The technical aspects might impress me but that's far from it being a good movie.