Michael Sims says that he now understands how the whole vampire thing came about:
http://chronicle.com/article/All-the-Dead-Are-Vampires/65829. In short, Victorians and others were very familiar with death and dying and had frequent access and observation of corpses. Hence, they ascribed some of the more odd and ghastly features of decomposition to nefarious causes and the vampire became popular, with Anne Rice and now legions of females the happy beneficiaries. I'm not sure that you can find a network now that doesn't have some type of vampire inspired programming--chicks dig it. I read one of Rice's books (I think it was "The Vampire Lestat") and it was marginally entertaining and interesting in her description of how vamps operated and the overall technical aspects of being a ghoul but the relentless gay theme of her stuff got a little old. I've since learned that women are somewhat fascinated about the world of gay men and that most of the bodice rippers that feature gay men (would that be instead, "crotch rippers?") are written by women for largely female audiences. Yeah, that's just a tad strange but we report and you decide.
http://chronicle.com/article/All-the-Dead-Are-Vampires/65829. In short, Victorians and others were very familiar with death and dying and had frequent access and observation of corpses. Hence, they ascribed some of the more odd and ghastly features of decomposition to nefarious causes and the vampire became popular, with Anne Rice and now legions of females the happy beneficiaries. I'm not sure that you can find a network now that doesn't have some type of vampire inspired programming--chicks dig it. I read one of Rice's books (I think it was "The Vampire Lestat") and it was marginally entertaining and interesting in her description of how vamps operated and the overall technical aspects of being a ghoul but the relentless gay theme of her stuff got a little old. I've since learned that women are somewhat fascinated about the world of gay men and that most of the bodice rippers that feature gay men (would that be instead, "crotch rippers?") are written by women for largely female audiences. Yeah, that's just a tad strange but we report and you decide.
I liked Coppola's vampire treatment in his "Bram Stoker" vehicle which featured Gary Oldman as Vlad the original impaler of people who pissed him off. Not bad.
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