Topic: Latest Movie You Watched

[6pairsofshoes]

The vampire as subject always seemed odd to me, since the mathematics just don't add up.  Once all the population is turned into vampires, there's nothing left to eat, so the undead have to change their source of food.  What do they eat, then?  Rats?  Then do the rats become vampires?  That's always been the flaw.  But the psychology underlying the appeal is also curious.  It has to be seated in some kind of collective fear of something -- contagion? atheism? Hard to say.  But you'd never go broke investing in the fictional vehicles that promulgate it.   Anne Rice has to be a millionaire several times over and that goofy Twilight series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, etc.  I read Stoker's Dracula once and it was compelling as a read, but I think Anne Rice surpassed it with her various iterations.   This looks like an opportunity to consume popcorn at a fast rate.

[goldshirt*9]

"The earliest known mention of vampires was in 1047 in an Old Russian text. The word used was "upir", which may have meant "the thing at the feast or sacrifice"

"One of the earliest works is 'Der Vampir' of Heinrich August Ossenfelder (1748), and the earliest vampires erupt into British literature with cameos in Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1813) and Byron's 'The Giaour' (1813) and an intriguing suggestion of the vampiric in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Christabel' "
Interestingly we humans like to scare the poop out of ourselves 
Would image the writing stylr has change a lot .

[6pairsofshoes]

That's interesting, goldie.  It is curious that we do like to inflict fear via fiction on ourselves since the real world is scary enough.  It is a weird form of cannibalism.  Then there is the sacrament of the Eucharist that is celebrated throughout much of orthodox elements of Christianity.  But it's largely metaphorical in that bread and wine substitute for body and blood. 

I suspect there have been odd instances of cannibalism in other cultural contexts, like consuming parts of one's deceased relatives -- like in New Guinea where brains were consumed, serving as a vehicle for transmitting prions and related Kuru - similar to mad cow disease.  I don't think you can make them go away by cooking the meat.  There have been situations like shipwrecks where survivors resorted to cannibalism in order to prevent starvation, but other than being driven by necessity, the whole cannibal/vampire thing is kind of strange and our fascination with it inexplicable.

People are just weird.  Who'd have thought that so much money could be made by producing movies about people biting each other.

[goldshirt*9]

I don't watch or read horror movies normally, Hammer House of Horror scared me for life  . Don't mind a Zombie when done right or a Vampire.
Anything Ghosts or supernatural is a no no.   Luckily the Russel crow play a exorcist movie was more of a comedy so was ok, but Anthony Hopkins in The Rite was too much.