Week 2: Vampires

There’s something about Vampires that I just can’t stand. I read Interview with a Vampire and there were even more reasons for me to not appreciate vampires. First of all, it seems every vampire story has to be about sex one way or another. Anne Rice turns sucking the blood out of people into sexual fetish and she repeats it throughout the story to the point that I thought I was reading a fanfiction… I think what else bothers me is how flawless vampires can sometimes be written. Lestat for example loved being a vampire and he was comparable to that of Edward from Twilight. He was too perfect. Louis on the other hand did not want to be a vampire and I think a character with flaws is easier to relate to. Although you are immortal, you are practically cursed for life and would rather be dead then have to spend the rest of your life drinking blood. The life of a vampire should be scary, depressing, and difficult as portrayed in the movie Byzantine. You just shouldn’t want to be vampire and it shouldn’t be portrayed as such a wonderful thing. That’s how I see it anyway.

            Although there was one thing that Anne Rice did in Interview with a Vampire that I thought was very interesting. She turned a young girl into a vampire. The thought of being stuck in the body of a child forever is simply terrifying. She also made Claudia a creepy character altogether. I mean come on, what’s creepier than a small child running around killing people and sucking out their blood? If the story focused more on the horror aspect of being a vampire and cut the plot to the point, I think I may have enjoyed the book a little more. I also watched the movie but that was even more ridiculous than the book.

I think what bothers me the most is how something that is originally supposed to be terrifying is turning into a joke (the same has happened to werewolves). I think Vampires have a lot of potential other then being an exciting new way to write porn. I know there are better vampire stories out there but they are being drowned in the new sparklepire genre. There’s a new movie coming out about a vampire academy…. Seriously.