Vampire meme
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hildy89I thought a few others on my flist would appreciate this meme:
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sarajlarson listed her five main vampire influences over the years. Mine include some traditional and some not so. Despite my interest in vampires, I haven't watched or read nearly as much as you'd expect. I'm really surprised not many book vampires made the cut.
1. Bela Lugosi's Dracula - I can't remember where or when I saw this, but I was quite young. I do distinctly remember it was black and white, so I'm pretty sure it was the Lugosi version. I also remember seeing the original "Mummy" in that same stretch.
2. Bunnicula by James & Deborah Howe. Mix one poor little bunny, a paranoid cat and well meaning dog and you get a weird classic of vampire lore. What? It totally counts. (Not to be outdone by a followup "Celery Stalks at Midnight"...)
3. Forever Knight - I still remember discovering this late one night at the dorm in Tuscaloosa. I couldn't sleep, so I turned on the television and found Nick and Janette and Lacroix on CBS' old "Crimetime after Primetime" lineup.
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The funny part is I did watch the Kristy Swanson movie first. I was one of the ones who stared at the tv listings and said "They made a tv series out of this?" Then I caught part of the summer rerun of the first season and I was hooked completely, mostly by a certain charming British librarian. They became a part of my fannish life for the next several years. If Babylon 5 was the fandom that taught me web design, Buffy pushed me towards fanfiction, for good or ill. Even when the show darkened over the coming years, I still had a fondness for that universe.
5. Vampire Hunter D - In retrospect, this was probably one of my early introductions to anime beyond the Robotech/Macross mecha and robots, seen on the old Sci Fi channel's morning anime block. Moody, dark and atmospheric. I've only seen the original Vampire Hunter D movie, not "Bloodlust", and I haven't dabbled in the novels yet.
Other influences: the British Ultraviolet (sorta Spooks with Vampires instead), Dark Shadows (mostly the 1990 revival), Vampire: the Masquerade rpg, Blood Ties (both books & later tv series)
sarajlarson listed her five main vampire influences over the years. Mine include some traditional and some not so. Despite my interest in vampires, I haven't watched or read nearly as much as you'd expect. I'm really surprised not many book vampires made the cut. 1. Bela Lugosi's Dracula - I can't remember where or when I saw this, but I was quite young. I do distinctly remember it was black and white, so I'm pretty sure it was the Lugosi version. I also remember seeing the original "Mummy" in that same stretch.
2. Bunnicula by James & Deborah Howe. Mix one poor little bunny, a paranoid cat and well meaning dog and you get a weird classic of vampire lore. What? It totally counts. (Not to be outdone by a followup "Celery Stalks at Midnight"...)
3. Forever Knight - I still remember discovering this late one night at the dorm in Tuscaloosa. I couldn't sleep, so I turned on the television and found Nick and Janette and Lacroix on CBS' old "Crimetime after Primetime" lineup.
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The funny part is I did watch the Kristy Swanson movie first. I was one of the ones who stared at the tv listings and said "They made a tv series out of this?" Then I caught part of the summer rerun of the first season and I was hooked completely, mostly by a certain charming British librarian. They became a part of my fannish life for the next several years. If Babylon 5 was the fandom that taught me web design, Buffy pushed me towards fanfiction, for good or ill. Even when the show darkened over the coming years, I still had a fondness for that universe.
5. Vampire Hunter D - In retrospect, this was probably one of my early introductions to anime beyond the Robotech/Macross mecha and robots, seen on the old Sci Fi channel's morning anime block. Moody, dark and atmospheric. I've only seen the original Vampire Hunter D movie, not "Bloodlust", and I haven't dabbled in the novels yet.
Other influences: the British Ultraviolet (sorta Spooks with Vampires instead), Dark Shadows (mostly the 1990 revival), Vampire: the Masquerade rpg, Blood Ties (both books & later tv series)
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Date: 2007-09-26 01:07 am (UTC)Sherlock Holmes ripoffEnglish human detective to be more appealing than Fleming, and you might as well--but it's an interesting take on both the vampire and mobster genres, at least.I keep reading the books, even though I have a mildly-entertained/highly-annoyed relationship with them, myself. But my complaints are mainly about Elrod's disrespect for classic horror and borrowing from classics, as I've ranted about elsewhere. You probably wouldn't have those issues.