No Such Thing as Vampires

of battle, the Power, the Glory, the Passion, the Danger, her courage will change the world.” “In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampire and demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.” If anyone has ever watch the late 1990’s TV show Xena Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. One can hear those sayings. When someone watches these TV shows, they find out that in both TV shows that Xena and Buffy are the lead characters. They both have…

our society today. His two chapters, "A brief History of Vampires" and "Chupacabra in Pop Culture", establish the foundation of Puerto Rico and other Spanish peaking countries superstitions and while indefinitely, inscribing the significant background of its vampiric roots and the impact it has in our culture. Radford's work is extremely fascinating, to not only describe the encounters of the Chupacabra in its prime, but the origins of vampires themselves dating back to ancient Greece, Egypt,…

Starting with how these vampires /zombies move. They look like they are fumbling around all over the place and all Morgan has to do is shove them off. This is not very realistic in my opinion. The next feature that I dispute is the way the vampires talk and remember things, how can something that dies “remember” and hold a grudge? I feel like there should have been more of an emphasis “realism” with…

changes and they are weird. Characters are interesting. Theme is complicated. Vampires are also in this story. This Story has many turning points. The characters are interesting. I liked how the author gave the characters their personality. Like Tana she is an ordinary girl. She like to party, go out with her friends and more. Many weird things happen in her life. Aidan is a weird kid. He’s a blood sucker (vampire). Midnight and Winter become their friends later in the story.…

The Shadow of the Vampire is a film based off of the filming of the Nosferatu film, and was directed by E. Elias Merhige. The film was released in the year of 2000 as a drama genre. The opening scene in Shadow of the Vampire is a character playing with the cat, which signifies the difficulties characters have with dealing with animals. Shadow of the Vampire allows the viewers to recognize the efforts needed from the entire cast to make Nosferatu a successful enjoyable film. Elements such as…

Lucy’s death, “Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain” (204). By saying this, Van Helsing means that not everything can be solved by science, and that some things require faith because they are so unexplainable. Even though Stoker uses technology in his story, they end up almost always failing, like how blood transfusions fail to save Lucy and she dies. Earlier in the novel, Dr. Seward, a man of science,…

For this assignment, we read and discussed four different stories including Stephen King’s, Why We Crave Horror Movies; Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s, Why Vampires Never Die; Jorge Luis Borges’, The Origins of Half-Human, Half-Animal Creatures; and Frank Miller’s, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. While reviewing these stories it was apparent that there could be connections made between Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and the other three stories we read previously. It appears that Batman’s…

Every one knows the tail of the legendary Dracula. The first and the greatest vampire that every existed in the world of fantasy or the real world who really knows. But one thing we do know is that the legend of Dracula has lived on throucth the agege and with every generation that passes by we all add or reinvent the legendary tail of vampires. For ensample the story of the original vampire Dracula originated. In Romania, because of a young warlord who came to power named Vlad Tepes- vald…

Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Grahame-Smith intertwines historically documented events and myths about Lincoln’s life with his vampire hunting concept to make his book “believable.” Grahame-Smith explains major events that shaped Lincoln as a consequence of vampire activity. Nancy Lincoln’s death when Abraham was 9 years old, as well as the deaths of his aunt and uncle, Elizabeth and Tom Sparrow, were explained as consequences of Lincoln’s father not paying his bills on time to his vampire loan…

a castle readers assume that he is just like any other vampire, trying to please himself and harm mortals by attacking them, with no feelings to help anyone around. The tales told of Dracula leave one wondering who he really is. Whether you believe in the stories told or not, all of the information dug up from the past gives us an image on what we should expect Count to be like. Furthermore, he should have the appearance of a typical vampire with pale skin, pointy ears, dark eyes and hair, along…