The Vampire Lestat

Why audiences flock to see horror films is a mystery. The question as to why a person would put themselves through the psychological tortures that horror films create does not have a simple answer. However, it is evident that throughout time people have had a morbid attraction to the unknown and unexplainable. The reasons behind a person continuing to seek the thrills of a horror film is subject to the individual. Any film can seem scary to certain people, so the real question is in regards to…

What does it mean to be a vampire? Well, aside from the usual craving of blood and the avoiding of sunlight, vampires are depicted in many different ways. Despite vampires sharing the same amount of strength as one another, it is often the case that the all-most powerful vampire in the pack is of the male gender. In addition to such misogyny, the typical vampire tale includes the love of an immortal with a human, usually a female. Vampires are also often seen as somewhat of an anti-hero,…

Vampires in True Blood have numerous indifferent characteristics compared to Count Dracula in Dracula and vampires in I Am Legend. Vampires in True Blood don’t bite people to drink blood. Due to Japanese scientist’s invention of synthetic blood, Tru Blood, vampires don’t have to bite humans anymore. They don’t hide in a dark, but they live very closely with humans. They are even considered as a citizen of the United States. In addition, there are countless vampires and they formed…

Vladimir the Vampire: The Representation of Vampires in Ethan Long’s Fright Club Recent releases of children’s films like Hotel Transylvania and children’s text’s like Monster Trouble have contributed to the rapidly growing genre of children’s horror. From the 1960s to present day, monsters have become a demanded topic in children’s media as they have transformed from frightening creatures to misunderstood, cuddly beings (Palmer). In Ethan Long’s Fright Club, a picturebook detailing a club for…

takes care of all the men and in the afterword, she and Jonathan even have a child. Meanwhile, the three vampire women in the novel are her polar opposites. They, too, are vampires, but act very differently. Mina tries her hardest to fight the vampires pull, and even uses her disease as an advantage by seeing what Dracula is doing and informing Van Helsing and the others of his activities. The vampire women however fall into their every desire. They are voluptuous and sexy and try to lure in…

Supposedly based loosely on an erotic dream of Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ (1897) embodies one of the most fascinating and symbolically sexualised characters in English literature. Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ addresses Victorian anxieties regarding its women’s feminist awakening and breaking of patriarchal chains during the time and highlighted this fear in his novel. By focusing on these topics in his novel, Stoker, who was a staunch conservative Anglican and advocate of patriarchy, emphasises how women’s…

The attitude of the Victorian age and its gender roles is ingrained into Bram Stoker's Dracula. In the novel, it is transparent that men hold the authoritative position while women are expected to comply with their demands. Stroker often writes about both genders behaving either more feminine or masculine and the repercussions that follow. Today there's a lot of stress on both genders to look and act a certain way; but when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula there was much more stress on people to fit…

other times is whenever he stabbed the cross with the sword and Jesus blood splash all over the place and he drank the blood. And one of the most important parts of the blood it was whenever the girl licked Dracula’s blood and she converted into a vampire and she had to drink that. Even though Dracula didn’t wanted her to do it she fought him and told him that she wanted to be with him…

Do you Believe in Werewolves? Well, the people of 1600s Bamberg, Germany did. The Werewolf of Bamberg: A Hangman’s Daughter Tale is the fifth of the six, soon to be seven, books of the novel series A Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch. Potzsch gets his inspiration for the series from the history of his ancestors on his mother’s side. He uses one of his family’s four generations of executioners, Jakob Kuisls, and his family as the main characters. Each book follows parts of Magdalena Kuisls’,…

Vampires have changed over the years and the depictions of vampires through the years give us an idea about the anxieties of that time period, the way the people viewed the pressing issues of that time period. I am going to discuss the similarities and the differences between Bram stoker’s Dracula and the film Nosferatu. Dracula was portrayed as a tall old man with a white moustache who appeared to be a human and he had a charm about him normally associated with aristocrats whereas in the film…