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Is this common in vampire film?
You are the undead that drinks my blood...you are a...I don't know.
No, I think all the vampire movies and TV I've seen is very quick to slap that label on. Mummies get called mummies. I don't know why zombies are so special. Maybe because so few stories are actually reanimating the dead? But even those...
Is this common in vampire film?
Nope. Vampires get called vampires. I'm still not sure why reanimated corpses don't get called zombies more often.
It'd make everything they do or say into an evaluation of their taste in zombie media, which: barf.
It doesn't really have to be, though. Garlic, crosses, silver, stakes through the heart, all that vampire lore is somehow dealt with in each new media representation of vampires.
Garlic, crosses, silver, stakes through the heart, all that vampire lore is somehow dealt with in each new media representation of vampires.
And often thrown out. Not sure why zombies are holy ground.
I think it's that I can't help but roll my eyes at this point. "Shoot em' in the head" is almost as common as "stake in the heart" in pop culture.
If it's trying to make out with you while biting into your neck, it's a vampire.
If it doesn't try to make out with you first, it's a zombie. Let's go with it people, it's 2010.
And if it vomits acid all over you to begin the digestion process, it's Jeff Goldblum.
And if it vomits acid all over you to begin the digestion process, it's Jeff Goldblum.
Hey look, kids, it's Brundlefly!
There should have been an animated Saturday morning cartoon version of The Fly. Brundlefly could solve crimes! And he could have that fly with a human head (from the first version of the movie) for a sidekick.
Nope. Vampires get called vampires.
Except in Near Dark. And Ultraviolet (the TV series).
Most of the original vampires of folklore (pre-Stoker et al) were reanimated corpses that shambled around, craving blood instead of brains. It's almost like zombies evolved in the popular imagination (post-Romero) to replace the original vampires in the horror ecosystem.