(vampires are so hot!)
Vampires and Prophecy?
Is there a connection? I can't help but notice all the vampire themes lately in the media. Two movies, "Let the Right One In" and "Twilight" are in the movie reviews this week and both have vampire themes. My sister has teen age girls, and she said the hottest books right now among her age group are also vampire themed.
Why is that? Is there some new age connection? Or is it just about introducing more blood and violence to desensitize people? Or is there some sort of end times connection just because it is anti-biblical?
What do you think?
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Well, yeah, it's because vampires are hot, dumbass. Put down your babble and think about something else for a change.
This is RR, so yeah, since it's not fundy christian, it absolutely has to have something to do with the endtimes. Morons.
If "vampires" were the popular thing then such great works like "Carrion Comfort" and "Children of the Night" would be coming back in to style - they are amazing works of fiction based on vampire mythology. Not to mention they both have representations of Fundamentalist Christian sociopaths in them.
So - no - you're wrong. It's just current popular literature. It'll change again in a few months.
What Wandering Scribe said.
I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but I've read one book and I can understand why it's popular. Twilight, however, I cannot. Whatsoever.
I think it's just a meme cycle, and vampires have come back 'in' this 'season'.
... Werewolves are sure to follow.
Zombies + OMG Ulimate powerz + sex appeal= Vampires.
Okok, First, in Twilight the 117 year old VIRGIN Vampire waits until Marriage to have sex with his beloved.
So... yeah, I really don't see the christian connection here. /sarcasm.
Look, the cycle of popular movies generally goes like this:
And no matter which stage it's on, you claim it's a sign of THE ENDTIMES!.
tl;dr: Pegmo's got a short memory.
What do you mean, "lately"?
People, especially kids, have always liked spooky, gory stories. Just read any of Grimm's fairytales: witches burned to death in their own oven, wolves eating grandmothers. Humans have always been fascinated with eerie, creepy stuff, so vampires being the flavour of the season is nothing new.
Really, sometimes you think these people live in some weird sort of bubble with no connection to the outside world.
You have heard about "Let the Right One In" in America? Cool!
Edit: Fdragon, watch 30 days of night. Those vampires are not sissies.
Not all vampires look like the Buffy-pretty boys. Count Orlok in the 1922 movie 'Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens' is downright hideous.
Vampires and Prophecy?
Is there a connection?
No, there isn't. Vampires are a part of pop-culture at the moment. It will be replaced by the next fad eventually. Maybe dinosaurs will get stupidly popular again.
Vampires don't exist they are fiction.
The End Times won't happen:they are fiction.
You are confusing reality with something else that is not real.
Vampire-themed books and films are currently popular with teenagers, especially girls, because they find them exciting. They'll like something else better next week.
The 'end times' were invented by some religious fanatic who had an over-enthusiastic imagination. Again, something better will come along, when rapturists finally admit to themselves that they are barking mad.
Er, vampires have zilch to do with prophesy: where the hell did you get that idea from?
fergus
Let The Right One In is a REALLY good movie. People always dream about eternal life. You christians do it with your talk about going to heaven for all eternity when you die. Others fantasies about vampires as a way to eternal life. I much prefer the vampires, they look good, have enormous sensuality and have fangs. And by the way, Dracula can be out in daylight and is not afraid of christian crucifixes....
Even as far back as Polidori's "The Vampyre" or Stoker's "Dracula" the average vampire novel has been about repressed sexuality and hidden erotic feelings. And what in the world could possibly feel more sexually repressed than the thirteen or fourteen year-old daughter of a fundie? And, if you read your Bible, PROPHECY is anti-Biblical.PS We've heard this all before from you guys with Harry Potter and witchcraft!
Twilight does suck, and most people misuse the vampire genre, but there's still no denying it- vampires are damn sexy.
..unless they're vampire pirates. Ew.
Vampires are cool, but not as cool as werewolves! Aww.
As for the rest - meh, certain things just are fashionable and successes attract imitations. You can't really claim this stuff has had any effect before, can you? Nothing really happened when the evil-computers-take-over-the-world scenarios were in fashion. (They took over. Now we just swear at updates and clear spyware.) Nor did giant-space-rock-about-to-collide-the-planet thing really cause the end of the world either. (They do send Taiwanese components to the space, I think.)
Just saying.
Christ, where the fuck have you been since Stoker's introduction of vampires to popular culture? Unless, of course, you're saying the "end times" started in 1897?
You could have two movies about ponies and shooting stars coming out, and these people would be yapping about connections to the End Times. They're insane.
Actually, I wish there were two really good werewolf movies coming out at the same time. I would love to see how they react. that, and I like werewolves more than I like vampires (strangely sexy to me).
When I was a teenager, Anne Rice books were pretty popular.
And yet, the rapture STILL hasn't come.
... And Anne Rice has become a barking loon, but that's neither here nor there.
In late elementary/early junior high, I had a crush on a certain vampire named Barnabas Collins from a daytime soap called "Dark Shadows (gad, I must be old) . And the Rapture STILL hasn't occurred.
There's nothing new under the sun (or under the full moon, as the case may be).
Lame elves and lame vampires: Immortal beautiful perfection with an aftertaste of tragedy.
Both of them used to be cool, now they're wish-fulfillment tools.
...
We have fads in the media cycling constantly. This one will be gone soon enough too, and you'll be wondering about whether the next one is satanic also. Remember that penguin one recently? Yeah, penguins definitely aren't evil. Unless you consider freedom evil, then Tux might be a satanic icon to you, or something. If you start calling Linux evil, I'm going to smack you with a Windows box.
My supposition about the reason for it being a fad is that vampires are the closest you can get to sex and still have it legal for minors to consume that media. See the shoujo manga/anime Vampire Knight for a blatant example. xD
Noooo, not end times. What it is, is a once classic piece of horror literature has fallen into Badass Decay to the point where it has lost any gravity, any horror and is now simply the thinnest of gruels in popular literature and film. Therefore it is easily gobbled up by squealing tweenagers and their mothers.
Exhibit A: Twilight.
The prosecution rests, Your Honor.
"Why is that?" It's called "being trendy."
A year from now, something else will be all the rage.
Well IMO the monster type vampires are way cooler than these misunderstood emo vampires that have popped up in the last decade or so.
Then again, vampires have always had an erotic submission side to them. I mean they hypnotize their victims to bite them, there's always a human love interest in the story. I haven't read the two mentioned here though.
I fucking hate vampires. Can't we have a few more hot wizards and a few less hot vampires?
I'm sorry. That was Sorcerer Fetish Jafaria. She only comes out on special occasions. Let me find FSTDT Comment Jafaria.
NOT EVERYTHING IS A SIGN OF THE END TIMES, YOU EFFING MORONS. Vampires have been around in published "literature" for at least a century, and in folklore and mythology for even longer, and, well, we're all still here, aren't we?
@Mudak: "God hates fangs"? That's kind of awesome. Except I can't watch the show because I have no TV and I won't watch the show because I hate vampires.
I must confess, I'm certainly a sucker for vampire boys. My boyfriend is one.
I love vampires, they're so hot.
And by the way - Edward Cullen my be sexy, but Edward Varens is better.
Vampire novels usually involve themes of penetration, bloodplay, Dom/sub relationships, polyamory, repressed desires etc....
As for Twilight's patriarchal bullshit and sparkling, definitely a sign of the end times. /snark
Yeah, I can't think of anything less Biblical than blood and violence.
And yeah, it's because vampires tap deep into the libidos of anyone with a thing about domination, biting, pale people, etc.
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