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Vampires: Modern Vampires
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Vampires are monsters in legends and stories. The first vampire legends were told in Eastern Europe, but much of how modern people see vampires was created by Bram Stoker in the famous novel, Dracula. Few people believe that vampires are real, but they are still very popular in movies, television, and books.
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Modern Vampires -Directed by Richard Elfman(Danny Elfmans older brother). Starring Casper Van Dien, Rod Steiger, Craig Ferguson, Kim Cattrall, Robert Pastorelli, and Natashi Gregson Wagner. Basically this straight to video flick follows Dallas (Casper Van Dien) as he deals with a long list of problems due to his past. He has Van Helsing (Rod Steiger)on his tail, and is in trouble with the Count Dracula up to his teeth. Kim Cattrall plays a cocktail dress wearing socialite vampire who tries to help him out. Done in a dark comedic fashion, and set in Hollywood, this movie is a break from movies about vampires who are depressed over what they are, and how brutal that life is. They know it's brutal, and have fun with it. There are serious scenes in this flick, and issues as well, but it's handled in what I feel is a pretty good way.
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Vampires typically cast no shadow and have no reflection. This mythical power is largely confined to European vampiric myths and may be tied to folklore regarding the vampire's lack of a soul. In modern fiction, this may extend to the idea that vampires cannot be photographed.
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Belief in vampires persists to this day. While some cultures preserve their original traditions about the immortal, most modern-day believers are more influenced by the fictional image of the vampire as it occurs in films and literature. In the 1970s, there were rumours (spread by the local press) that a vampire haunted Highgate Cemetery in London. Amateur vampire hunters flocked in large numbers in the cemetery. Several books have been written about the case, notably by Sean Manchester, a local man who was among the first to suggest the existence of the "Highgate Vampire" and who later claimed to have exorcised and destroyed a whole nest of vampires in the area. In the modern folklore of Puerto Rico and Mexico, the chupacabra (goat-sucker) is said to be a creature that feeds upon the flesh or drinks the blood of domesticated animals, leading some to consider it a kind of vampire.
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Rooted in older folklore, the modern belief in vampires spread throughout Asia with tales of ghoulish entities from the mainland, to vampiric beings from the islands of Southeast Asia. India ... developed other vampiric legends. The Bhūta or Prét is the soul of a man who died an untimely death. It wanders around animating dead bodies at night, attacking the living much like a ghoul.[76] In northern India, there is the BrahmarākŞhasa, a vampire-like creature with a head encircled by intestines and a skull from which it drank blood. Japan has no native legends about vampires. Japanese vampires made their first appearances in the Cinema of Japan during the late 1950s.[77]
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Nowadays due to the threat of AIDS and other blood transmitted diseases, vampires have become a declining race. The ones that survived had to take up a new way of life in order to ensure their survival. They took up a ritual of drinking their own blood. They ... lost the fangs in favor of sharp cutting implements. These modern day vampires are more commonly known as emos. That means every time you slay a vampire, you rid the world of an emo.
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