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A few suggestions for categories: Killed by silver ("That is for Verevolves" to quote George Hamilton); Retractable/hideable fangs; Super speed/jumping (sort of like half-drop flying I suppose); and finally "has a blonde human girlfriend with a tragic past".
10/28/09
"Three! Three in One! One in Three!"
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Has their number gone up in line with that of the human population?
Doubled since the sixties ?
Tripled since WW2?
X what, since Vlad the Impaler's time?
Did the number start to rise geometrically at some point?
If so, when?
Someone tell us please! How long have we got? #movies
10/28/09
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We're not trying to say you chart is bad because you forgot something her and there or because we don,t agree with some of your placement. We're just pointing these things out because it's fun! It's what feedback are for. You sure seem very offended by it, thus I'm sorry if anything I might have said might have offended you. I didn't mean it that way. #movies
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Good and Evil maybe the bulllies on the block, but as John Glover more or less said in "Brimstone," Mother Nature's the real bitch. #movies
10/28/09
As you say, there are a huge number of folk lore vampires, and you're right, they are almost exclusively zombie-esque. Slow. Lumpen.
I guess that's one of the main things about modern 'popular' vampires, they have their roots in the tradition of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (aka Dracula) and the blood soaked Countess Elizabeth Bathory.
They're more cinematic.
Fast not slow. Urban not rural.
Aristocratic not peasant. Rich not poor.
Lifestyle not existence. Classy not squalid. Sexy not criminal.
I hadn't thought about it before, but that's the subtext of why Megan Fox had to eat, not drink, in Jennifer's Body. Trailer trash. Beautiful, but still trash. A vamp not a vampire. No wonder it wasn't 'popular'.
See. I learnt something from the chart. Thanks. #movies
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I'm hoping, I never need to use the handy pocket sized laminated version in a hurry......... #movies
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On the other hand, I award you several million points for the inclusion on Bunnicula. Vampire rabbits FTW! #movies
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Blackula, also, is badass. #movies
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Also: Where are the vampires from Kindred the Embraced? #movies
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That is so not cool. This site is not officially off my RSS feed. Is that really how u expect to get more hits. Really now. That sucks.
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This image disagrees with two of your calls on Count Duckula. #movies
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