We’ve all had a childhood filled with stories of the creatures from the land of imagination. Everything from talking animals to unicorns, we’ve had a colorful past wondering whether they’re real or not.
Some of these creatures and characters transitioned from cartoons to Hollywood. If we talk about supernatural beings in Hollywood, vampires come to mind.
Although we don’t have any constitution of what a vampire is and its traits, we certainly have consumed enough movies to know what they are. You can’t find a black Dracula or one with a bad hairdo. You can’t even find one on a sunny day at the beach or eating garlic.
We can see some of these in the Twilight saga movies in order. These were the norms of Dracula back in our days but then Hollywood bought some changes.
Some of these changes may have fit the character but some changes were downright weird. That is why, in this article, we will talk about the vampire movies that broke all the rules. Let’s get started.
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True Blood
We may remember this show from HBO as a classic vampire Sci-Fi movie. In the show, True Blood, the telepathic waitress, befriends a gentleman from southern Louisiana who is a vampire.
He slowly plagues the neighborhood, and his cult starts to take over the many human lives in the region. It sounds like a great vampire flick but here’s a narrative that made us question a vampire’s traits.
“I thought you were supposed to be invisible in a mirror?” said Sookie
“Sorry,” says Bill (the vampire)
“What about Holy water?” she asks.
“It’s just water.”
“Crucifixes?”
“Geometry.”
“Garlic?”
“It’s irritating, but that’s pretty much it.”
It’s funny how this show became a ‘myth buster’ in just a few dialogues. Looks like Hollywood had their fun in the making of True Blood.
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The Twilight Series
The millennials know very well about the Twilight series and the love story it entails. The adaptation from the novel may not have done justice to the scripture but it left many teenage girls drooling over Robert Patterson.
But aside from the love story and fangirl moments, this series had a very weird take on Vampires. I guess they didn’t want to shoot at night much when this dialogue came up in the series
“How can you come out during the daytime?” asks Bella.
“Myth,” says Edward,
“Burned by the sun?”
“Myth.”
“Sleeping in coffins?”
“Myth.”
Too candid? If we think about it, these vampire traits are starting to sound like stereotypes. It makes you wonder why all this rewriting is taking place.
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I am Legend
This movie is a great example of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie featuring Will Smith. I am Legend shows a world plagued by a deadly virus that has wiped most of humanity.
The lead character Neville makes a daily effort of contacting and sending out signals to check whether the whole of humanity is wiped off or not. But in his effort, a surge of vampire-like mutants picks up on his distress signal and wreaks havoc.
In the book, the author dismisses the myth of mirrors about vampires. But he does show the trait of garlic and sunlight to be resourceful against vampires.
Another scripture debunks the mirror point of a vampire. (It makes me wonder how they can set their hair or do makeup without looking in the mirror).
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Blade
“The power of an immortal, the soul of a human, the heart of a hero”. To all millennials, you know this was the tagline from the movie Blade. An action, sci-fi movie about a vampire hunter who protects humanity.
Wesley Snipes did several stunts that made us idolize his character as an awesome hero. But looking at the vampire scale, they had their fair share of redefining the vampire hunting toolkit. This next dialogue is proof of that.
“Vampire anatomy 101” explains Blade to his new disciples.
“Crosses and holy water don’t do d***, so forget what you’ve seen in the movies,” he says.
“You use a stake, silver, or sunlight. You know how to use one of these?” He shows her a gun.
“Silver hollow point filled with garlic. Aim for the head or the heart. Anything else is you’re a**.”
He wasn’t just preparing them to hunt vampires, he was after destroying the many myths too.
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30 Days of Night
This last pick is a gruesome horror-packed movie that settles quite nicely in the vampire story. Every year, a city in Alaska is attacked by a group of vampires. These bloodthirsty suckers pop up at a specific time because that’s when the sun doesn’t show (vampire approved point!). But they still don’t stick to the facts well.
In the movie, we see that once the victim is bit by the vampire, he slowly evolves into a vampire but not an evil one. That means that it takes a few hours for the evil to kick in.
Before that, the person’s skin tone changes, teeth pop out, dislike of sunlight slowly grows, and then comes the evil. Turning into a vampire kind of sounds like a software update.
Conclusion
Some of the boomers of today have gotten their lessons from the 19th-century flicks that set the standard. It makes us wonder why all the rewriting?