Except for Count Chocula. He can stay.

It was fine until the Hello Kitty Sparkle Vampire movie came along.

I blame Twilight. Now everything's vampire. Gonna be a lot of holes in the TV schedule when this burns out.

Old news is old.
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There was a fark thread too, but cannot be bothered to find it right now.

Damn Mormons always ruin everything

Ah, but if there has been just one positive thing to come out of all of this, it's the Rifftrax of Twilight. Nothing is better than watching an emo teen covered in glitter run through the forest to the sound of Benny Hill.

/laaaaaadies
//no, those are men!
///dudes who look like laaaaaadies

Vampires are my favorite characters ever. Well, until Twilight came along and hey started becoming angst teenagers.

Nothing will change what has become of them, but hopefully they will become the evil bad asses we one knew. Such as in Blade.

This is from before Twilight came out...

A friend of mine wrote a book a few years back and it was a perfectly nice fantasy novel - dragons, paladins, undead and all the other stuff that you'd expect in B-grade fantasy novel but I told him he had a massive flaw - his nemesis was obviously a vampire.

Then Twilight came out and he told me I was right - when vampires become synonymous with emos, it's been overdone.

As long as I get my dose of camp and vampire sex in the form of True Blood, I'm happy.

So, vampires and zombies are both getting overplayed, what should we go to next? Mummies were kind of ruined for a while by Brendan Fraser movies, so they're out too.

Note to self: look for True Blood clips, see if the sex is any good.

Anyway, I like the Underworld movies, but more because of Selene than anything else. I think those are werebats rather than vampires, considering their source.

Shut the hell up, Neil Gaiman. We had to put up with interminable bouts of emo Sandman comics, so just shut the hell up.

not sure why I'm being irrationally moody

CarnySaur: Shut the hell up, Neil Gaiman. We had to put up with interminable bouts of emo Sandman comics, so just shut the hell up.

not sure why I'm being irrationally moody

I'm cranky today too, so let me jump in and say I dislike everything Neil Gaiman's ever written and I consider him to be a twee, pompous butthead.

You internet types ruined vampires! Just like you did zombies, ninjas, pirates, and Stong Bad.

/Jojo's bizarre adventure had the best vampires
//do your vampires shoot liquid lazers out of their eyes?
///hot like an exploding steam roller

Yea cause you know there's no cheesy 3D animated movie wave going on now or anything...

I say we take a vote. All those in favor of shelving vampires until zombies get boring say Aye!.

Aye!

/we just need 51% of the internet to win.

I really think it can't be disputed that the best vampire ever put on film was Leslie Nielson in "Dracula: Dead and Loving It".

It's not all bad. The HBO vampire show made Anna Paquin take off her gear. And...well I guess that's about it.

Vampires have always been kind of emo. Granted, not as gay as the Twilight kid but they're usually in love with some girl they can't have, they usually don't like being vampires and are generally morose. Except Christopher Lee. He was harsh.

Alphax: Note to self: look for True Blood clips, see if the sex is any good.

IMHO the sex scenes are the only reasonably good bit of the series...at least in season 1.

rynthetyn: So, vampires and zombies are both getting overplayed, what should we go to next? Mummies were kind of ruined for a while by Brendan Fraser movies, so they're out too.

Bunyips.

rynthetyn: So, vampires and zombies are both getting overplayed,

You shut your whore mouth.

Also, I would like to point out that Neil Gaiman is a part-time twat who should STFU and GBTW, and actually write something worth reading rather than to regurgitate the same story yet another time after just substituting the mythology in use.

Vampires have now become such a huge, mainstream thing with all the hallmarks of impeding failure written all over it. You already have the cliché-filled high school series about them (Vampire Diaries), and is now just a Disney show away from doom. Which is good, because that means that the overblown and hyped trend is about to jump the shark, and eventually all the generic, mass-produced crap will fade away until only the good stuff remains part of human recollection.

True Blood is a series that will probably outlive the hype-era, and survive beyond, simply for being a decent show. I mean, it's no Battlestar Galactica early in its run, but it's decently written with just the required dose of weirdness. It also holds some neat references at times, and shows some degree of influence from Vampire the Masquerade, without clans and Camarilla/Sabbath battle-lines. It also contains gratious amount of Anna Paquin's naughty bits, which is also a bonus.

Unfortunately, I think zombies are about to have a rather short time of mainstream prosperity. After years of underground/indie/online obsession, it's hitting the mainstream hardish at the moment with Zombieland out now and World War Z coming up. Unfortunately, there's only so much you can do with zombies, meaning that it will fade away to internet fandom again after a rather short period.

However, the release of New Moon, with shirtless tweens turning into werewolves, there's a 50% chance of mainstream lycantrophy for the next couple of years.

rynthetyn: So, vampires and zombies are both getting overplayed, what should we go to next? Mummies were kind of ruined for a while by Brendan Fraser movies, so they're out too.

Oh boy, you must be new to Fark. No one disses zombies, animals, or naked ladies and lives to tell the tale.

the were-animal market has some potential. bored with werewolves?

werebears! werecoyotes! werealigators! weresharks! werespiders! wererats! werecats! wereplatypus!(platypi?) the list is unending!

caperbear: wereplatypus!

THAT gave me a nasty mental image! Do not want!

Cornwell: caperbear: wereplatypus!

THAT gave me a nasty mental image! Do not want!

Dr. Cornwell - Fully licenced wereplatypus hunter
For all your ornithorhynchus lycanthropic extermination needs!

caperbear: werebears! werecoyotes! werealigators! weresharks! werespiders! wererats! werecats! wereplatypus!(platypi?) the list is unending!

weremanbearpig!

Tachikoma: Ah, but if there has been just one positive thing to come out of all of this, it's the Rifftrax of Twilight. Nothing is better than watching an emo teen covered in glitter run through the forest to the sound of Benny Hill.

/laaaaaadies
//no, those are men!
///dudes who look like laaaaaadies

While I do agree with you, the movie "Twilight" is just as hilarious without the MST3K treatment.

"rynthetyn: Mummies were kind of ruined for a while by Brendan Fraser movies, so they're out too."

Ok, that crossed the line! Mr. Fraser is the absolute best thing to happen to mummy monster movies ever. All three are great flicks, now go to the corner and think about what you did.

MDGeist: Ok, that crossed the line! Mr. Fraser is the absolute best thing to happen to mummy monster movies ever. All three are great flicks, now go to the corner and think about what you did.


You've got a point. Who really gave a shiat about mummies as formidable antagonists before those films?

"Oooh... a mummy is coming for us. Quick... walk slightly faster then him to get away!"

Cornwell: caperbear: wereplatypus!

THAT gave me a nasty mental image! Do not want!

That would be one hell of a scary creature, actually. In addition to all the other things that the platipi have going for them (duck bill, beaver tail, lays eggs, produces milk, webbed feet...) I recently found out about two years ago that the damn things are also venomous.

Seriously. Supposedly have one of the most potent forms of venom out there, and is one of the only venomous mammals in existence. They have horns/spurs on the back of their hind feet that stab you, inject you with the poison, and you spend the next couple days in crippling pain.

Seriously, who the fark designed this thing? It's like God had a deadline and just decided to make the Homer-mobile of animals.

MDGeist: Ok, that crossed the line! Mr. Fraser is the absolute best thing to happen to mummy monster movies ever. All three are great flicks, now go to the corner and think about what you did.

You may be joking but I actually thought the first two were fun for what they were (and for Rachael Weiz) [sp]. But the third one sucked. I mean Brendon Frasier going against Jet Li without being shown his own spinal column in the first ten seconds? Mummies, sure. Undead warriors, why not. But suspension of disbelief has its limits.

Agrees.

Cornwell: Unfortunately, I think zombies are about to have a rather short time of mainstream prosperity. After years of underground/indie/online obsession, it's hitting the mainstream hardish at the moment with Zombieland out now and World War Z coming up. Unfortunately, there's only so much you can do with zombies, meaning that it will fade away to internet fandom again after a rather short period.

The best part about zombie mainstream is the fact that the mainstream misses the point about zombies. If anything it just makes the zombie art genre even better for us zombie lovers.

George Romero must laugh himself to sleep every night on his mountain of money.

TheHopeDiamond: Agrees.

You know, Dark Shadows really doesn't get enough love. And you would think that MGM would finally farking release both of the theatrical movies in their uncut forms to cash in on Twilight as well.

What the hell, MGM? What the hell??

Shadowknight: Cornwell: caperbear: wereplatypus!

THAT gave me a nasty mental image! Do not want!

That would be one hell of a scary creature, actually. In addition to all the other things that the platipi have going for them (duck bill, beaver tail, lays eggs, produces milk, webbed feet...) I recently found out about two years ago that the damn things are also venomous.

Seriously. Supposedly have one of the most potent forms of venom out there, and is one of the only venomous mammals in existence. They have horns/spurs on the back of their hind feet that stab you, inject you with the poison, and you spend the next couple days in crippling pain.

Seriously, who the fark designed this thing? It's like God had a deadline and just decided to make the Homer-mobile of animals.

I've known this for years, but it's still on of the most farked up animals out there.

Come to think of it were-anything-from-australia would be rather nasty to deal with. The continent where everything is venomous, bad tempered and out to kill you, apart from the people living there.

IdBeCrazyIf: Cornwell: Unfortunately, I think zombies are about to have a rather short time of mainstream prosperity. After years of underground/indie/online obsession, it's hitting the mainstream hardish at the moment with Zombieland out now and World War Z coming up. Unfortunately, there's only so much you can do with zombies, meaning that it will fade away to internet fandom again after a rather short period.

The best part about zombie mainstream is the fact that the mainstream misses the point about zombies. If anything it just makes the zombie art genre even better for us zombie lovers.

George Romero must laugh himself to sleep every night on his mountain of money.

Yeah, you're right. The zombie craze isn't going anywhere, is it? :)

You guys should definitely not read Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite then.

Cornwell: I've known this for years, but it's still on of the most farked up animals out there.

Come to think of it were-anything-from-australia would be rather nasty to deal with. The continent where everything is venomous, bad tempered and out to kill you, apart from the people living there.

Yeah, I have lived my life in a blissful ignorance of the platypus's more evil nature, expecting it to be a farked up but ultimately awesome and cute animal. Then, I learned the truth. Those sneaky little bastards.

But you are right, Australia does have some horrifying animals. Even kangaroos, a creature I thought were extremely cute and imagined to be fun loving, fairly benign creatures, have been known to rear up on their tail and use their claw tipped hind legs to eviscerate the abdomen and cut into the femoral artery of animals, including humans.

We need a return of the vampire-as-monster, rather than the vampire-as-emo (Twilight), vampire-as-kung-fu-gunslinger (Blade, Underworld), or vampire-as-ineffectual-cannon-fodder (Buffy).
30 Days of Night gave it the old college try, but it just didn't stick.

IdBeCrazyIf: Cornwell: Unfortunately, I think zombies are about to have a rather short time of mainstream prosperity. After years of underground/indie/online obsession, it's hitting the mainstream hardish at the moment with Zombieland out now and World War Z coming up. Unfortunately, there's only so much you can do with zombies, meaning that it will fade away to internet fandom again after a rather short period.

The best part about zombie mainstream is the fact that the mainstream misses the point about zombies.

Eating brains?

Digitalstrange: Eating brains?

Only one variety of zombies went after brains. The Romero zombie and the World War Z zombie (about the same kind, considered by most zombie geeks to be THE zombie of record) go after whatever they can reach. If they can get your brain, cool. If they can get your liver, that's cool too.

They just want your tasty man-flesh.

rynthetyn: So, vampires and zombies are both getting overplayed, what should we go to next? Mummies were kind of ruined for a while by Brendan Fraser movies, so they're out too.

Giant monsters.

With the exception of the recent Cloverfield and the much-maligned but not that bad Godzilla movie from 1998, and the King Kong remake, there really haven't been many giant monster movies recently.

There is a lot of good kaiju material out that that could be 're-imagined'. Gamera, for example.

Rev. Skarekroe: 30 Days of Night gave it the old college try, but it just didn't stick.

30 Days had all the right ingrediants, and Im honestly unsure why it failed other than perhaps it just hit the screen at the wrong cultural time. People wanted emo vampire and it just didn't have the the garlic sauce they were looking for..

Digitalstrange: Eating brains?

Zombies as the metaphor for consumers

Another thought: Golems. Though maybe too Jewish for mainstream, and kind of easily mistaken verbally for "Gollum".

Guntram Shatterhand: IdBeCrazyIf: Cornwell: Unfortunately, I think zombies are about to have a rather short time of mainstream prosperity. After years of underground/indie/online obsession, it's hitting the mainstream hardish at the moment with Zombieland out now and World War Z coming up. Unfortunately, there's only so much you can do with zombies, meaning that it will fade away to internet fandom again after a rather short period.

The best part about zombie mainstream is the fact that the mainstream misses the point about zombies. If anything it just makes the zombie art genre even better for us zombie lovers.

George Romero must laugh himself to sleep every night on his mountain of money.

Yeah, you're right. The zombie craze isn't going anywhere, is it? :)

Its not going anywhere as long as you can make video games about them.

Aside from Castlevania, vampires dont make good video game villians.