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!