Showing posts with label Vampires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vampires. Show all posts

7.22.2013

Racism and the Vampire Mythology






I'll tell you how I like my vampires. I like them vicious, bloodthirsty, and a little bit sexy. I'm a sucker for those wicked vamps. My personal favorite vampire movies are Bram Stoker's Dracula, 30 Days of Night, and Stake Land. The one quality I don't look for in a Vampire (No, I'm not going to take a jab at Twilight and say "sparkles in daylight") is racism. I never really thought of vampires as being racists, although there is a surprising lack of diversity in the vamp crowd, but a pretty good case can be made for Vampires being a manifestation of anti-Semitism.