A. Vampires
Vampires are often nobles from hundreds of years ago. Men are always handsome and charming, while women are beautiful and sexy, with a sly and indifferent smile on their pale faces. They live a European-style aristocratic life and don’t worry about eating or drinking. Worry about what to wear, you will never get old. Apart from not being able to bask in the sun, garlic and crosses, and they have to live by sucking blood, there is basically nothing abnormal about them. Their IQs are normal, and they are even a bit smarter than ordinary people. Of course you have to be cruel in order to suck blood, but the vampires in the early films were very subtle when they were sucking blood, usually the charming vampire gently broke the neck of the victim (not a beautiful but also a handsome man), stretched out the famous two fangs, and bit gently. Going down, the victim didn't struggle, but was powerless to sway... It was considered dead. And even if a vampire with good technology sucks the blood of a whole life, it will not make himself ugly, at most, it is just a small bloodshot oozing from the corner of the mouth.
The 1931 black-and-white film "Count Dracula", Dracula, is the originator of the vampire film. Once the film was released, it received an unprecedented strong response. The audience was shocked by the horror atmosphere created by the film, and the miserable expressions of the victims on the screen. The screams lingered in the audience's ears for a long time. "Dracula" and "Nosferatu" became the two earliest classics in the vampire genre, and there are only a few works such as "Four Hundred Years" that can match their artistic achievements. The ancestor of the vampire, Count Dracula, is said to be a Romanian nobleman, so his descendants are also not easy, all living a luxurious life. 1994's "Interview with the Vampire" has attracted much attention because of the participation of two superstars Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. The film is adapted from Anne Rice's original book of the same name and tells the story of several vampires. The century-old grievance between them, the film focuses on rendering the luxurious life of vampires and the advantages of immortality, making vampires an enviable group. The film's twists and turns and thrilling plot, and plump characterization, are the success of "Interview with the Vampire", and the film has naturally become a leader in the vampire genre.
B. Zombies
In layman's terms, the living dead. There must be a prerequisite for becoming a zombie, that is, you have to die, and then you can come back to life. This kind of "survival" is not a resurrection, because the brains of the people who have survived have lost control and they want to eat when they see living people, especially the brains of living people. . Zombies are often very dark and savage, and they stink all over, not to mention how sloppy and disgusting their clothes are. So basically, zombies are the most disgusting creatures out there. (There are also zombie movies in China, but Chinese zombies belong to the category of ghost movies. In Chinese movies, most of the zombies are from the ancients of the Qing Dynasty. People have obviously made an indelible contribution to the development of this genre: Umberto Rench, Mario Bava, Sergio Martino... and Lucio Fauci, if only for this reason. Movies should also be at the forefront. His account of the origin of the living dead in "Zombies" is the most orthodox: from the Caribbean Voodoo (Voodoo). This religion is still widespread in the American continent, and Zombies has a concise introduction: Spanish colonists brought Catholicism, black slaves brought African primitive religions, and they all add up to voodoo. Perhaps this religion is far less evil in reality, but "resurrection of the dead" is one of voodoo's most notorious secrets.
These two major themes have been operating in two non-interfering systems for decades, until the advent of two vampire films this year, probably because Hollywood's horror creativity was almost exhausted, and the directors finally couldn't help but put these two major themes together. mixed together. One is Will Smith's "I am Legend", and the other is "30 days of nights" starring Josh Haned, who recently came out.
The so-called vampires in these two so-called vampire films have all the characteristics of zombies at the same time:
1. They are ugly, their faces are blue (instead of being pale as a vampire should be), their mouths are bloody, and their mouths are full of fangs (instead of two The fangs that function as straws);
2. I don't pay attention to dressing up. In the first part, I simply don't have any clothes on, not even hair. In the second part, it is even worse. Men and women are all beggars.
3. It's not like a human at all, it has no thinking, and can't even speak human words. It can only be barbaric. There is basically no language in "Legend", and "Thirty Nights" has created its own set of extremely Brutalist language.
4. The demeanor is lost, and when he sees a living person, he bites in a lifeless manner. The scene is bloody, and his face and body are also in a mess.
6. The method of killing them is also the beheading of zombies. It is not the traditional stunt of mahogany stabbing the heart. Anyway, they are already so disgusting. Besides, mahogany is too difficult to deal with, right? Especially in "Thirty Nights", the location is icy Alaska.
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