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The vampire behavior makes no sense


They behave like creatures in a horror movie, designed to terrorize the inhabitants of a small town. To me that isn't scary. They run amuck like infected humans, stare blankly like zombies, attack like werewolves, cause chaos and alarm like anarchists, and the lead guy is twisty mustache evil for no reason. What they don't do is behave like vampires, not even like wild animals. They don't need to kill everyone as fast as possible in an orgy of blood, but they do.

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This is a horror movie. The vampires are acting like predators. There’s no need to hide so they make the most of it.

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I liked the vampires in 30DON. They were primal and they didn't sparkle. They were terrifying in my opinion!

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I thought they were a good take on vampires, which culturally had become seductive, romantic and somewhat sympathetic creatures.

These ones were vicious predators who not only fed on humans, but hated them with an unexplained unrelenting passion, and sadistically tortured them for amusement. They were possibly the most vile and evil monsters ever put on screen, combine that with their hideously twisted demonic downes-syndrome faces with black eyes and razor sharp teeth, caked in dried blood, and they looked every bit as hideous on the outside as they were on the inside.

The guttural clicking and shrieking was also heinous. All in all these vampires were a landmark in horror villainy and the creators deserve huge praise for unleashing them on poor audiences.

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You ever seen Blade?

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Eons ago. I certainly don’t recall anything as disturbing as these things.

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The scariest vamps are the ones from Salem’s Lot. Also the Tales from the Crypt comics from the 1950s had some creepy ones.

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The Salem’s Lot vamps are creepy, sure, but they’re nothing on these things. They don’t look nearly as horrific, they’re much weaker and less dangerous overall.

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I think the Salem’s Lot vampires are just as “horrific.” They are ghoulish and unnatural corruptions of once living beings. Maybe the reason they appear weaker is that they embody more traditional vampiric folklore, and are vulnerable to crosses and faith. But they were much more deadly overall, as they wiped out a town of around 300 people in just a few weeks, and that was without the cover of a polar darkness.

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The setting and stories are different, as are the motivations of the vampires (in 30DON they want to remain folklore mysteries, in SL they want to take over the world) but as an immediate threat the 30DON ones are much more powerful, ferocious, malevolent, and look a hundred times more disturbing.

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I never really got that the 30DoN ones were that powerful. It took them forever just to kill a few dozen people. The Salem’s Lot vampires wiped out entire towns. Far more deadly. Tbh the 30DoN ones were just pseudo-zombies that were easily defeated by firearms. A lot more difficult to fight vamps when you’re relying on crosses and garlic.

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No, it took the 30DON vampires moments to genocide virtually the whole town, then they picked off those that managed to hide over the following weeks.

It took the weaker Salem’s Lot vampires longer, plus their goals were different - in Salem’s they were trying to infect others and gradually take over the world, 30DON was a feeding frenzy with a strict time limit.

Crosses and garlic are piss-easy to use, heavy firearms and machinery are not, plus the only way to match the super-strength of the vampires was for Eben to become one himself. A far cry from the weak, slow vampires of Salem’s.

You seem to have barely understood these films, you’re hilariously wrong about almost every aspect you comment on 🤣

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It took the emo-vamps a month to kill a few dozen people, and that was with the total cover of darkness. The Salem’s Lot ones were twice as efficient without any of that.

It took the weaker Salem’s Lot vampires longer,

2 guys killed almost 400 people, probably more in barely any time. You have no clue.

Crosses and garlic are piss-easy to use, heavy firearms and machinery are not,

LoL, you think having to put your faith into a pair of wooden sticks to repel a demonic entity or stake through the heart are easier than shooting a gun? Especially when....
A far cry from the weak, slow vampires of Salem’s.

Salem’s Lot vampires are immune to firearms, unless they’re shouting silver. Those idiots in Alaska wouldn’t last, they didn’t even have a priest.
You seem to have barely understood these films

Ironic

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I always thought the point of it taking a month was so they would not starve by running out of people to drink from? So they killed them slowly.

I haven't watched this movie for a while now so I could be remembering it wrong. I still enjoyed it though :)

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Very good point.

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In the novelization that point was addressed. The survivors came to the same conclusion.

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OK at this point you’re an obvious troll spewing nonsense and you don’t deserve to be fed any more of the attention you crave, but I want to be fair so here’s what we’ll do...

If anyone thinks that ‘Minirogerebert’ has made a remotely valid point or convincingly challenged any of my arguments in this discussion, then quote it, explain why you think it’s valid, and I’ll be happy address it.

This invitation doesn’t extend to you, of course, ‘Minirogerebert’, but let’s hope someone out there thinks you’re not totally full of shit 🤞🏻

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And in modern parlance, that’s what we call “rage quitting.”

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Dry your tears troll, if there’s anything remotely legit in your posts then someone will quote it. Here’s hoping 🤞🏻

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I didn’t realize you need someone else to fight your own battles for you. Does your mummy still tuck you in at night?

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Nice try troll. Don’t worry - if you’ve made any points worth ‘fighting’ someone will raise them 👍🏻👍🏻

Oh yeah, anything you write in this thread from now on, regardless of the text, will be taken as an admission of defeat and an apology for your trolling.

I await your apology...

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Ah jeez I’m really sorry you had to run away from the debate like a little coward and wait for your white Knight to save you. I hope you accept my sincerest sympathies.

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Apology accepted.

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Like I said, they act like creatures designed for a horror movie, does nothing for me.

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Check the Laura Caxton series by David Wellington

https://www.goodreads.com/series/41784-laura-caxton

Besides being extremely well written, you have vampires that are extremely dangerous, lethal, and what's more: they behave like intelligent predators.

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So.... a creature in a horror movie is acting like a creature in a horror movie? Whats the problem again?

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It's silly. Imagine a serious nature show where the tigers are cartoons and sell cereal because all the scriptwriter knows of tigers is from Frosted Flakes commercials. You would see that and think it was dumb, funny maybe, but you wouldn't respect it. The vampires in 30 Days of Night are mimicking B horror movie monsters, the kind made for kids.

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They havent "become" seductive, romantic or sympathetic. Vampires in modern mythology came about in victorian era during the sex repression culture and became specifically expression of sexuality. The "turning" is an allegory to loosing virginity.

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They havent "become" seductive, romantic or sympathetic.


Culturally they had, which is what I said.


and became specifically expression of sexuality. The "turning" is an allegory to loosing virginity.


🤣

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I am a big fan of the comics and decided to skip the movie.
But according to the original comic book the vamps who attacked the town were a bunch of idiots who just went full blood-orgy like a pack of junkies.

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Perhaps the script was good, but the drawing was unbearable. It's one of the worst drawings I've seen in a comic.

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I guess the movie was faithful to the comic.

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They ARE creatures in a horror movie.

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And never let you forget it.

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