The Bloody Good Time Of Vampire Shows And Movies

It seems as if everywhere you go today, you can’t escape the fantastic world of vampires. Whether it’s at the movies with overly dramatic love stories about shiny vampires (“Twilight” and its sequel “New Moon”), or on TV with “The Vampire Diaries” (which is like “Gossip Girl” meets “Nosferatu") and the 'so hot it’ll burn you or confuse the heck out of you' soap opera of “True Blood", it’s an inescapable fact that we as a public have sunk our fangs into the vampire genre and will drain it for all it’s worth.

Vampires offer the viewing public a chance to turn off their brains and lose themselves to the pale skinned brethren who they equate with snack food. Another reason we love us some vampires is that we as people, despite our developments in everything from technology to social equality, are essentially nothing more than raccoons who hop from one cultural shiny object to the next. That’s not a bad thing, just something we do. Recently it was zombies and when that no longer ate away at our down time, we moved on to something else that goes bump in the night. Lastly, we undoubtedly love vampires because there is something alluring about them. Sure, they suck blood, sleep in coffins or underground and burst into flames at the dawning of even a single ray of sunshine, but for many people who drool over Robert Pattinson and company, being a corpse beats working at Dairy Queen.

Whether or not vampires continue to stay the focus of our rabid obsession for much longer is really irrelevant. What is important is that these films and series are a form of entertainment that keep us amused and entertained, even if albeit briefly. They let us dream and let our minds wander and they keep us from realizing just how badly things can suck. Now, speaking personally, I find this whole vampire thing goofy as all get out, but I am not in the right demographic these days!