Vampire Movies

How many people have to create vampire movies these days? Is this a movie producers goth fetish that he has to portray? Currently there is one new one on the "In Demand" portion of the cable company called "Way of the Vampire." Now let us be realistic here for one minuet. Do actual vampires exsist? Have they ever? How many movies need to be made to make the story come across? Let us look at some of the vampire movies that have hit the big screens just in the last 20 years. There was and correct me if I am wrong, this is just going off the top of my head:

• Lost Boys
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Dracula
• Interview with a Vampire
• Blade Trilogy
• Embrace the Vampire
• Van Helsing
• Underworld

These are just some of the ones that I see in my movie collection. Now doing a keyword search through the Internet Movie DataBase I notice that there are 673 movies and television shows featuring vampires in the plot. One movie catching me by surprise that I never seen or even heard of is Blood Games. Now this movie is an independent movie and has a crazy plot. A group of people are role playing as vampires and do not realize that real vampires are playing among them. Can you say "What the ____?"

Another uniquie movie I saw the other night is called Vlad. This one has a vampire who is supposedly the original Dracula who traveled through time to get back a necklace that was rightfully his. Of all these movies and of the original Bram Stroker novel, only one movie comes close to the only tale of vampires and their weeknesses and that is Dracula with Mr "Surf's up, Dude!" Keanu Reeves.

Now as I am going through and hyperlinking all the main points in this blog, I notice that one actress who plays in more then one different Vampire movie is currently in production for a Third vampire movie. Wierd is not really the word I would use for someone who makes more then one vampire movie because when you look at Wesley Snipes here, he did three of them, but he played the same character in all three. Kate Beckinsale has currently played in two different Vampire movies, with a third one in post production. The fact that she played in two different styles and portrayals of vampires leads one to believe that she in fact has a fetish for vampires. Then again maybe not.

So as I look at these movies, notice the difference between thier plots, the flaws in their techniques in the So called truth of the vampires, and also many of the horrible filming of them, I begin to wonder, how much more is hollywood going to put us through to entertain us with knowledge of vampires?