Vampire, Week of the Aug 28




I am unsure if Anne Rice knew that she was changing the vampire genre as a whole. She may have seen them in this light or had this idea of them while writing. Her romantic viewing of the formally monsters of the night is interesting.
She has given them a human-like moodiness that they lacked before. Interview with the Vampire is even having an imprint on Children’s movies such as Mom’s got a Date with a Vampire (Boyum) and The Little Vampire (Edel). Both of these films are Disney Channel movies made six years after the Interview with a Vampire film (Boyum). Both involve a human acting vampire who ‘whiner’ about being moral.
The way Anne Rice changed the vampire may have lead to the expansion of vampire children’s media. The vampire is now emotional and self-aware of their relationship to humans. In, Genndy Tartakovsky’s Hotel Transylvania the main vampire family run a hotel for monsters, knowing that humans would not let them walk alongside them.
My first recent vampire film is What We Do in the Shadows by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. (Waititi). The director that interest me the most of the vampire genre is Waititi.
Waititi is a native New Zealander and was raise heavily in that culture. His knowledge of vampires lore is completely as an outsider to the trend. These outsider knowledge directly caused the wiseness of the film he made. They made the evolution of the vampire into different character from monster of the night to normal guy.

What is truly amazing is that the evolution of the genre did not start until Anne Rice wrote her first vampire novel and for the last forty years the vampire has been roaming the minds of the living.
Works Cited
Amirpour, Ana Lily, director. Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. VICE Films, 2000.

Boyum, Steve, director. Mom's Got A Date with a Vampire . Disney- ABC Domestic, 2000.

Edel, Ulli, director. The Little Vampire. New Line Cinema, 2000.

Rice, Anne. Interview with the Vampire. Geffen Pictures, 1994.

Tartakovsky, Genndy, director. Hotel Transylvania. Columbia Pictures, 2000.

Waititi, Taika and Jemaine Clement , directors. What We Do in the Shadows. Madman Entertainment.


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