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The whole vampire concept gets stuck between a loathsome parasite and some strange sort of Victorian-era metaphor for sexual slavery. As a loathsome rat-like parasite, which is much closer to the pre-Stoker, nightmare myth concept of a vampire, I don't think anybody has gotten it better than Nosferatu, all the way back from the Weimar Republic period silents.
On the other side, the sighing, breast-heaving, sexual slavery, Victorian period vampire has never been done better than Bram Stoker's Dracula, which just substitutes fangs for another part of the male anatomy. If you read Stoker's book, the movie is an amped-up version of the book. Recent-decade viewers are so soaked in sexual imagery that we forget how strange all that must have seemed in Victorian England and you'd need to make it more explicit to catch viewers in our era.
As for motorcycle vampires, vampires on Mars, etc, those all seem like the down-side of the vampire movie cycle. Were they not so overused, the Twilight movies might work because they at least prey on hormone heavy teen angst rather than blood sucking motorcycle gangs.
Last edited by skizzerflake; 10-08-20 at 02:27 PM.