A History of Vampires Vampire Vampires, to remain immortal, were fed human blood nailing getting its teeth into the neck of his victims to suck the precious liquid from the artery. And again and again, until the unfortunate "donor" is going to die and become weaker, in turn, another vampire.
sprinkling holy water, put crucifixes and strings of garlic or exposed to daylight were the only weapons to ward off these terrible beings. But what were the events that led to its legend?. In this extraordinary document you will find everything related to vampires both adaptations of literary, film and history from Vlad Tepes and Bram Stoker to Bela Lugosi and Tom Cruise.
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It could be argued that the vampires are part of the interior landscape of the human being. They are, without doubt, a universal archetype, which is closely linked to the collective unconscious.
appear in many different forms but usually with a series of esclofriantes common features in all the cultural traditions of East and West.
ghosts and ectoplasm is not vindictive, but real beasts of the night compared to bats, rats, wolves ...
feed on the blood of the living and their bite usually infects the victim with the same syndrome vampire. Although there is a vampire really endless variety, with distinctive differences by region of origin, the fact is that in most cases from all the world of evil and demonic in the strict sense. That is, despite being revenants and not killed, not about ghosts or zombies, but of creatures associated with traditional demonology. Lost souls and turned over to Satan and even lower-order hell.
In this sense the vampire folklore, which extends its domain from Ancient Greece and the East to settle in Central Europe, a melting pot which lights the Nosferatu, the true origin of the modern vampire, is but a close relative of the ogres, djinn , ghouls, devas and lamias of ancient and arcane traditions.
Vampire His physical appearance is generally repulsive and has much in common with devils, witches and demons of a lower order: full lips, sharp teeth, bald head and sharp, foul breath ...
A traditional image that the film has collected only by Murnau's Nosferatu and its subsequent revisions. An image that has little to do with the modern vampire, that from Bram Stoker's Dracula has become an important cultural icon more than evident.
But how this creature became repulsive and evil in the elegant to be of evil and wickedness that is fascinating and fascinated readers of all ages and sexes?
The vampire as we know it is not this creature belongs to bestiaro fantastic. When we talk about vampires the image that comes to mind is very clear: a tall, elegant, handsome, sophisticated and perverse. His attributes are no longer those of the old Nosferatu but the opposite. Of course to maintain its ability terrifying and evil, can become something horrible when you want. Bram Stoker
But their natural beauty is dressed in black. The coat, hat and long hair perhaps shaken by the wind. So much so that even the seminal classic Stoker, Dracula, published in 1897, has been the victim of this image. Any fan knows that Count written by Bram Stoker vampire far from the underworld dandy just recall.
Certainly, the Irish writer has much of the blame associated with her vampire as a stout aristocracy, that of Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian voivod and gave some characteristics of sophistication and elegance that contributed to the image of the modern vampire.
But it's easy to forget that Stoker had numerous animal and demonic qualities in his character.
The modern vampire is brewing right in Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution.
When published in 1819 the short story The Vampyre by John William Polidori (although at first attributed to Lord Byron) becomes Lord Ruthven up (character in the story of his secretary) is more than evident. And it is clear that Lord Byron, bigger than life itself, embodied in turn the Faustian ideal of romanticism and loosed Luciferian.
The modern vampire is the son of that time and is a demonic character and elegant moves lounges and parties at night. He is the son of absinthe, opium and syphilis. He is brother to suicide and womanizer poetaster predator, is a cousin of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde and idol of perversity to the decadent and excessive imagination of the greatest exponents of Romantic and post-Romantic literature, or German as Hoffman Tieck, Gautier or Baudelaire French and Anglo-Saxon as Edgar Allan Poe, Le Fanu, Stoker Rymer or ... Lamia
Few things were so disturbing to Victorian society as the woman-vampire.
addition, the vampire (femme fatale) not only fed the man, who leaves you exhausted and dying, as you know the young protagonist of Goethe's beautiful ballad, The Bride of Corinth in 1797 (which later inspired some of the best sites and visions of Robbe-Grillet film) but, most of hororres can dispense with it altogether.
The vampire, from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and published in 1871, has a sapphic character that contributes to their component threatening and night.
A bunch of vampires from all walks and style can be found in the anthology Vamps. The blood-sucking provides a gallery of beautiful female critters from Gautier to Stephen King.
And, if the model for Bram Stoker's Dracula was Vlad Tepes, much more appropriate for the woman is the vampire Countess Elizabeth Bathory Carpathian beautiful sixteenth-century nobleman who used to bathe in the blood of girls and young girls and that was the subject of an excellent biography by Valentine Penrose titled The Bloody Countess. Vlad Tepes
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existed in the fifteenth century, people of Valakia (now a region of Romania> lived years of terror during the reign of Prince Vlad Bassarab also known as Vlad Tepes. His thirst for blood and his penchant for torturing the villagers earned him the nickname Drakul, which means in Romanian devil. The extreme cruelty caused at least 50,000 dead. No wonder, then, that this "monster" serve as inspiration for the Dracula legend, the sinister vampire Count.
The writer Bram Stoker was immortalized in a famous novel universal, which have been numerous versions of the film and literature.
Elizabeth Bathory The Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory
The aristocrat may have tortured and killed some six hundred girls in the murky bowels of the castle Csejthe. While his most loyal henchmen tormented the hapless maidens, Countess watched, falling, sometimes accompanied by a state of trance, they say, multiple orgasms. Unmasked by a tribunal of the Inquisition, was walled alive on stage of their butchers.
Valentine Penrose made a terrifying historical study of the character in his book The Bloody Countess that you can find in the editorial Siruela in our collection of lidless eye.
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There have been many films made about vampirism although few have tried it with success.
Here we show the list, in chronological order, of the movies that captivated us most about the world of Vampire:
# Nosferatu, the Vampire (1922) of FWMurnau
# Dracula (1931) by Tod Browning
# Mark of the Vampire (1935) by Tod Browning
# The daughter of Dracula (1936) by Lambert Hillyer
# Dracula (1958) by Terence Fisher
# The Witch Vampire Carl Theodor Dreyer
# I vampiri of Ricardo Freda
# Dies Irae of Carl Theodor Dreyer
# The Brides of Dracula (1960) by Terence Fisher
# Kiss of the Vampire (1962) by Don Sharp
# M, the Vampire of Düsseldorf by Fritz Lang
# Dr Terror's House of Horrors (Dr. Terror) (1965) Freddie Francis
# The Fearless Vampire Killers (Dance of the Vampires) ( 1967) Roman Polasnki
# Count Dracula (1969) Jesus Franco
# Twins of John Hough
# The Vampire Lovers (1970) by Roy Ward Baker
# The House That Dripper blood (the abode of the crimes ) (1970) by Peter Duffell
# Dracula Against Frankenstein (1971) Jesus Franco
# The return of the vampire by Lew Landers
# Lust for a Vampire (1971) by Jimmy Sangster
# The bloody bride (1972) Vicente Aranda
# Kronos (1973) by Brian Clemens
# The Near Dark (1987) by Kathryn Bigelow
# Bram Stoker's Dracula (1991) by Francis Ford Coppola
# Interview with the Vampire (1994) by Neil Jordan
# Shadow of the Vampire (2000) of E. Elias Merhige
Source:
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