quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: On vampires, I recently read Stephen King's "Salem's Lot", which is pretty much the opposite of that. Nothing pretty here, just pure horror and the terrifying use of one vampire in a small town. Its what I consider to be vampire fiction at its very best,
Stephen Kings DARK TOWER SPOILER ALERT
The priest from Salem's Lot reappears and the vampires are explained.
I know . "Wolves of the Calla" - the sequence where Father Callahan explains his life after Salem's Lot is fantastic and incredibly creepy yet moving.
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Bah, it's become too 'cool' to loathe vampires. I rebel against the new conformity and like them again!
Although creepy Creature from the Black Lagoon* fishmen could be awesome too, perhaps with an Innsmouth look half-human/half-fishman storyline about a scary village by the sea...
*Not to be mistaken with the Creature from the Blue Lagoon, which is Brooke Shields.
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SK, I've seen so many people "proflied" on LJ's plagiarism watch page lately that it makes my head hurt.
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...being preached at, and "educated". Does Ibm really think that if they run enough commercials, I'll believe they give a rats behind about a "smart" planet. Here's a hint, people, every time you think you've gone one up on Mother Nature, it just means you've effed something else up somewhere else. You don't see it right away, but its always there.
Your hybrid cars. Hey, did ya'll actually SEE the report that says your emissions may actually hold in more heat than the carbon emissions from the fossil fuels?
Hey, LA, green wannabee capital...where do you get your water from? Oh, thats right, you BOUGHT A FREAKIN' RIVER AND DECIMATED MILLIONS OF SQUARE MILES OF NATURAL LAND.
Just spare me the bs and shut the hell up. Tell you what, I'll be open to your "education" when you actually do good for the earth instead of trying to out think it and setting off chain reactions whose consequences are yet to be fully realized.
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Well, ya! Go rickshaw1! (You know that your name is a human go-cart, right?)
Anyway . . . I'm TIRED of just about EVERYTHING!
. . . especially being cool or NOT cool!
But I never really get supertired of vampires, totally, just SOME vampires.
Terry Pratchette writes about vampires, sometimes as supporting characters, sometimes as the 'stars'.
He wrote a wonderful story starring his Weird Sisters where Granny Weatherwax, Esme, did the most incredible and surprising thing to defeat them (the vampires!) I didn't see it coming and I almost always know what's coming in books and movies/TV.
(I'm even a little tired of Terry, though, and am having a terrible time getting through his last 2 books. sigh
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Yeah, she Weatherwaxed'em. I haven't read the Nations book, being a discworld fan, but from what I read, he may be having a terrible time getting through them as well. He has early onset of Alsheimer.
Terrys' stuff on vamps, no problem. the rest out there, though. Ugggh. Enough.
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I'm totally against deflecting bullets with a sword. Come on.
X-Men Origins: wolverine. A friend of mine loved it. I hated it. He said it doesn't have to be like the comics. I agree, but at least they could write a GOOD story. This pissed him off...
And the Walking Dead doesn't really mix anything up for the zombie world. Romero's always been about human drama, just on a smaller scale than Walking Dead. And the zombies are run-of-the-mill, which I like. I hate the runners, and the lion-roarers.
And if you want something new and creative? I just watched Trick 'r Treat on DVD. They do a form of werewolves in there whose transformations are unlike anything I've ever seen. You really should see it to believe it. I loved it.
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I'll check it out. My wife has been on a horror and star trek kick lately...although I've seen so much of both lately they ARE starting to...merge. *sorry, typing like Shat speaks...its....addictive.
Ohhhhhh. Just had a great Idea for a horror movie.
Creatures of the night take revenge for humans everywhere by killing and eating....hollywood blowhards. Not just one or two blist actors, but lots of them. Except for paris hilton, of course. No telling what diseases some poor ravening creature might come up with from her blood.
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That's the problem with a lot of scifi stories, stations and fans, they 'merge' the scifi with horror.
They are NOT the same genre!!!!!!!!!!
I just hate it when horror is all you find. (Deep breath.)
And that's why I'm hating 'Blackest Night'! All it is, is killing, mutilating, monsters and death. I don't care what the story is, I only know that the horror part is the all important goal. Ugh!
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And now more freakin' vampires. First, there's "maybe I'm gay, maybe I'm not...I did win an oscar you know" chick from xmen acting like all the other desperate for attention hollywood starlets to promote her vampire show, and now once again I have to endure endless promo's for the positively worst tweeney garbage ever filmed for twilight. My wife has played the second one incessantly. If that chick screams and cries on the bed again I'm gonna fly to hollywood and give her a dang reason to scream. Termites in her luxury pad, dents on her expensive car...shoot all the plastic surgeons...
My kid was screamin and cryin' and acting like those damn fools on the home makeover shows that go into hysterics I'd put her outta my misery, to hell with hers. Have a pill and a slap and shut the hell up!
Ahhhh.
Now, I think I'll go get some Ice tea and watch a baseball game.
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cleome46
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...price hikes for everything. Comic books, bus fare, you name it.
My wages, such as they are, never rise. It's just everything else that does.
Grrr...
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quote:Originally posted by rickshaw1: And now more freakin' vampires. First, there's "maybe I'm gay, maybe I'm not...I did win an oscar you know" chick from xmen acting like all the other desperate for attention hollywood starlets to promote her vampire show,
I think the correct term for people like Anna Paquin is 'bisexual', Rick.
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