Can it be that the success of one piece of pseudo-Harlequin Mormon emo-porn is enough to breathe life to all the other vampire products to have arisen since? Probably we'll need the benefit of a few years' remove to call it one way or another. And yet, I'm hesitant to ascribe it to mere imitation. I have no idea what to make of the current vampire trend-I can't figure out where, in the zeitgeist, they're coming from. Twenty-eight days later, humanity is on the verge of extinction and a small group of survivors in London battle other survivors while avoiding the deadly virus. ![]() Those infected with the virus develop uncontrollable fits of killing rage. The zombies of the naughties, both the omnipresent threat and mindless group-fear of a collectively paranoid decade. 28 DAYS LATER - A virus is accidentally released from a British research facility. The decadent vampires of the 90s, a culture searching for a new identity post-Cold War and experiment with new movements and paradigms. Werewolves ran wild in the 80s because of the way they echoed the alpha male, greed-is-good predatory mentality of the time. ![]() ![]() And True Blood, the biggest thing in vampires after Twilight, is deliberately sexual, dedicating several episodes to an entire town swept by orgiastic mania.Įvery decade deserves it's monster. The vampires of the nineties were pretty sensual, though not always sexual.
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