sh*t vampire stories
 

i hate it when in stories/ films vampires have no fangs!

its a classic vampire tradition!

I hate when people don't post introductions, even after having been asked nicely.

Adherence to tradition is not conducive to creativity.

Is this thread about anything specific?

After all i can not recall having read a v-story without fangs being mentioned Oo

But are you complaining about a specific book? Would you give us the title, probably a whole statement...

You pretentious snob... I love you.

Ouch..... burn.

How can a vampire story exist without fangs!?, if not, they would die.

Maybe they use ritual knives to cut the major arteries of their victims, and then sip the blood, and lick it off the skin, rather than biting brutally and drinking deeply...

Bleh, I hate the modern aristocratic and/or chic look of the vampire more than anything.

Bah, yall know how I feel about vampires. I don't like them much.

The Lost Boys;

All Vampires should just have mullets.
;)

Dude, the vampires in the Lost Boys had fangs proper-stylez. One of them bites through the SKULL of a surf nazi, remember?

Drake

Apparently Chinese vampires have their fangs on their two front teeth. And if that doesn't make them look enough like rabbits, they're all stiff from rigour mortis, so they hop around.

well there was darren shan series no fnags in that

and a film i think was called the hunger had no fangs in that

ive also read loads of others

What, exactly, is so goddamn hard about introducing yourself?

There are plenty of excellent stories with vampiric elements and without fangs. Edgar A. Poe's story "The Oval Portrait" is a fine example, where an artist begins creating a portrait of his blushing bride and ends up inadvertently siphoning off her life essence to feed his creative fervor. Another would be H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shunned House." They do exist, but you have to put down the slash fiction and look to the classics.

Not that slash fiction isn't fun. We all love a good spot of gratuitous sex and senseless violence, now and again.

What makes fangs so important? There was no real "tradition" of fangs. In fact, not in the original Gothic Novels were vampires describing with fangs, they used "sinking teeth into" with bloody mouths as a sort of seducitve pharse, but never really fangs as I recall. And again, in cinema, all the original vampire films: Nosferatu, Dracula (1931), etc. there were no fangs. Fangs have just become an added fun and pleasure for the vampiric look, singeling them out from other supernatural beings. The first vampire film without fangs was the classic "Draucla" Hammer film in which Christopher Lee's flamming mouth was a set full of fangs. Afterwords this became a trademark. I think a vampire should be judged on the charecter. Here, crappy vampire depictions portray vampires that:
-Don't, in anyway, refer to their sexuality or the philopshy of eroticism
-Have no sense of poetic justice (acts more like a regular person or closted pedophile than a vampire)
-Are half-robots.
-Are treated entirely based on legend (not talking about the victorian literaute, but the new wave of vampire stories)

Lucy only had two red dots in her net. Ergo, needle-like teeth.

Ok, thanks for clarifying that for me-I should look back into the book.

Referring to theradicalviper thought on "The Hunger", I'd have to say that the hunger was meant to be like that. It was a film that denounced the normal cliche element of vampires, it was given with more a gothic Egyptian outlook than it was a traditional one.

Face it, the vast majority of vampire based media is utter shit any way. All this pretty people bollox. Fact of the matter is, the idea behind vampires is a fable based around prostitutes. And for once, this is not Tha Duckman rambling.
Think about it. Vampires, people of the night, they bite you, you contract what is essentially a virus and end up undead.
Prostitutes, people of the night, they fuck you, you end up with a disease, and you wind up dead.
The stories we all know so well came about during the period in time where prostitution induced VD's were rife. Vampires were peoples way of keeping others off the streets at night.

End transmission.

I disagree. Vampire Fiction is more than just being based on hooker expireneces (though it is inspired by philosophies of sexuality). How can you shut off great works of fiction like Polidori, Stoker, etc.? The fable has more supernatural elements then just getting fucked by some skank cunt. Oh, wait, there's much more for inspiration than prostitutes...Hmmm...does Vlad The Impaler Come to mind?

No one said that ALL vampire stories fit under this generalization.

Just a lot of them.

Vive la difference!

;)

Well, I don't think it should be refferred to as "utter shit" anyway.

Don't be a turd.