Comments | canyon_lady: Vampires vs. zombies

canyon_lady

Vampires vs. zombies

Aug 22, 2007 17:19

Funny observations brought to you post GenCon. During the 90's, vampires were hot. We had vampire movies, vampire books, and Vampire: The Masquerade took over the gaming world.

This year, the post-con report says that the Vampire players have all but vanished from the halls. And whitefjords mentioned a new game that he is excited about to me today: ( Read more... )

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God God. I can talk about Cinema. ntorioushamstr August 23 2007, 00:39:09 UTC

My random thoughts to this post ( ... )

Re: God God. I can talk about Cinema. canyon_lady August 23 2007, 02:46:52 UTC

I should actually make a list or something, rather than just waving my hands, huh? Like, textual evidence, omg!

Maybe everyone did just get sick of vampires--but I want to read reasons into 28 days later, Shawn of the Dead, etc becoming hits. It just seems like zombies are a strong social trend right now (see also recent JCPenney's add with zombie clothing attacking children and giving them back to school fashion!).

In some ways, they are two sides of the same coin. Zombies are the fear--being a cog in the machine. Vampires are the escape fantasy--the glamorous ultimate individuals.

Re: GOOD God. I can talk about Cinema. ntorioushamstr August 23 2007, 17:33:10 UTC

I like your conclusion. The psychology of horror movies fascinate me-- one of my favorite classes at Mac was on this subject ( ... )

Re: God God. I can talk about Cinema. canyon_lady August 23 2007, 02:55:45 UTC

Hmmm. Possibly I am full of shit (but we knew that). Two seconds of actual google searching reveals:
1) that there are a whole lot of vampire, and especially zombie movies out there.

2) Vampire movies aren't necessarily dead, although they do not seem to be water cooler conversation as often.

3) There are enough movies that one could really run some numbers over time if one WANTED to. And didn't want to work on one's dissertation. Hmmm...

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rhobike August 23 2007, 04:48:49 UTC

There's The Zombie Survival Guide, a friend of mine has it. It's a humorous guide to surviving on the run. I bet some of the info would come in handy in various real-life nonzombie situations. I feel that I could own or read that book without fear of my friends thinking I'm a wacko survivalist.

canyon_lady August 23 2007, 21:53:37 UTC

Oh, I've seen that! It is a pretty cool book, and you could definitely own it without being considered a wacko survivalist.