Comments on: Feel the burn

By: medusamorlock

medusamorlock — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:25:34 +0000

You’d also enjoy the quite dramatic and beautiful immolation of Godric in HBO’s “True Blood” Season Two. Really hated to see him go!

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:52:58 +0000

Chan-wook Park’s “Thirst” has a darkly funny, toasty finale.

By: Suzi

Suzi — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:40:53 +0000

I prefer my vampires to burn in sunlight, too. Even in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, they toasted in the rays. And, I kind of liked the smoking effect in NEAR DARK before they burned.

By: Appoggiatura

Appoggiatura — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:48:25 +0000

This is a nice exploration of flaming vampires, and I think a discussion on staking is needed. However, the question that has piqued my mind is this: how many different treatments are out of there of vampires tolerating the sun? Clearly, there’s the Twilight sparkle effect, which might be the worst aspect of those movies – even beyond the brooding teenagers and angst-ridden dialogue. I’d love to explore what the sun-tolerance is.

By: wilbur twinhorse

wilbur twinhorse — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:39:49 +0000

Interesting dynamic here at TCM blogland…seems to be driven by the Asylum instead of the lunatics! Whatever…Keep on Truckin’. I enjoyed Tom Waits as the buggy guy in FFC’s BSD. Renfrew rules!

By: Bob Gutowski

Bob Gutowski — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:02:26 +0000

Armand (Lugosi) Tesla’s fate is rather jolting; a quick cut to his melted, tallow-like face seems to me more out of character in that odd not-a-Universal-film-but-wanna-be than any of the more calculatedly disturbing moments in LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. In addition (and as I’ve written elsewhere) heroine Freida Inescourt’s late middle-age make-up, dark, dark smudges under her eyes and cheekbones, makes her look instead like she’s come down with a bad case of German Expressionism.

I also seem to recall that Nosfer-Kinski’s eyes go blank-white when he dies, leaving him eerily and charmingly resembling a Gahan Wilson cartoon.

Late “fang” note – in the original SALEM’S LOT mini-series, how is that Barlow, a Schreck look-alike with his rat-like two front teeth, can produce vampires with the traditional enlarged canines? Hmm?

By: BobG

BobG — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:38:34 +0000

Don’t forget that Armand Tesla’s face does melt, somewhat alarmingly, for this rather stately black and white Universal wanna-be. I a

By: rhsmith

rhsmith — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:48:09 +0000

I actually don’t loathe The Lost Boys – it’s just not my kind of vampire movie. It really does mark the sea change in the subgenre, though, between content and spectacle and for that it annoys me and I kind of resent it… but hatred would be putting it too strongly.

You’ve got me thinking about another blog post devoted to staking the vampire… and you’ve only yourself to blame!

By: moirafinnie

moirafinnie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:58:16 +0000

Gee, you really did weave another entire blog out of Drac's aversion to Vitamin D. I'm impressed, and quite grateful for two things: 1.) That I haven't seen the more gruesome-sounding immolation of movie vampires. 2.) That you reminded me of Innocent Blood (1992), which may be one of the few vampire flicks set in wintry Pittsburgh and featuring the Undead vs the Mafia. Wish that La Femme Nikita star Anne Parillaud had made more ~~trash~~, er, entertainments like this--even if I did have to look away alot! Hey, you really loathe The Lost Boys (1987), don't you? You've inveighed against its deviations from vampire orthodoxy more than once now. Maybe the Morlocks should take turns giving each other ideas for blogs? Thanks for this enjoyable analysis, RHS. Moira