Despite current popularity for extreme slasher and zombie horror movies, I have chosen to create the opening of a vampire film. This is because vampire horror has been popular since the silent era with the most common depiction being that of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which has generated 170 versions to date. Though typically a horror character, vampires are also seen in science fiction, romance, comedy and fantasy films.
In a traditional vampire movie, usually about Dracula, commonly seen elements are a pale, never aging male that sleeps through the day and is repelled by holy items, silver and garlic. He never eats and sleeps in a coffin. With the exception of a few films such as 30 Days of Night and Salem’s Lot, vampires are perceived as the most sexual of the mythical horror monsters. Because of this common conception, most vampires, especially female ones, either seduce or mesmerise their victims, as seen in Francis Ford Coppola’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). Subsequently I will have my vampires act seductively and mesmerise her victim. As shown in this clip, the female vampire has an unearthly beauty that renders the mind of her victim incapable of anything except obeying her wishes.
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