Know Your Vampires

A helpful chart depicting most popular vampires from movies and television.

 1. The Cereal Killer - Count Chocula
2. The Silent One - Nosferatu
3. The Mom - Lily Munster
4. The One That Didn't Get Interviewed - Lestat De Lioncourt
5. The Werewolf Hunter - Selene from Underworld
6. The Classic - Bela Legosi
7. The One To Be Slayed - Spike from Buffy
8. The Mathematician - The Count
9. The Boy That Is Lost - David from The Lost Boys
10. The Southern Gentleman - Bill from True Blood
11. The Half-Breed Assassin - Blade
12. The Sparkly One - Edward

Movie - Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

Saya after intro fight

In 1970, the four hundred year-old skilled samurai Saya is sent to the Kanto High School in an American military base in Tokyo by the Council, a secret society that has been hunting vampires for centuries. Saya has the appearance of a teenager but is the tormented half-breed creature with the soul of her human father and the powers and need of blood of her vampire mother. She is obsessed to face the powerful demon Onigen that killed her father. In the base, Saya saves Alice McKee, who is the daughter of General McKee and commander of the base, from the attack of several vampires. When General McKee is killed by a member of the Council, Alice runs to the hotel where Saya is lodged. They join forces and go to the countryside to chase Onigen.

Onigen and her Lieutenant 

So Blood: The Last Vampire is a remake of the short film (of the same name) from 2000 and that was based on an anime.

I enjoyed the movie and unique as the directing style is a type I have not had the pleasure of viewing before. Also the antagonists were a creature cross between demons and vampires, drinking blood and eating flesh, rows of sharp teeth, gargoyle transformations and bloodline lineage among the demon/vampires. Mythology of Vampires deriving from Demons is a somewhat common origin theme and I enjoyed this  interpretation of the two being one in the same.

"The Last Vampire" I am curious to learn what this refers to. There were plenty of Vampires in the movie and when asked if there are anymore vampires out there Saya replies "More than you could possibly imagine." Which leaves my question unanswered. Perhaps by the end of the series Saya hunts all the other vampires to extinction, and she would be the Last Vampire even though she's a half-breed, which we've come to learn can always be trusted.

Saya confronting two Vampires posing as students.

Danica Talos

Golly...Danica Talos...Golly

Why did her character have to die at the end of the Blade movie? What is it about her character that is just so cool. The eyes, the fangs, the attitude, the leadership, the hole dang package. Bravo, to be honest I was displeased that she died at the end but I had to happen, her being a vamp and everything, but part of me was hoping she would have a miraculous change of heart or something, join Blade and the humans and she would be given an antidote so she could live on. 

One as a human, because we're all humans after all.

And I have to comment on Danica's brother (blonde guy in suit) and the big guy (the big guy) they were cool. They all made a great dynamical team that I enjoyed following, like villains that you care about. With individual personalities that exceeded classical boundaries.

Blade Trinity

So I just watched Blade:Trinity. About me, I enjoy the vampire genre, movies, television, games, etc. Its good fun and like zombies you can kill tons of'em and never have to worry about someone taking it personally. Well unless you work in the goth store that sells Count Chocula and Dracula lunch boxes, then if Dracula enters its not a good day.

So ya, I think it was a cool movie. I don't know what happened to Wesley Snipes though, he acts like a sociopath in the movies especially in this one when he's in jail and looking around like the walls are talking to him or something, but thats just part of his vampire hybrid persona I suppose. I heard he went to jail in real life for something. I've also heard other celebrities like Paris Hilton I think went to jail for a day for something a regular person would be in for a few months, I wonder if Mr. Snipes got a lightened sentence due to his celebrity. Does fame make people do crazy things, or does the media glorify the story when an idol has a run in with the law? I think it is both.

Anyways, so the movie, I was entertained. Lots of cool slow motion combat scenes and skulls smashing and vamp staking. **Spoiler Alert** It's too bad Dracula dies at the end though. Why is it that every time Dracula is portrayed in a movie or book or what ever that he has to die? He is generally thousands of years old and yet he gets killed in every debut. Well there hasn't been any story with Dracula as the hero, he is always the antagonist. Perhaps the anime "Hellsing" the main character and hero is a very powerful vampire that protects humans against the undead evils. But I am unaware of him ever being referred to as Dracula, but to be honest I've never seen more than bits and pieces of the series in all my years.

So back to the movie, lots of fighting, some story tying everything together, more fighting, some funnies and a happy ending just as all modern stories must end.