I'm in Barnes & Noble yesterday and I swear to god there is a whole section titled (with an officially printed sign!): Teen Paranormal Romance.
So, yeah, vampires are ruined.
On the other hand why did they have to be replaced with the 2nd borningest monster (Number 1 goes to the Mummy) in the horror catalogue? I guess we needed a monster teen girls and emo kids wouldn't go gooey over and Mummies being ancient Egyptian royalty were too big a risk.
Does it matter if it's a Zombie that gets bitten by a Vampire, or a Vampire that gets bitten by a Zombie?
Well according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul one has similarities to both zombie and vampire,but doesnt really specify if they are created by either.For some reason I thought they were made by vampires probably from the movie Blade and the anime series Hellsing hehe.
The Arabian ghoul is a desert-dwelling, shape shifting demon that can assume the guise of an animal, especially a hyena. It lures unwary travellers into the desert wastes to slay and devour them. The creature also preys on young children, robs graves, drinks blood, steals coins and eats the dead,[5] taking on the form of the one they previously ate.
How about Dresdenverse zombies? As Harry Dresden says (verbatim) What kind of necromancer would waste time summoning a slow witted shambling zombie? Zombies are supernaturally fast and strong.
Zombies impart a fear that vampires cannot for me. Seems like every recent portrayal of vampires has been in a very homoerotic way, in the last 25 year I cannot honestly say there has been more then one real "Badass" vampire, and that was Valek in John Carpenters Vampires.
With this teen angst crap that is being force fed to us as of late, I see a growing trend of the more and more femine and gayish vampire continuing to surface, until the genre is dead.
Zombies on the other hand invoke more realism, from the ideas of a man made "rage" virus to the Solanum virus in Max Brooks novel World War Z. When the virus spreads it is an all out war on the immune system, thus sparking a global epidemic, sweeping the lands with frothing hungry walkers.
This to me is ten times scarier then a fruitty vampire coming and nibbling at my neck for my precious red nectar. Zombies will do more then nibble, they will rip you to shreds leaving nothing but viscera and bone, and move on to the next victim until there is nothing left to feed upon.
Zombies win by landslide.
Depends on where you look and what you read... if you read scarier adaptations of vampires your opinion would change.
Zombies impart a fear that vampires cannot for me. Seems like every recent portrayal of vampires has been in a very homoerotic way, in the last 25 year I cannot honestly say there has been more then one real "Badass" vampire, and that was Valek in John Carpenters Vampires.
With this teen angst crap that is being force fed to us as of late, I see a growing trend of the more and more femine and gayish vampire continuing to surface, until the genre is dead.
Zombies on the other hand invoke more realism, from the ideas of a man made "rage" virus to the Solanum virus in Max Brooks novel World War Z. When the virus spreads it is an all out war on the immune system, thus sparking a global epidemic, sweeping the lands with frothing hungry walkers.
This to me is ten times scarier then a fruitty vampire coming and nibbling at my neck for my precious red nectar. Zombies will do more then nibble, they will rip you to shreds leaving nothing but viscera and bone, and move on to the next victim until there is nothing left to feed upon.
Zombies win by landslide.
Depends on where you look and what you read... if you read scarier adaptations of vampires your opinion would change.
Depends on where you look and what you read... if you read scarier adaptations of zombies your opinion would change.
Meh, just because some "recent" movies/books portray vampires as <insert your opinion here > doesn't mean that they all have to be that way.
Vampires are stylish, cool, great fashion sense, even if you are Nosferatu, and can still go to the store and buy something with the best of 'em.
zombies are fun to blow up but they smell, are lucky if they "only" have a rash, can go to the store but not much on the ordering and generally have a more lived in look.
So "yes" I love killing zombies on Wine, popcorn and Zombie killkng night (yes, this is something I do most every week) but if I'm playing a character I think I will go Vampire.
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Being raised in a old fashioned Polish family I can remember hearing the old stories to scare children. For us vampires and zombies were just about the same thing. There were only undead, and spirits; and spirits were the nastier of the two. The scariest version of our vampire stories I ever heard and the one that kept me up at night, not to mention concerned what my brother was doing in the bunk below me was about the strzyga.
Strzyga were children born with two souls, one good and one evil. If the child died young before the good soul was able to defeat the bad then he turned into a Strzyga. These little Vamp/Zombies would attack people and tear out their bellys and eat their way to the persons heart in order to consume their soul.
The way Vampires are described in the articles is the same for Zombies, girls generally like Twilight because the more aesthetic/attractive aspects to vampires and the boys like Zombies because the more disgusting appearance and squishy sound they make when killed suits the male psyche more.
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Er...I'd vote for the hot vampire chicks personally.
Ever see a chubby vampire? Hell no, they're all smoking hot. Selective Biting at work.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
Er...I'd vote for the hot vampire chicks personally.
Ever see a chubby vampire? Hell no, they're all smoking hot. Selective Biting at work.
Yep...Pearl, in the first Blade movie. Pearl was so grossly obese, he/she/it looked like a giant pancake (albeit, with fangs), just laying there, taking care of the vampire nation's communications network. It was hilarious to watch Blade roast Pearl with a powerful, poratble UV lamp.
I dated a girl who would disagree with the point of this entire article. Not only does she think zombies are sexy, but has a "sexy zombie" tatoo. Despite being obsessed with Juicy Couture and a bunch of other girly sh** you normally associate with orange skinned, fake blond Jersey girls (she is from Ocean County, where Seaside is located) she had this whole zombie fetish. I didn't get it either... If you were wondering, the "sexy zombie" tatoo looked a lot like a female forsaken from WoW even though the only gaming she did was on an iPhone and got pissed off when I made that comparison; so maybe we've already seen the beginning of zombie sexification for a very odd group of people. Hey, necrophilia does exist.
The Vampire is the latest victim of the age of the Participation Trophy. They even took some of the scare out of my favorite creature of the night, werewolves. When I was young Vampires and Werewolves were as real as cats and dogs and when you went home from your buddy's house in the dark you'd better pay attention and haul ass or you'd be the next victim. They were as real as that kid who cried outside in the winter and his face stuck taht way. And if you ever felt your belief waning all you had to do was turn on the TV and Scooby Doo and the 4 O'Clock movie would assure you that such vile and debased creatures existed and were hiding behind every tree waiting to gobble up children. The reason none of my generation was kidnapped and molested was we were so busy and so adept at avoiding Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies and Frankenseins that we were impossible for regular humans to catch.
Now it's all gone. Now anyone can be a vampire. It's easy. Everyone knows Vampires shop at Hot Topic, so just head on over and pick yourself out a pair of chunky black boots and a shirt with buckles. Don't want to leave the house for fear of getting sun on that white skin? No problem. Every other role player in your favorite MMORPG is an angst driven, emo - kid Vampire, so role 'em up and get stuck into it. Nothing is scary, nothing can hurt you and those things that go bump in the night are just friendly spirits watching over you while you sleep.
Yet why would anyone need a friendly ghost to watch over them while they sleep if there is nothing bad out there in the dark? Because, one day, inevitably, those scary monsters will be back. Not the half baked emo - kids, but the true souless flesh craving ghouls that stalked my childhood. In the end we need those terrifying images of the night just like we needed the stalwart and fearless heroes who eventually vanquished them, because when you make the bad guys into the heroes, well then the heroes have to go, and what is this world without the good guys and the bad guys to teach us wrong from right?
They'll be back. Bank on it. And when they come ... well those of us who are adept at avoiding them will have to hold classes on how to keep from becoming a statistic.
I think that you & I came from the same era. Impossible for regular humans to catch. epic ROFL! every bit as funny as anything Coyote said.
Just like there are different types of vampires, there are different types of zombies.
For example, Brian Keene's zombies from his The Rising and City of the Dead books would destroy vampires hands down. They were esentially intelligent demons taking over a body after its soul has departed (died) They could think, speak, organize and even had a leader.
Sorry to say, but zombies have been romanticized before... at least technically. I can't remember WHICH movie it was, but I believe it was one of the "of the dead" movies...
I totally aggre with coyote 100% other than just this small part here.
Zombies become that last bastion of horror that we cannot relate with mingled with the threat of the one thing that humanity fears on a whole: death.
Frankly I think thats the most scary thing about zombies. We can relate to them because they are US. For example in a war of mankind vs. vampires hardly any human would think twice about killing a vampire. Why? Cause they are all unholy creatures of darkness thats sole purpose it kill and feed on humans. In short they are NOT human.
Now in a war of humans vs zombies things get nasty for a few reasons. First like I stated before, zombies were once humans which puts a whole mess of emotional and pyschological trama in the mix. Think of it this way. In war friends and loved ones die, could you even think of anything more scaring then to first lose someone close to you in a battle just to have face them again on the side of the enemy as one of the undead horde?
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I totally aggre with coyote 100% other than just this small part here.
Zombies become that last bastion of horror that we cannot relate with mingled with the threat of the one thing that humanity fears on a whole: death.
Frankly I think thats the most scary thing about zombies. We can relate to them because they are US. For example in a war of mankind vs. vampires hardly any human would think twice about killing a vampire. Why? Cause they are all unholy creatures of darkness thats sole purpose it kill and feed on humans. In short they are NOT human.
Now in a war of humans vs zombies things get nasty for a few reasons. First like I stated early, zombies were once humans which puts a whole mess of emotional and pyschological tr t trama
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I'm in Barnes & Noble yesterday and I swear to god there is a whole section titled (with an officially printed sign!): Teen Paranormal Romance.
So, yeah, vampires are ruined.
On the other hand why did they have to be replaced with the 2nd borningest monster (Number 1 goes to the Mummy) in the horror catalogue? I guess we needed a monster teen girls and emo kids wouldn't go gooey over and Mummies being ancient Egyptian royalty were too big a risk.
What about... Zombie Vampires?
Isn't that essentially what a ghoul is?
Does it matter if it's a Zombie that gets bitten by a Vampire, or a Vampire that gets bitten by a Zombie?
Well according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul one has similarities to both zombie and vampire,but doesnt really specify if they are created by either.For some reason I thought they were made by vampires probably from the movie Blade and the anime series Hellsing hehe.
The Arabian ghoul is a desert-dwelling, shape shifting demon that can assume the guise of an animal, especially a hyena. It lures unwary travellers into the desert wastes to slay and devour them. The creature also preys on young children, robs graves, drinks blood, steals coins and eats the dead,[5] taking on the form of the one they previously ate.
How about Dresdenverse zombies? As Harry Dresden says (verbatim) What kind of necromancer would waste time summoning a slow witted shambling zombie? Zombies are supernaturally fast and strong.
Depends on where you look and what you read... if you read scarier adaptations of vampires your opinion would change.
Depends on where you look and what you read... if you read scarier adaptations of zombies your opinion would change.
Meh, just because some "recent" movies/books portray vampires as <insert your opinion here > doesn't mean that they all have to be that way.
Vampires are stylish, cool, great fashion sense, even if you are Nosferatu, and can still go to the store and buy something with the best of 'em.
zombies are fun to blow up but they smell, are lucky if they "only" have a rash, can go to the store but not much on the ordering and generally have a more lived in look.
So "yes" I love killing zombies on Wine, popcorn and Zombie killkng night (yes, this is something I do most every week) but if I'm playing a character I think I will go Vampire.
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Being raised in a old fashioned Polish family I can remember hearing the old stories to scare children. For us vampires and zombies were just about the same thing. There were only undead, and spirits; and spirits were the nastier of the two. The scariest version of our vampire stories I ever heard and the one that kept me up at night, not to mention concerned what my brother was doing in the bunk below me was about the strzyga.
Strzyga were children born with two souls, one good and one evil. If the child died young before the good soul was able to defeat the bad then he turned into a Strzyga. These little Vamp/Zombies would attack people and tear out their bellys and eat their way to the persons heart in order to consume their soul.
In many fictions, vampires have some form of undead as a minion.
Whatever sells...pandemics spreading the 'zombie plague' are a hot topic item atm.
Who cares.
Let's do the world a favor and cancel Jersey Shore. Thats a spreading disease we can cure.
I thought this was a cool book after a surfeit of vampire books
Vampires are for girls,
Zombies are for boys,
The way Vampires are described in the articles is the same for Zombies, girls generally like Twilight because the more aesthetic/attractive aspects to vampires and the boys like Zombies because the more disgusting appearance and squishy sound they make when killed suits the male psyche more.
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Er...I'd vote for the hot vampire chicks personally.
Ever see a chubby vampire? Hell no, they're all smoking hot. Selective Biting at work.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
To do that, you'd have to "cancel" stupid people. That's one horde of zombies you'll NEVER get rid of.
Yep...Pearl, in the first Blade movie. Pearl was so grossly obese, he/she/it looked like a giant pancake (albeit, with fangs), just laying there, taking care of the vampire nation's communications network. It was hilarious to watch Blade roast Pearl with a powerful, poratble UV lamp.
Ok I agree Zombies on lawns are pretty scary.
I dated a girl who would disagree with the point of this entire article. Not only does she think zombies are sexy, but has a "sexy zombie" tatoo. Despite being obsessed with Juicy Couture and a bunch of other girly sh** you normally associate with orange skinned, fake blond Jersey girls (she is from Ocean County, where Seaside is located) she had this whole zombie fetish. I didn't get it either... If you were wondering, the "sexy zombie" tatoo looked a lot like a female forsaken from WoW even though the only gaming she did was on an iPhone and got pissed off when I made that comparison; so maybe we've already seen the beginning of zombie sexification for a very odd group of people. Hey, necrophilia does exist.
And we all know the World of Darkness Garou (werewolves) are better than ALL.
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Sure, zombies are awesome. They definitely beat vampires.
Still, haven't seen a zombie game that's been genuinely scary since the Resident Evil GC Remake.
Vampire: The Masquerade had some bad-ass vampires though.
I always remember the part when your main char gets turned into a vampire, pretty awesome.
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I think that you & I came from the same era. Impossible for regular humans to catch. epic ROFL! every bit as funny as anything Coyote said.
Vampires: female fantasy about eternal love and romance.
Zombies: male fantasy about protecting your kin with a chainsaw.
Just like there are different types of vampires, there are different types of zombies.
For example, Brian Keene's zombies from his The Rising and City of the Dead books would destroy vampires hands down. They were esentially intelligent demons taking over a body after its soul has departed (died) They could think, speak, organize and even had a leader.
Yep! That was indeed it. The names always kind of mixed in my mind so while I could remember the plot/story, the names always escaped me.
I totally aggre with coyote 100% other than just this small part here.
Zombies become that last bastion of horror that we cannot relate with mingled with the threat of the one thing that humanity fears on a whole: death.
Frankly I think thats the most scary thing about zombies. We can relate to them because they are US. For example in a war of mankind vs. vampires hardly any human would think twice about killing a vampire. Why? Cause they are all unholy creatures of darkness thats sole purpose it kill and feed on humans. In short they are NOT human.
Now in a war of humans vs zombies things get nasty for a few reasons. First like I stated before, zombies were once humans which puts a whole mess of emotional and pyschological trama in the mix. Think of it this way. In war friends and loved ones die, could you even think of anything more scaring then to first lose someone close to you in a battle just to have face them again on the side of the enemy as one of the undead horde?
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I totally aggre with coyote 100% other than just this small part here.
Zombies become that last bastion of horror that we cannot relate with mingled with the threat of the one thing that humanity fears on a whole: death.
Frankly I think thats the most scary thing about zombies. We can relate to them because they are US. For example in a war of mankind vs. vampires hardly any human would think twice about killing a vampire. Why? Cause they are all unholy creatures of darkness thats sole purpose it kill and feed on humans. In short they are NOT human.
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