06-16-2011, 09:42 AM
Zouji Wrote:30 Days of Night had very non-bubblegum vampires.
Just the fact that it is used for entertainment purposes makes it bubblegum by default.
I think you miss the entire point of Monsters or the history of monsters.
Monsters were real to people at one time. Not something you watch a movie and have a bad dream about. Monsters once filled the hearts of man with real fear and were not some form of entertainment to pass the time.
Tell me, what would scare you more, watching 30 Days of the Night or running into a real life Dean Corll?
We have the same monsters today that they had 1000 years ago only the faces have changed and refined as we have come to understand them. Instead of Vampires, Demon's and Wraith's we have sociopath's/serial killers and schizophrenics.
Today their is a distinct difference between real monsters and fantasy monsters. At one time in our history their wasn't that distinction.
If I were in Shags class that is the debate he would get from me anyway. Monsters aren't vampires and demons but people who are broken.
Vllad