Vampire Movies and the Future of Cinema

By Maricor Capulong




As I watch Twilight on Showtime, I wonder if in the near future, someone can create a new brand/type of monster/being that is as mysterious as a vampire and dangerous much like the werewolf. I got to hand it to literary geniuses like Mary Shelly of Bram Stoker, they have created beings that are adaptable even to today's cinema.

One of my top film favorites is a film called "The Crow" starring the late Brandon Lee. I think the thought of revenge and coming from the grave is such a romantic notion. That the feeling of hurt, anger and love never truly dies until that one unfinished business is done. It saddens me that the crow franchise cannot be done as good as the first, but then again its such a story that you cant keep repeating over and over. Unlike a good/ or bad vampire movie, there are so many variables you can change, I guess this is what 'The Crow' was lacking.

In some movies, the father of all vampires is Judas himself. In Dracula, he is a disillusioned turkish soldier who gave up his soul forsaking Christianity. I mean there is so much to change and unchange in this genre. Twilight even has the vampires glisten in the sun because of their beautiful diamond bright skin. In some versions they lie in coffins and wait until sun down.

In any case, what can be re-made to match the phenomenon of Twilight?

Maybe another version of Cat People?

Meow???

In cinema history, what movies do you think should have been expanded into a franchise, much like vampire movies are in today's films.