By Mark Lester on Oct 16, 2020 09:00 am "Lisa, vampires are make-believe, just like elves, gremlins, and eskimos." — Homer Simpson While they are indeed fictional (unlike the very real eskimos), that does not make vampires any less fascinating. For over a century, we have seen Vampires as not only monsters, but charmers, cereal mascots, teen heart throbs, superheroes (it was announced not long ago that Blade would make his appearance in the MCU), and muppets that helped us count as kids ("Von!" "Two!"…) Of course, Dracula is the most popular of vampires, but before the likes of Chrisopher Lee in the 1950s and even before the pinnacle performance of Bela Legosi in the 1930s, german filmmaker F.W. Murnau made Nosferatu: A Symphony of Evil. The story is an unauthorized version of Dracula, which resulted in a lawsuit that ordered all copies of the film to be destroyed. Thankfully (in probably the best example to show support for film... Read on » | |
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