Vlad has seen Better Days. The whole Vampire mythos is about as stale as a series of Animated Bloodthirsty Corpses can be. Vampires have been KungFu Artists, Cowboys, Criminals and Oversexed Kittens.
Francis Ford Coppolla gave us Dracula’s story as a timeless Love Story, a Romeo and Juliet between a fallen Holy Soldier and his lost Wife.
Vampires have even been a sexy alien menace.
It’s time for a new Dracula, abandoning everything that has gone one before. A Vampire in a world that has no concept of it. Imagine a teenage girl, finding that she has died in a freak accident on Church Grounds, finding herself in a coffin. Forced to dig her way out she’s lost and disoriented, it’s been weeks since she died. She’s ravenous, she drains a family dog, then vomits the blood. It’s not animal blood she needs.
While the Vampire priest has been done (to death) the Vampire Postal Clerk hasn’t. A Documentary style Horror/Comedy about a secretive man who is charged with being a pedophile and is instead found to be a vampire, touching off a worldwide hunt for the Vampires.
Dracula was never a Vampire. He was always just a human pretender, but was clever enough to fool whole swathes of humanity. When his secret is close to discovery, he seeks out a real vampire, a monster too terrifying to be real, unleashing a massive wave of “true” vampire bats that go on to infect a massive swath of the population of Europe. Dracula is then forced to battle the Vampires he was pretending to be.
To Draw it down to Numbers
Published by NiteMayr on October 23, 2008An American Carol Week Number One (1,639 Screens):
Sicko Week Number One (441 Screens):
There has been alot of noise about “Real Americans” and “Real America” these past couple of days. The McCain campaign makes much of the fact that their supports represent the silent majority or the moral majority of the Country. The Down-home Salt of the earth that make up the real body of the electorate. The Authoritarian Right would have you believe that Liberals make up a tiny black-hearted exceptional bump in the world, and that the Rock-Ribbed Conservatives are in the Majority (while simlutaneously telling us about how they are persecuted).
These discussions are sometimes referred to as culture wars, expressed in purchasing patterns and behaviors. I can think of no better illustration of how North American people are really split than their viewing habits. They have to pay to see these films, they sometimes have to drive over some distance to go there, more than television, movie habits reflect the will and tastes of the affluent west and these numbers don’t lie.
People in the Western World ARE Liberals. They are Liberals by choice and in vast numbers, and if anyone tells you otherwise, they are deluded and foolish. Now if only they could vote that way too.
Oh, and in case you don’t know, An American Carol lasted two weeks in Theatres and Sicko, 13.