What made u wanna be a vampire =)

[gambit]

Well, i know its a bit old and yes maybe a bit corny but the film that made me wanna be a vampire was Lost Boys. I think this movie was an alltime great!. Any agree here?

[darkwolf]

I'll have to go along with ^Regaene^ and say I would rather be a werewolf and The Wolf's Hour by McCammon did it for me. I guess I would have to go for the best of both worlds and be like Bonnie/Radu from the lost years.

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[Katie]

I'd have to go all the way back to the mid seventies to explain this one. I remember watching a T.V adaptation of Dracula when I was about six or seven (1976/77), I think. The guy who played the count was french actor Louis Jardin (I think that's his name)he was the sexiest thing I'd ever encountered. Quite an image at the age of seven. From then on I was hooked, I went from Christopher Lee to Lestat to Harry Keogh, I've never looked back.

I have to agree the Lost Boys is quite a film Jason thing-a-m-a-bob Patrick thats it is great, he looks so much like Jim Morrison in the film.

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[Canker]

Wamphryi is the answer for me. This way I can be both Vampire and Werewolf. I have always had a fasination with wolves and werewolves in particular growing up. Tried to read every book that i can on the subject and would love to find more real life accounts of people and the whole Lycanthropy curse going back through history. It has some basis and it's sort of fasinating.

[Dragutin]

Lsot boys, Fright Night, Dark shadows,and all the old Vampire and Werewolf movies of my youth. Abbot & Costello meet Dracula you know. The ones I liked were the old nes with the mist comming at dark my grandmother was really into that and you know we tend to inherit certain things.

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[SpOOkshow]

was the Lost Boys for me too, I think.
Remember seeing it three times in the week it opened...

However - Near Dark made me think too...

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[Wamphryi]

Brian's books! They give you a more darker harsh version of vampire. Puts the monster back in vampires, not a glamorized movie creation. The true undeath the way it should be lived!or unlived!

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[Patrick]

Never particularly wanted to be a vampire, still dont, funnily enough, I was not interested in them either, until I discovered the Wamphyri.

I dont think it's the fact that they are vampires which engross me so much. The fact is, the characters which Brian creates are interesting in themselves. Before I read about the Wamphyri, my image of a vampire was what I have seen in films and on TV. Blood suckers, and that's it.Boring, basically.

But the Wamphyri are a different kettle of fish altogether. They are so much more than just vampires and the whole vampire world series is, for me, the greatest story ever told. Even better than the Necroscope five, which is a bold statement, given that the Necroscope is an awesome set as well.

But, having said all that, I still don't wanna be a vampire.( I like the sun too much!)

[Pybob]

<font color=440066>I have to agree with Canker, it's the Wamphyri, sure I watched the old Hammer movies but they never had any real appeal to to me except in a campy kinda way...

As for the Lost Boys, sorry, I never enjoyed it, in fact I didn't like any of the '80s Brat Pack' movies (yes, I even hated Breakfast Club! lol). Sorry <g>Gambit & ^Regaene^[/b]! </font>

[JackWolfKinWhitley]

i'm with the werewolves. Hairy as i am i gotta be a lycanthrope. The old Lon Chaney movie The Wolfman has got to be my all time favorite(Werewolf in London, a real close second}and as for Vampires,,,,,Christopher Lee flicks rock.

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[Sidious]

Definatly a Dog-lord. I have a tendency to snarl when irked and howl when....at certain moments.

It was the black and white Dracula with Bela. Saw it and was like...wow. of course I was 5 so it was scary to me but then again most things are when you're 5.

Then there came the comics "Tomb of Dracula", etc. and the movies... Fright Night, Lost Boys, the whole Christopher Lee series of Drac films, not to mention the books and games and research into the actual vampire legend and stories.

hell I was "goth" back before it was named. The whole Black outfits, no daylight, staying up all night.

hell sign my happy butt up. Not much of a change for me.

[Scarlet oHorror]

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i think just watching the old Hammer classics on channel 4 when i was about 9...that got me into it...i don't like horror movies, only stuff that deals with real supernatural stuff like the Omen etc..

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[Icky]

I dont know about wanting to be a vampire... It never really appealed to me. But I can surely say that the film version of Blade would make me ASHAMED to be a vampire if i was one.

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[Rowena]

<font color=red>EAP!!!!!! ME?? A vampire??? Ack how'd that happen?? hehehe....

Well would have to say Brian's books did it for me. Watched alot movies, read some other *gasp* authors, and though they were entertaining at the moment they didn't hold the substance for me. To be honest I think I'd rather have Harry's talent than be a vampire....BUT if I gotta be one I'll be Wamphyri! Might as well have it all eh?



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But first, on earth as Vampire sent
Thy corpse shall from the tomb be rent
Then ghastly haunt thy native place
And suck the blood of all thy race

[Lord Death]

I have been Dracula sinec I was 3 years old...
And I wish I knew where I got that idea.....


If I had to be something I would be a Wamphyri Dragon!
A were-dragon!!
Wings I would have and sharp claws!
Maby there is just such a portal ... and some how some dumb spore, or dragon will wonder into a diffrent world?
Hehehe...
I wish :-P

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[Lord Death]

Wops. Let me clear up that last not.
Every holloween I have been Dracula since I was 3...
Up untill last year.
This year me and my dad are trying to construct a battle gauntlet.
Its' pretty wicked so far... It fits me elbow down :-p
Some of the stuff I have bought also to make me look like a wamphyri is cool....
I want to scare the little kiddies this year :-P

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[Mimi]

ok here it goes...I grew up watching them old corny and loving every minute of them. however, I reached my "turning point" when I started reading stephen king as a teenager and watching "Lost Boys", "Fright Night", etc, etc. I still love listening to the soundtrack to Lost Boys whenever I drive somewhere, but my love for vampires became something of an obsession with Anne Rice. Nowadays, I like the Anne Rice books like a grownup likes cartoons...the magic isnt the same as when you're a kid, but you still like them for sentimental reasons. I'd rather spend my time re-reading the Necroscope books (in fact, have been spending the past two weeks going through the series again, and loving all the strange looks I get in class when classmates get a look at the covers. lol). well, that about sums it up for me, and hope you guys continue to enjoy fangs as much as I do.

[Kev]

Brian's books did it for me...oh and for the record...weren't "Dog Lords" generally shunned upon in the books and considered inferior by other Wamphyri Lords? It's been a number of years since I read those books and I can't be sure I'm correct in this. If I am correct...GO BACK TO YOUR CAVES LOWLY DOG LORDS...if I'm not correct...please disregard the above statement and pretend someone else made it