Now that someone brought up vampire films (since there has been no discussion of John Carpenter's _Vampires_), I feel it is the right place to say the best of contemporary vampire films in Anthony (son of Douglas) Hickox's _Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat_. In that film, a devious vampire named Shane develops wood-tipped bullets to slay the vampires that have resorted to artificial blood to end the killing. Scott On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Brower, Kalynn Huffman wrote: > Why did Murnau portray Count Dracula as a sinister, ugly character in 1922? > Dracula, in the original novel as well as in contemporary versions, is > usually a sexy guy who seduces his prey and then springs his deadly fangs. > > For a class I was showing the final sequence in "Nosferatu" and comparing it > to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." This was just before Halloween and I > couldn't resist comparing the two heroines and their different slaying > techniques. The students caught me on the above question. Any theories or > notes from Murnau to explain his interpretation? > > Kalynn Huffman Brower > (812) 855-9935 > Radio-TV Center, Room 309 > Department of Telecommunications > Indiana University > Bloomington, IN 47405 > http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama. > ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite