Zombies are just American vampires. discuss.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
the biggest differences between zombies and folklore vampires is anyone can randomly become one and anyone can easily kill one
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Nosferatu totally uses the disease metaphor, though...
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
sometimes vampires are fear of foreigners or freaks, sometimes they're fear of aristocratic decadence
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But I'd say the key factor is in vampire folklore the vampire or the monster is an aberration and is the minority
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whereas in the modern speculative fiction genre we flip it and imagine a world where the aberrant is the new normal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
which was the point of I Am Legend - he imagines vampires becoming a horde bc the world has reversed and the human is the monster
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