like I get why it's a resonant narrative but it's also super bigoted? Esp. contrasting w/the classic, more solemn take on it.
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(for example I've long argued that Blade is just a sadist spree killer with a type the audience is told is acceptable.)
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well, Blade, Buffy, the vampire hunters in Salem's Lot...
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Van Helsing...it's all mass murder, if you allow vampires to have moral standing...
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as they do in Twilight! (which, not coinciidentally, gets criticized for not being a real vampire story.)
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Hell even Stoker's Dracula argues that the act of killing a vampire is a sad but merciful necessity to save all involved.
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like Van Helsing himself is borderline traumatized by staking Dracula's brides. The "kill them all bc one did bad things" narrative
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the whole point of I Am Legend is he thinks of vampires as things and killing them as a game
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and only at the end realizes they're sentient and from their POV he's the monster
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this is the ancestor of the modern zombie movie yet none of them keep this concept, not even the direct remake
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I think part of it is being unable/unwilling to make monsters that genuinely seem like an evil horde but are sentient
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