Vampires | Superstition, Horror, and Blood

Practically every culture in history tells stories of beings who dine on the blood of humans. Though they go by many names and take many shapes, they are known best today as vampires. A staple of horror fiction and scary movies, most people associate vampires as charismatic and attractive beings who resemble humans with fangs. Stories such as Dracula have perpetuated romantic ideals of the vampire, but as you'll learn, the vampires of mythology are starkly different than their modern day depictions!
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MYTHOLOGY HAS BEEN TOLD AND RETOLD IN MANY FORMS ACROSS TIME, STORIES AND ACCOUNTS MAY VARY.
MUSIC:
"Path to Darkness" by Brandon & Derek Fiechter
"Dracula (1992) Ambience Music" by Mister Ambience
CLIPS:
"Nosferatu" 1922
"Dracula" 1931
"The Lost Boys" 1987
"Bram Stoker's Dracula" 1992
"Interview with the Vampire" 1994
"Blade" 1998
"Underworld" 2003
"30 Days of Night" 2007
OPENING:
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ARTISTS FEATURED:
Antonio J Manzanedo
Alex Ross
Phillip Burne Jones
Antonio Gamboa
Daniel Zrom
Edvard Munch
Felix Ortiz
Ethan Mathis
Jacopo Schiavo
Hanna Petrick
Kieran Belshaw
Jan Rozanski
Florian Herold
Jonathan Opgen
Marta Nael
Wen Jie
Martina Fackova
Sebastian Luedke
Sebastien Hue Chandler
Marta Emilia
Stefan Akin
Viktoria Likhodeeva
Tots Valeza
REFERENCES:
• VAMPIRE ORIGINS Reveal...
www.history.com/topics/folklo...
www.britannica.com/topic/vampire
www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
www.livescience.com/24374-vam...
www.google.com/books/edition/...
www.ancient-origins.net/myths...
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  • @MythologyUnleashed
    @MythologyUnleashed Жыл бұрын

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  • @larrymccombs4367

    @larrymccombs4367

    Жыл бұрын

    It's so hard to pick just one I'd say Dracula from Stoker's 1897 novel And Sarah from My Babysitter's a vampire And the family of vampires from Disney's The Little Vampire

  • @hemanag1020

    @hemanag1020

    Жыл бұрын

    Sir, would you like to do a joint effort on the gods and legends of Aotearoa, New Zealand? Polynesian pantheon that reaches from New Zealand to Hawaii to Rapanui, Easter island. Most interesting stories of Maui, our demigod hero.

  • @Laila-cr1on

    @Laila-cr1on

    Жыл бұрын

    L

  • @scottdoesntmatter4409

    @scottdoesntmatter4409

    Жыл бұрын

    You do realize that until Christopher Lee, vampires didn't have fangs?! Homer, you don't even acknowledge the fact that until Hollywood, vampires didn't for the most part even TOUCH blood. They consumed LIFE FORCE, not blood. Vampires simply did NOT drink blood, period. Your research is horrid, wildly ignorant. Thumbs down. Sigh. You even got sunlight wrong. All it did until Hollywood was weaken a vampire, it didn't hurt them in any way. And you got that silly bit about holy relics/crosses wrong. That didn't happen until Hollywood, since it was very dramatic. Dammit, you even got stakes wrong. They weren't symbolic, you actually had to use specific woods depending on the region you found the vampire, and you had to ram the stake through the heart and into the ground itself. Again, silver didn't happen until Hollywood vs Vampires. Hell, silver didn't happen against werewolves until 1941's The Wolf Man (Beast of Gevaudan was an isolated incident). The novel Dracula didn't show love etc. He was a monster. READ THE BOOK YOU IDIOT! Half vampires have existed for centuries, they are great vampire hunters by nature, and have a few powers to back it up, again wrong!

  • @scottdoesntmatter4409

    @scottdoesntmatter4409

    Жыл бұрын

    You are incompetent. Please take down this video, and revise it.

  • @batspidey7611
    @batspidey7611 Жыл бұрын

    My favorite vampire of all time is Dracula from Netflix's Castlevania adaptation. He wants to rid the world of humanity because they took his wife away from him. He had conflicts with his son about humans. He was a threat to his enemies. He's an amazing villain.

  • @arcturionblade1077

    @arcturionblade1077

    Жыл бұрын

    "What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets!"

  • @bittercombatvet7501

    @bittercombatvet7501

    Жыл бұрын

    Way relatable. As any Father/ good husband should

  • @localpyromaniac.

    @localpyromaniac.

    Жыл бұрын

    He wasnt even that evil he gave them a year to leave or repent(i forgor) but instead they celebrated it

  • @Draculaisabat01

    @Draculaisabat01

    Жыл бұрын

    I AM VLAD DRACULA TEPES

  • @Wolfy39565

    @Wolfy39565

    Жыл бұрын

    yes!!! best show ever!!

  • @flightlesslord2688
    @flightlesslord2688 Жыл бұрын

    Women with Vampires: 'Omg, such a misunderstood bad boy, he's like Edward, so hot. He's so mysterious.' Men with Vampires: 'Death by hot goth snu snu? Hell yeah!'

  • @TBT707

    @TBT707

    Жыл бұрын

    😐

  • @onigames7309

    @onigames7309

    Жыл бұрын

    Accurate 😂

  • @jmr2408

    @jmr2408

    2 ай бұрын

    I see no fault in this logic

  • @spiritualspinster4222
    @spiritualspinster4222 Жыл бұрын

    When I think of a vampire, I always picture it as the classic Bram Stoker vampire. My favorite vampire movie is Bram Stoker's Dracula. Oldman did a great job portraying Dracula.

  • @CorbCorbin

    @CorbCorbin

    Жыл бұрын

    He did great portraying Coppola’s Dracula. None of that love story, between Dracula and Mina, is in the Stoker story. It’s Jonathan and Mina, along with Quincy’s pure love, for Lucy, that are the romances in it. Coppola took liberties, and made a story that works in its own way, and tries to show the tragedy of Dracula, and by the end, Mina.

  • @freakbaby6981

    @freakbaby6981

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree. Oldman is truly a master of his craft.

  • @jamieshelton919

    @jamieshelton919

    9 ай бұрын

    I agree, saw one with Gerard Butler he was very grand as Dracula

  • @davidhallett8783

    @davidhallett8783

    9 ай бұрын

    I always picture alan dershowitz

  • @davidhallett8783

    @davidhallett8783

    9 ай бұрын

    KZread get smart

  • @Actionfan19
    @Actionfan19 Жыл бұрын

    Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.

  • @merlapittman5034
    @merlapittman5034 Жыл бұрын

    I'd be very happy to see more vampire videos from different cultures. The legends are so widespread and varied. The same with werewolves, too, lots of cultures have very different werecreature legends

  • @Private-Potato

    @Private-Potato

    Жыл бұрын

    The one from Ghana and Togo is very different. A separate video on them could be fun.

  • @Texasmade74

    @Texasmade74

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dragowolfraven3806 what does d and do have to do with anything

  • @isabelcurd8628

    @isabelcurd8628

    Жыл бұрын

    As a child , I use to watch the movie of dracula .. I like that one the best…

  • @Scarshadow666

    @Scarshadow666

    Жыл бұрын

    My thoughts as well! There's so many other vampire variations that lots of people don't know of or haven't been spoken of often enough, and many of them are very unique beyond the usual European vampire that people know of (like the Penanggalan from Malaysian culture or the Jiangshi vampire from Chinese culture). It'd be interesting to hear more about them! ^^

  • @KimonSheri

    @KimonSheri

    5 ай бұрын

    I'll send my cousin over

  • @thequantumnexus4270
    @thequantumnexus4270 Жыл бұрын

    Personally, I will always love the Interview With The Vampire/Queen of the Damned Vampire. Eternally conflicted between their humanity and desire for blood. I think being a vampire should be lonely and full of suffering. I always surprisingly liked the BBC Dracula. I liked the take on him being the only one of his kind, and other vampires being something different. Plus, the ending had a great "look at Human ugliness" theme that I just love.

  • @KimonSheri

    @KimonSheri

    5 ай бұрын

    Look up Tartaria. They are those left over, from another time and place, Another race Past our pace No grace

  • @VincentIrkallaOfficial
    @VincentIrkallaOfficial Жыл бұрын

    The kaiju roars were a strange, nice touch.

  • @katywallace6836
    @katywallace6836 Жыл бұрын

    Hellsing captures the Bram Stocker's Dracula story so well all the way down to the dirt of their home place in their coffins

  • @luulasmene7786
    @luulasmene7786 Жыл бұрын

    Castlevania and Hellsing are really good anime representations of vampire, I love both Alucard's in their respective stories

  • @dragowolfraven3806
    @dragowolfraven3806 Жыл бұрын

    I was wondering when vampires would be covered on this channel. Perfect for October and Halloween.😁

  • @kimbelsimpson7535
    @kimbelsimpson7535 Жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite vampires is Jerry Dandridge from the original Fright Night movie because he was clever, sophisticated and classy with the traditional vampire powers.

  • @smileydurango9508
    @smileydurango9508 Жыл бұрын

    Yes!!! Please do a full video on the vampires of mythology I’d personally really like to see either the Striga or Strigoi

  • @williamerickson520
    @williamerickson520 Жыл бұрын

    Vampire: The Masquerade is my personal favorite vampire fiction, beautifully incorporating everything covered here and adding some flavor of it's own.

  • @ciprianvalentincipherctv9742

    @ciprianvalentincipherctv9742

    Жыл бұрын

    VTM is a masterpiece but recently I found out that Sekhmet was actually a werewolf in the "world of darkness" universe which sounds terribly wrong in my opinion.

  • @timalice-2833

    @timalice-2833

    Жыл бұрын

    I started playing vampire the masquerade in the 90s and still do to this day. The world an the lore feels so loved in. It doesn’t get old.

  • @user-ye6ym9ct5x
    @user-ye6ym9ct5x9 ай бұрын

    I would love to see a whole episode about Strigoi... They are kinda vampires in romanian folklor (the vampires well known around the world were invented by Bram Stocker and then asociated with Romania). There are many types of Strigoi and many unique rituals used by people to get rid of them so you'll have what to say in the video

  • @kaidorade1317
    @kaidorade1317 Жыл бұрын

    I’m reading Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot” for the first time so this video is perfect!

  • @brianplummer433

    @brianplummer433

    Жыл бұрын

    For real. Your first time reading it. You're in for a good read. Enjoy 😉

  • @kaidorade1317

    @kaidorade1317

    Жыл бұрын

    @@brianplummer433 oh I’m loving it so far!

  • @rowlandp6314

    @rowlandp6314

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kaidorade1317 book is great, the movie of it sucks (pun intended, though it really is bad)

  • @Steveirwin4477
    @Steveirwin4477 Жыл бұрын

    Morbius from Spider-Man

  • @Steveirwin4477

    @Steveirwin4477

    Жыл бұрын

    Not to mention there was this old show called quantum leap where the protagonist Dr Sam Beckett leaped into the body of a vampire

  • @Steveirwin4477

    @Steveirwin4477

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sa1ntluke both the comic slash cartoon and the Morpheus movie As far as quantum leap goes that's an entirely different thing entirely

  • @SilverWolfMage
    @SilverWolfMage Жыл бұрын

    Vampires might be THE most popular but, I still believe (in my personal opinion) werewolves and lycans to be THE best. Not knocking vampires out of the top seat by far, I love a good vampire as much as I do the furballs. Dracula and Van Helsing are favorites of mine, along with Balde and Underworld's Selene. Also I'd not known that using a stake for a vampire also symbolically pinned them to the earth. Always learning something new with your videos. Would love to learn more about vampires from other myth's and the like. Please continue sharing videos with us as often as you can, and thank you for your hard work!

  • @peskylisa
    @peskylisa Жыл бұрын

    Louis and Claudia found out about revenants after they "killed" Lestat, chucked him into the swamps, and headed to Eastern Europe

  • @ihvojd

    @ihvojd

    Жыл бұрын

    Didn’t they head to Paris, France?

  • @incubustimelord5947
    @incubustimelord5947 Жыл бұрын

    The best vampires are the ones from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. But I also like the ones from the T.V. series Forever Knight, too.

  • @GarrettFruge
    @GarrettFruge Жыл бұрын

    I've always enjoyed Gary Oldman's performance in "Bram Stoker's Dracula", but ever since I watched the two Vampire Hunter D movies (Bloodlust in particular) and started reading the books, I fell in love with them! I was never too big into horror as a whole, and largely indifferent to vampire lore, but I really love the series' blend of fantasy horror and scifi. It's not perfect and probably not to everyone's taste, but I think it's an enjoyable franchise that's kind of flown under the radar among Western audiences.

  • @s.beccari4678

    @s.beccari4678

    Жыл бұрын

    Vampire hunter D is a classic.

  • @ThenukSirimanna

    @ThenukSirimanna

    Жыл бұрын

    Gary Oldman's performance is out of charts amazing. But the story as a whole felt like a betrayal to the original story even though it had lines from the original book. I don't know maybe it's just I read the 1895 book first and expected a movie named "Braham Stoker's Dracula" to be true to the original😂it was a good romanticized version tho. But I prefer the original.

  • @noellehollar4347
    @noellehollar4347 Жыл бұрын

    The perfect way to start off the spooky season! This was a wonderfully comprehensive review of the vampire mythology and I loved how you touched on the different versions from around the world - including a couple I hadn't heard of before! If you haven't already done one on this, I would be very interested in a video covering Lamia, from the original Greek origins to the way the character evolved into the half-snake, half-woman creature more commonly referenced today. :)

  • @Lotusisrael

    @Lotusisrael

    Жыл бұрын

    The modern Greek Fokloric mythology has another vampiric creature, the vryckolaks, the name being derived from a Slavic term for werewolf.

  • @sarahhurst140
    @sarahhurst140 Жыл бұрын

    So glad you did this vid on vampires! It was my personal request, & you certainly delivered the goods on this topic! Extremely well done & thoroughly comprehensive, as well! Loved it! Peace & blessings to you, continuously!🌹💜🌍

  • @jacobross1674
    @jacobross1674 Жыл бұрын

    All I can say right now, is there are so many vampires that strike at my heart. So here are some of them. Please don’t judge. Rayne (Blood Rayne) Eric Brooks (Blade) Morbius (Spider Man) Alucard/Seras Victoria (Hellsing Ultimate) Moka Akashiya (Rosario Vampire) Draculaura (Monster High) Selene (Underworld) That’s all I can think of off the top of my head for now. Next video topic: Rumplestiltskin.

  • @novallasuter5265

    @novallasuter5265

    Жыл бұрын

    Bela !

  • @showershiter

    @showershiter

    Жыл бұрын

    Morbin

  • @sarekpaine930

    @sarekpaine930

    11 ай бұрын

    The twilight saga and hotel Transylvania

  • @garyreid6165

    @garyreid6165

    10 ай бұрын

    Barlow-Salem’s Lot

  • @garyreid6165

    @garyreid6165

    10 ай бұрын

    Santanico Pandemonium-From Dusk Till Dawn

  • @thepikarivera7706
    @thepikarivera7706 Жыл бұрын

    Bela Lugosi's Dracula has to be my favorite at the moment.

  • @Sirianstar10

    @Sirianstar10

    Жыл бұрын

    Halloween story. I read a piece by a psychic who says the spirit of Bela Lugosi is still haunting his CA mansion. He was heavily into drugs and now he's stuck there. She's seen him there and he still dresses like the vampire he portrayed. Boo! 🎃🦇🧹🪄👻

  • @CuteDwarf11
    @CuteDwarf11 Жыл бұрын

    My favorite vampire is Christopher Lee's portrayal of Dracula, and Selene and Thomas from the Underworld franchise.

  • @desmodus5635
    @desmodus5635 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks. I enjoyed the video. One of my favorites, who seldom gets mentioned, is Barnabas Collins from the old television series, Dark Shadows. It shows him as a sympathetic character due to the fact that he despises his vampiric lifestyle. He brought a new dimension to the creature.

  • @user-up7ws7fj4i
    @user-up7ws7fj4i2 ай бұрын

    I'm just amazed by how many different countries have their own mythology of vampires!😮

  • @Chann223
    @Chann223 Жыл бұрын

    My favorite monster has to be the vampire. Don't know why but they have always had a strong draw for me, more than any others.

  • @jacobault2264

    @jacobault2264

    Жыл бұрын

    Valic is a badass vampire sorry my spelling sucks

  • @pokemontrainerneely575
    @pokemontrainerneely575 Жыл бұрын

    Please make videos on the Wendigo, the Mananangal, the Derg Du, the Chupacabra, the Drop Bear (Australian Folklore), the Nekomata (Japanese Folklore), Japanese Yokai/mythological creatures, Native American legends, El Silbon, the Banshee, La Llorona, the Gashadokoro (Japanese Folklore), the Komaitachi (Japanese Folklore), the Komainu (Japanese folklore), the Kitsune (Japanese Folklore), the Kappa (Japanese Folklore), the Werewolf, the Nuckalavee (Scottish Folklore, and the Kelpie (Irish Folklore)

  • @Kaijugan

    @Kaijugan

    Жыл бұрын

    Good news. He already has videos on several of these.

  • @vermiciousknid2456

    @vermiciousknid2456

    Жыл бұрын

    How about the Licho, the Leshy, the Zmey Gorynynch, the Hadhayosh, the Xiangliu, the Hyakume, the Nue, and the Tsuchigumo?

  • @michaellynes3540

    @michaellynes3540

    Жыл бұрын

    Do the Kuchisake Onna.

  • @thevampirologist3054

    @thevampirologist3054

    Жыл бұрын

    Kelpie is Scottish you dumb fuck

  • @pokemontrainerneely575

    @pokemontrainerneely575

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thevampirologist3054 I know you are but what am I???

  • @deeferry6520
    @deeferry6520 Жыл бұрын

    The vampire in Salem's lot had me absolutely terrified, I think he was called Mr. Barlow. Apart from the fact that he looked scary, he didn't react to the crucifix which gave me nightmares for weeks.

  • @jasonwedel3165
    @jasonwedel3165 Жыл бұрын

    Favorite Vamp story, Hannible King's first appearance. Wonderfuly crafted so you don't realize the punch line...

  • @ciprianvalentincipherctv9742
    @ciprianvalentincipherctv9742 Жыл бұрын

    My favorite Sci fi universes that include vampires are "World of Darkness" ("Vampire the Masquerade" to be more specific) and "Supernatural ". In VTM vampires are shown as being separated in different races(clans) and in SPN vampires are shown as being separated between vampires (mainly inspired from the Slavic mythology) and other vampiric creatures.

  • @ciprianvalentincipherctv9742

    @ciprianvalentincipherctv9742

    Жыл бұрын

    And I forgot to mention "Shadowhunters" that is pretty much accurate about mythology.

  • @lindsaystevens4062
    @lindsaystevens4062 Жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see a video about the Irish vampire. I hadn't heard of that particular vampire before, so I'd enjoy a video about less commonly known vampiric creatures like that

  • @musicgirl12357

    @musicgirl12357

    Жыл бұрын

    Here’s the story. Before she became the Derag Due she was a beautiful and kind hearted girl. She had porcelain skin, blonde hair like a sunflower and eyes as a green as a four leaf clover. She was also a princess. She fell in love with a mere stable boy. Her father of course did not allow the marriage. So he wed her off to a man older then him for a ton of money. He kept her locked in a tower and would go in. Using his dagger to cut her and see the blood drip on porcelain skin. She hoped that the stable boy would save her. But he never found out where she was. Eventually her hair turned white and her eyes turned grey. After a while she killed herself. She was buried by the village and the stable boy having found out about what happened to her asked for her to come back. In Irish tradition you must put a rock over the grave of a suicide victim otherwise they will turn into a vampire. But out of guilt no one could do so. Three nights later she rose from her grave. There she encountered her father and sucked the breath out of him. Eventually she encountered her husband having just married another woman. This time she drank him and his new wife’s blood. And from that day forward she was the Derag Due.

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ Жыл бұрын

    Great video! I'll admit to being a sucker for the Underworld franchise (Kate Beckinsale fan!) and found the Ravenloft setting for AD&D to be a lot of fun. Strahd is of course a carbon copy of Dracula, with maybe just enough variation to avoid being sued.😂

  • @GarrettFruge

    @GarrettFruge

    Жыл бұрын

    "sucker" I see what you did there. 😉

  • @sophiawilson8696

    @sophiawilson8696

    Жыл бұрын

    Best is Strain and Marvel Blade version of Vampires. Pure Born and Those vampire that were turn.

  • @bwowzah
    @bwowzah Жыл бұрын

    Great video and very well done. You covered so much in such a short time.

  • @alexandriacollins7119
    @alexandriacollins7119 Жыл бұрын

    Yes, you *should* post follow-up videos that go into more details on vampire myths of the world!

  • @tsunade20031
    @tsunade20031 Жыл бұрын

    My favorite vampire is the one from 30 days of night. Also all the John Carpenter adaptations, the one with Jon von Jovi in Dia de los muertos. The "from dusk to dawn" vampires.

  • @novallasuter5265

    @novallasuter5265

    Жыл бұрын

    Best vampire movie ever!

  • @jacobault2264

    @jacobault2264

    Жыл бұрын

    Valic is a badass vampire sorry if my spelling off lol

  • @rogueascendant6611
    @rogueascendant6611 Жыл бұрын

    This is truly a blood curling video! Made me think and wonders how the heck almost every civilization and culture in ancient times have the same graphic detail of a blood-sucking monsters even with different forms. Perhaps there some truth to it . . .

  • @hammondOT
    @hammondOT Жыл бұрын

    Yes! Vampires are my favorite mythological creature.

  • @yolman25
    @yolman25 Жыл бұрын

    great video, awesome way to start Halloween month. keep on the good content

  • @unimpressed..
    @unimpressed.. Жыл бұрын

    I gotta say ol Claus Michaelson became my favorite hybrid. They broke the mold with that one. Awesome!!!

  • @christopherwood7559
    @christopherwood7559 Жыл бұрын

    Whoa, a discussion on vampires that mentions Carmilla? That happens so rarely.

  • @EDPDBZ89
    @EDPDBZ89 Жыл бұрын

    My favorite vampires are from True Blood (with Eric Northman being my favorite character on that show), and The Originals (specifically Niklaus "Klaus" Mikaelson).

  • @Sirianstar10
    @Sirianstar10 Жыл бұрын

    My fave is Bram Stoker's Dracula..and the Originals. This was very good. Thanks!

  • @sturg0353
    @sturg0353 Жыл бұрын

    I would love to see a chupacabra video, they’ve terrified me since I was young. Keep up the great work!

  • @patticampana9458
    @patticampana945811 ай бұрын

    Yes, do follow ups. Vlad the Impaler, Van Helsing, Lestat, and Interview With a Vampire. All good reads. So many changelings. Wish you would cover them all. ✌️

  • @leonthepuppet
    @leonthepuppet Жыл бұрын

    The good video to starting the haloween since this creature is basically common for male costume and witch for female costume

  • @jefferykelsey
    @jefferykelsey Жыл бұрын

    My favorite vampire character from popular culture is Selene because of how awesome she is and I even felt empathy and sympathy for her because of the fact that her family were killed by Viktor and that he lied to her about the death of her family were caused by the Lycans, but thanks to Kraven, the truth has been exposed, her eyes finally opened, and even Viktor himself admitted in killing her family and lying to her about it and thereby betraying her in the process and all of which lead to a battle between Michael Corvin and Viktor all the way to Viktor's second, final, and permanent death at Selene's hands and thus her quest to avenge her family has ended.

  • @Thromash
    @Thromash Жыл бұрын

    More than happy for individual videos for them, all of them of course!

  • @u83rj1
    @u83rj1 Жыл бұрын

    I’d love to see more videos on scary monsters of both folklore and cryptids during October. And my favorite vampire is and will always be Marceline Abideer.

  • @Didymus20X6
    @Didymus20X6 Жыл бұрын

    "A TRUE Leader lifts others up." - Vlad III Tepes.

  • @themadprofessor76
    @themadprofessor769 ай бұрын

    Unpopular opinion here, but I loved the Dracula mythos from the film Dracula 2000. The origin portrayed in that film was well executed and makes so much sense that you slap yourself on the head and say "Why didn't I think of that?"

  • @LovemyDrones
    @LovemyDrones Жыл бұрын

    Loved the Anne Rice series of books including but not limited to "Interview with a Vampire". The "Mayfair Witches" was good too as well as "Lasher"

  • @justinandrew5849
    @justinandrew5849 Жыл бұрын

    Just subscribed! This is an excellent video. To answer your question, while I have many favorite vampires from novels, film, & television, my number one favorite is Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer & it's spinoff Angel.

  • @alexiablake2135
    @alexiablake2135 Жыл бұрын

    I would love a video on a Jamaican mythological creature

  • @1tarawho
    @1tarawho Жыл бұрын

    Anne Rices vampires, especially Lestat, is what I envision a true vampire being. If you ever get a chance read Anne Rices The Vampire Lestat!!! I have seriously read it 9 times and it's better each time I read it!!!

  • @alexanderstone4486
    @alexanderstone448610 ай бұрын

    Although at first it might appear as just another YA craze adaptation, The Vampire Diaries show (2009-16) is maybe my favourite interpretation of the expanded lore of these creatures, as it keeps much of the classic characteristics yet puts in a logical modern image that for example isn’t in any way connected to demons or religion. It’s a good series because of the story and characters too but the portrayal of the supernatural beings is actually really well handled

  • @kconnor4568
    @kconnor4568 Жыл бұрын

    I don’t know what my favorite vampire is, owning to the many different iterations that are prominent in this day and age. But given all of that I think my favorite would be a cross (pun intended) between the 20th century , think Bela Lugosi, and Blade.

  • @pattynorthcottmistressofmy101
    @pattynorthcottmistressofmy101 Жыл бұрын

    Yes, I would enjoy an Episode dedicated to one of these creatures. Thank you for your work.

  • @tanyamorgan5362
    @tanyamorgan5362 Жыл бұрын

    The Lost Boys and Legacy of Kain are my favourites

  • @walterfechter8080
    @walterfechter80809 ай бұрын

    My Romanian grandmother once said of Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula, "That IS Dracul'ya." In the village where my grandmother grew up, vampires could not emerge from their graves during the day. Everyone was advised to remain indoors from sunset to sunrise. A howling of a dog or wolf would cause people to utter a prayer to St. Michael. Any night-wandering animal would be viewed with suspicion. A newly covered grave would also be covered with poppy seeds, sprinkled with water blessed by a priest and have crosses/crucifixes made of iron placed over them. Bram Stoker didn't make up every aspect surrounding vampiric lore.

  • @labelledamedumanor4876
    @labelledamedumanor4876 Жыл бұрын

    Who is my favourite vampire? Kain from Legacy of Kain. On the outside he is your typical tyrant but he is a rather complex character. The game franchise shows that neither side is strictly good or evil, the creatures we see as perfect examples of wickedness are capable of doing good if given the chance & the worst kind of evil is that who masquerades as goodness.

  • @richterkennedy2101
    @richterkennedy210111 ай бұрын

    Alucard from the Castlevania series. Son of Dracula, born of a human woman. Detests his dark nature and his father. Uses his powers to combat other creatures of the night. A very cool character. The runner-up would have to be Rudy Giuliani.

  • @F1ghtGam3r
    @F1ghtGam3r2 ай бұрын

    Towards the end of this video, i suddenly remembered the 2009 movie Daybreakers. The plot revolves around vampires sedating humans, & collecting their blood endlessly

  • @jasminnemcdonald94A
    @jasminnemcdonald94A Жыл бұрын

    This is perfect information on vampires. I wonder if Mona the Vampire might want to watch this to brush up on her Monster History?

  • @carlosserra689
    @carlosserra6896 ай бұрын

    Since I was a boy, the vampires were always the only classic monsters I was afraid of

  • @Litauen-yg9ut
    @Litauen-yg9ut Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting, good job.

  • @tomkerruish2982
    @tomkerruish2982 Жыл бұрын

    My favorite vampires? Counts Strahd von Zarovich (D&D) and Sam Dracula (Munsters).

  • @tammydj9941
    @tammydj9941 Жыл бұрын

    Vampire the masquerade lore in WoD 3rd and 4th editions are the best for me. Here, Dracula/Vlad Tepes, a Tzimisce vampire have lowered himself to a 5th gen methuselah. It even have a card game. Thanks to all the gents and ladies who contributed to the rich lore through the years. Mabuhay!

  • @brucewebb1114
    @brucewebb1114 Жыл бұрын

    I like reading Anne Rice vampire books. Interview with the vampire was good as well as Lestat.

  • @soulreaver1983
    @soulreaver1983 Жыл бұрын

    Outstanding video thanks

  • @nicholaslienandjaja1815
    @nicholaslienandjaja1815 Жыл бұрын

    Would like to see an episode on the chupacabra in the future.

  • @balosparksthestoryman5320
    @balosparksthestoryman532011 ай бұрын

    Yes I would love to see a full episode of vampiric creatures

  • @MarcFutoran
    @MarcFutoran Жыл бұрын

    Dracula is my base for vampire lore. Ann Rice was my next interest, to see if she developed on the Dracula legend. She alluded to it but didn't really connect like I hoped she would. In any case, her tales were fascinating in detail. Other than that, I read one tale from a fantasy collection from Forgotten Realms that was interesting in that whole created world.

  • @sharkchaos5160
    @sharkchaos5160 Жыл бұрын

    Great video.

  • @sandramajeau2829
    @sandramajeau2829 Жыл бұрын

    Bram Stokers Dracula with Gary Oldman is my favorite 😍

  • @lyleslaton3086
    @lyleslaton3086 Жыл бұрын

    The concept of draining the lifeforce from humans is what gave us the IRS.

  • @abbieknights5880
    @abbieknights5880 Жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love vampires and am a goth girl I love this video 🧛🏻‍♀️

  • @joshuaguevara542
    @joshuaguevara542 Жыл бұрын

    NEED TO SEE MORE

  • @jimearley5492
    @jimearley5492 Жыл бұрын

    Being of a strong Irish heritage I'd be interested in learning more about the Irish Female Vampire called the Dearg-Due. 💋

  • @jfb173jb
    @jfb173jb3 ай бұрын

    Have to chuckle that Irish writers cemented the archetype and pure character of vampires into the modern era.

  • @verawalters6673
    @verawalters66737 ай бұрын

    I love anything about Vampires.

  • @jacobtorphansen3744
    @jacobtorphansen3744 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, i wish we had one about the origins of vampires, lilith and meaby the first stories in the mytology. i like to see more about the other in the beginning of the video, shang chi and all the other, perhaps a video about vampires in asian and africa. stil great video, thanks.

  • @lorihamblin-longoria2417
    @lorihamblin-longoria2417 Жыл бұрын

    I would like to see an in-depth narration of vampires and the cultural stories that brought about them.

  • @alphonsejohansantelices8038
    @alphonsejohansantelices803811 ай бұрын

    I know that Vampires are International. My favorite Vampire movies 1. Fright Night 1985 2. Fright Night 2 1988 3. Salems Lot 4. Werewolf Concerto 1992 5. Bram Stalkers Dracula 1992 6. Dracula Rising 1993 7. Subspecies 1991 8. Subspecies 3 Blood Lust 1995 9. Club Vampire 10. The Judas Challas 11. Howling VI 12. John Carpenters Vampires 13. Interview with the Vampire 1994 14. Van Hellsing 2004 15. Dracula Untold 2014

  • @Hallel2006
    @Hallel2006 Жыл бұрын

    I would like to see a video about the dhampir half Human half vampire who hunts the vampires

  • @christianchauhan23
    @christianchauhan23 Жыл бұрын

    💛 all your video's bro👍especially this one because it's about #Vampires🧛‍♂️.

  • @s3.14dervision
    @s3.14dervision Жыл бұрын

    I would absolutely love a full-length episode on any of these creatures. I'm Slavic and Native maybe one of their vampires?....

  • @Oddblood01
    @Oddblood01 Жыл бұрын

    Anne Rice created some of the best Vampire brood of all time. Who can hold a candle to Lestat du Lincourt?

  • @unimpressed..

    @unimpressed..

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree on that one. That was killer movie. No pun intended

  • @ieishawebsterjazz
    @ieishawebsterjazz Жыл бұрын

    I think that Dracula is more than a vampire story that a myth

  • @incubustimelord5947

    @incubustimelord5947

    Жыл бұрын

    Prince Vlad Tepes of Romania, also known as Vlad the Impaler was a real ancient historical figure and is who the character Dracula is based on.

  • @gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954
    @gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954 Жыл бұрын

    A greater examination of vampiric beings from the mythology of different cultures would be fascinating - the blood drinking 'life thief' archetype is so widespread and also so influential across so many cultures that its significance from a socio-cultural anthropological standpoint is marked.

  • @ScottBryanMuseslave
    @ScottBryanMuseslave Жыл бұрын

    My favorite vampire stories are from the Foresight Chronicles. Vampire children fighting Dracula with history as a backdrop.

  • @martygould5114
    @martygould5114 Жыл бұрын

    Johnathan Frid was the first to play the reluctant vampire in the TV series Dark Shadows from the late 1960's. People these days that Anne Rice came up with the idea, but that's not true. Frid played Barnabas Collins like a drug addict fighting an addiction, and in the late 60's that really gripped the audience.

  • @severinepaul7664
    @severinepaul7664 Жыл бұрын

    Merci pour votre vidéo super sympa j'aime beaucoup

  • @garycarpenter6433
    @garycarpenter6433 Жыл бұрын

    My favorite vampire 🦇 movie is Dracula with Bella Lagosi but my ultra favorite is Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein funniest movie ever... hilarious but another thing I like is Attack of the Vampire 🦇 featuring the Super Friends where Superman and the Wonder Twins get turned in vamps also Spiderman, Iceman and Firestar meet him both cartoons are great 👍

  • @adrianburchell8075
    @adrianburchell8075 Жыл бұрын

    In books, my favourite vampire books are Bram Stoker's Dracula, Stephen King's Salem's Lot, George RR Martin's Fevre Dream ans Simon Clarks Vamphyrric series, tv's Ultraviolet and The Stain, in film Nosferatu and BBC's 1977 Count Dracula. I would also like you to do indepth episodes of other culture's vampires, esp the Fillipino Mannangal.

  • @MythologyUnleashed

    @MythologyUnleashed

    Жыл бұрын

    As you wish! kzread.info/dash/bejne/aq2jq9eIppDJfbg.html

  • @antonkovalenko364
    @antonkovalenko364 Жыл бұрын

    Props for sneaking Strahd von Zarovich in there. 😄

  • @wellston2826
    @wellston2826 Жыл бұрын

    Well, I ain't wasting no steak on a lousy vampire. Have you seen the price of beef lately?

  • @emilyeshelman5216
    @emilyeshelman5216 Жыл бұрын

    I'd like to see a video centered upon the Absalom mentioned in this take- African folklore in general is truly interesting and could do with more attention. Oh, and favorite vampire characters? Gotta say the main cast of What We Do In The Shadows tv series and film...

  • @Okbuddypal

    @Okbuddypal

    Жыл бұрын

    Mine is Alucard from Hellsing