Why are they connected to the South (Interview with the Vampire, Vampire Diaries) or Mexico (From Dusk till Dawn, John Carpenter's Vampires)? Is this some US urban myth or something?
Vampires in US movies
Luis Parker
Robert Nelson
True Blood as well. I could be completely wrong but I feel like in US Lore the vampires here came from France which is why they settled in the south.
Parker Ward
You forgot the Lincoln the vampire hunter movie
Charles Roberts
The south is hot and sweaty, and full of degenerates.
Jordan Collins
Because vampires are meant to be refined and appear civilized. You only find that in the south, the north is full of a bunch of dirty foreigners and sexual deviants.
Jaxon Roberts
You forgot True Blood. But for real, this may be a better question for /lit/. I assume it has roots in the Southern Gothic literary genre, though I don't think any of the original Southern Gothic books were about vampires. Also, once Anne Rice wrote her books, lots of people just copied her in many ways
Grayson Sanchez
I think that's right. Vampires are also assumed to be very long lived, and the image of the vampire as a wealthy mysterious recluse is easier to reconcile with a plantation owner than a manufacturing tycoon.
Brayden Gonzalez
That is kind of funny considering 30 days of night is like the only vampire movie in that’s set in a cold snowy environment and is also the only one that manages to be scary instead of corny.
Christopher Clark
Yeah I really think that’s just cannon at this point.
Zachary Baker
Camp kino.
Jaxon Harris
I think it's perhaps a mixture of French and the superstitions of the black people living in New Orleans. Creole I guess? Since black people were free in New Orleans, their culture permeated the overall culture more than in other places. Marie Laveau is one such example of an alleged creole New Orleans vampire.
David Cruz
its primarily because the South, New Orleans specifically is entrenched in superstitions that came from trade through the Caribbean.
what's stranger is that vampires are historically a belief in colony states. German immigrants that lived on the border of the Slovakian countries had superstitions about vampires, and some of them came to fight for the British during the American Revolution. Afterward, they settled here, and their superstitions did too. They believed that tuberculosis was a vampiric curse on the family and would dig up the graves of people they suspected brought the curse. They'd cut out the heart, burn it to ash, and then create a tonic remedy out of the ash to try and cure those afflicted with the curse. There's actually a notorious case that happened like this that people say inspired Bram Stoker's depiction of what happened to Lucy
en.wikipedia.org
Adam Diaz
cheaper to film in old historical plantations than it is old historical estates in the north east
Jack Nelson
>German immigrants that lived on the border of the Slovakian countries had superstitions about vampires, and some of them came to fight for the British during the American Revolution. Afterward, they settled here, and their superstitions did too
Do you got a source for this? I'm aware of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who was part of the Hungarian royals stationed in modern day Slovakia. But unsure if that's what you're referencing and who the German immigrants are
Noah Taylor
AMAZING acting for someone her age, also the makeup team did top tier work.
Jace Martin
My link in my first post, and this also mentions the New England Vampire Panic, and the German soldiers (near the end)
smithsonianmag.com
The term you're looking for specifically is "Hessian". That was what they called the German soldiers
en.wikipedia.org
Fun Fact: in the Headless Horseman's backstory scene in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, they mentioned he was a Hessian mercenary.
James Reyes
>also the makeup team did top tier work
Stan Winston.
Thomas Lopez
Can you imagine how cringe it would be to have a canadian vampire
>I'll suck your blood!
>Oh no!, please don't !
>Oh, ok, I do apologise I overstep my boundaries, please accept my apologies, have a good night m'lady
Luke Stewart
figures
Bentley Cruz
Blacks are not the source of the vampire mythos as presented in southern gothic. Black influence came into play in some respects later.
Mason Taylor
Stupid fuck, they were books first. Read something.