Vampire Craze!!!

Vampires have taken a huge bite in to the media. Vampires are everywhere these days from books to movies. I feel like many movies being created today have been incorporating vampires. I think that this is a marketing tool because most books and movies with vampires seem to be selling very well. In the past two years at least four movies and even more books have consisted of vampires. The theme of vampires originated with the 1897 novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker. In 1994, “An Interview with a Vampire” starring 90s heartthrobs Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise came out. Vampires are often played by very attractive people and the leading men are the ones that for some reason receive the most attention. In 2008, the movie “Twilight” came out starring Robert Patterson and Kirsten Stewart recreated the vampire craze. After the movie “Twilight” came out most people ran to the stores to purchase Stephanie Meyer’s novels: “Twilight”, “New Moon”, “Eclipse”, and “Breaking Dawn” I know I did. I personally think that the books are better than the movies. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” film was a much better adaptation of the novel “New Moon” than the first movie “Twilight” was. I am very glad because the books are really good and the movies should do them justice. Vampires are often played by very attractive people and the leading men are the ones that for some reason receive the most attention. In 2008, HBO created a series about vampires called “Truebloodbased on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. Then, earlier this year the CW11 created a series about vampires called, “The Vampire Diaries” based on the novel series “The Vampires Diaries” by L.J. Smith. Vampires sell because they are often played by very attractive actors.