I was just looking at my list of upcoming vampire movies, and I counted 52 films/TV shows being released between 2009 and 2011. They range from the smallest indies to The Twilight Saga, but, still, that's quite the plethora of vampire entertainment! Add that to the online series and the hundreds of vampire books being published, and you have to ask, "Will the vampire craze die out?"
Speaking from personal experience, I know publishers have become wary of picking up vampire novels due to the sheer number of them out there. If vampire burnout occurs, it's unfortunate for the projects following in the shadow of Twilight, especially when many projects began before the Twilight phenomenon (ahem, again, I speak from experience).
How do the readers and moviegoers feel? Are you getting sick of the undead? Although I have the Vampire Crossover Music Video Contest poll running on Suburban Vampire right now, I've squeezed in a mini-poll that asks, "Are you getting tired of the vampire craze?" Because this is a vampire blog, I know my results will be a little skewed, but I'm curious to see the responses.
3 comments:
I, of course, will never get sick of good vampire movies, books, TV shows, etc. But the craze will end eventually. For awhile there it was zombies and now vampires. Wonder what will be next?
I never get tired of good vampire stories. Nor, really, of good bad vampire stories (an odd category, that might better be described as "fun trash"). But any genre can get stuck in a rut. For awhile there epic fantasy was clogged with LOTR clones, only cuter. The undead seem to be wavering between Twilight (virtuos vampires, inter-racial love stories, etc.) and 30 Days of Night (genuine horror, gore, etc.). The real trick would be to combine the two...but I digress.
While I'm not always in the mood for vampire movies, books, t.v. shows, etc. I am always pleased by good examples of same. The real question is about maintaining quality.
Yeah, that was nice and pretentious. Methinks I'll go with that.
Dracenea: I keep hearing this is the year of the werewolf, but there are far more vampire films coming out than werewolf movies--although the weres will have more big-budget 2009 films.
Zahir: I agree that it's hard to get tired of a genre as long as good stories come out of it.
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