I've always thought vampires would be more interesting than zombies. A virus that makes humans and animals dependent on consuming blood and transmits through saliva-to-bloodstream contact would fuck the global population in a matter of months.
There are movies about vampire infections, you really dont gotta look very far.
There is even one that shows what happens when vampires take over society and try to run it as normal, with humans in literal blood farms.
And the results are...rather eye opening on why vampires would much rather rule from the shadows rather than "take over the world". Eventually that precious blood is going to start running out as there aint enough humans to feed the entire vampire population and when it runs out, then what? Its an interesting movie none the less.
Daybreakers it was called I think.
Really? I'm a big fan of the original, and the remake is garbage. They make Candyman a spirit of Black vengeance against Evil Whites, because blacks never did nuffin'. It would be insufferable race baiting garbage as a standalone property, and as a remake it spits in the face of the original.
Thats like turning The Grudge ghost into a WW2 ghost getting back at the americans or something, its just not what the original represents.
Also a terrible misuse of Tony Todd, the man that, lets face it, carried the shitty sequels on his back through his acting and charm. May the big guy rest in peace.
John Hillcoat is attempting to adapt Blood Meridian, by the way.
Which is weird and redundant since The Proposition is basically a take on Blood Meridian. But I wish him well. He'll need the luck.
Yeah, idk if he should bother, I mean, Blood Meridian is the most "violent" story of its author (and he seems to have a thing for nihilistic violence, possibly a "healthy" outlet for disturbed thoughts he has if I had to guess) but I wouldnt say its the best.
And like I said, either he faithfully adapts it and its cancelled out the ass because the story sure as fuck doesnt give a shit about modern sensibilities or he tones down the violence, degeneracy and racism (cuz there is a LOT of racism in it) and in a way "ceases" to be Blood Meridian.
The Judge is one of the most despicable villains in literature and you cant portray him well without going "all the way" on his wretched nature (and lets face it, lines that walk the thin line between cool and "ouch edgy" like "“Whatever
exists, he said. Whatever in creation
exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” ")
The entire "take that" against internet people who chat about how they would try to survive a zombie outbreak....massive fucking sin in need of correction obviously... amounted to some random guy at the start of the first series who randomly decided salt would kill the zombies because he read it online (this scene took place like a year after the outbreak so a year after online was a thing), and wound up getting himself and his wife and daughter raped to death because he was written to be so fucking stupid. Real fucking cutting critique there I know.
I did forget this character until you reminded me, now all the feelings of peak eye roll cringe have returned. So was that suppose to be a "take that" towards online nerds?
The longer I learn about comic book writers and artists, the more I see that Chris Chan would have fit right in if he was less of a retard (and could draw "slightly" better)
