Entertainment Weekly’s Top Vampire Is…
As you’ve noticed, vampires are so hot right now. So, naturally, it’s Entertainment Weekly’s job to ask the tough questions. Why? and Who’s The Best Vampire Of Them All?
The latest issue of EW interviews vampire writers and the creators of these vampire shows and tries to make sense of it all. Anne Rice says she thinks the public is so taken with vampires because we want to be them.
“People are intrigued by what they would do if they were offered the opportunity to be a vampire,” she says. “ Would they be willing to drink human blood in order to be immortal? Maybe they would.”
Meanwhile, Alan Ball, c0-executive producer of True Blood, thinks the show is so popular because of it’s political undertones expressing the “eight years of institutionalized demonization of pretty much any group that wasn’t on the bus with Mr. Bush.”
And if you could honestly care less why you’re obsessed with Robert Pattinson, the magazine includes their top 20 Greatest Vampires.
Sorry Twilight-a-holics: R-Patz is in measly 4th place. Check it out:
- Lestat, Interview With the Vampire
- Christopher Lee’s Dracula
- Bela Lugosi’s Dracula
- Edward Cullen, Twilight
- Bill and Eric, True Blood
- Asa Vajda, 1960’s Black Sunday
- Angel
- Mr. Barlow, Salem’s Lot
- Schuyler Van Alen, Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods series
- Gary Oldman’s Dracula
- Klaus Kinski’s Dracula
- Zoey Redbird, P.C. and Kristin Cast’s House of Night series
- Jean-Claude, Laurel K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
- David, 1987’s The Lost Boys
- Miriam Blaylock and Sarah Roberts, 1983’s The Hunger
- Blade, the Blade trilogy
- Eli, 2008’s Let the Right One In
- Countess Bathory, 1971’s Daughters of Darkness
- Selene, the Underworld trilogy
- Caleb and Mae, 1987’s Near Dark
