Vampires #2

Millions of people on this planet crave power. Whether it is the power to boss people around or power to bench press 300lbs at the gym, power is something that is constantly being desired. This ability changes people in ways that create more positive confidence in them which will either benefit or harm the world. In the fictional world, or to the dark world, vampires are creatures that also desire power. As mentioned in 'Vampire's Activity', "Vampires, it seems are power-mad." By putting together popular vampire notions that involve blood, death, darkness, and hungry with the desire for power, I believe this would create the ultimate fictional or even real creature.

Power can be worse to this world when it is exercised improperly by a group of people. Vampires, for example, tend to belong in groups. These vicious groups work together to hunt down and share their prey. A movie that reveals this vampire-type mentality is the movie 30 Days of Night. This movie came out about 3 months ago and is definitely one for all vampire addicts to see. 30 Days of Night has one main vampire who is the leader of about 7 others. This group of vampires includes female vampires who were protected and cared for throughout the movie. The females almost seemed as though they were slowly being developed into better vampires. The movie also stresses the idea of victims turning into vampires after being bitten. The transition from being human and then becoming a vampire is not immediate in the movie, rather, it takes a couple hours.

Victims that are killed are left at the scene of the crime decomposing. This "decomposition tends to be explained as the action of demons", and this is clearly shown with the vampires attacking them. Instead of understanding how likely vampire victims are buried, I would like to stress how the vampires in the movie 30 Days of Night were planning on burying their dead. Instead of eating every bit and piece of the human body, these vampires choose to set the whole town on fire. I believe Hollywood played a huge role in this because people are more willing to watch a whole town burn to bits instead of watching vampires eat single bit of their victims. Throughout the movie, ghastly sounds are heard whenever the vampires were on the prowl. “In the Philippines, according to Ramos, ghouls can be heard eating newly buried bodies”, thus people can assume that these ghouls can possibly be vampires. Vampires feast on humans; therefore, I believe people still fear the idea of them. I hope to never see a real vampire in my life.