Analysis of genre

Analysis of genre

Vampire genre has been around ever since the early 20^th century. Vampire films have been since the era of silent films, so much so that the portrayal of vampires in popular culture is strongly based upon their portrayal in films throughout the years. The most popular adaption of a vampire film was Dracula with over 170 different versions.  By 2005 Dracula had been a subject more than any other fictional character. As folklore shows vampires are defined by their need to feed on blood and their manipulative nature. This is a theme that is always common in many adaptations. Although vampires are generally associated with horror they sometimes end up into the drama, action, science fiction, romance, comedy or fantasy genre.

        Before in the genre vampires had certain things they had to do to survive and get on with life. Before vampires would live in dark massive castles. The castle would have many rooms with creaky floorboards, cobwebs everywhere and loads of antiques that have collected dust. Vampires would also sleep in coffins.Vampires would perish if they had stepped foot into the sunlight and if they have had holy water sprayed on them. Also garlic was used in many movies as a way to get rid of vampires. Now vampires live in big modern houses and don’t sleep. The houses are equipped with modern day equipment as a way for producers to make them seem normal. Now if a vampire steps foot into sunlight they sparkle.

       In a vampire movie you always expect to see the massive houses. In the houses there are always massive spider webs that cover all the corners. Some passer-by normally walks in curious of what’s going on. When they walk in the doors and floorboards always creak letting the vampire know that somebody is in his castle. A passer-by would always see the coffin and would realize what was going on in this house.