Things we get fixated as a society. Cultural icons, in other words.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Vampires and bloodsuckers

Female Vampire from Van Helsing


This is a vampire from the movie Van Helsing. It think this capture in particular is a wonderful example of what a female vampire should be. I mean this not as a role model but more of how me imagine a vampiress (vampiretta? vampira?) in our image-driven minds.



Vampire girl drinking blood


This is a picture of a young vampire girl drinking blood on the cover of the comics magazine Vertigo.



Female Vampire from Van Helsing


This is Elizabeth Bathory in McFarelane's Monster Series, Six Faces of Madness. This is a small toy sculpture showing the countess taking a blood bath. Elizabeth Bathory (or Elisabeth Bathori, Erzsebet Bathori) was a Hungarian noble lady in the late 16th and early 17th centuries who was known to murder young girls because she believed that their blood would help her maintain her beauty and avoid ageing.