Vampire's Are Monsters

   I have a very specific idea of what a vampire is supposed to be and because of that, I actually couldn't finish Interview With the Vampire. The idea in my head is that vampires are monsters. When I think of a vampire, I think of a character who's only real goal is to eat people or to suck them dry. If they act suave or seem to have some emotion of love, it's a lie. Of what I read of Interview With the Vampire, I can say that's really not the type of vampire I can enjoy. I will admit, it's closer to my ideal than the vampires of say, Twilight, but the drama involved with being a vampire is still there. In my mind, a vampire is dead which means their human self is dead along with all the personal emotions. Interview With the Vampire starts out with a vampire who sounds almost depressed or “emo” about his past. That being said, he does say that all he has is the memory of the feeling, which is what I'm looking for. It was so close, but it never really explored more than saying it. They said it was a memory, but then acted like it wasn't.

   Probably the biggest problem I have with today's vampire culture is how vampirism has somehow become sexual. Recently I saw an episode of a new television show with a friend that included vampires, werewolves, and ghosts and the vampire, at one point, went somewhere to drink blood. The scene was displayed as though drinking blood was having sex. The shots were filmed in almost the same manner as sex scenes in a movie. This is something that I'll never understand. Maybe it's because of my gender, but drinking blood, to me, is in no way sexual. It's as sexual as murder, because it is murder. In my mind, vampires are monsters not angsty immortals.