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Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living. In folkloric tales, the undead vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early Nineteenth Century. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term vampire was not popularised until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe,[1] although local variants were also known by different names, such as vampir (вампир) in Serbia, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism.

In modern times, however, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures. Early folkloric belief in vampires has been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalise this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but this link has since been largely discredited.

The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of The Vampyre by John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century.[2] However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula that is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, and television shows. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre.

吸血鬼（Vampire），又名吸血僵尸，传说中永生不老的超自然不死生物。

“常规”的吸血鬼是:

牙齿尖长，皮肤苍白（像面粉一样白），眼睛发红。吸血鬼害怕照射到阳光，在太阳下会烟灭或融化。

但是也认为高等级的吸血鬼可以维持在太阳下不死，只是能力有所下降，有称这些可在阳光下横行无阻的吸血鬼为“日行者（Daywalker）”，但仍然在“常规”的吸血鬼范围内 。

由于吸血鬼的恢复能力极强，所以一般武器无法使吸血鬼致命，只有“银”能够杀死吸血鬼。吸血鬼惧怕十字架和大蒜。

(对于吸血鬼惧怕大蒜，有人认为是由于吸血鬼拥有远高于常人的嗅觉造成的，大蒜的刺激性气味令吸血鬼感到强烈不适。也有些人认为大蒜具有杀菌的功效，所以也可以用来驱逐吸血鬼。)

有些故事中的吸血鬼没有影子，在镜子中看不到它，而且它在未被邀请的时候决不会进入房子。有可变身为蝙蝠、狼犬、蚊子，或者雾等的说法。

一般认为人类可能会变成吸血鬼。一说是被吸血鬼咬了(三次以后)就会变成吸血鬼；另一种说法是喝下吸血鬼的血才能变成吸血鬼。
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Western focused vampire originated in Romania德库拉count.
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Vampire Discovering Romania
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I have read the legend and superstition in the world, are set in the Carpathian region of the horseshoe. Here seems to be a fantasy vortex. If so, my journey will be very interesting. (Memo:德库拉count to verify these legends.)
- Bram Stoker (Bram Stoker) of "Drucula"
When the name "vampire" is a glossary at that today's people are no longer strangers. Powerful names in Hollywood so that it and the world. From movies to computer games, its name often surprised at head. While the vampire thriller in the West are an absolute hero, but compared to the Monster獠牙to look unfamiliar, some images have made us a better memory: "Bram Stoker Dracula" and a tragic hero-style blood-sucking count, base slave风度翩翩Revie and innocent beauty of vero娜瑞塔; "Interview with the Vampire" and as a heterogeneous and depression remains of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt did not lose the Cold. It is as if surprised at the story of Song after the Middle Ages in Europe are unlikely to go away with the beautiful romantic.
Talking about the origin of vampires, Hollywood is not its founder. Irish writer Bram Stoker (Bram Stoker) allow vampires to become European and American literature gallery an important role. In 1897 he created the legendary novel "德库拉" (Drucula), wake-up call for sleeping in the remote countryside of Eastern European vampire, making it a trembling and unable to forget the image. From then on, people firmly in mind of a character and a place:德库拉count and his homeland of Romania.

A night in San Francisco, during our time: A young journalist follows a man through the streets and they end up in an anonymous room. When the journalist starts to interview the man, the stranger tells him that he is a vampire, being over 200 years old. The journalist doesn't believe him, but after the man proves it's true, he tells his story: His name is Louis and in 18th century New Orleans he was 24, by this time owner of an estate and a widower already. One night, when he once again was destroying himself by drinking and other things, he was found by Lestat, a vampire, who bit him. But even after becoming a vampire, life wasn't fun for Louis until one night he met a little girl, Claudia, who should change his existance forever.
(USA - 1994): 17th century New Orleans: The relationship between an ancient vampire (Tom Cruise) and his bloodsucking protegé (Brad Pitt) is tested to destruction by a young girl (Kirsten Dunst) who challenges their established dynamic, leading to betrayal and murder.
A doom-laden meditation on life and death and the nature of grief, based on Anne Rice's bestselling novel (written as a response to the death of her beloved daughter), and featuring two of contemporary Hollywood's most recognizable stars (both astonishingly beautiful here) as vampire and willing victim, remaining eternally young as the world evolves around them. Cruise plays a seasoned killer who revels in bloodthirsty excess, while Pitt is a conscientious objector who balks at the prospect of drinking human blood, until Cruise creates a 'companion' for Pitt in the shape of a little girl (Dunst) who refuses to grow old gracefully, with tragic consequences.
Scored with melancholy grace by composer Elliot Goldenthal, and beautifully designed and photographed (by Dante Ferretti and Philippe Rousselot, respectively), the film is epic in concept and execution, spanning the social upheavals of 17th and 18th century America and the horrors of 19th century Europe, where a nest of ancient vampires (led by scene-stealer Antonio Banderas and a miscast Stephen Rea) wreak terrible revenge on those who transgress against vampire lore. But, for all its spectacle, director Neil Jordan (THE COMPANY OF WOLVES) - working from a script credited to Rice herself - maintains a leisurely pace and never loses sight of the characters. The movie contains some beautiful, transcendent passages, including a breathtaking transition from 19th century Europe to modern day America via the introduction of motion pictures (everything from SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS to GONE WITH THE WIND and SUPERMAN!), and an incredibly moving sequence in which a once-proud vampire is discovered in exile, laid low by his own vanity.
The film's delicate tone is upset by a trick ending which comes completely out of left-field, though Jordan has denied any suggestion of studio interference. And, as with the novel, the homoerotic undercurrent is mere window-dressing, an unconsummated tease which the filmmakers (and Rice herself) refuse to explore in any detail, lest it frighten the mainstream crowd. Sadly, the movie is dedicated to the memory of River Phoenix - originally cast as the interviewer who provides one half of the film's title - who died of a drugs overdose during pre-production; his role was taken by Christian Slater. Followed by QUEEN OF THE DAMNED (2002).