Sure , Twilight : wear Dawn Part 1 break box office records , get thefifth best opening weekendof all clip . But Breaking Dawn still does n’t weaken our hearts the path some other lamia tales do .
Here are 10 vampire narrative that are more amatory than Breaking Dawn .
The Hunger screencap viaOoh1a1a on Livejournal .
1 . The Hunger
What it ’s about : When Miriam ( Catherine Deneuve ) finds her longtime choir John ( David Bowie ) apace age , she find a newfangled associate , the beautiful Sarah ( Susan Sarandon ) . But Sarah begins to have doubts about the vampiric lifestyle .
Why it ’s quixotic : Like many lamia relationships , the courtship between Sarah and Miriam is doomed from the jump , but beautiful and dazzling while it lasts ..
2 . Dracula ( 1979 )
What it ’s about : Based on a Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker ’s novel , this cinema star Frank Langella as Dracula and Laurence Olivier as Van Helsing . Langella ’s Dracula is as much a victim of his consideration as he is a marauder , and he fall in love with Lucy Seward , even hook up with her and taking her to Transylvania to be his bride .
Why it ’s romantic : Instead of a terrifying Dracula who exults in his consideration , Langella gives us a likeable , tragical lamia , who suffers and cares about his victims . The idea of Dracula as dearest story is peck up in Francis Ford Coppola ’s 1992 Bram Stoker ’s Dracula .
3 . Poppy Z. Brite ’s bemused mortal
What it ’s about : Steve and Ghost are both penis of the band Lost Souls , based out of Missing Mile , North Carolina . And they share a mysterious friendship , which turns into becoming lovers in a succeed - up shortsighted story .
Why it ’s romantic : The relationship between Steve and Ghost is dripping with sexual tension and unrealized hungriness . Image byAnna Shelkova .
4 . Thirst
What it ’s about : San - hyeon is a Catholic priest who volunteers to test an observational vaccine for the deathly Emmanuel Virus — but it work him into a lamia , and he starts lusting after Tae - ju , the beautiful wife of his puerility friend , who longs to head for the hills from her suffocate family life . Soon , she ’s dragging him further down a non-white path .
Why it ’s romantic : Thirst is a queasy , horrifying tale , yet the love story between San - hyeon and Tae - ju never lose sight of these characters ’ complexity , and the desperate need that they both sense . The kinship between these two characters is a big reasonwhy Thirst have under your peel .
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5 . Interview with the Vampire ( Book )
What it ’s about : Louis isfascinated by the beautiful , sainted Lestat — until Lestat turn Louis into a vampire , and Louis has to come to condition with an timelessness of feed off blood . Louis and Lestat are inseparable companions , until Louis eventually get away and find a young companion , Armand .
Why it ’s romantic : The shackle between Louis and Lestat is complex and often ugly — but also quite beautiful . Lestat teaches Louis to take life , but also to realize that existence is meaningless without a reverence for life .
6 . Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( TV Series )
What it ’s about : Buffy Summers is the Slayer , the one girl with the power to kill vampires — but she also spends most of her clip romantically mat with two reclaim vampires , Angel and Spike .
Why it ’s romantic : Buffy ’s slow suit with Angel is acute and tinged with longing — and then they finally get together , and the inviolable worst thing happens as a result . Afterwards , Buffy and Angel suffer the torment of know they can never really be together . And then there ’s the even more poison , doomed family relationship with Spike , afterwards .
7 . Let The Right One In
What it ’s about : Oskar is a young boy live in a drab snowy townsfolk , being ballyrag by his classmates — until he meets his neighbor Eli , who is likely a touchy new fille . Eli and Oskar develop a special connexion , even after Oskar realizes that Eli is something entirely different .
Why it ’s romanticist : In some ways , this is just a beautiful coming - of - age story and a childhood love story in which Eli teaches Oskar to stand up for himself and two lonesome hoi polloi come together — but it ’s also a creepy , trouble story in which you are left with the dread that Oskar is going to be trapped in the same companion kinship to Eli that Eli ’s old caretaker , Håkan , had .
8 . Carmilla
What it ’s about : The original lesbian vampire level , this 1871 novel by J. Sheridan Le Fanu keep up the beautiful Carmilla Karnstein , who preys on a new girl , Laura , but also falls in love with her . This novel wasmade into several movies , including Roger Vadim ’s Blood and Roses and the Hammer Horror picture The Vampire Lovers .
Why it ’s quixotic : Carmilla and Laura are constantly cover and kiss each other in the novel , and Laura talks about Carmilla “ gazing in my face with languorous and burning eyes , and breathing so fast that her attire lift and fell with the troubled external respiration . It was like the ardor of a devotee . ” Carmilla feel shamed for suck the life strength out of Laura , but also professes love and worship for her . Like many lamia Latinian language , their love is sentence and unhealthy , but also glorious .
9 . The Vampire Diaries ( television receiver serial publication )
What it ’s about : Sorry , but I have to stick up for the amazing Vampire Diaries TV show , in which the resourceful but raw Elena is tear between two brothers , Stefan and Damon . Like the Buffy TV serial , there ’s oodles of plait and tour , admit which brother is the “ good ” brother at any given time , but the main constant is a fearful longing and the endless series of obstacle thrown in the way of Elena ’s felicity .
Why it ’s romantic : Stefan taking Elena to the top of the rollercoaster , Stefan walk Elena up a falls … this show has oozed romance on many occasions . But most of all , Stefan ’s late fight to give on to his love for Elena after the more powerful vampire Klaus put him to wipe out her was sweet and tragic .
10 . Near Dark
What it ’s about : Kathryn Bigelow ’s first big movie stars Adrian Pasdar as a young farmboy who gets turn into a lamia by a hot girl name Mae ( Jenny Wright ) , then he has to teach to get along with her awe-inspiring thrill - killing lamia home . Bigelow borrow most of the supporting cast from Aliens .
Why it ’s romantic : The relationship between Pasdar and Wright is a love - at - first - sight thing , which turn into a larger-than-life quest to save Wright from herself and from her atrocious family . It ’s the rare lamia story in which there really is salvation , and love can really be noble rather than ego - destructive .
extra coverage by Natalie Baaklini . Thanks also to Annalee and Meredith .
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