# vampires

Farewell, sweet Claudia...

'Interview with the Vampire' (1994) dir. Neil Jordan.

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2019-03-04

In an interesting use of Pearly Gates imagery, St. Peter reminds the Christmas Angels and the Great British Public to "post early for Christmas". 'Christmas is Coming' (1951) dir. Lotte Reiniger - a promotional film commissioned by the General Post Office.

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2019-03-04

CROSSROADS. English law stated that suicides should be buried in the highway before 1823. Eerie crossroads were chosen and the corpse was often staked. This ritual was to deter others & supports the belief that restless suicides could easily return as

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2019-02-28

Taken from a traditional Russian folktale, and full of all manner of Death and devilry - 'The Soldier and Death' (1989) dir. Jim Henson. Taken from Jim Henson's The StoryTeller series - season 1.

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2019-02-18

Sleep is often used as a metaphor for death/resurrection/salvation in fairytales: 'Sleeping Beauty / Dornröschen' (1943) dir. Ferdinand Diehl.

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2019-02-13

VAMPYR, 1932, dir Carl Dreyer. In Romanian folklore a vampire is a dead person's shadow. In this film shadows leave their owners, commit murder and dance together; a man witnesses his own funeral from within his casket and the machinations of vampires become real

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2019-02-12