RE: I don’t understand the fascination with vampires.
Vampires are about fantasy. Immortality and unconstrained sexuality where choices must be made and pleasure without guilt.
Isn’t that what a lot of people secretly crave for? In a sense they are living their fantasies through the vampires’ life.
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They, like zombies, are a socially acceptable surrogate and code name for a certain class, in the case of vampires the class is politicians, predatory banksters, union bosses etc.
For women it's a two-fer. There's the excitement about the bad boy plus the fascination with the aristocratic lover.
Don't know what guys get out of it. I guess the girls just drag them along. Sooner or later the women complain that the men aren't as romantic and attentive as their favorite vampire so the couples break up.
***I don’t understand the fascination with vampires. ***
Well at least it is not another zombie flick! Just think of all those slain Civil War soldiers rising and marching on Washington.