Protoclown's 2008 Movie Awards

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Originally Posted by greenimp

vampires, traditionally, were not like dracula at all, but rather repulsive, bloating corpses, closer to zombies than vampires really, but intelligent, and could never walk around in the daylight, lest they burn up.

Though folkloric vampires were believed to be more active at night, they were not generally considered vulnerable to sunlight

Over time, some attributes now regarded as integral became incorporated into the vampire's profile: fangs and vulnerability to sunlight appeared over the course of the 19th century, with Varney the Vampire and Count Dracula both bearing protruding teeth, and Murnau's Nosferatu fearing daylight

Folkloric vampires were supposedly hideous though, not hot sexy studs like <3 Edward Cullen <3