Vampire History

When people think of old vampires many seem to think of Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's 1897 Novel. Even though this novel is fictitious Dracula's character was said to have been based on 'Vlad Tepes Dracul' (Vlad the Impaler) (1431-76)

Vampire folklore has existed for centuries, it has been traced back to Mesopotamians (iraq), Hebrews, Ancient Greeks and Romans. It has been said that they had tales of demonic entiteles and blood drinking spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires.

Oxford's dictionary of a vampire is "a corpse supposed, in European folklore, to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth. Although this may have been the case for vampire stories a while back, the idea of vampires has changed since they entered Hollywood. "Many scholars argue the word “vampire” is either from the Hungarian vampir or from the Turkish upior, upper, upyr meaning “witch."

The Lost Boys' (1987) according to their tagline "Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die" which is a bit different from arising from a grave'
Also the characters in 'Twilight' (2008) can be shown in the sunlight as well as sparkling (unlike the common assumption)

There are many different myths about vampires and how they are portrayed around the world.
For example the swedish film 'Let the right one in' (2008)'s vampire character Eli is portrayed differently to the vampire's in 'Twilight' (2008). This may be for many reasons for example they have different audiences, 'Let the Right One In' (2008) will appeal to people of Swedish relation as they will possibly connect with the main character (Oskar) better due to the mise en scene (location). From my knowledge it would seem that 'Twilight' (2008) appeals to a wide range of people particularly teenage females because of the romance aspect of the narrative as well as the actors portraying these characters.