The Genocide of the Vampires
Lack of moral nuance in a popular genre threatens to make us the monsters
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16 min readMar 17, 2019
You can’t see a vampire in the mirror for the simple reason that the vampire is your reflection. Vampires onscreen are projections of human desires. Hammer audiences lick their fangs with Christopher Lee at all the delicious bosoms beckoning. Dracula pierces the exposed neck with a phallic…