My impression is that those two monsters became sympathetic when they started being "cursed" rather than doing it to themselves via witchcraft or dealing with the devil. For vampires that would be with Dracula (not the count, but Mina) and for werewolves it would be the movie era, with Werewolf of London, and later The Wolf Man cemented that.
Personally, I'd be thrilled to see a return to the heartless, damned flesh-eating vampires from, like, six centuries ago. Before they grew style and taste and charm, back when they lived in graves for real.
(Eternal nocturnal enemies? I'd love to know when that trope started. At one point, werewolves turned INTO vampires after they died.)
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Date: 2008-06-16 06:35 pm (UTC)My impression is that those two monsters became sympathetic when they started being "cursed" rather than doing it to themselves via witchcraft or dealing with the devil. For vampires that would be with Dracula (not the count, but Mina) and for werewolves it would be the movie era, with Werewolf of London, and later The Wolf Man cemented that.
Personally, I'd be thrilled to see a return to the heartless, damned flesh-eating vampires from, like, six centuries ago. Before they grew style and taste and charm, back when they lived in graves for real.
(Eternal nocturnal enemies? I'd love to know when that trope started. At one point, werewolves turned INTO vampires after they died.)
(Werewolf fan all the way.)