Puras Pendejadas: Vampires

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Oct 31, 2023

By Sofia Salgado

Opinion board

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Why Write About Vampires?

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Dracula

Near Dark

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Dracula

Vampires mainly show thefears of deviance from so sexually, cultural ciety ( ly and religiousl y) . A lot of themes featuring vampire in movies s show LGBTQ+ topics such as in Daughter with th Dracula’s ere being sexual tension between Marya Zaleska an C ountess d her female vict ims with the vitc underdressed be ims being fore being killed and one scene w like Count Marya he re it looks will either kiss or bite the sleeping victim.

Near Dark shows a group of vampi res depicting the and the explotia nuclear family tion of kindness w ith the way they food for the day. hunt for They live day by day in a meaning sleeping in the da le ss cycle of y and living at ni ght. Only this tim a mansion or goth e it is not in ic but more of a cowboy vampire Oklahoma rather story set in than Transylvani a. In the same va in, The Lost

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Cronos

Salem’s Lot