Vampires or Zombies
October 24th, 2009 | 
Author: What is it about vampires and zombies that interests people and why do some of us prefer one over the other?
Personally, I prefer vampires!
Vampires are mysterious creatures and there is mention of them throughout history and there is always the question, do they exist and in what form?
Vampires from literature have been transformed into dark creatures, some of which are sexually alluring, while few of them are deadly and hated. I like stories that feature erotic vampires that are evil and sadistic and I’m a big fan of the vampires portrayed in the old Hammer Horror movies.
I can’t stand the idea of teenage vampires running around in a high school. I won’t even entertain the idea.
Vampires from folklore are vile, filthy creatures that haunt the living to feed from their energy, whether it be for blood or psychic energy.
There is so much to look at in regards to vampires, but what do we have with zombies?
Zombies are literally the walking dead. They have no sense and they have no charisma. They stumble awkwardly looking for the living to feed on their brains, but for what purpose?
They don’t even look attractive!
Correct, they are a creature to be feared from as I wouldn’t want to come across one with black bloody gunge drooling down its chin moaning about brains.
Actually, I seen an old man in an old people’s home when I was a child visiting my nana and he had some dark liquid spilling from his mouth down his chin. He asked me for a kiss and I ran! He reminds me of a zombie, but I easily escaped.
To me, zombies are just dumb creatures that survive for humans to enjoy blasting to bits. That’s what most movies portray and quite frankly, they bore me.
I do have a favourite zombie on Twitter who goes by the name of ‘TheReal_ZoMbiE’. He is so damn witty! If you like zombies, he is certainly one character that you must follow.
I invite you to join in on this discussion and tell us all which one you prefer and why as I think it will be very interesting.
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Obviously I prefer vampires, that’s what I write about
. I don’t get the whole teenage vampire idea either, although I do admit to reading ‘some’ of the books, and enjoying ‘parts’ of them. MY vampires are mature adult vampires with adult situations. I keep my stories PG13 for horror and romance, which these days doesn’t leave a whole lot to the imagination- so they are available to a wider audience. The vampires in my novels could be compared more to an organized underground society with a structured hierarchy. (They are not necessarily very nice.) But they are sexy and interesting and fit well into society.
I agree with your assessment of zombies. In most movies they seem to be mindless, walking corpses whose sole purpose is eating flesh. They don’t have the mystique and allure of a vampire.
I have to tottally agree, vampires all the way for me. There is something strangely seductive abouth the vampire that draws people. There is a personality, something we can relate to more than most other beings of the night.
Difficult to decide Vampires OR Zombies, so many different images of them both. (Can i vote Werewolves ?). No, ok then, hmm…
it was was not a vampire program, it was a program which happened to have the occasional vampire in. Vampires are intensely sexual, they are violaters, they seduce, and they are evil. (Good Vampires only exist in Sunnydale) Vampires are as tortured as they are torturers, and they are nobodys slave, but their appetites.
1st Buffy the Vampire Slayer, kicks ass
Zombies, first I think of NOTLD, Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil, Doom, mindless automatons shuffling and drooling, persistant but clumsy.
But then secondly i also think of Haiti, Voodoo, Baron Samedi and Papa Legbar, soul catching, graveyard rites, and Black Magic. So Zombies can have a little more depth than they are ever given credit for.
Conclusion, Vampires would beat Zombies, in a fight, or in a debate, or even in the X factor. (but they might just get beat by a decent Werewolf)
Vampires of course! The essence of darkness, the threat of death or immortal life thrown in with the potential for a nibble on the neck that could lead (depending on the rating of the book or film you are indulging in) petite morte
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Oddly I was just having this conversation with a friend the other day (except it was Zombies v Slasher (Michael Myers/Jason etc)).
The way I see it is that zombies in films are rarely scary because of what they can do (unlike the vampire who’s mystery and “powers” tend to be the horror aspect), in films it’s more about the social repercussions of them. A zombie wouldn’t be frightening if it was at the end of a long corridor and you could just run away or shoot at it, the fear comes from either the number of them, the fear of hurting a now-deceased loved one, or more often is the case in films, the fact you have to survive with other people in the mix.
There’s always the Cooper’s out there who are only after their own ends or the military types (28 Days, Day of the Dead), the anarchists or representatively the outsiders (Dawn of the Dead) and other bastards who have their own agenda where the vast majority don’t factor.
The simple fact is, zombies don’t think and on their own aren’t too frightening. It’s the fact that the existance of zombies pretty much destroys everything about society and as it were, shuffles the deck. Vampires tend to be isolated, (Dracula, Fright Night, The Lost Boys, Salem’s Lot etc) and once the threat is dealt with despite how hard it’s been and how many people have died, everyday folks are unaware and unaffected and those who were affected get back to some kind of life. Zombies suggest that everyone is affected regardless and the world is thrown into chaos.
So in conclusion, I’d say that while yes, a person might be far more frightened of a vampire, it might be possible to kill it or escape and live on. However if you saw a zombie, even if you didn’t realise it then, it might well be the end of the world as we know it and the world would never be the same again.
I wonder which is more frightening now…
I’m going with zombies as a situation, and vampires as a creature.
Synoiz, I think you have stated your opinion very well with your comment, ‘I’m going with zombies as a situation, and vampires as a creature.’
Considering your view and reading DandyHouseBoy’s discussion regarding werewolves, zombies would still be a more frightening situation, because you would at some point be defeated by a zombie.
Trying to reevaluate the Zombie mythos, and think that it can be quite clearly split into two. The more common and definately more scary portrays zombification as a highly infectous disease, The threat of contagion is not as selective as Vampirism. it effects anyone and everyone at their death.
The other, portrays zombification as a selective curse, cast by ceremony. against people with vendetta, and black magic.
More “romantic”, less scary.
Despite the higher threat of infection, I think that Vampires have got the Fear factor over Zombies. They are cunning and have the wisdom of age, Being a selected victim adds to fear, and they have good motor skills.