What's with this whole vampires vs. werewolves thing?

[Chainsaw]

Eh.. Twilight is Romeo and Juliet stuff with a different flavor. My wife and her sister go to all these movies. I'm like, "So, how about some D&D - werewolves, vampires?" and they look at me and say, "Yeah, but this is more about a guy who has a crush on a girl, but they can't be together because one's a werewolf and one's a vampire" or something similar. This too shall pass, I think. I think of it as stage two Harry Potter. I don't know what stage three is.. maybe General Hospital with an all ghoul cast?

Whether the Twilight writer actually dug into the neat things these other posters have said, who knows..

 

[Huw]

Definitely pre-20th centruy. In Albanian mythology, wolves and vampires are enemies. A wolf can force a vampire back to its grave. Eclipses are also blamed on vampires.

Another source of this rivalry is that werewolves are native, and vampires are slavic. What's more, there are Christian vampires and Muslim vampires, who are also rivals.

Albanian mythology is good source of ideas. They mix up many myths of their neighbours with their own, so as well as werewolves and vampires, there are jinn, satyrs, hydras and giants all interacting in stories with muslim and christian heroes.

 

[Aeolius]

once again, the gill-man gets no lovin' at all....

 

[Umbran]

once again, the gill-man gets no lovin' at all....

Just wait until Universal gets around to remaking "Creature from the Black Lagoon". Then you'll have your day.

 

[Aeolius]

Just wait until Universal gets around to remaking "Creature from the Black Lagoon". Then you'll have your day.

I know they'e working on it... imdb link . I suppose we'll have to wait, as it appears that Universal Studios Hollywood no longer has their musical tribute.

 

[El Mahdi]

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[Wicht]

The term lycan is like fingernails on the blackboard of my mind. I can't stand it.

Werewolves vs. Vampires though has, as has been stated, been around for a while.

 

[Oni]

I'm not sure why, but the first thought that popped into my mind upon reading this thread is that I should replace all the dwarves and elves with werewolves and vampires. A good rivalry with just as much hair and vanity as before.

 

[Umbran]

I know they'e working on it... imdb link .

Written by the guy who wrote Big and Pleasantville? Hm. Totally different genre, but at least he's got some successes. Maybe he'll know what he's doing...

 

[cmrscorpio]

When the first Underworld came out and the first character referred to the lycans, I thought, "What the hell do lichens have to do with vampires and werewolves?"

I've never been able to take the term "lycan" seriously since.