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Teen vampire stories are, like, hot.
There's Twilight, the much-anticipated movie version of Stephenie Meyer's novel of smoldering adolescent bloodlust, due Nov. 21. There's HBO's True Blood, now airing, in which a nubile waitress yearns for her vampire lover. There's even an independent Swedish movie, Let the Right One in, about a 12-year-old boy who befriends a teen vampire girl (it hits U.S. theaters on Oct. 14).
"There's a big trend in vampire stories in the world today, and a child who is among the undead is a particularly unusual take on that story," Right One helmer Tomas Alfredson told SCI FI Wire. "You don't see that very often."
Well, actually, you kind of do. ...
Underage vampires have been showing up pretty regularly in recent years: in the early seasons of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in some particularly good anime (Moon Child), in cult movies such as Near Dark.
With Halloween approaching, we thought it was a good time to sink our teeth into some of the more famous young vampires in love.
1. Claudia, played by Kirsten Dunst in 1994's An Interview With the Vampire. Dunst got widely noticed for her first big film role (she was 11 when she filmed the part). The ultimate child bloodsucker, Claudia was a 6-year-old dying of the plague in 18th-century New Orleans when she was turned into a vampire after being neck-sucked by the vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise) in the big-screen version of Anne Rice's novel. Claudia takes to killing pretty easily and grows hauntingly ruthless. Dunst's first big-screen kiss is with Brad Pitt as the vampire Louis. Of course, later she grew up and did an upside-down kiss with Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man.
2. Danny Glick, played by Brad Savage in 1979's Salem's Lot. In both the 1979 and 2004 TV versions of the classic Stephen King novel, child vampires figure prominently, jumping their parents, rising out of little coffins, etc. Tobe Hooper's initial version is the most chilling, thanks to Savage as a junior high-schooler who gets attacked by something in the woods. Danny soon perfects his flying vampire skills and floats outside his buddy Mark's window, seeking entry. Mark, a big fan of horror movies, knows better than to invite his new-fanged friend inside.
3. Rudolph Sackville-Bagg, played by Rollo Weeks in 2000's The Little Vampire. At age 12, Weeks played his first film role as a vampire who befriends a character played by Jonathan Lipnicki. Weeks' character is named in an obvious homage to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and like that diminutive creature, he also like to eat. A lot. After a new family moves into his family estate, Rudolph reveals himself to Lipnicki, who is dressed up like a vampire. Rudolph quickly realizes that the new boy is an imposter when Lipnicki's fake fangs drop out of his mouth, but the two boys eventually become friends and save the vampire race.
4. Homer, played by Joshua Miller in 1987's Near Dark. in Kathryn Bigelow's neo-Western vampire movie, Miller seems to delight in playing a creature who's a few hundred years old, trapped in the body of a 10-year-old boy. Homer is part of a band of wandering misfit undead, who roam the Southwest in a beat-up Winnebago. Homer tricks his prey by pretending to be a kid who falls off his bike. Interesting note: Nowhere in the movie is the word "vampire" mentioned.
5. Jeremy Capello, played by Robert Sean Leonard in 1988's My Best Friend Is a Vampire. Capello is a high-school student whose aborted romantic encounter leaves him with a bite on the neck and an aversion to sunlight. He suddenly can't stand the smell of garlic, watches as his reflection disappears from the bathroom mirror and finds himself wanting his steaks extra rare. A 300-year-old teacher and a vampire handbook offer a guide to his new alternate lifestyle, and he tries to remain a good guy as his lust for blood grows.
6. Cindy Thompson, played by Maya McLaughlin in 1991's Children of the Night. Just turned 18, Cindy goes swimming with her best friend, Lucy, in an abandoned church crypt, awakening a vampire who turns her into one of the undead. Lucy (Ami Dolenz) escapes and ends up taking care of Cindy, as well as her vampire mother (Karen Black) and a grandmother whose fanged dentures keep falling out. Cindy lives with a set of lungs outside of her body and complains about being a vampire, saying that it is boring: All they do is feast and play Bingo. And, of course, she can't sneak a cigarette anymore because she has no lungs.
7. Kevin Elliot James, played by Mac Fyfe in 1998's Teenage Space Vampires. A geeky high-school techo-nerd, Kevin is one of the few friends who believes his buddy Bill when he claims to have seen a UFO streak across the night sky. Bill (Robin Dunne) is a horror-movie fanatic who convinces his pals to investigate the UFO sighting. Along the way, Kevin is bitten by an alien vampire named Vlathos from Lathos. The bleached-blond nerd, now with a raging bloodthirst, heads to a soccer game and begins recruiting his schoolmates into a vampire army.
8. Ralph LaVie, played by Dean Cameron in 1989's Rockula. In this musical spoof, Ralph is a 300-year-old teenage vampire who faints at the sight of blood and is still a virgin who lives with his undead mother. The movie features 1950s-style dancing, leather-clad bikers and vampires who are dispatched with hambone stakes to the heart.
9. David, played by Kiefer Sutherland in 1987's The Lost Boys. Sutherland was 19 when he played the peroxided leader of a pack of hard-partying high-school vampires who refused to grow up. The MTV generation of blood-drunk youth made it "fun to be a vampire," as the movie posters touted. The screenplay originally called for the fanged gang to be a bunch of fifth- and sixth-graders, but director Joel Schumacher hated that idea and added a bit of maturity and sexuality to the mix. He also added a cool kill in which Sutherland's character gets skewered by deer antlers.
10. Murphy, played by Beau Bishop in 1988's Teen Vamp. The tag line for this movie was "The story of a boy with a hunger for life ... Anybody's." Always bullied, rarely noticed by the girls and usually a wimp, Murphy is a high-school nerd (is there any other kind?) who gets transformed into a super-cool dude after a bite on the neck. His mother seeks an exorcist to help. --Mike Szymanski
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=15&id=61233
Teen vampire stories are, like, hot.
There's Twilight, the much-anticipated movie version of Stephenie Meyer's novel of smoldering adolescent bloodlust, due Nov. 21. There's HBO's True Blood, now airing, in which a nubile waitress yearns for her vampire lover. There's even an independent Swedish movie, Let the Right One in, about a 12-year-old boy who befriends a teen vampire girl (it hits U.S. theaters on Oct. 14).
"There's a big trend in vampire stories in the world today, and a child who is among the undead is a particularly unusual take on that story," Right One helmer Tomas Alfredson told SCI FI Wire. "You don't see that very often."
Well, actually, you kind of do. ...
Underage vampires have been showing up pretty regularly in recent years: in the early seasons of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in some particularly good anime (Moon Child), in cult movies such as Near Dark.
With Halloween approaching, we thought it was a good time to sink our teeth into some of the more famous young vampires in love.
1. Claudia, played by Kirsten Dunst in 1994's An Interview With the Vampire. Dunst got widely noticed for her first big film role (she was 11 when she filmed the part). The ultimate child bloodsucker, Claudia was a 6-year-old dying of the plague in 18th-century New Orleans when she was turned into a vampire after being neck-sucked by the vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise) in the big-screen version of Anne Rice's novel. Claudia takes to killing pretty easily and grows hauntingly ruthless. Dunst's first big-screen kiss is with Brad Pitt as the vampire Louis. Of course, later she grew up and did an upside-down kiss with Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man.
2. Danny Glick, played by Brad Savage in 1979's Salem's Lot. In both the 1979 and 2004 TV versions of the classic Stephen King novel, child vampires figure prominently, jumping their parents, rising out of little coffins, etc. Tobe Hooper's initial version is the most chilling, thanks to Savage as a junior high-schooler who gets attacked by something in the woods. Danny soon perfects his flying vampire skills and floats outside his buddy Mark's window, seeking entry. Mark, a big fan of horror movies, knows better than to invite his new-fanged friend inside.
3. Rudolph Sackville-Bagg, played by Rollo Weeks in 2000's The Little Vampire. At age 12, Weeks played his first film role as a vampire who befriends a character played by Jonathan Lipnicki. Weeks' character is named in an obvious homage to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and like that diminutive creature, he also like to eat. A lot. After a new family moves into his family estate, Rudolph reveals himself to Lipnicki, who is dressed up like a vampire. Rudolph quickly realizes that the new boy is an imposter when Lipnicki's fake fangs drop out of his mouth, but the two boys eventually become friends and save the vampire race.
4. Homer, played by Joshua Miller in 1987's Near Dark. in Kathryn Bigelow's neo-Western vampire movie, Miller seems to delight in playing a creature who's a few hundred years old, trapped in the body of a 10-year-old boy. Homer is part of a band of wandering misfit undead, who roam the Southwest in a beat-up Winnebago. Homer tricks his prey by pretending to be a kid who falls off his bike. Interesting note: Nowhere in the movie is the word "vampire" mentioned.
5. Jeremy Capello, played by Robert Sean Leonard in 1988's My Best Friend Is a Vampire. Capello is a high-school student whose aborted romantic encounter leaves him with a bite on the neck and an aversion to sunlight. He suddenly can't stand the smell of garlic, watches as his reflection disappears from the bathroom mirror and finds himself wanting his steaks extra rare. A 300-year-old teacher and a vampire handbook offer a guide to his new alternate lifestyle, and he tries to remain a good guy as his lust for blood grows.
6. Cindy Thompson, played by Maya McLaughlin in 1991's Children of the Night. Just turned 18, Cindy goes swimming with her best friend, Lucy, in an abandoned church crypt, awakening a vampire who turns her into one of the undead. Lucy (Ami Dolenz) escapes and ends up taking care of Cindy, as well as her vampire mother (Karen Black) and a grandmother whose fanged dentures keep falling out. Cindy lives with a set of lungs outside of her body and complains about being a vampire, saying that it is boring: All they do is feast and play Bingo. And, of course, she can't sneak a cigarette anymore because she has no lungs.
7. Kevin Elliot James, played by Mac Fyfe in 1998's Teenage Space Vampires. A geeky high-school techo-nerd, Kevin is one of the few friends who believes his buddy Bill when he claims to have seen a UFO streak across the night sky. Bill (Robin Dunne) is a horror-movie fanatic who convinces his pals to investigate the UFO sighting. Along the way, Kevin is bitten by an alien vampire named Vlathos from Lathos. The bleached-blond nerd, now with a raging bloodthirst, heads to a soccer game and begins recruiting his schoolmates into a vampire army.
8. Ralph LaVie, played by Dean Cameron in 1989's Rockula. In this musical spoof, Ralph is a 300-year-old teenage vampire who faints at the sight of blood and is still a virgin who lives with his undead mother. The movie features 1950s-style dancing, leather-clad bikers and vampires who are dispatched with hambone stakes to the heart.
9. David, played by Kiefer Sutherland in 1987's The Lost Boys. Sutherland was 19 when he played the peroxided leader of a pack of hard-partying high-school vampires who refused to grow up. The MTV generation of blood-drunk youth made it "fun to be a vampire," as the movie posters touted. The screenplay originally called for the fanged gang to be a bunch of fifth- and sixth-graders, but director Joel Schumacher hated that idea and added a bit of maturity and sexuality to the mix. He also added a cool kill in which Sutherland's character gets skewered by deer antlers.
10. Murphy, played by Beau Bishop in 1988's Teen Vamp. The tag line for this movie was "The story of a boy with a hunger for life ... Anybody's." Always bullied, rarely noticed by the girls and usually a wimp, Murphy is a high-school nerd (is there any other kind?) who gets transformed into a super-cool dude after a bite on the neck. His mother seeks an exorcist to help. --Mike Szymanski
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=15&id=61233
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