Why are vampires considered to be the coolest type of undead?

Question

I mean, when I think of vampires, I just don't see anything that would connect them with the living dead. To me, they are essentially beings with numerous supernatural abilites, depend on human blood for nourishment and have a weakness for sunlight.

When I think about an undead being, I think of something that should be dead and inanimate... yet it's not. It moves and walks around. Like zombies or ghouls- disfigured, dismembered, mauled, cleaved... you would think that something with such grievous injuries would stay dead.

Vampires essentially look like normal humans and have supernatural powers... zombies/ghouls/skeletons are all damaged to a point where they should be dead yet for some apparent reason defy this and continue on functioning.

My question is, why are vampires considered the coolest undead when they are so loosely based on the whole living dead concept.

Walking skeleton- disturbing and an unnatural being
vampire- human with superpowers and allergies to the sun, garlic etc.

Answer 1

because of edward cullen, alice, cullen and their family.

Answer 2

IMHO, vampires symbolize earth-bound lust and addiction (the more dangerous or forbidden, the better)... Can you think of anything more popular among earthlings? SEX & DRUGS!

Have you watched any of the HBO series, "True Blood?" Vampires in this fictional community have 'come out of the closet' and the sale of vampire blood and sex w/vampires is all the rage. They portray vampire blood as something that stimulates &/or enhances life & the senses. I have noted this as a contradiction (much like you describe)... I mean, how does something coming from the 'dead' enhance 'life' ? Perhaps it is like speed - deceptively, ones experiences burn a little brighter while under the influence, i.e., until the addiction takes hold and it begins to take ones life.



So, I guess I'm saying the vampire is popular in much the same way as risky sex and drugs are popular. They are deceptively attractive, selling "eternal life" that is a trap that ends in "eternal suffering" -- A life that is no life at all.

Answer 3

I think it's only a certain age group that considers vampires to be the "coolest" type of the undead. When you get to a certain, older age group and see your friends starting to look a bit rough around the edges, you realize it will happen to you as well eventually. No one can look good forever, you know. At this point you decide rotting is cool and next thing you know - you're much more into zombies.

Answer 4

If you define cool as having someone suck blood out of your neck and turn you into

a total zombie.

Then cool it is.