amazing film- ONE FLAW: spoilers

Vampires spread that rumor about mirrors so they could 'prove' they aren't vampires to gullible humans. ;)

From what i know some versions of the myth says that to kill a vampire you need a stake of a certain kind of wood like ashwood.
For the reflection i was expecting derek to gradually disappear when in front of the mirror. It would have been a great scene indeed.

Yes, I know. The myth is extremely loosely defined. It ranges between the following two concepts, basically;

Count Dracula: gentleman in a nice suit with real magic power that has lived for thousands or years, feeds only on womens blood, has no reflection, is hurt by a variety of weird things such as holy water, crucifixes, stakes, silver, and coming to peoples homes uninvited. Also has to sleep in a coffin, can shapeshift, teleport, mindcontrol, levitation... The list goes on, and on, and on...

Proto-vampire: mindless beast enslaved by a nasty curse / disease. These monsters are recent tweaks to the old myth, and are basically a combination of old-school vamps, and sci-fi / magic realism. They are rethinking the entire concept by asking the question; "what would be a realistic rendition of a person that is forced to kill and eat other people by an unknown biological affliction?" It's also a way to play with the fact that no one really knows what a vampire is supposed to be able to do, since all of the popular and more "conservative" portrayals of vampires all differ from each other. Watch 30 Days of Night, it has a really cool take on this concept.

EDIT: Oh, and this movie fcking kicks 4ss : D Really original vampire action in this one. If you (like I) are starting to get a little sleepy watching hollywood horror, this is for you.

Every Vampire movie or book changes the rules on what aspects they want to follow. He also wasn't invited into that one guy Beuhr's house and still walked in. They pretty much made it so that he's Infinite not just immortal. I really liked that angle!!

I thought you had to kill (stake thru heart) of the vampire who bit you?

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According to the laws of Vampirism Derek could not have been a vampire. A stake through the heart KILLS vampires and he also had a reflection...does anybody know why?

If you go back to older lore about European vampire myths, staking a vampire through the heart doesn't kill them, but it has to be with ash wood I seem to recall, could be wrong. It immobilizes them - literally "stakes them to the ground" and then to kill them you have to cut their head off, stuff the mouth with roses, burn the body and immerse the head in running water.




Give me a hedgehog and I'll show you.

According to the Laws of Fictional Writing. A writer can make up any kind of vampire they want and don't have to adhere to anyone else's rules in creating their world. These are apparently different kinds of vampires.

This rue applies to zombies, werewolves, ghosts, and any other monsters mythical creatures, or creepy crawlies the writers decide to tell a story about.

Because these ind of monsters aren't real.

Cutting of the head kills anything. He's not going to grow a new head, and really that shotgun blast should have been irrecoverable