Comments on: AWESOME vs. AWFUL: vampires vs. zombies

By: Henri

Henri — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:41:54 +0000

We didn’t need to battle it out. Vampires and Zombies have already fought each other for domination:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x875p5_vampires-vs-zombies_shortfilms

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:48:55 +0000

Vampires tales are rather moralistic. I mean, that’s why they were invented. Supposedly Dracula was a very sexy dude, and to say that he sucks your blood was a way to keep ladies’ sexuality in check. If you follow rules of decorum (don’t be seduced, don’t invite a vampire in your home), you’ll be safe. So really they aren’t quite as scary. Follow the rules, you’ll be safe. Also, people think of vampires as super sexy, can you imagine them being good at sexy time? No way. I think they’d be awful. They make sex and intimacy kind of scary, see Munch’s vampyr: http://6.media.tumblr.com/wfdvJq2gXl0puwqm71MZlktTo1_400.jpg.

Zombies are scary because there is more of a social apocalypse thrown in there with a side of distrusting your allies. Dude, you never know if your bff has been bitten, scratched or who knows what. They could turn on you! Zombies have less to do with self-control than vampires. At least with vampires I can trust that I won’t be going to any crazy macabre make-out seshes where they like to hang.

However, as a non-sequitur a note on the vampire’s side. How awesome are all the steps you have to go through to kill a vampire?

1. Wooden stake through heart
2. Decapitate
3. Place a cross on body
4. Garlic in mouth
5. fill clothing with rocks and sink

Way better for film. Zombies just lie there and rot.

They are tied people. Tied.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:44:29 +0000

i feel like i have new evidence to bring to this debate after experiencing fantastic fest this weekend.

first, i saw zombieland, which reminded me that zombies are gross and dirty and totally annoying. then i saw the revenant, and i realized that vampires can be gross too, but they’re smart and funny and still manage to be hot even though their skin is sort of flaking off (more about that in my upcoming ff post).

THEN i got to meet eric from true blood, and our encounter proved to me, beyond any and all reasonable doubts, that VAMPIRES ARE AWESOME AND I NEED TO GET WITH THEM. ok, well, just one of them.

y’all, we hung out in a walk-in freezer together. that’s what you call HARD COLD FACTS. consider this debate SOLVED.

By: trish

trish — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:07:07 +0000

Zombies are one of my biggest fears. I hate them. A common conversation Chris and I have is what the best hideout is in case of a zombie outbreak. Also, the fact that a vampire can’t enter your home unless you invite it makes the scariness factor even smaller.

Sorry Jenny, but I have to give pants to John on this one. Although, you might slowly be convincing me to give Twilight a shot. Maybe.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:16:18 +0000

What a polite debate this was! I’ve got to be on Team Zombie, so throw some pants John’s way. (Seriously, dude. Put on some pants.)

Part of my reason is that, independent of John, I am REALLY sick of the rampant vampire saturation lately. Part of it is because you totally brought up my abso. favorite storyline in Preacher. Cassidy!! And part is because I agree: apocalypse is just inherently awesome.

But well played, Jenny!

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:25:54 +0000

From a literature sense, World War Z and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies are obviously WAY better books than Twilight. But Dracula is a better book than WWZ or P&P&Z. But, then again, Twilight is SUCH a bad book that it threatens to undo all the good that previous vampire books did for the vampire race.

I feel like vamps have had their chance in this world. I mean, they’re IMMORTAL. And they’ve been reported as an actual thing for thousands of years. And what has come of it? They’re a joke now. Zombies, on the other hand, are in their heyday! And John’s right, they’ll just keep coming till they kill us all.

Of course, then what? We’ll all be dead and then what will the zombies do? They need a long-range plan. This isn’t the war in Iraq, they can’t just drop in with no plan about how to get back out.

Therefore, I must agree with Jenny. Team Vampire.

By: Talena Smith

Talena Smith — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:29:58 +0000

I think vampires are the scarier of the two because the true master villains like to play games with you before either killing or turning you, but usually just killing you. Zombies don’t play around. They’re just out to eat you and while that is fear at our basest levels, I feel that being in a psychological battle with a vampire is inherently scarier because you think you have that chance to outwit the vampire and escape, but then you find out that you really don’t and you’re bitten, which then brings you back down to your base fear of getting eaten. And frankly, if I have to die, I’d rather it be somewhat prettier to look at than a rotting zombie. Such as, oh I don’t know, Eric?

By: Matt Gierhart

Matt Gierhart — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:11:51 +0000

My view point is that I would rather be a vampire than a zombie, but I’m more scared of zombies than vampires.

John’s best point is they just don’t quit. You can outsmart them, but you can’t outdo them. Vampires are arrogant, always. If I had to fight one, aside from requesting they ‘turn me’, I would feel like “okay, I got a chance.”

But obviously, no one ever wants to be a zombie. EVER.