From Nosferatu to Let The Right One In – how has the representation of the vampire changed to suit contemporary values, attitudes, and beliefs?

Video Essay:

Bibliography:

Films:

Let the Right One In (2008) dir. Tomas Alfredson

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) dir. F. W. Murnau

Music:

YouTube. 2021. Eli’s Theme – Let The Right One In OST 2008 – YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://youtu.be/8dyurrxgq9Q. [Accessed 19 April 2021].

YouTube. 2021. Let The Right One In Soundtrack – Main Theme – YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2APXqzX2Bk. [Accessed 19 April 2021].

Quotes:

‘The number of killings perpetrated by Eli is low compared with many other conventional ‘vampire’ movies. In effect, Eli spends less screen time being a vampire than she does being a friend and protector to the subliminally aggressive Oskar.’ – Yeates, D., 2009. Representations, genre and wider contexts: the vampire as metaphor in Let the Right One In and Twilight. MediaMagazine, [Online]. ., 42-44. Available at: https://cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.grammar.sch.gg/dist/0/597/files/2019/03/Vampire-genre-and-context.pdf [Accessed 24 February 2021].

‘Prefers to help rather than hurt the person who is supposed to be their prey.’ – Tyre, J., 2009. Warm-Blooded: True Blood and Let the Right One In. University of California Press, [Online]. 63 NO.2, 31-37. Available at: : http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/fq.2009.63.2.31 [Accessed 18 February 2021].

‘The vampire should come across not like a flamboyant actor but like a man suffering from a dread curse.’ – Roger Ebert. 2021. Nosferatu movie review & film summary (1922) | Roger Ebert. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-nosferatu-1922. [Accessed 25 February 2021].

‘Cultures create and ascribe meaning to monsters, endowing them with characteristics derived from their most deep-seated fears and taboos.’ – ‘An analysis of horror monsters in the light of their cultural contexts can, therefore, give an insight into the anxieties and concerns of contemporary culture.’ – ‘ His method of attack involves penetration and the exchange of bodily fluids. This can be read as a sexual metaphor’  – Hendry, S., 2011. ‘Horror Monsters’, MediaMagazine, pp. 56-59.

Global Risk Insights. 2021. Sweden’s Identity Crisis and the Rise of the Far Right | Global Risk Insights . [ONLINE] Available at: https://globalriskinsights.com/2021/01/swedens-identity-crisis-and-the-rise-of-the-far-right/. [Accessed 19 April 2021].

Sound Effects:

YouTube. 2021. Thunder Sound Effect – YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ08fwaLXwg. [Accessed 19 April 2021].

Additional Footage:

YouTube. 2021. Berlin in the 20s – YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ls8SPpRXgU. [Accessed 19 April 2021].

YouTube. 2021. The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920) Official Trailer #1 – German Horror Movie – YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://youtu.be/IAtpxqajFak. [Accessed 19 April 2021].

YouTube. 2021. Lina Leandersson Interview – YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://youtu.be/dWZwKm5xwZg. [Accessed 19 April 2021].

YouTube. 2021. Why Sweden’s Warmth Is Fading Toward Migrants (HBO) – YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmJErVzYUoo. [Accessed 19 April 2021].