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Lilith is Adam's first wife, a demoness

According to researchers, the most ancient vampire. In the mythology of Ancient Mesopotamia, a similar name is given to night demonesses who kill children and mock sleeping men

In the Talmud, Lilith is described as a demon with a female face, long hair and wings, who can possess a lonely sleeping man by influencing his imagination.

In Jewish life, the hairy and winged Lilith is especially known as the pest of childbirth. It was believed that she not only casts a spell on babies, but also kidnaps them, drinks the blood of newborns, sucks the marrow out of bones and replaces them.

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"Nosferatu. Symphony of Horror" by director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. The film went down in history as the first screen adaptation of the novel "Dracula". "Nosferatu" was the first to use the plot motif of a vampire dying from sunlight.

1922

London After Midnight was the first American horror film featuring a vampire, starring Lon Chaney. To create the character, Chaney wore two sets of dentures, one made of real shark teeth and one made of wood.

1927

One of the most significant vampire films was the 1931 adaptation of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi as Dracula. The image of Count Dracula in this film became canonical. In 2000, the film, as having great artistic significance, was included in the US National Film Registry.

1931

"The Last Man on Earth" is the first screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s famous novel "I Am Legend", which played a major role in the development of vampire cinema and zombie horror. The film is the first to examine vampirism outside of a mystical context.

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1977

Martin director George Romero turned the vampire plot into a psychological drama in which the central character is the monster himself. No romanticization of the vampire image, only its deconstruction.

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Seventeen-year-old Bella moves to live with her father in the small town of Forks. She falls in love with a mysterious classmate who, as it turns out, comes from a family of vampires who have given up attacking people.

Twilight (2008)

Transylvania is a world where evil is at every turn, a world where danger comes alive when the sun goes down, and where the monsters that live in the depths of human nightmares take shape. This is the world where the legendary monster hunter Van Helsing finds himself.

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Van Helsing (2004)

Half-human, half-vampire Blade. Blade once had a small amount of vampire venom in his blood, but over time he began to feel the inevitability of his transformation.

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Blade (1998)

The war between vampires and werewolves is on the brink of a decisive battle. The beginning of the film saga with Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen.

For many centuries, there has been a war in the world between two immortal races of the "Other World" - vampires and werewolves — "lycans". For both, humanity is just a source of food that they feed on.

I am the Death Dealer, sworn to destroy the creatures known as Lycans.

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Another World (2003)

And this is your dream? To become a monster? Yes, a dream to always be with you

Why can’t you just be kind? Because the world is not kind at all…

Marvel Comics' first printed publication featuring Blade appeared in the summer of 1973.

Blade is half human, half vampire. He is immune to vampire bites and cannot be made to thirst for blood.

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For Blade, Dracula is his sworn enemy. Over the course of their long existence on the pages of comics, they have crossed paths a huge number of times.

Louis goes to great lengths in the hope of finding death, but chance brings him together with a real vampire from the Old World named Lestat, who turns Louis into one of his own kind.

In 1791, a young planter, Louis, lost his wife and child, wanted to die, but was “born for darkness” and found eternal life.

I was looking for death… I understand it now. I called it as a release from the pain of life.

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Remembering those you loved and lost is even harder than having no memories at all.

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

All the films initially followed the concepts of 90s action films and mixed vampire movies with other horrors. After the Twilight series, the action component began to fade away, turning vampires into immortal people who are not alien to humanity.

For over 100 years, the image of the bloodsucker monster has captivated moviegoers around the world.

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The 21st century is a turning point in the visualization of the vampire image. In the 20th century, vampires were real monsters and inspired fear. If vampires were present in a film, it was a horror film. Now the image of a vampire is humanized and romanticized, and the genre of the film can be any: comedy, romantic fantasy, melodrama, drama

The book’s author, Stephenie Meyer, insisted that her vampires should not have fangs.

More than 5,000 actors auditioned for the role of Edward Cullen.

Some of the Indians were played by real people of the Quileute tribe and they actually live on the reservation in La Push.

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The film was originally supposed to appear around 1996 as a sequel to Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula.

The director demanded realism in the frame, so in order for the scenery to look presentable, some props had to be purchased from private collectors.

The film crew built the village in Transylvania and all the necessary scenery in the south of Prague.

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Kevin Grevioux came up with a way to explain the origin of supernatural species from the point of view of biology and chemistry: vampires and werewolves carry different strains of a virus that give them superpowers.

In Greek mythology, Selene is the goddess of the moon. Screenwriter Kevin Grevioux was inspired by the supervillain Selene Gallio from Marvel Comics, where she was a psychic vampire.

Len Wiseman, making his directorial debut, chose to shoot many scenes live, without the use of CGI.

Interesting facts:

All the actors playing vampires had to hang upside down for up to thirty minutes at a time while being made up.

The film marked Dunst's first on-screen kiss with Pitt, despite the 18-year age difference between them.

The film is dominated by cold colors. Most of the action takes place in the darkness of night.

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Vampire themes have haunted people for decades. On the one hand, they are beautiful, brave, reliable, strong, smart, generous, on the other hand, they are selfish, arrogant, narcissistic, insidious, cruel.

For over 100 years, the image of the bloodsucker monster has captivated moviegoers around the world.

All the films initially followed the concepts of 90s action films and mixed vampire movies with other horrors. After the Twilight series, the action component began to fade away, turning vampires into immortal people who are not alien to humanity.

True Blood (2008–2014)

Sookie Stackhouse, an ordinary waitress from a suburban cafe, endowed with the ability to read the minds of others, meets the "good" vampire Bill Compton. And immediately makes many enemies from the "bad guys".

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)

Buffy is not an ordinary schoolgirl, but the chosen one, destined to fight demons, vampires and the forces of evil.

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The Vampire Diaries (2008–2014)

Stefan and Elena feel mutual sympathy, but Elena does not even suspect that Stefan is a vampire who is already hundreds of years old and who tries to live peacefully among people, despite the fact that his brother, Damon, is the embodiment of vampire cruelty and bloodthirstiness.

A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022)

Mysticism and romance in the Oxford setting. Despite centuries of mistrust between witches and vampires, they decide to protect the book together and reveal the secrets hidden within, confronting the threats of the supernatural world.

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Set in Mystic Falls, a fictional small town in Georgia that is haunted by supernatural creatures, the series focuses on the love triangle between protagonist Elena Gilbert and vampire brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore.

As the series progresses, the focus of the series shifts to the town’s mysterious past involving Elena’s doppelganger, Katherine Pierce, and a family of Original vampires, each with their own agenda.

The Vampire Diaries series was created on the wave of vampire fashion and immediately after the first Twilight film.