The vampires who aren’t unhappy are, like Lestat in “Interview With the Vampire,” usually just villains who, with their violent ways, are also far from enviable. Bill Compton on “True Blood,” Angel on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel,” the Salvatore brothers from “The Vampire Diaries” - they’re all more or less wretched beings. Technically, he and his kind are no longer human - and yet they continue to live according to their consciences and feel shame when they don’t. Louis in “Interview with the Vampire” is also a Barnabas baby, as, like Edward, he is wont to drink animal blood so he won’t harm any people. Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac and Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt in AMC's "Interview with the Vampire." Alfonso Bresciani/AMC
#Reaper sans series#
Just when you’d think we’d had quite enough of these fanged creatures, say, after the “Twilight” books and movies and the Sookie Stackhouse books and TV series (“True Blood”), the trend nevertheless continues, most recently with the premieres of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire,” Showtime’s “Let the Right One In,” and Syfy’s “Reginald the Vampire.” We can quit them we just don’t want to. Across the centuries, there has been a steady flow of vampires in folklore, books, and art, and, more recently, in movies and on TV, each one having managed to dodge the final rest that awaits the rest of us. The undead are manifestations of our undying desire for immortality. So one of my theories on why vampire stories are popular is rooted in our strong longing to live forever, to relieve our fear of death. Alas, our souls are, as Yeats puts it in “Sailing to Byzantium,” his poem about immortality, “fastened to a dying animal” - the human body. And the reaper, he is grim, not great or generous.
Our fear of getting old and dying has led us to create religions that promise life after life, just in case the cryonics don’t work. We certainly do spend a lot of time, energy, and money trying to dodge our fates, to stay alive and look young for as long as we can. As a species, we’re not big fans of death and aging.
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