Few creatures have captured the human imagination as vampires have. These immortal bloodsuckers have been part of folklore across nearly every culture in the world for centuries, but their ...
Think you know movie vampires? Think again. Vampires of folklore didn’t always even drink blood. Sometimes, they would strangle their victims. Sometimes, they would fornicate with their victims ...
Eggers highlights the significant shift vampires underwent as they transitioned from folklore to literature and eventually cinema. The folkloric vampire, he notes, was a far cry from the suave ...
Robert Eggers, who directed “Nosferatu,” a distinctly wretched take on vampire folklore.Credit...Mark Sommerfeld for The New York Times Supported by By Alissa Wilkinson “I don’t know how ...