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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

There's a Dracula "sci-fi western" in development now, and it wouldn't be the first sci-fi film to feature vampires. Blade Trinity was fairly sci-fi and featured a resurrected Vlad III. There are also a whole bunch of low-budget independent films, because the character is public domain.

So it's been done, but I wouldn't say it's been done well. Technology and the ubiquity of cameras make telling vampire stories logistically complicated. Like, they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars, and how the old legends about running water and being invited in are apocryphal superstitions.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

they always need to come up with a bunch of handwaves to explain how coffins fly on airplanes piloted by a bunch of human familiars

That one is easy to explain. Either the vampire is wealthy and has a private aircraft, which is likely if they're hundreds of years old, or they can ship themselves as the remains of a loved one. I would imagine that any competent modern vampire would have a forger, and a hacker in their household.

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