Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living. In folkloric tales, the undead... [show more]

Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living. In folkloric tales, the undead vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early Nineteenth Century. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term vampire was not popularised until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe, although local variants were also known by different names, such as vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to what can only be called mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism.

In modern times, however, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures. Early folkloric belief in vampires has been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalise this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited. [show less]

I love the visual transformation from man to beast.

They don't get much respect but all of your truly scary/creepy films have one thing in common...Spooks! Must See Ghosts Movies ... [show more]

They don't get much respect but all of your truly scary/creepy films have one thing in common...Spooks!

Must See Ghosts Movies
Poltergeist
The Grudge
Ghost Story
The Haunting
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
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From giant apes and lizards to Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, mutations are the most unpredictable of monsters.

My earliest childhood nightmares involved dopplegangers (though I didn't know the word or the mythology at the time). They are s... [show more]

My earliest childhood nightmares involved dopplegangers (though I didn't know the word or the mythology at the time).
They are shape changers and replace important people or your loved ones while carrying out their nefarious plans.

Coolest Dopplegangers in the Media:

Army of Darkness-Ash (Bruce Campbell) battles his own doppleganger to hilarious effect.

Marvel Comics-The Krull

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they just are so so cool!!! they way they go about their business. the way they have to set traps for their victims coz they are t... [show more]

they just are so so cool!!! they way they go about their business. the way they have to set traps for their victims coz they are too fat to chase their victims. amazing creatures [show less]

They're smarter and more technologically advanced, they travel billions of light years through space in badass ships, and they can... [show more]

They're smarter and more technologically advanced, they travel billions of light years through space in badass ships, and they can be anything from cute to nightmarish. [show less]