Thank you for the info! Did the book explain the effects of the vampire disease? Did they have any powers? Can they reproduce? Just curious how much of a difference the book versus the movies are.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:24 AM, B. Smith <daikaij...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The female vampire gives him poison so he can commit suicide instead of > being executed. He looks out and sees the terrified faces of all the living > vampires and realizes that in this world the vampires are the norm and that > he is the thing that goes bump in the night(or day in their case). > > He takes the poison and muses that now he is the legend. > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...> wrote: > > > > Ok that makes much more sense. They could have used his blood to create a > > vaccine but that seemed to be the not a goal. > > > > What was the ending in the book? > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:25 AM, B. Smith <daikaij...@...> wrote: > > > > > He represented the last links to the old world and he was their > boogeyman. > > > The new "living vampires" retained their intellect unlike the corpses > > > reanimated by the disease. He had unknowingly been killing both kinds > of > > > vampires. So he ends up being captured and killed by the new vampires > for > > > his "crimes." > > > > > > Of the three film versions the Vincent Price version was closest to the > > > original story. The ending is slightly different in the book. > > > > > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf" <HelloMahogany@> wrote: > > > > > > > > They weren't even close to any kind of vampire. More like intelligent > > > slow > > > > moving zombies. They couldn't break into his house because he put up > some > > > > mirrors and a few 2x4s on the windows. > > > > > > > > There was a hybrid type that was a group of scientists and other > folks > > > that > > > > came up with a vaccine that cured them temporarily. They were killing > off > > > > the other vampire folks. I didn't understand why they wanted to kill > > > > Vincent Price though. > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:39 PM, <wlrouge@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Are we talking about sexy vampires or just your regular want to > suck > > > your > > > > > blood ones?* > > > > > *--Lavender* > > > > > > > > > > *From:* Mr. Worf <HelloMahogany@> > > > > > *Sent:* Sunday, July 12, 2009 3:14 AM > > > > > *To:* scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > > > > > *Subject:* [scifinoir2] topic: the last man on earth > > > > > > > > > > I'm watching the original movie starring Vincent Price on my local > PBS > > > > > station. I think that if they had made the Will Smith movie with > > > vampires > > > > > instead of zombies it would have been more interesting. What do you > > > think? > > > > > > > > > > *People may lie, but the evidence rarely does.* > > > > > > > > > > ** > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! > > > > Mahogany at: > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > Post your SciFiNoir Profile at > > > > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo > ! > > > Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! > > Mahogany at: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Post your SciFiNoir Profile at > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! > Groups Links > > > > -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
