It may come as a shock to people who have followed my work, but I really don't watch many horror movies. I enjoy a good suspenseful thriller, don't get me wrong, but horror for the sake of horror has never been my thing. A strange thought has just crossed my mind, though. I do not remember ever seeing a portrayal of a fat vampire. Hollywood tends to cast the dirty bloodsuckers as muscular beings with sexy bodies...all chiseled and cool, with perfect hair and expensive fashionable clothing. Has there ever been a portrayal of a morbidly obese vampire? Seriously, what would keep a vampire from falling victim to the sins of gluttony, particularly in a world where the blood supply is already tainted with cholesterol and fatty deposits? If a vampire ravenously feasts on fatty blood, does he in turn become a mound of flesh?
Hmmmmm....
There's a book series-I think it's called "Fat White Vampire Blues." The only reference to the idea that a vampire can be fat that I know of.
ReplyDeleteThere was also a middle-aged, somewhat heavy vampire in the first season of True Blood, but they never really went into it...
Food for thought, eh?
Jabba the Hut....wait...wrong genre
ReplyDeletePearl is the name of of a moribund gastropod of a vampire in the Blade series. She is an archivist/IT officer for the Vampires. Blade tortures her with a UV flashlight to get info on the vamps in the first movie.
ReplyDeletedue to the undead/undying nature of vampires,they tend to be a thiner, paler, more anemic versions of their former selfs. they don't magicly get more toned or prettier, most fokelore points to the opposite. so a fat vampire is a bit harder to find as compared to an ugly or wimpy looking vampire.
ReplyDeleteThere was a "husky" redneck vampire on the first episode of Trueblood. Not morbidly obese but a big well-fed guy nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteOk, so it sounds like a plus-sized vampirwe is not unheard of...glad to know my newest creation won't be lonely.
ReplyDeletePearl was a man, sad to say. also in Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (i kid you not, and an awful movie) for some reason they chose a portly middle aged man to be the seductive Dracula...go figure...
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