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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
According to post Bram Stoker vampire mythology, yes, but the folk belief in vampires probably varies enough to make them similar enough to zombies that the distinction is a minor one. A plausible explanation of how a belief in vampires came about, at least under Eastern Mediterranean burial practices. I don't know whether Scandinavian or British or French burial practices made similar discoveries of "alive" dead people less likely so there wasn't as much of a mythos there. Maybe mass graves were less common, or shrouding was déclassé. It sure as hell wasn't because British oral hygiene was best-in-class. |
One of the more interesting changes in the movie adaptations of Richard Matheson's
I Am Legend was the switch of the "other" from vampire to zombie. In the book and the original adaptation The Last Man on Earth, they were clearly vampiric. By the time we got to the Will Smith movie, they were more zombie than vampire, less thinking and societal.
Vampires essentially create a community living within and upon a larger society, while zombies signal the end of community and society.
