Quick note up top: back on Substack, alt text would auto populate from Wikimedia Commons. It seems to not do that here. I apologize for not adding alt text previously, I didn\u2019t realize it wasn\u2019t there.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This week, as I said in the title, we’re still only a few months out from both Nosferatu<\/em> and Sinners<\/em>. Let’s do vampires. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Look At Them Bat Wings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I don’t know anything about I vampiri film<\/a><\/em>, the 1915 movie from which this is taken. I have to imagine this is where we got both Batman and Catwoman from, Bob Kane and Bill Finger seeing an Italian vampire movie and thinking “but whaddya figure her parents were like?” When are we getting a vampire movie where some blood-sucking vixen wears bat wings as part of her personal style? Why couldn’t Nadja from WWDITS<\/em> have worn bat wings? <\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s a Vampire Story Without A Guy Carrying His Passed-Out Girlfriend At Some Point<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After this new Nosferatu<\/em>, I think we can let this trope die, right? The women in our fiction deserve better than this shallow treatment, right? Also, I have my doubts that these wispy Victorian solicitors can lift ladies this way. My kid’s starting to get a little to big for this, and I lift weights. No way there’s enough protein in jellied eels and beans on toast for those guys to lift their deadweight, corset-wearing damsels like this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Old Vampire Movies Are How I Picture Kafka Novels<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This looks like Gregor and his cousin who is telling him to quit complaining about being a cockroach and go to his damn job. Or Joseph K’s girlfriend telling him to stop lying because them police wouldn’t be locking him up if he hadn’t done something<\/em>. “Go to the penal colony or I’ll shoot!” “You can’t, I’m an old vampire!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just Like Coffins, You Never Know What’s Hiding In Wikimedia Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Look at this marker drawing. You can still find surprising stuff on the internet. Do you think Spettro84 knows this drawing is on Wikimedia Commons? If you’re reading this, Spettro84, I love your Nosferatu<\/em> fan art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"screenshot](\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-15.png\")
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![Bradley Michael<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI mean, I do live in a place with plenty of cool street art. But nothing like this, with its Wile E. Coyote-esque use of a bricked-over tunnel as a canvas. This is Govan, and there are certain things we here in the States could learn from a place like Govan. Namely, give the horror artists government grants. <\/p>\n\n\n\nSorry you got an email, <\/p>\n\n\n\nChris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA strangeness. A ripple of unease…A sense that there was a reason to watch one\u2019s back when shadows grew long.\u201d – Isabel Ca\u00f1as, ‘Vampires of El Norte’ Hey look, it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162657464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,10],"tags":[31,35],"class_list":["post-162657460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ekphrasis","category-wednesday-column","tag-horror","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162657460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162657460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162657460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162657468,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162657460\/revisions\/162657468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162657464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162657460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162657460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162657460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Gorbals_Vampire_Artwork_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5931890.jpg\"){kind=link}