Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Blood letting


The earliest cinematic vampires in such films as 1913’s, The Vampire, were in reality 'vamps' or femme fatales deriving inspiration from a poem by Rudyard Kipling called The Vampire, composed in 1897. This poem was written as kind of commentary on a painting of a female vampire by Philip Burne-Jones exhibited in the same year. A Fool There Was starred Theda Bara as the 'vamp' in question and the poem was used in the publicity for the film.


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