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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires? Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control? Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?"
Feel free to post any vampire-related content here. I'll be posting various vampire media I enjoy just as a way of kickstarting this community but don't let that stop you from posting something else. I just wanted a place to discuss vampire movies, books, games, etc.
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As I understand it, it's not just the zombie bite that turns you but the transference of the zombie virus (zombie's saliva getting into the zombie's bite) I'd imagine biting a zombie would transfer the disease as well (zombie flesh inside humans mouth). Unless the virus itself is only found in the saliva but I just kind of assumed it was all throughout the zombie.
That's true for later versions like resident evil and 28 days/week/years, but traditional zombie films were slightly more supernatural/mysterious. At the very least they only portrayed turning via a bite
Yeah, you're right. It just depends on which version of the mythology you're going with. From what I know the roots stem from voodoo in Africa where magic was used to raise the dead and turn them into a servant of sorts, so you're version is definitely closer to the origin.