A stake in the heart!
Ouch!
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sunlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssvgMHCa45s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssvgMHCa45s)
dang it, it didn't paste right. scene is at 2:12....
Quote from: chefzombie on November 07, 2019, 01:40:32 PM
dang it, it didn't paste right. scene is at 2:12....
It's ok, dear- I seen the movie many times... :wink:
I believe I once red you could kill them by cutting off their heads and stuffing their mouths with garlic.
In most mythos, fire.
thanks ronny, one of these days i'll get the screen shot figured out on this laptop, lol! :cheers:
A pair of my undies: works every time :wink:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 07, 2019, 02:37:02 PM
I believe I once red you could kill them by cutting off their heads and stuffing their mouths with garlic.
This is supposedly part of the process to be thorough. Stake through the heart, sever the head, stuff the mouth with garlic or communion wafers.
You can fight a wolf man and fall out a window into the ocean.
(ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN.)
Of late, since watching Billy the kid vs. Dracula, I've kinda had this fantasy of a master gunfighter putting a single .44 Magnum cross tipped hollow point into each ventricle, then one into the center of the heart & the last hollow point cross tipped slug into the aortic arch.
And of course the cowboy in question would also be a retied Cavalry officer, making him a master swordsman, just in case...
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 07, 2019, 07:51:04 PM
You can fight a wolf man and fall out a window into the ocean.
(ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN.)
:bouncegiggle: Just watched that last week...
Quote from: LilCerberus on November 07, 2019, 08:41:22 PM
Of late, since watching Billy the kid vs. Dracula, I've kinda had this fantasy of a master gunfighter putting a single .44 Magnum cross tipped hollow point into each ventricle, then one into the center of the heart & the last hollow point cross tipped slug into the aortic arch.
And of course the cowboy in question would also be a retied Cavalry officer, making him a master swordsman, just in case...
That happened in CURSE OF THE UNDEAD!
They carved a cross into a bullet's point!
Quote from: Allhallowsday on November 07, 2019, 09:05:59 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 07, 2019, 07:51:04 PM
You can fight a wolf man and fall out a window into the ocean.
(ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN.)
:bouncegiggle: Just watched that last week...
I watch it anytime I get the chance!
Quote from: chefzombie on November 07, 2019, 03:23:24 PM
thanks ronny, one of these days i'll get the screen shot figured out on this laptop, lol! :cheers:
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According to what I think was the final episode of Deadliest Warrior, being infected by a zombie kills them but it also leaves them zombified with vampire strength and abilities.
Some necromancer could have a formidable army that way. (See, Scott, I do so have some nerd DNA!)
Quote from: ER on November 07, 2019, 10:38:23 PM
According to what I think was the final episode of Deadliest Warrior, being infected by a zombie kills them but it also leaves them zombified with vampire strength and abilities.
Some necromancer could have a formidable army that way. (See, Scott, I do so have some nerd DNA!)
What? :question:
You could p**s off your Queen.
http://youtu.be/E3NGrG6UEaM?t=144 (http://youtu.be/E3NGrG6UEaM?t=144)
Running water!
(https://www.horror.land/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Deaths_of_Dracula_Images_Prince_v02-1024x481.jpg)
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on November 08, 2019, 09:46:57 AMRunning water!
Running water really shouldn't be deadly to vampires. According to some myths, they can't
cross running water (or oceans) under their own power, but it's not harmful to them. Same with garlic; they hate it, but it's not like poison to them or anything.
Sunlight shouldn't be deadly to them either. They're just relatively week during the daytime.
But far be it from B-movie makers not to run with the least little suggestion to make a new plot twist.
You could fall into a Hawthorne bush! (and yes- it happened in the SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA.)
Nobody mention The Lost Boys' iconic Death By Stereo yet?
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Quote from: claws on November 08, 2019, 12:58:50 PM
Nobody mention The Lost Boys' iconic Death By Stereo yet?
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Or by Holy water in a squirt gun- like in FROM DUSK TILL DAWN and BORDELLO OF BLOOD!
Lightning bolt!
(https://www.horror.land/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Deaths_of_Dracula_Images_Scars_v05-1024x481.jpg)
^ SCARS OF DRACULA! One of my favorite Dracula movies! I don't care what no one says! :thumbup:
What about black out or UV light bulbs?
Feed it to a kaiju
What one tried to bite The Hulk, Because The Hulk is powered by Gamma Rays, And there's Gamma Rays in sunlight.............
Seriously...
The was a British TV show, I think called U/V where a secret group was hunting down vampires. They hadn't found a way to permanently destroy them, but they kept their ashes in an underground chamber that was kept flooded with U/V light that stopped them regenerating. Starred Fred Ward. Only managed to catch one episode of it and it was a few years back so my memories of it are somewhat vague at best.
The eastern European's had some interesting ways to kill off various blood-sucking creatures that while they weren't called vampires back then are what we would consider to be such nowadays.
From Wikipedia.
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Methods of destruction
The ninth-century Nørre Nærå Runestone from the Danish island of Fyn is inscribed with a "grave binding inscription" used to keep the deceased in its grave.[41]
Methods of destroying suspected vampires varied, with staking the most commonly cited method, particularly in southern Slavic cultures.[42] Ash was the preferred wood in Russia and the Baltic states,[43] or hawthorn in Serbia,[44] with a record of oak in Silesia.[45][46] Aspen was also used for stakes, as it was believed that Christ's cross was made from aspen (aspen branches on the graves of purported vampires were also believed to prevent their risings at night).[47] Potential vampires were most often staked through the heart, though the mouth was targeted in Russia and northern Germany[48][49] and the stomach in north-eastern Serbia.[50]
Piercing the skin of the chest was a way of "deflating" the bloated vampire. This is similar to a practice of "anti-vampire burial": burying sharp objects, such as sickles, with the corpse, so that they may penetrate the skin if the body bloats sufficiently while transforming into a revenant.[51]
Decapitation was the preferred method in German and western Slavic areas, with the head buried between the feet, behind the buttocks or away from the body.[42] This act was seen as a way of hastening the departure of the soul, which in some cultures, was said to linger in the corpse. The vampire's head, body, or clothes could also be spiked and pinned to the earth to prevent rising.[52]
800-year-old skeleton found in Bulgaria stabbed through the chest with iron rod[53]
Romani people drove steel or iron needles into a corpse's heart and placed bits of steel in the mouth, over the eyes, ears and between the fingers at the time of burial. They also placed hawthorn in the corpse's sock or drove a hawthorn stake through the legs. In a 16th-century burial near Venice, a brick forced into the mouth of a female corpse has been interpreted as a vampire-slaying ritual by the archaeologists who discovered it in 2006.[54] In Bulgaria, over 100 skeletons with metal objects, such as plough bits, embedded in the torso have been discovered.[53]
Further measures included pouring boiling water over the grave or complete incineration of the body. In the Balkans, a vampire could also be killed by being shot or drowned, by repeating the funeral service, by sprinkling holy water on the body, or by exorcism. In Romania, garlic could be placed in the mouth, and as recently as the 19th century, the precaution of shooting a bullet through the coffin was taken. For resistant cases, the body was dismembered and the pieces burned, mixed with water, and administered to family members as a cure. In Saxon regions of Germany, a lemon was placed in the mouth of suspected vampires.[55]
Ancient beliefs
QuoteIn Saxon regions of Germany, a lemon was placed in the mouth of suspected vampires.
My fave :teddyr:
Beaten up by Jesus.
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We all accept that crosses work on vampires, so this is just taking the next big step up.
I have heard tale that if you spill poppy seeds, a vampire has to count them all. I don't know why that would be. Not that it would kill one either, but it could keep one busy forever with proper poppy seed spilling maintenance. I haven't seen it in a movie yet, but I guess a vampire that can't stop counting poppy seeds would not be very scary.
With all the alleged weaknesses of vampires it would be amazing if any of them could survive at all.
Quote from: Alex on November 23, 2019, 03:51:19 PM
With all the alleged weaknesses of vampires it would be amazing if any of them could survive at all.
What if NONE of them are real and the vampires propagate them by social media in order to fool people?
There is this FANTASTIC parody of The Death and Return of Superman by Max Landis.
Watch the whole thing here:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlwDbSYicM#)
But allow me to take an excerpt from that video that I always took to heart.
"How do you kill a vampire?"
"Steak through the heart, garlic, sunlight."
"No. You kill a vampire however the f**k you want. Because vampires don't f**king exist. You can make up rules for any kind of thing you want."
And I'll tell ya there are some pretty stupid weaknesses people have made up for vampires. The biggest one for me is the rule that they can't enter your home unless you invite them.
Yeah, I can't say I'm as afraid of Dracula if he isn't even able to get into my house. There's also no real explanation for why. Guess it's just courtesy.
But an even funnier one people came up with is that if you spread rice everywhere, the vampire has no choice but to count every single piece of rice before going anywhere.
You put all that together and what do you get? A creature that dies in the sunlight, can be distracted for several hours by just dumping a bag of rice everywhere, can't cross running water, and can't even come in your house to kill you unless it asks first. Makes vampires sound like total pussies.
Quote from: Paquita on November 23, 2019, 02:51:27 PM
I have heard tale that if you spill poppy seeds, a vampire has to count them all. I don't know why that would be. Not that it would kill one either, but it could keep one busy forever with proper poppy seed spilling maintenance. I haven't seen it in a movie yet, but I guess a vampire that can't stop counting poppy seeds would not be very scary.
If memory serves, this was used is Therapy for a Vampire (2014) in order to stop a vampire from pursuing a character.
Quote from: A.J. Bauer on November 23, 2019, 07:09:42 PM
And I'll tell ya there are some pretty stupid weaknesses people have made up for vampires. The biggest one for me is the rule that they can't enter your home unless you invite them.
Yeah, I can't say I'm as afraid of Dracula if he isn't even able to get into my house. There's also no real explanation for why. Guess it's just courtesy.
It's not that terrible a weakness, since vampires typically have mind control powers that they can use to get an invitation.
Quote from: A.J. Bauer on November 23, 2019, 07:09:42 PMBut an even funnier one people came up with is that if you spread rice everywhere, the vampire has no choice but to count every single piece of rice before going anywhere.
Vampires have obsessive/compulsive disorder. Who knew?
Quote from: A.J. Bauer on November 23, 2019, 07:09:42 PM
There is this FANTASTIC parody of The Death and Return of Superman by Max Landis.
Watch the whole thing here:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlwDbSYicM#)
But allow me to take an excerpt from that video that I always took to heart.
"How do you kill a vampire?"
"Steak through the heart, garlic, sunlight."
"No. You kill a vampire however the f**k you want. Because vampires don't f**king exist. You can make up rules for any kind of thing you want."
And I'll tell ya there are some pretty stupid weaknesses people have made up for vampires. The biggest one for me is the rule that they can't enter your home unless you invite them.
Yeah, I can't say I'm as afraid of Dracula if he isn't even able to get into my house. There's also no real explanation for why. Guess it's just courtesy.
But an even funnier one people came up with is that if you spread rice everywhere, the vampire has no choice but to count every single piece of rice before going anywhere.
You put all that together and what do you get? A creature that dies in the sunlight, can be distracted for several hours by just dumping a bag of rice everywhere, can't cross running water, and can't even come in your house to kill you unless it asks first. Makes vampires sound like total pussies.
If you shoot them with a gun, that won't kill them. Or just stab the guy in the head. No good. And even if you DO kill him, and he can come back to life, under various circumstances... so- eh! I wouldn't call them pussies!
And the counting rice and poppy seed s**t... I never seen a vampire movie where Dracula is counting s**t, so...
And some shmuck b***hing about how to kill Superman, who is even a more stupid fictional character than vampires makes anything that snarky a***ole says even more irrelevant.
Superman? That cocksucker can rot in hell for all I care! f**k Superman!
:wink:
http://youtu.be/cvQcWQKPe5o (http://youtu.be/cvQcWQKPe5o)
QuoteBut an even funnier one people came up with is that if you spread rice everywhere, the vampire has no choice but to count every single piece of rice before going anywhere.
I saw one movie where the characters found out that (except I think it was seeds) so they threw a big bag full of them into the air.
The vampire was able to count them all before they even hit the ground.
Quote from: chainsaw midget on November 25, 2019, 03:40:34 PM
QuoteBut an even funnier one people came up with is that if you spread rice everywhere, the vampire has no choice but to count every single piece of rice before going anywhere.
I saw one movie where the characters found out that (except I think it was seeds) so they threw a big bag full of them into the air.
The vampire was able to count them all before they even hit the ground.
That sounds familiar.
Quote from: Ted C on November 25, 2019, 04:30:56 PM
Quote from: chainsaw midget on November 25, 2019, 03:40:34 PM
QuoteBut an even funnier one people came up with is that if you spread rice everywhere, the vampire has no choice but to count every single piece of rice before going anywhere.
I saw one movie where the characters found out that (except I think it was seeds) so they threw a big bag full of them into the air.
The vampire was able to count them all before they even hit the ground.
That sounds familiar.
So he was a Vampire version of RAIN MAN?
Funny how this thread mentioned Superman, because vampires tend to be the pre-crisis Superman. The super-powerful one who would get new one off powers just because the story needed it. Same with vampires it seems. How many different powers have you seen vampires get in different media? Flight, super speed, mind control, telekinesis, shape shift in animals, shape shift into monsters, shape shift into other people. immortality, super strength, control or summon storms, etc. Maybe that's why they get so many weaknesses as well. To balance things out.
You never really see that with other movie monsters. If someone made a film that gave the Frankenstein's monster X-Ray vision or the wolf man the ability to breath fire, I don't think people would be as willing to accept those.
^ And if King Kong shot a laser beam out of a ring- yeah!
Dracula is like the Superman of Monsters, except he's cool!
Come to think of it, Green Lantern and Dracula both have that ring thing!
http://youtu.be/yzIl7Zz0dGY (http://youtu.be/yzIl7Zz0dGY)
Speaking of Superman... that's another way to kill a vampire.
There was one comic where Dracula fought Superman. Perhaps fought might be the wrong word though. Since Superman is vulnerable to magic and the supernatural, Dracula was easily able to mesmerize him.
Then Dracula tried to drink his blood. Since Superman gets his powers from the sun, trying to drink his blood burnt Drac to a crisp.
Quote from: Paquita on November 23, 2019, 02:51:27 PM
I have heard tale that if you spill poppy seeds, a vampire has to count them all. I don't know why that would be. Not that it would kill one either, but it could keep one busy forever with proper poppy seed spilling maintenance. I haven't seen it in a movie yet, but I guess a vampire that can't stop counting poppy seeds would not be very scary.
If I remember my myths correctly, it was rice and it referred to the fae and not vampires. And it was rice not poppy seeds.
Quote from: Alex on November 23, 2019, 03:51:19 PM
With all the alleged weaknesses of vampires it would be amazing if any of them could survive at all.
Vampires are one of my favourite supernatural characters. I've read many stories and watched various TV/movies and I've found that their weaknesses have changed over the years. For example, in Bram Stokers
Dracula and Stephan le Fanu's
Carmilla both vampires could walk out in daylight with no problem.
And if I remember correctly both could enter buildings without invitation.
In the 2011 remake of
Fright Night the vampire is also able to enter homes without invitation. There may also of been some other vampire myths that the movie spoofed but I can't remember.
Its Sheridan le Fanu not Stephan le Fanu!! My bad..
Quote from: niccolom on December 01, 2019, 08:33:13 PM
Quote from: Paquita on November 23, 2019, 02:51:27 PM
I have heard tale that if you spill poppy seeds, a vampire has to count them all. I don't know why that would be. Not that it would kill one either, but it could keep one busy forever with proper poppy seed spilling maintenance. I haven't seen it in a movie yet, but I guess a vampire that can't stop counting poppy seeds would not be very scary.
If I remember my myths correctly, it was rice and it referred to the fae and not vampires. And it was rice not poppy seeds.
that was my thought too, but i didn't have time to look it up, thank you! :)
Quote from: niccolom on December 01, 2019, 08:57:30 PM
Vampires are one of my favourite supernatural characters. I've read many stories and watched various TV/movies and I've found that their weaknesses have changed over the years. For example, in Bram Stokers Dracula and Stephan le Fanu's Carmilla both vampires could walk out in daylight with no problem.
And if I remember correctly both could enter buildings without invitation.
Dracula needed an invitation to enter a residence. That was Renfield's betrayal.
Quote from: niccolom on December 01, 2019, 08:33:13 PM
Quote from: Paquita on November 23, 2019, 02:51:27 PM
I have heard tale that if you spill poppy seeds, a vampire has to count them all. I don't know why that would be. Not that it would kill one either, but it could keep one busy forever with proper poppy seed spilling maintenance. I haven't seen it in a movie yet, but I guess a vampire that can't stop counting poppy seeds would not be very scary.
If I remember my myths correctly, it was rice and it referred to the fae and not vampires. And it was rice not poppy seeds.
MORE what? :question: