The many ways to kill a Vampire!

[ER]

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!)

[RCMerchant]

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? 

[Bushma]

You could p**s off your Queen.

http://youtu.be/E3NGrG6UEaM?t=144

[Gabriel Knight]

Running water!

[Ted C]

Running 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.

[RCMerchant]

You could fall into a Hawthorne bush! (and yes- it happened in the SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA.)

[claws]

Nobody mention The Lost Boys' iconic Death By Stereo yet?

[RCMerchant]

Nobody mention The Lost Boys' iconic Death By Stereo yet?

Or by Holy water in a squirt gun- like in FROM DUSK TILL DAWN and BORDELLO OF BLOOD!

[Gabriel Knight]

Lightning bolt!

[RCMerchant]

^ SCARS OF DRACULA! One of my favorite Dracula movies! I don't care what no one says!

[LilCerberus]

What about black out or UV light bulbs?

[WingedSerpent]

Feed it to a kaiju

[LilCerberus]

What one tried to bite The Hulk, Because The Hulk is powered by Gamma Rays, And there's Gamma Rays in sunlight.............










Seriously...

[Ted C]

What about black out or UV light bulbs?

Used in Blade 2.

[Alex]

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.

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