Unpopular Opinion

Someone hasn’t watched What We Do In The Shadows and it shows

All y'all suggesting various vampire stories that won't annoy OP because they address the listed critisms are wasting your time. OP is already pre-annoyed by the whole concept and won't enjoy those suggestions whether they fall within the critique or not. The only exception might be What We Do In The Shadows, because it lampoons vampire fiction so well, including the things OP points out. For anyone giving that a try, start with the original movie before watching the show.

Because the ones you're thinking of, mostly older examples, are based around Bram Stoker's novel or in the Hammer Horror vein.

There are, however, many more examples than I can think of which aren't like that at all. 30 days of night, the satanic rites of dracula, from dusk til dawn, Byzantium, blade, near dark, night watch, day watch, blood red sky, daybreakers, the last voyage of the demeter, cronos, Dracula untold.

Whether you like it or not, vampires are sexy, scary, mysterious, and a quality monster.

If we're going to stop something, I'd like less of the done-to-death superhero movies. Now they're trite.

There are so many vampire stories that don't suffer from these problems. It just means you are unfamiliar with the genre.

Counterpoint:

Sinners

Witcher 3, Blood and Wine

OP is a vampire ;)

I can't remember who said this, but the quote that vampires are the aristocracy of the undead while zombies are the working class always stuck with me.

What We Do in the Shadows? Not cool per se, but funny.

Erm. From dusk till dawn? Blade? Underworld?

Someone didn't see Blade movies, I guess

Upvoted for truly an unpopular opinion.

Me, but for zombies.

Feel the same about zombies

I would recommend watching:

• Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
• Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant (Ariane Louis-Seize)

And What We Do In The Shadows, as others pointed out.

Maybe unpopular, but I agree. Vampires are boring old goths with the same representation in every movie or game.

Boooooo

The author Peter Watts had a vampire in one of his books that was great: hibernation periods, true multi tasking brain, evolution based explanation on how they exist.

Eh, I feel like Zombies had a big run at one point.

Some are different.

Movies:

• Near Dark
• Lifeforce

Shows:

• The Strain

I disagree.
Vampire is an interesting monster but very popular. Which makes it in a specific fiction easily classic and boring or badly written.

There is examples of well written classic vampire story. The most famous being Dracula from Bram Stocker which is not only interesting as the first of a kind but hold as a very good story.
There is examples of interesting twist on the classic vampire which are nice as any good remake is. For example, the energy vampires in What We Do in the Shadows.

That being said, you don't need to enjoy any of it. Tastes are subjective.

The scifi book Blindsight uses them in a way you may find interesting (they're just a fork of humanity like the species of fireflies that attract mates only to eat them by who died out due to a genetic fluke, brought back by modern science for their intelligence traits), and that's only a small part of a biologist writing a very "mates ya think" novel exploring consciousness.

More werewolves. Equally overdone but I just think they're neat.

I'd go a step farther and say it's time to come up with an entirely new type of monster.

I don't mean "villain" like a Candyman, or a Jeeper's Creepers, or a Terrifier, or something like that. People make up new ones of those all the time.

I mean an entire new class of monster. Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, etc... Where are the classes of monsters that represent our modern sensibilities?

Doesn't make any sense. If getting bit by a vampire makes you immortal why is it a problem ?