Zombies are almost completely played out. The current zombie fad is a zombie fad; it's still lurching along long after all life has left it.
Vampires need to be fixed in the worst way. Twilight is the final stage in the de-fanging that Anne Rice kicked off by making the monster a figure of sympathy* in Interview. What was once creepy because it looked human but was menacingly other has been reduced to whining about having superpowers and needing a high-iron diet. Vampires need to be reinvented as monsters again. Re-vamped, if you will.
*Though to be fair, even Dracula had a brief moment of self-pity early in the novel. It's kind of out of place and doesn't really affect the plot.
My 2¢
Zombies are almost completely played out. The current zombie fad is a zombie fad; it's still lurching along long after all life has left it.
Vampires need to be fixed in the worst way. Twilight is the final stage in the de-fanging that Anne Rice kicked off by making the monster a figure of sympathy* in Interview. What was once creepy because it looked human but was menacingly other has been reduced to whining about having superpowers and needing a high-iron diet. Vampires need to be reinvented as monsters again. Re-vamped, if you will.
*Though to be fair, even Dracula had a brief moment of self-pity early in the novel. It's kind of out of place and doesn't really affect the plot.