The Inquirer of Manila, Philippines, talks with artist-writer Ben Templesmith about 30 Days of Night, his influences, and the appeal of vampires:
“Vampires, in the horror genre, are considered the Star Trek of the horror genre, if you know what I mean. They’ve been around forever; people keep doing new and strange takes on them and they’ve evolved into these really fanciful and lamenting emo-goth type things. It’s great for some things but it’s less about being a vampire than about vampire politics. We just wanted to do something that was more old-school. We tried to make them scary, more animalistic and more primal again. Sort of like the old Nosferatu, more sinister.”
