The fame of Nosferatu notwithstanding, most of the vampires in silent film were metaphorical and almost all were women. (Almost all.)
The concept of a vampire referring to a predatory women was popularized in English by a Philip Burne-Jones painting, which inspired a Rudyard Kipling poem, both entitled The Vampire. Hollywood made vamp films before it even was located in Hollywood and the term gained multinational appeal.
This month, we will be appreciating the cinematic vampire in all her moods. You can read my review of the first Theda Bara vamp film here but Bara herself in her prime will be absent for this month. Of her many, many 1910s vampire films, only A Fool There Was survives.
However, I hope you will enjoy all the less famous vamps as they bring men to their ruin.
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