bj_kuehl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I've scanned through the summaries of all the vampire movies
> I've seen, and the first reference to the "three bites" scenario
> comes in two 1979 movies [Love at First Bite, The World of
> Dracula]. I can't say for sure that these are the earliest movies
> that mention the need to bite someone three times before they
> can become a vampire. I only did a quick scan. I may have
> missed something earlier than 1979. I also find it suspicious
> that two movies use this same scenario in the same year,
> which leads me to suspect that the idea came from
> somewhere else. Possibly a novel or a comic book?
Giving Cathy's question a bit more thought after finding the
two movies that use the three-bite scenario as a plot device,
it dawned on me that the biggest thing to hit the vampire
scene in the 1970s was Anne Rice's _Interview with the
Vampire_, which was published in 1976. It's been years since
I read it, so I can't remember whether or not Anne Rice might
have invented the idea and added it to her novels.
Has anyone recently read _Interview with the Vampire_ who
might remember whether or not Rice used that in her story?
^BJ^
