{"id":7684,"date":"2018-09-20T21:55:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7684"},"modified":"2018-09-20T22:04:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:04:42","slug":"nzs-8-most-important-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7684","title":{"rendered":"NZ\u2019s 8 most important vampires"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excellent! But please don\u2019t overlook Count Robula. He\u2019s one of NZ\u2019s eight most important vampires (and not just because he was PM)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sofageddon (@sofageddon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sofageddon\/status\/1042473009901068288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2018<\/a> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eight most important vampires. Let&#8217;s do this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Sam Pyar<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a children&#8217;s book about a kid who is probably a vampire? I have never read it but I know the author a tiny bit (hey Shalesh) and I was having trouble getting this list to eight. I think number 9 on this list is probably that girl with the piercings who was in that Vampire larp in your city in the 90s, you know the one. Anyway. Sam Pyar looks cool. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sam-Pyar-Shalesh-Vasan-ebook\/dp\/B008LPGYH4\">Here&#8217;s the Amazon Kindle link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Those randos in Wellington<\/strong><br \/>\nUh, this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/crime\/3662417\/Vampire-attack-in-Wellington\">vampire attack in Wellington<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>6. The vampires in <em>Perfect Creature<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you see this film? I didn&#8217;t see this film.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzonscreen.com\/title\/perfect-creature-2006\">NZ On Screen&#8217;s entry on Perfect Creature<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Grampire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Al Lewis: the most unusual typecasting in Hollywood history? &#8220;They only cast me as vampire grandfathers.&#8221; I never saw this film either. Al Lewis, though.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzonscreen.com\/title\/moonrise-aka-grampire-1992\">NZ On Screen&#8217;s entry on Grampire<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Nailini Singh&#8217;s vampires<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have never read her books. If they were films I wouldn&#8217;t have seen them either based on the last couple entries in this list. Anyway she&#8217;s NZ&#8217;s biggest selling novelist and should be a bigger deal than she is. Would be ranked higher except her series about vampire killing angels is set in New York, not Taihape or wherever. (<a href=\"http:\/\/nalinisingh.com\/books\/guild-hunter-series\/angels-blood\/\">Here&#8217;s the info page for the first book in that series.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Count Robula<\/strong><br \/>\nNew Zealand is a ridiculous country, and this is one of the high watermarks of ridiculousness, the nation&#8217;s recently-deposed Prime Minister Robert Muldoon moonlighting as a late-night horror movie host. I just found out he was still in parliament at the time. Under no circumstances take this country seriously. (Also, fuck that guy.)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/tv-radio\/98255843\/school-night-of-the-living-dead-remembering-tv2s-sunday-night-horrors\">Stuff article by Alistair Hughes including some footage of Robula<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. What We Do In The Shadows vampires<\/strong><br \/>\nKnown all over the world. One of the best vampire films ever made. Indelible comic creations. Pretty important Kiwi vampires, these ones. But still overshadowed by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzonscreen.com\/title\/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-2014\">NZ On Screen&#8217;s entry on What We Do In The Shadows<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Count Homogenised<\/strong><br \/>\nIT IS I<\/p>\n<p>COUNT HOMOGENISED<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzonscreen.com\/title\/it-is-i-count-homogenized-series-1983\/series\">NZ On Screen&#8217;s entry on his eponymous TV show<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7683\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?attachment_id=7683\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_0952.jpg?fit=209%2C241&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"209,241\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_0952\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_0952.jpg?fit=209%2C241&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_0952.jpg?fit=209%2C241&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_0952.jpg?resize=209%2C241&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7683\" height=\"241\" width=\"209\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>NZ television used to put a horror movie on late on Sunday night: the Sunday Horrors. We&#8217;re bringing it back by picking a horror movie that&#8217;s available on youtube or somewhere else accessible, and watching it on Sunday evening. Join us!<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/HorrorsSunday\">@horrorsunday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/sundayhorrors\/\">Sunday Horrors group<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent! But please don\u2019t overlook Count Robula. He\u2019s one of NZ\u2019s eight most important vampires (and not just because he was PM) \u2014 Sofageddon (@sofageddon) September 19, 2018 Eight most important vampires. Let&#8217;s do this. 8. Sam Pyar This is a children&#8217;s book about a kid who is probably a vampire? 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