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Vampires were first seen as obese with big bellies and stinky breath. Closer to resembling zombies that we know of today as vampires were first associated with disease

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Stephen King helped change our ideal of vampires to lustful creatures with his book "Dance Macabre". Vampires were still seen as animalistic during this time most notably compared to a rodent to compare to the black plague.

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Lugosi started the avalanche of vampires changing from destructive, death-bringing creatures to lustful and thoughtful monsters. Lugosi's Dracula and its success is what helped lead to the creation of series like Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Vampires were at this point protecting those they loved with their powers. This flipped the ideologies that vampires bring solely death and destruction and that they now bring love and passion.

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Although nowadays it is hard to find a genre where vampires haven't been placed in, it seems a reliable setting to put vampires in is when it comes to disease and outbreak as when the vampire first broke through. We may find many stories about lust, humor, sex or even one that is family driven, the underlying tones of anything involving vampires can be linked to that of a tragedy or sickness.

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It is quite intriguing to see the evolution the vampire has gone through since its first appearance. From what I have seen it went through one overall change from fat and monstrous to a noble and eloquent fellow. From that change it then began to branch off into every genre from its instant likeability and success from Legosi's Dracula. This branching into different genres would make one initially be confused as to what vampires really are. Are they funny, scary, lustful, heroic, demonic or a great father? The answer I have found is that if you focus solely on the intentions of the vampire, you are missing the entire point of why it is there in the first place. Vampires are to me, an analogy for a greater evil. Whether it be the vampire itself or what it is fighting with in the film there is something bigger the author or director is trying to make us see. I challenge you next time you watch a film or read a book with a vampire in it, infer what the vampire stands for, not just who that vampire is but what it means.