For my essay, I chose to use the movie “Priest” from 2011. It takes place in a world that has an ongoing battle between humans and vampires. The ones who battle the vampires are warrior like priests which protect a city that is ruled by the Church. There is a priest in particular who breaks the vow he made before the church in order to save his niece who was abducted by vampires. The Church denied the priest’s request to leave the city to rescue her because they believe the vampires were obliterated a long time ago so goes out on his own to save her before she is turned into one of them (vampire). The gothic metaphors in this are the vampires in the movie who (like every other normal vampire) cannot be in sunlight, have pale skin, remarkable strength and speed, and rely on blood to live.
-Carlos Lema
This movie is a good one I seen it before, but even though the movie is kind of futuristic or to some post apocoliptic world the vamps in the movie are pretty much the basic idea of them. I feel that you might you might run into a bit of rough patch when writting your essay because even though its a good movie, its kind of straight forward in my thoughts.
Carlos, it sounds like the movie might work well for this essay, but what social issue will you be discussing? Remember, your essay needs to identify a Gothic metaphor and then make an argument about how it represents some social issue or anxiety. Any thoughts on that aspect?
Sounds like a good movie…because the church is portrayed in a lot of vampire movies, since vampires can’t be sprayed with holy water or a cross etc. I think it should be a good essay.