I’m hoping I just missed something.
When the vampires first show up there is this big deal about them needing to be invited in. We see it with the first vampire guy, and then they made a big deal about it with Cornbread.
Sometime later, when the vampires suddenly decide they are done fooling around and invade the juke joint to try killing everyone, why are they able to do it with no invitation? Did I somehow miss that someone accidentally invited them in?
I just watched it last night for the first time and this was the only thing that kind of bugged me about it.
Vampires are an allegory for germs and bacteria.
-they can’t enter unless you let them -silver was used as a common cure for diseases -cant see their reflection because most mirrors were made of silver nitrate -garlic was a common remedy for disease -priests would bless those who were sick
Etc…
Zombies are an allegory for today’s working environment, but that’s for another question
They weren’t “allegory”. They were literally thought to be the cause of many things.
They were also just folk stories, too- people believed in things like vampires before they were blamed for the diseases, not the other way around.
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perhaps you can explain why correcting a myth (that folklore creatures were always allegory an not literal belief,) means I was hurt?
or perhaps you can address what I said.
belief in folklore predates blaming the creatures in folklore for things. things like nocturnal emissions, as an example. they’d have blamed something else if they didn’t already believe in demons. (specifically succubi.)
these beliefs weren’t allegory. it was literally a demon haunted world. And for many, it still is.