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Andy Warhol was a Vampire! He was even shot by a woman with
silver bullets. A movie about it was called "I Shot Andy Warhol."
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Warhol in his typical turtleneck shirt. At right is Warhol after he was shot for being a "Vampire." Warhol never recovered from "he never fully emotionally recovered from his near-deathexperience." (UBC Dept.of Psychiatryand Pacific Cinémathèque http://www.psychiatry.ubc.ca/cme/film/flyers/2004-09.pdf) Yes, Warhol was legally dead and came back to life after being dead! |
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Andy Warhol was so fascinated by vampires that he made an entire series of movies about them
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The Doors: Mrazek warned Morrison that Warhol and friends were vampires
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,511064,00.html
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Saturday June 23, 2001
Ever wondered why Andy
Warhol got nicknamed Drella? Because he was half Dracula and half Cinderella -
obvious, really. Just as it is also self-evident that Manhattan's Studio 54 had
to be a vampire hangout and that Nancy Spungen (as in Sid and...) died after
feeding her blood to a New York lowlife. Obvious, at least, to Kim Newman, whose
novella Andy Warhol's Dracula - a tale of 1970s excess, drug abuse, high art and
low comedy
Drella: Warhols nickname
Warhol -Czech
Kim Newman
interviewed by Patrick Hudson
http://www.zone-sf.com/knewman.html
ethnically he was very close to
Dracula, he was a
Ruthenian
http://www.queerhorror.com/Qvamp/allMovies.html Queer Vampires
Andy Warhol's cheeky tribute to the Transylvanian legend is distinguished by its
overt acknowledgement of the sexual metaphor of vampires.
Homosexual: Death, not life
Mirror - I will be
Why are vampires so queer?Liz Highleyman | October 31, 2005 Why are vampires so queer? "When you think of a man who dresses well, stays out late, and has an endless appetite for supple young flesh, admit it: Vampire is the second thing that comes to mind," critic Wenzel Jones once quipped.
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), was not homosexual, but the story did include homoerotic interactions between Mina and Lucy. Http://www.gmax.co.za/think/history/2005/051031-vampires.html