Vampires, werewolves, and zombies, take your pick

Just a few years ago, the Hollywood horror scene in the early to mid-2000s was a toss-up between vampires and werewolves. But then there was a drop off in werewolf movies, except for a few, direct-to-dvd ones. The vampire genre received an immense boost from the 'Twilight' series. Then the zombie genre, never truly, fully dead (lol, yes, pun intended) but dormant, resurrected. Today it's a toss up between the vampire flicks and the zombie flicks.

The zombie flicks have an advantage over the vamp genre. Modern vampires are a creation of British fiction writer, Bram Stoker, back in the late 1800s. Ancient mythology does include blood-sucking vampire-like creatures that are essentially monsters, not the glamorous fiction of the 1977 'Dracula' or today's 'Twilight' franchise. Zombies are fictional and literary manifestations of mankind's primal fears about death, not resting in peace, and the horror of violation of one's corpse after death. There'll always be a market for zombie flicks.

Fortunately, Sy Fy is doing its part to help keep alive the werewolf genre with the imaginative take on the Red Riding Hood fable. (I've waited since this past April for this movie to come out) Sy Fy ripped off the vampire-turning-to-dust-after-death bit with its version of werewolves. Interesting although mythologically incorrect.

Sy Fy had been under criticism of late from imdb posters about making miserable, low-budget sci-fi and horror cable television flicks instead of interesting, exciting low-budget sci-fi and horror flicks. I'm not that picky or judgmental. I'm happy for anything new on the Sy Fy Channel. Once I see something new once, if it's lousy I don't have to re-watch it. If I do have a beef with Sy Fy it's the channel constantly re-running the same movies. Given the huge library of its sci fi and horror movies, it could do better to show a greater variety of re-runs.

I'm not complaining about, "Red: Werewolf Hunter". It has Felicia Day, an Alabama-born redhead running around in tight, form-fitting jeans, helping to keep that fashion statement alive. Go for it, girl.