"True Blood" (2008) - Opening Credits

To be honest, I love old style vampire movies and series, but after a huge popularity of one recent saga I thought  this beasts will never be interesting again. However, I'm desperately searching for something better. I like watching TV series, so I found another vampire story. It's called "True Blood" from HBO, staring Anna Paquin and actors I haven't heard about. The very first thing I liked in it is opening credits. They are stylish, a bit vintage and have some disgusting pictures, which I was very surprised to see, because it seemed like everyone has forgotten how vampires should be messy, brutal and act like heartless killing machines. And the soundtrack by Nathan Barr is also good.

I've watched just first episode and I'm not sure I'd like to see the whole season (this vampire series could use more true blood), but it's witty and not over-dramatic.

Opening credits season 1 (music - "Bad Things" by Jace Everett) -

A Brief History of Movie Title Designs

Checking my Twitter, I've discovered an interesting twit about how movie titles have been changed since the beginning of cinematograph. Everybody knows that 21st century movies are very different from their forefathers but all this changes you can see in 2 min 30 sec! It's really impressive.

The whole video you can watch here - Film | Blogging the Reel World.

You will see titles from such movies (in correct order):

Intolerance, Phantom of the Opera, King Kong, Modern Times, My Man Godfrey, Make Way For Tomorrow, Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Gun Crazy, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Lady in the Lake, Fallen Angel, The Thing, Singing in the Rain, The Man with the Golden Arm, Anatomy of a Murder, Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo, Grand Prix, To Kill A Mockingbird, Dr. No, The Pink Panther, Goldfinger, Dr. Strangelove, Bullitt, Barbarella, Soylent Green, Mean Streets, Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Superman, Alien, Raging Bull, The Terminator, Brazil, The Untouchables, Do The Right Thing, Forrest Gump, The Naked Gun, Cape Fear, Reservoir Dogs, Delicatessen, Natural Born Killers, Freaked, Se7en, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Mimic, Donnie Brasco, Mission Impossible, Dawn of the Dead, Fight Club, Catch Me If You Can, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Fall, Casino Royale, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Dexter, Mad Men, Iron Man, Juno, The Kingdom, Wall•E, Sherlock Holmes, Up In The Air, Zombieland, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Buried, Robin Hood, Machete, The Social Network, Enter The Void.

By the way the last one psychedelic title of "Enter The Void" was a Tarantino's pick as one of the greatest ever:

"Hands down best credit scene of the year … Maybe best credit scene of the decade. One of the greatest in cinema history."

"Enter The Void" opening: