Lesson 9: whose representations?

As we have seen, the vampires of 30 Days of Night offer a very conventional view of  The Other.  In such representations we might begin to see how these ideas were used by Hitler to de-humanise an entire race, by South Africa or some states of America to justify legalised racial superiority laws. The issue is like us but not like us 
In the representations in Slade's film released in 2007 we might see underlying ideologies of the lack of understanding of USA audiences regarding jihad-dist terror, suicide-bombers, Islamic  fundamentalist religious movements etc. The vampires say that they intend to kill everyone yet it is clearly not linked to any desire to feed, or any sense that is knowable to the American ideology or the American values represented by the people of Barrow.  It is simply the compulsion to destroy that which they find distasteful, different, other.