Thank you for pointing this out.
Anyways for my opinion:
Vampires were always way more bad ass until this recent Twilight pl*** ruined both vampires and werewolves. Someone told me there are no cool vampires. To those people I say we need more vampires like Kain. He knows how to ruin your day, face, and life as he brings the world down around you. Pyrokinesis, telekinesis, tearing the blood from your veins to his mouth as he drains you dry from across the room, steals your soul, turns into a whole SWARM OF BATS just to get around, can turn into a wolf or disguise himself as human if he sees fit. To top it off he can turn into mist and move through objects that would otherwise hinder him. And he made his debut in 1996. I grew up with this guy and he was cool. Then I watched in horror as vampires were ruined. But Vampire Lord almost felt like it was taking cues from this guy on how to be a bad ass.
But how did vampires go from this:
To this:
With this trash in between?