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(13,901 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)LunaSea
(2,895 posts)We'd just laugh.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I never thought about that before!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Ignorance is bliss until youre no longer ignorant!
lapfog_1
(29,226 posts)the teeth leaving two puncture marks on the victim because "I vant to suck your blood" (Transylvanian accent included).
which maybe gives them the aspect of "snake like", hence the hissing?
Of course, there was a real Count Vlad Tepish Dracul (Dragon), who had a reputation of driving a spike through the bodies (from buttocks to mouth) and leaving them spiked like that in front of his castle. But not for drinking their blood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler
procon
(15,805 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)LunaSea
(2,895 posts)Nocturnal, hissing, hanging out upside down.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)Now there's an image!
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)not a lot of dentists work at night
Donkees
(31,465 posts)http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/31700/the-curious-bloody-lives-of-vampire-bats?page=3
lastlib
(23,308 posts)(which have no vocal chords) growl before they attack.
It's a sound effect the moviemaker uses simply to make them scary.