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The Land Where Vampires Live

Two Slovenes walk into a photo booth… Click to play.

The glorious Michael N. (no relation) spotted and sent along this absolutely wonderful clip from a recent episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In it, a mega-cute Slovenian couple (what are the odds?1) walks into a fake photo booth with a hidden camera. The girl skeptically says: “We won’t get any photos here.”

They then deal with the ensuing prank with absolute class and wit. Bravo to them.

(Thanks Michael N.!)


  1. Of them being Slovenes, I mean, not of them them being cute. All Slovenes look like this, after all. [back]
Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 to Movies & TV

Comments

  • 1

    Land of vampires? Methinks it’s a mixup with Transylvania (in Romania) of Vlad Tepes fame.
    @Michael M. : Perhaps after this you should start a new category of posts: “The eternal (?) Slovenia Transylvania mix-up”. hehe

         by Anonymous on February 13, 2007 at 5:37 am

  • 2

    Hey! I think I know that Michael N guy. ;)

    I think it would be quite funny if this couple ends up finding this video on the internet. That would be something!
    I guess there is a snowball’s chance of it happening, now that it’s posted on the mojvideo site.

         by Michael N. on February 13, 2007 at 6:18 am

  • 3

    @Anonymous: But you know that Bram Stoker wanted his novel to take place in a casle in Styria? So it could be Slovenia…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla
    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(Roman)

         by Robert on February 13, 2007 at 8:00 am

  • 4

    Robert: That’s really wild. I knew that Valvasor himself mentioned vampires, but had no idea about the Styria connection.

    Michael N: I think they probably will find it eventually. Maybe someone here even knows them? Anyone? Anyone?

         by Michael M. on February 13, 2007 at 8:11 am

  • 5

    Talk about picking up a cue! :D Hats off to both of them!

         by pengovsky on February 13, 2007 at 8:27 am

  • 6

    They sure picked up on that cue fast! And both of them simultaneously! Shows how smart (not to mention good looking) people in Slovenia are!! ;)

         by ka-ma on February 13, 2007 at 8:49 am

  • 7

    And where was this shot?

         by Anonymous on February 13, 2007 at 8:57 am

  • 8

    @Anonymous: It was shot at Universal Studios, Hollywood California.

         by Michael N. on February 13, 2007 at 9:04 am

  • 9

    Great! Now I was wondering: was the one and only Slovenian sentence spoken with Ljubljana…accent?

         by alcessa on February 13, 2007 at 9:26 am

  • 10

    Back in 1988, Pet Shop Boys filmed a video for their song ‘Heart’ on Mokrice Castle. There were some vampires in this spot, if I remember correctly.

         by historix on February 13, 2007 at 9:31 am

  • 11

    @Robert: Hate to nit-pick, but Carmilla is by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and not Bram Stoker, though admittedly, Stoker did draw some inspiration from “Carmilla” in the same way he drew inspiration from John Polidori’s “Ruthven”. (Nothing wrong with the wikipedia, but do you read books at all?) However, the main inspiration was the real life vampire (though historians are divided over this) Count Vlad Tepes of Transylvania who gained his grisly reputation over the many battles he fought with the Ottoman Turks. The other real-life vampire was Countess Elizabeth Bathory, another Transylvanian.
    Even Carmilla is based in Styria, only a small part of which lies in modern Slovenia, so Le Fanu may actually have actually had the Austrian part in mind while he wrote the novel. Come on Robert, “a land of vampires” is a distinction that any country can do without. Are you so insecure that you grudge the poor Romanians even this teeny-weeny claim to fame (or infamy)!! :-)
    Before you lovely people of Carniola begin to sharpen your claws, this is all in good fun, by the way.

         by Anonymous on February 13, 2007 at 9:48 am

  • 12

    Of course there are Vampires in Slovenia. Most often you see their funny little houses along the motorway from Ljubljana to Maribor (around every 500 meters or so). Nowadays, however, they don’t take your blood, only all your money and call it “cestnina” instead… ;-)

         by Dietmar on February 13, 2007 at 10:11 am

  • 13

    Unfortunately after being for some time in USA the couple learned that there is no point in explaining where Slovenia is, so they were not so smart but they only adapted to the smart questions they got there.

         by Davor on February 13, 2007 at 10:18 am

  • 14

    Oh please. There’s no such thing as “real-life vampires”. There’s only a very rich south Slavic folklore of vampires and vampiric beings (did you know they are present in Istria’s folklore? Forever hunted by that saddly unknown superhero/witch hunter/vampire slayer of Slovene folklore, the kresnik), and then there’s writers who tapped into this folkloric source for inspiration.
    Vlad Tepes and Bathory Elizabeth, on the other hand, are just plain old human beings acreditted with inhumane atrocities, no more than that. They may have been heartless cruel bastards, but to call them real-life vampires is inapropriate towards the actual vampire lore.

         by Cornelius on February 13, 2007 at 10:25 am

  • 15

    Yes, yes Cornelius, they were not really vampires. Countess Bathory merely bathed in the blood of young virgins because she felt she would be forever young and beautiful that way (no evidence that she actually drank the stuff); and Vlad Tepes may have really been a sick man you know (porphyria). You find some kind of vampire folklore in just about every culture (with variations), and not just South Slavic. Though by far, the Transylvanian legends are the best known in this world. The other day I read a newspaper report about how “Dracula tourism” is expected to get a new high post Romania’s entry into the EU.

    If you can get hold of hard copies, (couldn’t get hold of free online versions) of the following Robert Bloch stories, “The Living Dead” and “The Yugoslaves (sic)”, do read them. Admittedly, I am a horror story buff, even though I often to go bed with the light on. :-)

         by Anonymous on February 13, 2007 at 10:36 am

  • 16

    @ alcessa: in my humble opinion she had a bit of Kranj accent. Or Highland’s accent. Not really Ljubljana.

    I agree with Ka-ma! Great witty idea from the guy!

         by ambala on February 13, 2007 at 11:25 am

  • 17

    Well: now we know where to look for them… :-)

         by alcessa on February 13, 2007 at 11:35 am

  • 18

    Bloodsuckers have been popping up forever and not only in Transylvania or Styria, but also in Lower Carniola: Slovenian writer Mate Dolenc published his entertaining semi-political satire Vampir z Gorjancev (Vampire from Gorjanci) in 1979. Anonymous is absolutely right about Carmilla, though. The novella itself is quite tiresome, but the best film version of it - The Vampire Lovers from 1970 - is a hoot (and full of SEX). A bit off-topic: the best modern horror story set in central or southeast Europe is, I think, Clive Barker’s In the Hills, the Cities (Books of Blood, Volume One, 1984), an eerily prescient tale of love, loss and war.

         by tadej on February 13, 2007 at 12:13 pm

  • 19

    See all the other sufferers here:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NCjKbex9wk
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-PQY9ntAJo

         by Regakvak on February 13, 2007 at 1:18 pm

  • 20

    This is soooo the cutest couple ever, I just want to adopt them!

         by Poulette on February 13, 2007 at 1:40 pm

  • 21

    So, how soon after this was shown on Leno, were they signed to a multi-film contract?

         by DarkoV on February 13, 2007 at 1:48 pm

  • 22

    pet shop boys - heart

    youtube.com/watch?v=5A_aoxehio4

         by arctus on February 13, 2007 at 3:06 pm

  • 23

    That was really very seriously cute.
    Vlad Tepes may beside porphyria have had mental problems. He was long a hostage of the Sultan in Turkey, and he was extremely handsome…
    Yes there are indeed many legends of vampires in all the region. Slovenia has some excellent vampire legends.

         by Katja on February 13, 2007 at 6:21 pm

  • 24

    I don’t care about vampires. I want to see bear!

    BTW: Is this also on youtube?

         by Christian on February 13, 2007 at 7:43 pm

  • 25

    As long as we’re on the subject of vampiric creatures, the Philippines have some wonderfully gruesome folklore monsters. Like the Tiyanak, for instance. I wont even go into the details about this adorable little bloodsucker… Suffice it to say, Dracula’s a fluffy pink bunny compared to this guy.

         by Cornelius on February 13, 2007 at 7:50 pm

  • 26

    What a response, pure magic :))
    By the way, that girl’s voice seems to have a pretty strong Gorenjska accent to it. With the people coming from that region being known as the Scots of Slovenia and with the “Free Photos” sign on the booth, it makes perfect sense, of course.

         by Malo srecen on February 14, 2007 at 2:17 pm

  • 27

    While browsing through YouTube I found this video:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpeKeEy8AKo

    I am not sure, but at 22 secunds into video does that guy says that a bat comes from Slovenia?? Hillarious! :)

         by Borut on February 21, 2007 at 12:58 am

  • 28

    While browsing through YouTube I found this video:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpeKeEy8AKo

    I am not sure, but at 22 secunds into video does that guy says that the bat comes from Slovenia?? Hillarious! :)

         by Borut on February 21, 2007 at 12:58 am

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