"Due to this preconceived ideology, future vampire works had to find that extra twist in order to stimulate their audiences. It is likely that everyone who watches a modern vampire film will be familiar with the vampire and perhaps also the vampire film genre as a whol...

"What better food for the imagination than a creature who incorporates sex, blood, violence, shape shifting, super human power and eternal life?"(Jenkins M (2010:p8))

Set in The fictional town of Bon Temps in Louisiana True Blood has become one of Americas most watched...

Friedrich Murnau's silent film Nosferatu 1922 as pictured in the image above was the first film adaption of the infamous Count Dracula, taken from the pages of Bram stoker's creation, without authorisation, and onto the screen for our eyes to feast upon. The names of t...

“The word ‘vampire’, in its written form first appeared in the eleventh century as a scribbled note in a manuscript in the book of Psalms, This was translated by a humble priest for a Novgorodian prince, Vladimir Yaroslavovich, In this note the priest addresses the pri...

It has been argued that the vampire we see today is a far cry from the tales of folklore. The vampire has been romanticised as a Byronic hero/villain and has become an object of intrigue and fascination for our eyes to feast upon.