This year London gave us two TV producers, a soccer star, a movie director and a vampire (ahem, Actor).
When Brock Brower wrote an ingenious novel about the world of horror movies, he never knew it would become a vampire, refusing to die.
The medium is intimate, invited into our homes like a vampire.
Padding profits at the expense of the consumer economy might lead to a slightly higher dividend but it harms the economy in the long run, like a vampire feeding on herself.
With Kate Beckinsale as a vampire-hater of noble birth and David Wenham as a sexually active friar, plus the usual supporting cast of werewolves, underdressed throat biters, growling rustics, and so on.
Previous work by Mr Nazir includes the design and production of School of the Damned, a comic book about a vampire infestation that opens with the evacuation of St Kilda in 1930.
Within a few months, Mr. Grahame-Smith completely restructured and rewrote the screenplay, injecting it with campy humor that plays up the film's absurd premise: Barnabas Collins, a vampire played by Mr. Depp, emerges from a coffin after 200 years to find himself in the polyester, lava-lamp world of 1972.
The threat of sex is forestalled by turning Bella's suitors into a vampire and a werewolf, and the gimmick has a potent and unusual side effect: Rather than play to their supernatural predatory strengths to get what they want, "both men are completely unmanned by their love for her, " says Minow.
His play Pontianak (a Malaysian vampire) was co-winner of the inaugural 1995 Playbox Asialink Playwriting Competition.
Scary movies have been around since a German vampire named Nosferatu made his silent-screen debut in 1922.
Not just a wicked witch, Ravenna is a monstrous gargoyle of feminine wiles, a spiritual vampire who feeds on others' youthful vitality and leaves them old and wizened in her stead.
The culmination of the Twilight movie franchise, which tells the story of a human girl who falls in love with a sullen vampire, fared relatively well with critics but the Razzies claimed it had sucked the life out of cinemas.
The latest role is that of Barnabas Collins, a gaunt, unflappable vampire, who has dozed for a couple of hundred years and woken to nineteen-seventies America.
What do a miserly duck, a 370-year-old vampire, and a Jazz-age racketeer have in common?
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They will pummel him for being a vulture-vampire capitalist at Bain Capital.
There had been a run on vampire get-ups, as I recall.
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And Buffy spin-off character Angel, the vampire with a soul, was rated ninth in the league.
Still, the idea of the child-vampire remains a staunch rebuke to the heavy teen-age breathing.
The sensation it caused was due largely to the fact that its vampire, a self-involved, aristocratic Lothario, distinctly resembled the author's erstwhile employer.
Now that the studio has wrapped up the Tomb Raider reboot, the timing would be perfect for a return of the vampire Kain and the wraith Raziel.
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Amazon Instant Video offers the latest hit movies like Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, We Bought a Zoo, and The Grey, and popular TV shows Mad Men, Fringe, Vampire Diaries and Once Upon A Time.
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"From the 1970s, the vampire has achieved a cool, bad boy, exotic and sexy image", she says.
Television Group produced some of the hit TV shows such as The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl.
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Right from the Romantic period in the 19th Century, when there was widespread fascination with Eastern European "vampyrs", the vampire has been a "pathos-filled creature who has been at odds with his ontology and his innate desires, and who has struggled with them", says Williamson.
The other remake hitting theaters this weekend is a new version of the 1985 vampire film Fright Night.
Turns out the vampire squid may have a little heart after all.
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