This year London gave us two TV producers, a soccer star, a movie director and a vampire (ahem, Actor).
And yet somehow despite all the obvious pitfalls with true love between an impoverished teenaged human girl and a century old and super rich vampire man, their marriage as soon as she graduates from high school, her life-ending (and vampire beginning) pregnancy, people around the world have paid money in record numbers to see Breaking Dawn Part 2.
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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.
Twilight, the story of a passionate romance between a mortal girl and an enigmatic vampire, is also nominated for best female for star Kristen Stewart, best fight and best song - for Paramore's Decode.
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.
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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The planes that are now based at the Newquay aero-hub include a Gloster Meteor, and De Havilland's Vampire.
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.
And Buffy spin-off character Angel, the vampire with a soul, was rated ninth in the league.
To modern eyes, the scythe may be best known from images of the Grim Reaper and Father Time--or as a weapon used by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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.
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.
"From the 1970s, the vampire has achieved a cool, bad boy, exotic and sexy image", she says.
Meyer's Twilight series of vampire novels have sold about 100 million copies worldwide and have spawned a successful film franchise, starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
Tomas Alfredson, who made his name with the hauntingly good vampire film Let The Right One In (2008), sat Oldman down and opened a page in le Carre's book.
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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.
"Vampire squids eat mostly 'marine snow' a mixture of dead bodies, poop, and snot, " the institute's news release says, citing published research by its senior scientist Bruce Robison.
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