From Bela Lugosi to Buffy to Twilight, popular culture just can’t get enough of vampires. What is it about these pesky bloodsuckers that has everyone fascinated?
When I was a kid, vampire movies were the most terrifying way to spend a Saturday night at home. I remember cowering under a blanket on the lounge with my cousins, watching Christopher Lee in the ominously entitled Dracula has risen from the grave. There was nothing quite as scarily fun as an old black-and-white rerun of either Christopher Lee or Bela Lugosi as the Count stirring up mayhem in the quest for blood.
Of course, they were so over the top (‘Look eento my eyes!’ says Dracula) that we knew it was all just silly nonsense. But vampires have made quite a comeback in recent years. From films like The Lost Boys (1987) and Interview with a Vampire (1992), to television series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), True Blood (2008) and the Twilight book series (2005-2009), those undead bloodsuckers just keep coming.
