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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Weird_Tales_June_1936.jpg/330px-Weird_Tales_June_1936.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Weird_Tales_June_1936.jpg 2x" data-file-width="375" data-file-height="568" /></a><figcaption>There is <a href="/wiki/Vampire_literature" title="Vampire literature">an entire genre of literature dedicated to vampires</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Vampires" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampires">Vampires</a> are frequently represented in popular culture across various forms of media, including appearances in ballet, <a href="/wiki/Vampire_movies" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampire movies">films</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vampire_literature" title="Vampire literature">literature</a>, music, opera, theatre, paintings, and video games. </p><p>Though there are diverse and creative interpretations and depictions of vampires, the common defining trait is their consumption of <a href="/wiki/Blood" title="Blood">blood</a> for sustenance. They are represented using different mediums, including comic books, films, games. Examples of notable vampire-themed works, span from classic films like <a href="/wiki/Nosferatu" title="Nosferatu">Nosferatu</a>, to modern franchises like <a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Saga_(film_series)" title="The Twilight Saga (film series)">Twilight</a> and <a href="/wiki/Underworld_(film_series)" title="Underworld (film series)">Underworld</a>. The role of vampires in role-playing games, particularly <a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade" title="Vampire: The Masquerade">Vampire: The Masquerade</a>, is noteworthy. Vampires appear in vampire-themed manga and TV shows. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Comic_books_and_graphic_novels">Comic books and graphic novels</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Comic books and graphic novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vampirella1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Vampirella1.jpg/220px-Vampirella1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Vampirella1.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="242" data-file-height="325" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Vampirella" title="Vampirella">Vampirella</a></i> #1 (September 1969). Cover art by <a href="/wiki/Frank_Frazetta" title="Frank Frazetta">Frank Frazetta</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">Comic books</a> and <a href="/wiki/Graphic_novel" title="Graphic novel">graphic novels</a> such as <i><a href="/wiki/Vampirella" title="Vampirella">Vampirella</a></i> (1969), <i><a href="/wiki/Tomb_of_Dracula" class="mw-redirect" title="Tomb of Dracula">Tomb of Dracula</a></i> (1972), <i><a href="/wiki/Blade_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blade (comics)">Blade</a></i> (1973), <i><a href="/wiki/30_Days_of_Night" title="30 Days of Night">30 Days of Night</a></i> (2002) Anita Blake Guilty Pleasures, and <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dracula_vs._King_Arthur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dracula vs. King Arthur (page does not exist)">Dracula vs. King Arthur</a></i> (2005). In addition, many major <a href="/wiki/Superhero" title="Superhero">superheroes</a> have faced vampire <a href="/wiki/Supervillain" title="Supervillain">supervillains</a> at some point.</li> <li>Many <a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">comic books</a> featuring <i><a href="/wiki/Buffy_comics" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffy comics">Buffy the Vampire Slayer</a></i> and its spin off <a href="/w/index.php?title=Angel_(1999_TV_Series)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Angel (1999 TV Series) (page does not exist)">Angel</a> have been released.</li> <li>Marceline and the Scream Queens is a mini-series of comic books focusing on <a href="/wiki/Marceline_the_Vampire_Queen" title="Marceline the Vampire Queen">Marceline the Vampire Queen</a> from the cartoon TV show <a href="/wiki/Adventure_Time_with_Finn_and_Jake" class="mw-redirect" title="Adventure Time with Finn and Jake">Adventure Time with Finn and Jake</a>. The spin-off comic was produced by <a href="/wiki/BOOM!_Studios" class="mw-redirect" title="BOOM! Studios">BOOM! Studios</a> and published between July and December 2012.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Films">Films</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Vampire_films" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampire films">Vampire films</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Very_long plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-very_long" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>may be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_size" title="Wikipedia:Article size">too long</a> to read and navigate comfortably</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Consider <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Splitting" title="Wikipedia:Splitting">splitting</a> content into sub-articles, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style" title="Wikipedia:Summary style">condensing</a> it, or adding <a href="/wiki/Help:Section#Subsections" title="Help:Section">subheadings</a>. Please discuss this issue on the article's <a href="/wiki/Talk:Vampires_in_popular_culture" title="Talk:Vampires in popular culture">talk page</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2014</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kyuketsuki-ga_poster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Kyuketsuki-ga_poster.jpg/220px-Kyuketsuki-ga_poster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Kyuketsuki-ga_poster.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="253" data-file-height="360" /></a><figcaption>The 1956 <i><a href="/wiki/Vampire_Moth" title="Vampire Moth">Vampire Moth</a></i> was the first Japanese film in the vampire genre.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dracula_1958_c.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Dracula_1958_c.jpg/220px-Dracula_1958_c.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Dracula_1958_c.jpg/330px-Dracula_1958_c.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Dracula_1958_c.jpg/440px-Dracula_1958_c.jpg 2x" data-file-width="866" data-file-height="473" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Lee" title="Christopher Lee">Christopher Lee</a> portrayed <a href="/wiki/Count_Dracula" title="Count Dracula">Count Dracula</a> in the celebrated <a href="/wiki/Hammer_Horror" class="mw-redirect" title="Hammer Horror">Hammer Horror</a> series of films, starting with <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula_(1958_film)" title="Dracula (1958 film)">Dracula</a></i> in 1958.</figcaption></figure> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Vampire_(1913_film)" title="The Vampire (1913 film)">The Vampire</a></i> (1913, directed by <a href="/wiki/Robert_G._Vignola" title="Robert G. Vignola">Robert G. Vignola</a>), also co-written by Vignola, is the earliest vampire film. </p><p>These were derived from the writer <a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a> who was inspired by a vampiress painted by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Burne-Jones" title="Philip Burne-Jones">Philip Burne-Jones</a>, an image typical of the era in 1897, to write his poem 'The Vampire'. Like much of Kipling's verse it was incredibly popular, and its refrain: <i>A fool there was . . . </i>, describing a seduced man, became the title of the popular film <i><a href="/wiki/A_Fool_There_Was_(1915_film)" title="A Fool There Was (1915 film)">A Fool There Was</a></i> that made <a href="/wiki/Theda_Bara" title="Theda Bara">Theda Bara</a> a star, the poem being used in its publicity. On this account, in early <a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American</a> <a href="/wiki/Slang" title="Slang">slang</a> the <i>femme fatale</i> was called a <i>vamp</i>, short for <i>vampiress</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A vampire features in the landmark <i><a href="/wiki/Nosferatu" title="Nosferatu">Nosferatu</a></i> (1922 Germany, directed by <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Murnau" class="mw-redirect" title="Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau">Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau</a>), an unlicensed version of <a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker" title="Bram Stoker">Bram Stoker</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula" title="Dracula">Dracula</a>.</i> The Stoker estate sued the production and won, leading to the destruction of most copies of the film. It would be painstakingly restored in 1994 by a team of European scholars from the five surviving prints that had escaped destruction. Nosferatu is the first film to feature a Vampire's death by <a href="/wiki/Sunlight" title="Sunlight">sunlight</a>, which formerly only weakened vampires. </p><p>The next classic treatment of the vampire legend was in Universal's <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula_(1931_English-language_film)" title="Dracula (1931 English-language film)">Dracula</a></i> starring <a href="/wiki/Bela_Lugosi" title="Bela Lugosi">Bela Lugosi</a> as <a href="/wiki/Count_Dracula" title="Count Dracula">Count Dracula</a>. Five years after the release of the film, Universal released <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula%27s_Daughter" title="Dracula's Daughter">Dracula's Daughter</a></i>, a direct sequel that starts immediately after the end of the first film. A second sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/Son_of_Dracula_(1943_film)" title="Son of Dracula (1943 film)">Son of Dracula</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Lon_Chaney_Jr." title="Lon Chaney Jr.">Lon Chaney Jr.</a> followed in 1943. Despite his apparent death in the 1931 film, the Count returned to life in three more Universal films of the mid-1940s: 1944's <i><a href="/wiki/House_of_Frankenstein_(1944_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Frankenstein (1944 film)">House of Frankenstein</a></i>, 1945's <i><a href="/wiki/House_of_Dracula" title="House of Dracula">House of Dracula</a></i> and 1948's <i><a href="/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello_Meet_Frankenstein" title="Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein">Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein</a></i>. While Lugosi had played a vampire in two other movies during the 1930s and 1940s, it was only in this final film that he played Count Dracula onscreen for the second (and last) time. </p><p>Dracula was reincarnated for a new generation in the celebrated <a href="/wiki/Hammer_Horror" class="mw-redirect" title="Hammer Horror">Hammer Horror</a> series of films, starring <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Lee" title="Christopher Lee">Christopher Lee</a> as the Count. The first of these films <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula_(1958_film)" title="Dracula (1958 film)">Dracula</a></i> (1958) was followed by seven <a href="/wiki/Sequel" title="Sequel">sequels</a>. Lee returned as Dracula in all but two of these. </p><p>A distinct subgenre of vampire films, ultimately inspired by Le Fanu's <i>Carmilla</i> explored the topic of the <a href="/wiki/Lesbian_vampire" title="Lesbian vampire">lesbian vampire</a>. The first of these was <i><a href="/wiki/Blood_and_Roses" title="Blood and Roses">Blood and Roses</a></i> (1960) by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Vadim" title="Roger Vadim">Roger Vadim</a>. More explicit lesbian content was provided in <a href="/wiki/Hammer_Film_Productions" title="Hammer Film Productions">Hammer</a> Studios <a href="/wiki/Karnstein_Trilogy" class="mw-redirect" title="Karnstein Trilogy">Karnstein trilogy</a>. The first of these, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Vampire_Lovers" title="The Vampire Lovers">The Vampire Lovers</a></i>, (1970), starring <a href="/wiki/Ingrid_Pitt" title="Ingrid Pitt">Ingrid Pitt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Madeleine_Smith" title="Madeleine Smith">Madeleine Smith</a>, was a relatively straightforward re-telling of LeFanu's novella, but with more overt violence and sexuality. Later films in this subgenre such as <i><a href="/wiki/Vampyres_(film)" title="Vampyres (film)">Vampyres</a></i> (1974) became even more explicit in their depiction of sex, nudity and violence. </p><p>Beginning with the absurd <i><a href="/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello_Meet_Frankenstein" title="Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein">Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein</a></i> (1948) the vampire film has often been the subject of comedy. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fearless_Vampire_Killers" title="The Fearless Vampire Killers">The Fearless Vampire Killers</a></i> (1967) by <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> winner <a href="/wiki/Roman_Polanski" title="Roman Polanski">Roman Polanski</a> was a notable parody of the genre. Other comedic treatments, of variable quality, include <i><a href="/wiki/Old_Dracula" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Dracula">Old Dracula</a></i> (1974) featuring <a href="/wiki/David_Niven" title="David Niven">David Niven</a> as a lovelorn Dracula, <i><a href="/wiki/Love_at_First_Bite" title="Love at First Bite">Love at First Bite</a></i> (1979 United States) featuring <a href="/wiki/George_Hamilton_(actor)" title="George Hamilton (actor)">George Hamilton</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula:_Dead_and_Loving_It" title="Dracula: Dead and Loving It">Dracula: Dead and Loving It</a></i> (1995 United States, directed by <a href="/wiki/Mel_Brooks" title="Mel Brooks">Mel Brooks</a>) with Canadian <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Nielsen" title="Leslie Nielsen">Leslie Nielsen</a> giving it a comic twist. </p><p>Another development in some vampire films has been a change from supernatural horror to science fictional explanations of vampirism. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film)" title="The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)">The Last Man on Earth</a></i> (Italy 1964, directed by <a href="/wiki/Ubaldo_Ragona" title="Ubaldo Ragona">Ubaldo Ragona</a>) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Omega_Man" title="The Omega Man">The Omega Man</a></i> (1971 USA, directed by <a href="/wiki/Boris_Sagal" title="Boris Sagal">Boris Sagal</a>), both based on <a href="/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson">Richard Matheson</a>'s novel <i>I Am Legend</i>, are two examples. Vampirism is explained as a kind of virus in <a href="/wiki/David_Cronenberg" title="David Cronenberg">David Cronenberg</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Rabid_(1977_film)" title="Rabid (1977 film)">Rabid</a></i> (1976 Canada), <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red-Blooded_American_Girl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Red-Blooded American Girl (page does not exist)">Red-Blooded American Girl</a></i> (1990 Canada, directed by <a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Blyth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Blyth (page does not exist)">David Blyth</a>) and Michael and Peter Spierig's <i><a href="/wiki/Daybreakers" title="Daybreakers">Daybreakers</a></i> (2009 United States). </p><p>Race has been another theme, as exemplified by the <a href="/wiki/Blaxploitation" title="Blaxploitation">blaxploitation</a> picture <i><a href="/wiki/Blacula" title="Blacula">Blacula</a></i> (1972) and several sequels. </p><p>Since the time of Bela Lugosi's <i>Dracula</i> (1931) the vampire, male or female, has usually been portrayed as an alluring sex symbol. There is, however, a very small subgenre, pioneered in Murnau's seminal <i>Nosferatu</i> (1922) in which the vampire is depicted in the hideous lineaments of the creature of European folklore. <a href="/wiki/Max_Schrek" class="mw-redirect" title="Max Schrek">Max Schrek</a>'s disturbing portrayal of this role in Murnau's film was copied by <a href="/wiki/Klaus_Kinski" title="Klaus Kinski">Klaus Kinski</a> in <a href="/wiki/Werner_Herzog" title="Werner Herzog">Werner Herzog</a>'s remake <i><a href="/wiki/Nosferatu:_Phantom_der_Nacht" class="mw-redirect" title="Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht">Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht</a></i> (1979). In <i><a href="/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Vampire" title="Shadow of the Vampire">Shadow of the Vampire</a></i> (2000, directed by <a href="/wiki/E._Elias_Merhige" title="E. Elias Merhige">E. Elias Merhige</a>), <a href="/wiki/Willem_Dafoe" title="Willem Dafoe">Willem Dafoe</a> plays Max Schrek, himself, though portrayed here as an actual vampire. Dafoe's character is the ugly, disgusting creature of the original <i>Nosferatu</i>. The main tradition has, however, been to portray the vampire in terms of a predatory sexuality. <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Lee" title="Christopher Lee">Christopher Lee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Delphine_Seyrig" title="Delphine Seyrig">Delphine Seyrig</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Langella" title="Frank Langella">Frank Langella</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lauren_Hutton" title="Lauren Hutton">Lauren Hutton</a> are just a few examples of actors who brought great sex-appeal into their portrayal of the vampire.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view"><span title="This statement is possibly biased. (May 2014)">neutrality</span></a> is <a href="/wiki/Talk:Vampires_in_popular_culture" title="Talk:Vampires in popular culture">disputed</a></i>]</sup> </p><p>A major character in most vampire films is the vampire slayer, of which Stoker's <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Van_Helsing" title="Abraham Van Helsing">Abraham Van Helsing</a> is a prototype. However, killing vampires has changed. Where Van Helsing relied on a stake through the heart, in <i><a href="/wiki/Vampires_(1998_movie)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampires (1998 movie)">Vampires</a></i> 1998 USA, directed by <a href="/wiki/John_Carpenter" title="John Carpenter">John Carpenter</a>, Jack Crow (<a href="/wiki/James_Woods" title="James Woods">James Woods</a>) has a heavily armed squad of vampire hunters, and in <i><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_(film)" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)">Buffy the Vampire Slayer</a></i> (1992 USA, directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui), writer <a href="/wiki/Joss_Whedon" title="Joss Whedon">Joss Whedon</a> (who created TV's <i><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)">Buffy the Vampire Slayer</a></i> and spinoff <i><a href="/wiki/Angel_(1999_TV_series)" title="Angel (1999 TV series)">Angel</a></i>) attached The Slayer, <a href="/wiki/Buffy_Summers" title="Buffy Summers">Buffy Summers</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kristy_Swanson" title="Kristy Swanson">Kristy Swanson</a> in the film, <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Michelle_Gellar" title="Sarah Michelle Gellar">Sarah Michelle Gellar</a> in the TV series), to a network of <a href="/wiki/Watcher_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)" title="Watcher (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)">Watchers</a> and mystically endowed her with superhuman powers. </p><p>The 1973 Serbian horror film <i><a href="/wiki/Leptirica" title="Leptirica">Leptirica</a></i> ("The She-Butterfly") was inspired by the story of <a href="/wiki/Sava_Savanovi%C4%87" title="Sava Savanović">Sava Savanović</a>. </p><p>Other notable Vampire movies also include the following, but not limited to: </p> <ul><li>"Dracula" (1931) starred Bela Lugosi as well he starred in "Vampire Over London" (1952) both of which are B/W films.</li> <li>"The Horror of Dracula" (1958) starring Peter Cushing (playing Dr. Van Helsing) and co-stars with Christopher Lee. Christopher Lee's saga of vampire films also includes the following as he personified Dracula in "Dracula" Prince of Darkness" (1966), "Dracula Had Risen From the Grave" (1968), "Count Dracula" plus "Taste the Blood of Dracula," and "Scars of Dracula" all in (1970). Followed up with "Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) -co-starring again with Peter Cushing, as Van Helsing- then "The Satanic Rites Of Dracula" with Peter Cushing (1973), and "Dracula and Son" (1976). While Peter Cushing was also in "Vampire Lovers" (1970), "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" and "Tender Dracula" (1974).</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Atom_Age_Vampire" title="Atom Age Vampire">Atom Age Vampire</a>" (1960) B/W film aka "Seddok, l'erede di Satana" starring Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, and Sergio Fantoni. Directed by Anton Giulo Majano with both an Italian and English version of this film released. A girl Jeanette Moreneau (Susanne Loret) who gets her face mangled in a car accident. Only the mysterious Dr. Levin (Alberto Lupo) can save her face...but at what cost? (A 70-minute cartoon animated version of this film reflecting its story line was released in 2009).</li> <li>"Queen Of Blood" (1966) starred John Saxon as well as Basil Rathbone and shared two elements in common (that being a derelict spaceship that harbors a female vampiric alien played by <a href="/wiki/Florence_Marly" title="Florence Marly">Florence Marly</a> as the Alien Queen) as is the case too in the much later 1985 Sci-Fi thriller called "Lifeforce."</li> <li>"Requiem for a Vampire" (1971) while a mainstream film not widely shown due to its dubious odd-ball content, the film containing full frontal nudity regarding a bizarre tale that includes bats engaged in coitus with women. This film starred Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent, and Piilippe Gaste.</li> <li>"Horror Express" (1972) is not a vampire movie in the eyes of some, and then again it is a vampire film in the eyes of others. Like the movie "Lifeforce" that breaks the mold of one's lifeforce or i.e. blood being drawn from a person by biting them, mysteriously drawn from their mouths, or as in this film a person's soul or spirit if you will is removed from them leaving them dead with their essence all that they were being drawn out through their eyes... This film has a sinister character, call him vampiric or prehistoric man, or demon or devil if you will! The idea is not rightly spelled out with this sinister character attacking passengers aboard a rail road passenger train (an idea that appears likewise to be shared to some degree in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's "The Strain" with its original vampire character -in this horror TV series- bearing the marks of the devil too, if you will). "Horror Express" stars Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas, and Christopher Lee.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Captain_Kronos_-_Vampire_Hunter" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter">Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter</a>" (1974) featuring Caroline Munro (in the starring role as Carla) in this UK film which also starred (Captain Kronos) Horst Janson, (Dr. Marcus) John Carson, (Grost) John Cater; as well as Shane Briant as (Paul Durwood), and others.</li> <li>"Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979) "Werner Herzog's Nosferatue, the Vampyre portrayed by Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula a well meaning replica of Max Schreck's vampire in F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. As well "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000) picked up the gauntlet and went further being inspired by the classic too in its attempt to pay homage to F.W. Murnau's silent horror classic Nosferatu, while including comic elements to the classic. All of which is also outlined above.</li> <li>A TV film called "Salem's Lot" (1979) was made starring David Soul, who was more popularly known from his TV series "Starsky and Hutch" (1975-1979). This movie was then again remade in (2004) with the same title in (2004) starring Rob Lowe.</li> <li>"Lifeforce" (1985) film that contained a lot of nudity throughout the film as a female vampire seduces and kisses men to drain out their life force and leaves them dried out like some mummified corpses. This film has different bases for vampire folklore and has them seeded here from another planet coming here on a spaceship. Starred Steven Railsback and Mathilda May.</li> <li>One of the first popular vampire films of its decade there came out at the theaters a movie called "Lost Boys" in (1987) which quickly became a teen hearttrob film of girls at the time. It starred Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, and Jason Patric.</li> <li>"Near Dark" (1987) starred both Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen then in (2009) Lance did another vampire movie that shared a similar plot twist although the film itself with respect to the entirety of the script was different. However, if you've seen "Near Dark" this second film may not hold as much of a novelty as far as the plot twist goes; or vice versa if you've seen "Daybreakers" Lance's second vampire movie before "Near Dark." Both of these actors Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen have also prominently starred together in the (1986) Sci-fi film "Aliens."</li> <li>"Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992). This film is based on the 1897 book. The film starred Keanu Reeves, Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, and Anthony Hopkins.</li> <li>"Innocent Blood" (1992) contains brief nudity in a scene in opening of the feature in its theatrical release. The film is what is considered a 'dark comedy' with the female vampire having a moral angle to kill but bad people, and thus her involvement with the mob. This film starred: Anne Parillaud (Marie the vampire), David Proval (Lenny), Robert Luggia (Sal "The Shark"), Rocco Sisto (Gilly), Chazz Palminteri (Tony), <a href="/wiki/Anthony_LaPaglia" title="Anthony LaPaglia">Anthony LaPaglia</a> (Joe Gennaro), Don Rickless (Emanuel Bergman), and Christopher Lee (as Count Dracula).</li> <li>A somewhat more popular of the light hearted vampire films was "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in (1992), featuring a high school girl who found herself gifted with fighting skills to kill vampires, and its spinoff TV series mentioned above.</li> <li>"Interview With the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles" (1994) starred Tom Cruise with Brad Pitt, and co-starred actors Antonio Banderas, Kirsten Dunst & Christian Slater. (This film is based on an Anne Rice book as is also the movie "Queen of the Damned" mentioned below).</li> <li>"Embrace of a Vampire" (1995) a cable TV movie contains some nudity involving a human and her vampire lover with the human girl being played by Alyssa Milano in her most revealing role.</li> <li>"From Dusk till Dawn" (1996) over the top Quentin Tarantino film story which inspired a sequel film and in 2014 inspired a TV series spinoff. This movie was notably starring Salma Hayek, George Clooney, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel, and John Saxon.</li> <li>The "Blade" (1998) and its saga of three films starring Wesley Snipes, one begins to noticeably see a change in the genre of what has been considered the original origins of vampires in popular culture (from that of its original folklore).</li> <li>"Queen of the Damned" (2002) regarding a queen vampire played by the beautiful and late actress Aaliyah. Part of the film's plot deals with a rockstar vampire named Lestat (Stuart Townsend) whose music wakes up the Queen of the damned. The film is based on Anne Rice novels called "The Vampire Chronicles" with the one bearing the title of this movie was published in 1988. Her writings are also responsible for the film "Interview with the Vampire" and the book by the same title was published in 1976 the first of her vampire book series.</li> <li>"Underworld" (2003) with its saga of films - are very popular including a story line of wolf Lycans fighting vampires in a well brushed out visuals and CGI effects not completely unlike the "Twilight" saga of films that likewise have the same conflict occurring between rivaling factions of wolves and vampires. Starring Kate Beckinsale as the leding role in this series of movies.</li> <li>"Van Helsing" (2004) starred Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale (more popularly known in the Sci-fi community for her portrayal of Selene in the "Underworld" saga of films); while this films is said to get a remake starring Tom Cruise.</li> <li>"30 Days of Night" (2007) film directed by David Slade about an Alaskan town plunged into darkness with the misfortune of there being vampires there and all mayhem breaks out.</li> <li>"I Am Legend" (2007) film starring Will Smith with a sequel in the works. Original film is called "The Last Man on Earth" starring Vincent Price available in its original B/W release or now in a colorized version as well. A more well known first remake was "Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston, or which inspired "I Am Legend" film that contained vampires as well as dog vampires all of which had slight zombie features too. These films are all from a book by the title of this film outlined here; and none of the films follow what is contained in the last couple of pages of the book. Another interesting point to note in the "Omega Man" film we find Chuck a white gentleman being the last man on earth as he meets his love interest, or passion a black woman (Rosalind Cash) the last woman on earth that has not become infected with the virus as is the rest of humanity. While in the film version of "I Am Legend" Will Smith a black man meets a Latina women, who is the last woman apparently on earth; and they don't really get along very well. There is a DVD of "I Am Legend" which includes an alternative ending version.</li> <li>Then there are the "Twilight" saga films beginning in (2008) which also featured Native American flashbacks in time as the film deals with what it calls werewolves (but would be technically 'skinwalkers') verses or in conflict with a vampire clan with one of each of them, a vampire (Robert Pattinson) playing Edward Cullen, and Native American changeling (Taylor Lautner) bidding for the hand of a mortal girl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart). Notably there are other Native American actors in this saga of films besides Lautner with Native ancestry of (Ottawa and Potawatomi tribes, on his mother's side) playing Jacob Black, they -other natives- include Gil Birmingham (Comanche) who played Billy Black, and Julia Jones (Choctaw and Chickasaw) who played Leah Clearwater. A difference in vampires portrayed in these films (and the book series) is that they don't burn up in the sun—their skin sparkles. They live in Washington because it is almost always overcast, so their secret is safe. While this film became a heartthrob film for a new generation of young girl moviegoers like "Lost Boys" was of previous generations it is also a notable film to modern day Generation X and Millennials who are hardcore vampire film buffs.</li> <li>"Dracula Untold" (2014). Directed by <a href="/wiki/Gary_Shore" title="Gary Shore">Gary Shore</a>, and also starring Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon, Charles Dance, as well as Art Parkinson. The film is based on the character in Bram Stoker the novel.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows" title="What We Do in the Shadows">What We Do In the Shadows</a> (2014). Originally a short film made in 2005, the feature film version is a mockumentary that follows a group of vampires, Viago, Vladislav, Deacon and Petyr, living together in Wellington, New Zealand. The film follows the daily lives of these flatmates on the run up to an event called the Unholy Masquerade, a masquerade ball where all of the cities undead (vampires, zombies and witches) come together once a year, and how they're shaken up after modern, reckless vampire Nick joins their flat. Directed by <a href="/wiki/Jemaine_Clement" title="Jemaine Clement">Jemaine Clement</a> and <a href="/wiki/Taika_Waititi" title="Taika Waititi">Taika Waititi</a>, this indie originally premiered at Sundance and over the years has gained a firm cult fanbase, getting two spinoffs including the show of the same name, <a href="/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows_(TV_series)" title="What We Do in the Shadows (TV series)">What We Do In The Shadows</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Games">Games</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vampire_Slayer_Screenshot2_1024px.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Vampire_Slayer_Screenshot2_1024px.jpg/220px-Vampire_Slayer_Screenshot2_1024px.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Vampire_Slayer_Screenshot2_1024px.jpg/330px-Vampire_Slayer_Screenshot2_1024px.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Vampire_Slayer_Screenshot2_1024px.jpg/440px-Vampire_Slayer_Screenshot2_1024px.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>In many vampire-centered games, players may <a href="/wiki/Player_character" title="Player character">take on the role</a> of vampires themselves.</figcaption></figure> <p>As a well-known and iconic creature type, <a href="/wiki/Vampire" title="Vampire">vampires</a> are central to a variety of games, including <a href="/wiki/Board_game" title="Board game">board games</a>, <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_game" title="Role-playing game">role-playing games</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">video games</a>. </p><p>These include a number of games where vampires are either incidental villains, or the primary villain of the game, as well as games that allow players to play as a vampire. It has been noted that vampires are "supernatural beings with a laundry list of fantastic abilities and a need for feeding on the living, which would presumably give numerous options for a plot".<sup id="cite_ref-The_Gamer_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Gamer-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As late as 2014, however, it was lamented that there were not enough video games featuring vampires, with one commentary noting that "Vampires have never lent themselves readily to video games" due to their combination of cerebral and passionate characteristics, which "need something that most video games can't handle at the best of times, great writing".<sup id="cite_ref-New_Statesman_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_Statesman-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Board_games_and_card_games">Board games and card games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Board games and card games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fury_of_Dracula" title="The Fury of Dracula">The Fury of Dracula</a></i> is a <a href="/wiki/Board_game" title="Board game">board game</a> for 2-4 players designed by Stephen Hand and published by <a href="/wiki/Games_Workshop" title="Games Workshop">Games Workshop</a> in <a href="/wiki/1987_in_games" title="1987 in games">1987</a>. <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_Flight_Games" title="Fantasy Flight Games">Fantasy Flight Games</a> released an updated version in <a href="/wiki/2006_in_games" title="2006 in games">2006</a> as <i>Fury of Dracula</i>, and a third edition in 2015 by the same name. <a href="/w/index.php?title=WizKids_Games&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="WizKids Games (page does not exist)">WizKids Games</a> released a fourth edition in 2019. In the April 1988 edition of <i><a href="/wiki/Dragon_(magazine)" title="Dragon (magazine)">Dragon</a></i> (Issue 132), <a href="/wiki/Jim_Bambra" title="Jim Bambra">Jim Bambra</a> liked the first edition of the game, saying, "[It] takes some of the best elements of role-playing games and neatly transposes them into an intriguing and fun board game." Bambra recommended the game, concluding, "Steeped in Gothic atmosphere and tinged with the unexpected, <i>The Fury of Dracula</i> game deserves to be in every gamer’s collection."<sup id="cite_ref-dragon_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dragon-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Vampire:_The_Eternal_Struggle" title="Vampire: The Eternal Struggle">Vampire: The Eternal Struggle</a></i> (published as <i>Jyhad</i> in the first or "Limited" edition and often abbreviated as <i>V:TES</i>) is a <a href="/wiki/Multiplayer_video_game" title="Multiplayer video game">multiplayer</a> <a href="/wiki/Collectible_card_game" title="Collectible card game">collectible card game</a> published by <a href="/wiki/White_Wolf_Publishing" title="White Wolf Publishing">White Wolf Publishing</a>, set in the <a href="/wiki/World_of_Darkness" title="World of Darkness">World of Darkness</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-OWENS_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OWENS-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The game was designed in 1994 by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Garfield" title="Richard Garfield">Richard Garfield</a> and initially published by <a href="/wiki/Wizards_of_the_Coast" title="Wizards of the Coast">Wizards of the Coast</a> and was the third CCG ever created.<sup id="cite_ref-HG_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HG-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MILLER_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MILLER-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As Garfield's first follow-up to his popular <i><a href="/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering" title="Magic: The Gathering">Magic: The Gathering</a></i> collectible card game, he was eager to prove that the genre was "a form of game as potentially diverse as board games".<sup id="cite_ref-vtesinla_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vtesinla-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1995 the game was renamed from <i>Jyhad</i> to <i>Vampire: The Eternal Struggle</i> to increase its appeal and distance itself from the Islamic term <a href="/wiki/Jihad" title="Jihad">jihad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Role-playing_games">Role-playing games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Role-playing games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DnD_Vampire.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/DnD_Vampire.png/220px-DnD_Vampire.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/DnD_Vampire.png/330px-DnD_Vampire.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/DnD_Vampire.png/440px-DnD_Vampire.png 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="1210" /></a><figcaption>Vampires are generally presented as evil monsters in <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i> fantasy role-playing game, the <a href="/wiki/Vampire_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" title="Vampire (Dungeons & Dragons)">vampire</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Undead" title="Undead">undead</a> creature. A humanoid or monstrous humanoid creature can become a vampire, and looks as it did in life, with pale skin, haunting red eyes, and a feral cast to its features. A new vampire is created when another vampire drains the life out of a living creature. Its depiction is related to those in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula_(1931_English-language_film)" title="Dracula (1931 English-language film)">Dracula</a></i> and monster movies.<sup id="cite_ref-Ash_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ash-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In writing vampires into the game, as with other creatures arising in folklore, the authors had to consider what elements arising in more recent popular culture should be incorporated into their description and characteristics.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The vampire was one of the first monsters introduced in the earliest edition of the game, in the <a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_(1974)" title="Dungeons & Dragons (1974)"><i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> "white box" set</a> (1974),<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where they were described simply as powerful undead. They appeared again in the <a href="/wiki/Greyhawk_(supplement)" title="Greyhawk (supplement)">Greyhawk supplement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The vampire later appeared in the first edition <i><a href="/wiki/Monster_Manual" title="Monster Manual">Monster Manual</a></i> (1977),<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where its description was changed somewhat to a chaotic evil, night-prowling creature whose powerful negative force drains life energy from victims. </p><p>One popular <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> <a href="/wiki/Campaign_setting" title="Campaign setting">campaign setting</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Ravenloft" title="Ravenloft">Ravenloft</a></i>, has as a central character a vampire named <a href="/wiki/Strahd_Von_Zarovich" class="mw-redirect" title="Strahd Von Zarovich">Strahd Von Zarovich</a>, who is both ruler and prisoner of his own personal domain of Barovia. How Count Von Zarovich became the darklord of Barovia was detailed in the novel, <i><a href="/wiki/I,_Strahd:_The_Memoirs_of_a_Vampire" title="I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire">I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Arcane1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arcane1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_role-playing_games">Other role-playing games</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other role-playing games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_game" title="Role-playing game">role-playing game</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade" title="Vampire: The Masquerade">Vampire: The Masquerade</a></i> has been influential upon modern vampire fiction and elements of its terminology, such as <i>embrace</i> and <i>sire</i>, appear in contemporary fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/GURPS_Cabal" title="GURPS Cabal">GURPS Cabal</a></i>, a book that features a customizable <a href="/wiki/Campaign_setting" title="Campaign setting">campaign setting</a> for the <i><a href="/wiki/GURPS" title="GURPS">GURPS</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_game" title="Role-playing game">role-playing game</a> system, depicts a modern-day <a href="/wiki/Secret_society" title="Secret society">secret society</a> composed of <a href="/wiki/Vampire" title="Vampire">vampires</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lycanthrope" class="mw-redirect" title="Lycanthrope">lycanthropes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sorcerer_(person)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sorcerer (person)">sorcerers</a> who study the underlying principles of magic and visit other planes of existence and was integrated into <a href="/wiki/GURPS_Infinite_Worlds" title="GURPS Infinite Worlds">Infinite Worlds</a>, the "default" (core) setting for GURPS's 4th Edition. The Third Edition <i>GURPS</i> supplement <i>Blood Types</i> lists 47 different "species" of vampires describing 30 of them from both folklore and fiction in 23 listings (several are simply different names for the same type of vampire; for example the Burma's Kephn is considered a male version of the Penanggalen) </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Shadowrun" title="Shadowrun">Shadowrun</a></i> features vampires whose existence is explained by a resurgence of the <a href="/wiki/Shadowrun#Races" title="Shadowrun">Human Meta-Human Vampiric Virus</a>. As such, the afflicted are not <i>undead</i>, but instead are still <i>alive</i> but radically changed by the <a href="/wiki/Retrovirus" title="Retrovirus">retrovirus</a>. They normally do not suffer from the supernatural limitations such as crosses, but still are vulnerable to sunlight. In the tabletop wargame <i><a href="/wiki/Warhammer_Fantasy_Battle" class="mw-redirect" title="Warhammer Fantasy Battle">Warhammer Fantasy</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Vampire_Counts" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampire Counts">Vampire Counts</a> are one of the playable forces. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_games">Video games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Video games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_vampire_video_games" title="List of vampire video games">List of vampire video games</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vampire_Interface.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Vampire_Interface.png/220px-Vampire_Interface.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Vampire_Interface.png/330px-Vampire_Interface.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Vampire_Interface.png/440px-Vampire_Interface.png 2x" data-file-width="664" data-file-height="427" /></a><figcaption>The 1986 French video game <i><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_(jeu_vid%C3%A9o)" class="extiw" title="fr:Vampire (jeu vidéo)">Vampire</a></i> was one of the first video games to feature vampires, along with the similar 1986 Spanish game <i>Vampire</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>One of the earliest video games featuring a vampire as the antagonist is <i><a href="/wiki/The_Count_(video_game)" title="The Count (video game)">The Count</a></i>, a 1979 <a href="/wiki/Text_adventure" class="mw-redirect" title="Text adventure">text adventure</a> for various platforms, in which local villagers send the player to defeat Count Dracula.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A number of video game developers "have taken inspiration from the vampire myth to create unique gaming experiences that have players hunting down the beasts as well as playing as a member of the undead".<sup id="cite_ref-GameRant_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GameRant-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Popular <a href="/wiki/List_of_vampire_video_games" title="List of vampire video games">video games about vampires</a> include <i><a href="/wiki/Castlevania" title="Castlevania">Castlevania</a></i>, which is an extension of the original Bram Stoker novel <i>Dracula</i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_Kain" title="Legacy of Kain">Legacy of Kain</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-joshi_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-joshi-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A number of websites have compiled "best of" lists of vampire games, with games frequently mentioned including <i><a href="/wiki/Castlevania:_Symphony_of_the_Night" title="Castlevania: Symphony of the Night">Castlevania: Symphony of the Night</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Darkwatch" title="Darkwatch">Darkwatch</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Infamous:_Festival_of_Blood" title="Infamous: Festival of Blood">Infamous: Festival of Blood</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_Kain:_Soul_Reaver" title="Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver">Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade_%E2%80%93_Bloodlines" title="Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines">Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Gamer_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Gamer-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GameRant_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GameRant-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While most vampire-themed games involve some kind of combat between the player (either fighting vampires, or as a vampire fighting other foes), some games incorporate vampires without including those elements. In particular, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sims_4" title="The Sims 4">The Sims 4</a></i> features the game pack, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sims_4:_Vampires" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sims 4: Vampires">The Sims 4: Vampires</a></i>, which includes Vampires as a life state, with <a href="/wiki/Gothic_fiction" title="Gothic fiction">Gothic</a>-themed objects, outfits, interactions, aspirations, foods, and a Vampire Lore Skill. It is only available for digital download. The pack also features a new neighborhood called <i>Forgotten Hollow</i> which, fitting with the vampiric theme, has longer nighttimes than other neighborhoods. It takes elements from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sims_2:_Nightlife" title="The Sims 2: Nightlife">The Sims 2: Nightlife</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sims_3:_Late_Night" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sims 3: Late Night">The Sims 3: Late Night</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sims_3:_Supernatural" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sims 3: Supernatural">The Sims 3: Supernatural</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Manga">Manga</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Manga"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Japanese <a href="/wiki/Anime" title="Anime">anime</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manga" title="Manga">manga</a> features vampires in several titles, including <i><a href="/wiki/JoJo%27s_Bizarre_Adventure" title="JoJo's Bizarre Adventure">JoJo's Bizarre Adventure</a></i> (1987), <i><a href="/wiki/Vampire_Princess_Miyu" title="Vampire Princess Miyu">Vampire Princess Miyu</a></i> (OAV 1988, TV series 1997), <i><a href="/wiki/Nightwalker:_The_Midnight_Detective" title="Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective">Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective</a></i> (1998), <i><a href="/wiki/Vampire_Hunter_D" title="Vampire Hunter D">Vampire Hunter D</a></i> (2000), <i><a href="/wiki/Blood:_The_Last_Vampire" title="Blood: The Last Vampire">Blood: The Last Vampire</a></i> (2000), <i><a href="/wiki/Hellsing_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellsing (TV series)">Hellsing</a></i> (2002), <i><a href="/wiki/Vampire_Host" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampire Host">Vampire Host</a></i> (2004), <i><a href="/wiki/Tsukihime,_Lunar_Legend" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsukihime, Lunar Legend">Tsukihime, Lunar Legend</a></i> (2003), <i><a href="/wiki/Tsukuyomi_-Moon_Phase-" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase-">Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase-</a></i> (2004), <i><a href="/wiki/Bleach_(manga)" title="Bleach (manga)">Bleach</a></i> (2005), <i><a href="/wiki/Blood%2B" title="Blood+">Blood+</a></i> (2005),<i><a href="/wiki/Trinity_Blood" title="Trinity Blood">Trinity Blood</a></i> (2005),<i><a href="/wiki/Vampire_Knight" title="Vampire Knight">Vampire Knight</a>,'(2005)'<a href="/wiki/Karin_(manga)" class="mw-redirect" title="Karin (manga)">Karin</a></i> (2006), <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Blood_Brothers" title="Black Blood Brothers">Black Blood Brothers</a></i> (2006), <i><a href="/wiki/Shiki_(novel_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shiki (novel series)">Shiki</a></i> (2007), <i><a href="/wiki/Rosario_%2B_Vampire" title="Rosario + Vampire">Rosario + Vampire</a></i> (2004) and <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castlevania:The_Animated_series&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Castlevania:The Animated series (page does not exist)">Castlevania:The Animated series</a></i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Music">Music</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Artists">Artists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Artists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Theatre_Des_Vampires.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Theatre_Des_Vampires.jpg/220px-Theatre_Des_Vampires.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Theatre_Des_Vampires.jpg/330px-Theatre_Des_Vampires.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Theatre_Des_Vampires.jpg/440px-Theatre_Des_Vampires.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Theatres_des_Vampires" title="Theatres des Vampires">Theatres des Vampires</a> is a gothic black metal band fully concentrating on vampire themes.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Draconian_(band)" title="Draconian (band)">Draconian</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Doom_metal" title="Doom metal">doom metal</a> band with issues facing vampires.</li> <li>The vocalist Kamijo of the Japanese Visual Kei band, Versailles, says his look is influenced by the appearance of a vampire.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatres_des_Vampires" title="Theatres des Vampires">Theatres des Vampires</a> is a gothic black metal band fully concentrating on vampire themes.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vampire_Weekend" title="Vampire Weekend">Vampire Weekend</a> deliberately chose their name to capitalise on the popularity of vampires in popular culture.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fearless_Vampire_Killers_(band)" title="Fearless Vampire Killers (band)">Fearless Vampires Killers</a> is an English alternative rock band, which received the name from the 1967 Roman Polanski film <a href="/wiki/The_Fearless_Vampire_Killers" title="The Fearless Vampire Killers">The Fearless Vampire Killers</a></li> <li>Czech <a href="/wiki/Gothic_rock" title="Gothic rock">gothic rock</a> group <a href="/wiki/XIII._Stoleti" class="mw-redirect" title="XIII. Stoleti">XIII. Stoleti</a> has recorded an album called "Nosferatu".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Songs">Songs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Songs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ESC_2007_Switzerland_-_DJ_Bobo_-_Vampires_are_alive.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/ESC_2007_Switzerland_-_DJ_Bobo_-_Vampires_are_alive.jpg/220px-ESC_2007_Switzerland_-_DJ_Bobo_-_Vampires_are_alive.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/ESC_2007_Switzerland_-_DJ_Bobo_-_Vampires_are_alive.jpg/330px-ESC_2007_Switzerland_-_DJ_Bobo_-_Vampires_are_alive.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/ESC_2007_Switzerland_-_DJ_Bobo_-_Vampires_are_alive.jpg/440px-ESC_2007_Switzerland_-_DJ_Bobo_-_Vampires_are_alive.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>"<a href="/wiki/Vampires_Are_Alive" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampires Are Alive">Vampires Are Alive</a>" was a <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Swiss</a> entry for the <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2007" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2007">Eurovision Song Contest 2007</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Manson_(band)" title="Marilyn Manson (band)">Marilyn Manson</a> has a song entitled "<a href="/wiki/If_I_Was_Your_Vampire" title="If I Was Your Vampire">If I Was Your Vampire</a>." It is the opening track on the band's sixth studio album, "<a href="/wiki/Eat_Me,_Drink_Me" title="Eat Me, Drink Me">Eat Me, Drink Me</a>," which has several other songs that deal with vampiric themes. The band also has a song called "<a href="/wiki/No_Reflection" title="No Reflection">No Reflection</a>" (from the album "<a href="/wiki/Born_Villain" title="Born Villain">Born Villain</a>") in direct reference to the belief that vampires do not have reflections.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Tyler" title="Bonnie Tyler">Bonnie Tyler</a> has a song entitled "<a href="/wiki/Total_Eclipse_of_the_Heart" title="Total Eclipse of the Heart">Total Eclipse of the Heart</a>" which was a huge hit and was originally written as a vampire love song.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alternative_rock" title="Alternative rock">Alternative rock</a> band <a href="/wiki/HIM_(Finnish_band)" title="HIM (Finnish band)">HIM</a> has a song called "Vampire Heart" on their <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Light_(HIM_album)" title="Dark Light (HIM album)">Dark Light</a></i> album.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concrete_Blonde" title="Concrete Blonde">Concrete Blonde</a> has a song titled "Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)" on their <i><a href="/wiki/Bloodletting_(Concrete_Blonde_album)" title="Bloodletting (Concrete Blonde album)">Bloodletting</a></i> album.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darkthrone" title="Darkthrone">Darkthrone</a> has a song and album entitled "<a href="/wiki/Transilvanian_Hunger" title="Transilvanian Hunger">Transilvanian Hunger</a>".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/My_Chemical_Romance" title="My Chemical Romance">My Chemical Romance</a> has a song titled "<a href="/wiki/Vampires_Will_Never_Hurt_You" title="Vampires Will Never Hurt You">Vampires Will Never Hurt You</a>" on their debut album, <i><a href="/wiki/I_Brought_You_My_Bullets,_You_Brought_Me_Your_Love" title="I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love">I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ash_(band)" title="Ash (band)">Ash</a> has a song entitled "Vampire Love" on their album <i><a href="/wiki/Meltdown_(Ash_album)" title="Meltdown (Ash album)">Meltdown</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nox_Arcana" title="Nox Arcana">Nox Arcana</a> recorded the album <i><a href="/wiki/Transylvania_(Nox_Arcana_album)" title="Transylvania (Nox Arcana album)">Transylvania</a></i> based on Bram Stoker's <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula" title="Dracula">Dracula</a></i>.</li> <li>The folk band <a href="/wiki/Antsy_Pants" class="mw-redirect" title="Antsy Pants">Antsy Pants</a> has a song entitled "Vampire" on their debut album "<a href="/wiki/Antsy_Pants_(album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Antsy Pants (album)">Antsy Pants</a>".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xandria" title="Xandria">Xandria</a> plays a song called "Vampire".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult" title="Blue Öyster Cult">Blue Öyster Cult</a> has a song titled "Nosferatu", and another called "I Love the Night", in which the narrator succumbs to a female vampire's seduction and becomes one himself. They are the last two tracks on the original release of the band's <a href="/wiki/Spectres_(album)" title="Spectres (album)"><i>Spectres</i></a> album.</li> <li>Cuban singer <a href="/wiki/Lissette" title="Lissette">Lissette</a> has a song title "Vampiro" on her 1989 album <i>Maniqui</i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_out_Boy" class="mw-redirect" title="Fall out Boy">Fall out Boy</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/A_Little_Less_Sixteen_Candles,_a_Little_More_%22Touch_Me%22" title="A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me"">A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me"</a>" music video revolves around vampires.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falling_in_Reverse" title="Falling in Reverse">Falling in Reverse</a> has a song entitled "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Not_A_Vampire" class="mw-redirect" title="I'm Not A Vampire">I'm Not A Vampire</a>" on their album "<a href="/wiki/The_Drug_in_Me_Is_You" title="The Drug in Me Is You">The Drug in Me Is You</a>".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ice_Nine_Kills" title="Ice Nine Kills">Ice Nine Kills</a> has a song named Bloodbath and Beyond on their album <a href="/w/index.php?title=Every_Trick_In_The_Book&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Every Trick In The Book (page does not exist)">Every Trick In The Book</a>. The song is about Dracula.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Orion_Experience" title="The Orion Experience">The Orion Experience</a> have a song titled "Vampire" on their <i>Sugar Deluxe</i> album.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vocaloid" title="Vocaloid">Vocaloid</a> musician <a href="/wiki/Deco*27" title="Deco*27">Deco*27</a> has a song titled "The Vampire"<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">ヴァンパイア</span></span>)</span> on his album <i>MANNEQUIN.</i> The music video depicts <a href="/wiki/Hatsune_Miku" title="Hatsune Miku">Hatsune Miku</a> as a vampire.</li> <li>Pop Star <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Rodrigo" title="Olivia Rodrigo">Olivia Rodrigo</a> has a song titled <a href="/wiki/Vampire" title="Vampire">Vampire</a> on her second studio album, <a href="/wiki/Guts" class="mw-redirect" title="Guts">Guts</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Paintings">Paintings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Paintings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Philip_Burne-Jones_-_The_Vampire.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Philip_Burne-Jones_-_The_Vampire.jpg/220px-Philip_Burne-Jones_-_The_Vampire.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Philip_Burne-Jones_-_The_Vampire.jpg/330px-Philip_Burne-Jones_-_The_Vampire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Philip_Burne-Jones_-_The_Vampire.jpg/440px-Philip_Burne-Jones_-_The_Vampire.jpg 2x" data-file-width="531" data-file-height="700" /></a><figcaption><i>The Vampire</i>, by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Burne-Jones" title="Philip Burne-Jones">Philip Burne-Jones</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>"The Vampire" (1897) by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Burne-Jones" title="Philip Burne-Jones">Philip Burne-Jones</a> depicts an alluring female vampire crouched over a male victim. The model was the famous actress <a href="/wiki/Mrs_Patrick_Campbell" title="Mrs Patrick Campbell">Mrs Patrick Campbell</a>. This <a href="/wiki/Femme_fatale" title="Femme fatale">femme fatale</a> inspired a poem of the same name (also 1897) by <a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a>. Like much of Kipling's verse it was incredibly popular, and its inspired many early silent films whose "vampires" were actually "<a href="/wiki/Femme_fatale#20th_century_film_and_theatre" title="Femme fatale">vamps</a>" rather than being supernatural undead blood-suckers. The 1913 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Vampire_(1913_film)" title="The Vampire (1913 film)">The Vampire</a></i> features the famous and controversial "Vampire Dance", which takes inspiration from the painting.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The poem's refrain: <i>A fool there was . . . </i>, describing a seduced man, became the title of the popular film <i><a href="/wiki/A_Fool_There_Was_(1915_film)" title="A Fool There Was (1915 film)">A Fool There Was</a></i> (1915) which made <a href="/wiki/Theda_Bara" title="Theda Bara">Theda Bara</a> a star, and the archetypal cinematic "vamp".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television">Television</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hellsing" title="Hellsing">Hellsing</a></i> (2001–2002)" <a href="/wiki/Manga" title="Manga">manga</a> and <a href="/wiki/TV_series" class="mw-redirect" title="TV series">TV series</a> and the later <a href="/wiki/Anime" title="Anime">anime</a> remake "<a href="/wiki/Hellsing_Ultimate" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellsing Ultimate">Hellsing Ultimate</a>" (2006–2012): An <a href="/wiki/Anime_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Anime series">anime series</a> about a vampire named Alucard. He is the main protagonist in the Hellsing series and the most powerful weapon of the Hellsing Organization which works against vampires and other such supernatural forces. Alucard is no mere vampire; it has been implied that he is the most powerful vampire alive and may be the most powerful character in the series.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Shadows" title="Dark Shadows">Dark Shadows</a></i> (1966–1971), a <a href="/wiki/Gothic_horror" class="mw-redirect" title="Gothic horror">gothic horror</a>-themed <a href="/wiki/Soap_opera" title="Soap opera">soap opera</a> featuring vampire <a href="/wiki/Barnabas_Collins" title="Barnabas Collins">Barnabas Collins</a>. This presentation carried over the traditional lore of vampires as creatures of the night who sleep in coffins, cast no reflection and wear black capes. However, the series was one of the first to humanize its vampire, depicting Barnabas Collins as a sympathetic, emotionally conflicted <a href="/wiki/Anti-hero" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-hero">anti-hero</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series" title="Star Trek: The Original Series">Star Trek</a></i> (1966): In the original series episode titled "The Man Trap", there is a creature that lives on a remote planet that Captain Kirk and the away team encounter, which appears to be a female human but is otherwise a hideous chameleon-like creature that can take on human appearance. This creature makes its way aboard their starship, the Enterprise, and kills several crew members. The creature is a pseudo-vampire, as it looks nothing like a vampire but draws others' life force from them by sucking all the salt from their bodies.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kolchak:_The_Night_Stalker" title="Kolchak: The Night Stalker">Kolchak: The Night Stalker</a></i> (1972–1975): This was a television series in which Kolchak discovers an overlooked victim from a crime scene, now turned vampire, has made her way from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in episode #4, titled "The Vampire" (1974) which is a sequel of the first of the two TV movies, the series being inspired by "<a href="/wiki/The_Night_Stalker_(1972_film)" title="The Night Stalker (1972 film)">The Night Stalker</a>" movie which also had vampires (a TV movie made in 1972). See <a href="/wiki/List_of_Kolchak:_The_Night_Stalker_episodes" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kolchak: The Night Stalker episodes">List of Kolchak: The Night Stalker episodes</a>. There was a very short-lived remake of this series simply called "Night Stalker" (2005).</li> <li><i>The Curse Of Dracula</i> (1979): Count Dracula is alive and well and teaching college in 1979. The series lasted one season and featured flashback memories of Count Dracula, using sepia-tone to show scenes in a different era of time.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dracula:_The_Series" title="Dracula: The Series">Dracula: The Series</a></i> (1990): This show was a Saturday morning feature with Van Helsing's descendants and vampires.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Forever_Knight" title="Forever Knight">Forever Knight</a></i> (1992–1996): A Canadian TV series featuring a vampire known as Det. Nicholas 'Nick' Knight, who works at night and is a detective on the police force. In some episodes of this series, Nick's eyes would change to a silver-white color.</li> <li><i>Outer Limits: The New Series</i> (1995): In an episode called "Caught In the Act", a small-town girl encounters a mysterious object that crashes through her ceiling into her bedroom. She is then turned into a lustful girl with a vampiric-type entity inhabiting her which demands sex from everyone she meets, and in the process, then absorbs their energy from them until they die. Will it be any different with her boyfriend, with which they were both previously waiting to have sex until marriage?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kindred:_The_Embraced" title="Kindred: The Embraced">Kindred: The Embraced</a></i> (1996): This series features a conclave of vampires highly organized like a mob.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer" title="Buffy the Vampire Slayer">Buffy the Vampire Slayer</a></i> (1997): Inspired by the movie of the same title. The vampires in this series are presented as strong but fundamentally 'fragile' walking corpses, vulnerable to sunlight, decapitation, and stakes through the heart, and are clearly established as being demons possessing human corpses rather than humans corrupted by their vampire instincts. The vampire Angel is an exception to this rule, as he was cursed with his soul over a century ago, restoring his capacity for compassion and grief, driving him to seek redemption for his sins in the spin-off series "Angel".</li> <li><i>Earth: Final Conflict</i> (1997–2002): In the fifth and final season of this series, there is an episode, in a departure from the current storyline, that replaces the Taelons with the newly born and more aggressive alien race of energy vampires called the Atavus.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Angel_(1999_TV_series)" title="Angel (1999 TV series)">Angel</a></i> (1999): A spinoff of <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i>. Unlike most vampires in the <a href="/wiki/Whedonverse" class="mw-redirect" title="Whedonverse">Whedonverse</a>, Angel was cursed with a soul. If he was ever to experience a moment of perfect happiness, he would lose the soul and become Angelus, the ruthless and bloodthirsty vampire that he was in the past. Angel seeks redemption for his crimes by helping others who have supernatural problems.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Buzz_Lightyear_of_Star_Command" title="Buzz Lightyear of Star Command">Buzz Lightyear of Star Command</a></i> (2000–2001): Several episodes feature an energy vampire named NOS-4-A2, created by Zurg, who controls machines that he bites.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blood_Ties_(TV_series)" title="Blood Ties (TV series)">Blood Ties</a></i> (2006–2008): Based on the "Blood Books" by Tanya Huff. This series was a supernatural drama that revolved around Vicki Nelson, a former homicide cop now a private investigator, and Henry Fitzroy, a 470-year-old vampire. Together they form a team which solves cases and deals with the supernatural world.</li> <li><i>Moonlight</i> (2007–2008): In this TV series, the vampire Mick St. John has a love interest who is a mortal woman.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blade:_The_Series" title="Blade: The Series">Blade: The Series</a></i> (2008): Inspired by the "Blade" saga of films (minus Wesley Snipes in the lead role). Like the movie, Blade is only half-vampire so he can effortlessly walk in the daylight to slay vampires. He is called a "daywalker", since sunlight doesn't bother him in the least.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Being_Human_(UK_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Being Human (UK TV series)">Being Human</a></i> (2008–2013): A British television series about a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost sharing a flat in Bristol. While a lot of vampires give into their nature, drinking blood and killing people without remorse, other vampires in the series feel guilty. These vampires try to give up their blood drinking addiction; however, their true nature usually comes through at some point.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/True_Blood" title="True Blood">True Blood</a></i> (2008–2014): A cable TV series about vampires as well as a host of other supernatural beings. This series continues the folklore that vampires cannot walk in the daylight.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Vampire_Diaries" title="The Vampire Diaries">The Vampire Diaries</a></i> (2009–2017): The TV series plot eventually has two brothers biding over the hand of a mortal girl who looks just like a vampire girl they knew generations ago. The vampires have 'daylight rings' made by witches that allow them to walk in the daylight.</li> <li>In the popular (2010) cartoon TV show <i><a href="/wiki/Adventure_Time" title="Adventure Time">Adventure Time</a></i>, one of the main recurring characters is <a href="/wiki/Marceline_the_Vampire_Queen" title="Marceline the Vampire Queen">Marceline the Vampire Queen</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Being_Human_(North_American_TV_series)" title="Being Human (North American TV series)">Being Human</a></i> (2011–2014): An American remake series of the British TV series of the same name. The show included vampires, werewolves, disembodied spirits, and witches.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Originals_(TV_series)" title="The Originals (TV series)">The Originals</a></i> (2013–2018): A spinoff of "The Vampire Diaries" TV series, dealing with a family of vampires, a brooding faction between witches of the court of New Orleans and the vampires, as well as some shapeshifter wolves.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dracula_(2013_TV_series)" title="Dracula (2013 TV series)">Dracula</a></i> (2013–2014): The mysticism of Count Dracula as a wealthy and seductive force to be reckoned with is further embellished in this drama, telling the story of his character and genius as both an entrepreneur and an inventor, a Tesla of his times. Also, this drama's sub-theme deals with his obsession to permanently walk in sunlight, while seeking a romantic liaison with Mina Murray, who appears to be a doppelganger or reincarnation of his past lover. He carries out his business transactions while hiding from a secret society cult that has sought to destroy all vampires for centuries.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/From_Dusk_till_Dawn:_The_Series" title="From Dusk till Dawn: The Series">From Dusk till Dawn</a></i> (2014): A series inspired by the movie of the same name.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grimm_(TV_series)" title="Grimm (TV series)">Grimm</a></i> season 3, episode 14 titled “Mommy Dearest” (2014): This show centres around Nick Burkhardt, an American police officer who can see people who have an alternative animal side, which can in some cases be evil. This episode uses a figure taken from Filipino folklore, the Aswang, a creature (someone with an evil side let loose) something like a cross between a vampire and a werewolf, a humanoid shape-shifter that feeds on unborn infants of pregnant women.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Horror_Story:_Hotel" title="American Horror Story: Hotel">American Horror Story: Hotel</a></i> (2015–2016), the fifth season of the <a href="/wiki/FX_(TV_channel)" title="FX (TV channel)">FX</a> anthology series <i><a href="/wiki/American_Horror_Story" title="American Horror Story">American Horror Story</a></i>: The season focuses on the fictional Hotel Cortez and its inhabitants, vampire-like creatures that are immortal, feed on blood, and are adverse to sunlight. Countess Elizabeth Johnson is the owner of the titular hotel. Her brood of children is infected with the blood virus, as is her lover Donovan and arch-nemesis Ramona Royale. Throughout the season, references to pop culture vampires, such as <a href="/wiki/Count_Orlok" title="Count Orlok">Count Orlok</a>, are frequently made.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vampirina" title="Vampirina">Vampirina</a></i> (2017): A <a href="/wiki/Disney_Junior" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney Junior">Disney Junior</a> original series about Vampirina "Vee" Hauntley moving from Transylvania to Pennsylvania with her family, all of whom are benevolent vampires.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows_(TV_series)" title="What We Do in the Shadows (TV series)">What We Do In The Shadows</a></i> (2019–present): A spinoff of the <a href="/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows" title="What We Do in the Shadows">2014 film of the same name</a>, a mockumentary comedy TV show that revolves around three vampires that reside together in Staten Island.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Interview_with_the_Vampire_(TV_series)" title="Interview with the Vampire (TV series)"> Interview with the Vampire</a></i> (2022-present): An adaption of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles books, with alterations to some plotlines to explore social context of the past, and relationships between characters in different ways.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Theatre">Theatre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>First performed at the Limbo Lounge in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>'s <a href="/wiki/East_Village,_Manhattan" title="East Village, Manhattan">East Village</a> in 1984, the play <i><a href="/wiki/Vampire_Lesbians_of_Sodom" title="Vampire Lesbians of Sodom">Vampire Lesbians of Sodom</a></i> became so popular it was moved <a href="/wiki/Off-Broadway" title="Off-Broadway">Off-Broadway</a> in June 1985. It ran five years at the Provincetown Playhouse.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dance_of_the_Vampires_(musical)" title="Dance of the Vampires (musical)">Dance of the Vampires</a></i> (1997) is a musical from <a href="/wiki/Jim_Steinman" title="Jim Steinman">Jim Steinman</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lestat_(musical)" title="Lestat (musical)">Lestat</a></i> is a musical from <a href="/wiki/Elton_John" title="Elton John">Elton John</a>, based on the novels by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Rice" title="Anne Rice">Anne Rice</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Der_Vampyr" title="Der Vampyr">Der Vampyr</a></i> is an opera, based on the short story <i><a href="/wiki/The_Vampyre" title="The Vampyre">The Vampyre</a></i> (1819) by <a href="/wiki/John_Polidori" class="mw-redirect" title="John Polidori">John Polidori</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_vampire_references">Other vampire references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Other vampire references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many regional vampire myths, or other creatures similar to or related to vampires have appeared in popular culture. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Darkseekers">Darkseekers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Darkseekers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the film <i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)" title="I Am Legend (film)">I Am Legend</a></i>, a mutated virus turns some humans and dogs into <a href="/wiki/Vampirism" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampirism">vampiric</a> beings, called "Darkseekers", that prey on unmutated humans and dogs.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Moroi">Moroi</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Moroi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula_(1992_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dracula (1992 film)">Bram Stoker's Dracula</a></i> (1992), Count Dracula calls his wolf pet by the names <a href="/wiki/Strigoi" title="Strigoi">strigoi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moroi" title="Moroi">moroi</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Mignola" title="Mike Mignola">Mike Mignola</a>'s <i>Right Hand of Doom</i>, from the <a href="/wiki/Hellboy" title="Hellboy">Hellboy</a> series, features a female vampire proclaiming that the <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A2rcolac" class="mw-redirect" title="Vârcolac">vârcolac</a> (singular entity here) is the master of the moroii and strigoi.</li> <li>Richelle Mead's <i><a href="/wiki/Vampire_Academy_(series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampire Academy (series)">Vampire Academy</a></i> series features Moroi as the protagonists and Strigoi as the antagonists.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Penanggalan">Penanggalan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Penanggalan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Film">Film</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Penanggalan_(film)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Penanggalan (film) (page does not exist)">Penanggalan</a></i> aka <i>The Headless Terror</i>, a 1967 film by <a href="/wiki/Tulsi_Ramsay" title="Tulsi Ramsay">Tulsi Ramsay</a>, widely dismissed as a hoax<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Witch_with_Flying_Head&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Witch with Flying Head (page does not exist)">The Witch with Flying Head</a></i> (<i>Fei taugh mo neuih</i>, literally "Flying Head Devil Woman"), 1977 film by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lian_Sing_Woo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lian Sing Woo (page does not exist)">Lian Sing Woo</a> (Though from Hong Kong, bootlegs are usually of the <a href="/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language">Thai</a>-dubbed version, which also is rescored with <a href="/wiki/Basil_Poledouris" title="Basil Poledouris">Basil Poledouris</a> music from <i><a href="/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian_(1982_film)" title="Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)">Conan the Barbarian</a></i>, which debuted several years after this film's first release. Principal photography had to have begun before April 1970, due to the presence of Peter Chen Ho, who died April 16, 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mystics_in_Bali" title="Mystics in Bali">Mystics in Bali</a></i>, (<i>Leák</i>), 1983 film by <a href="/w/index.php?title=H._Tjut_Djalil.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="H. Tjut Djalil. (page does not exist)">H. Tjut Djalil.</a>, from the <a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">novel</a> by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Putra_Mada&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Putra Mada (page does not exist)">Putra Mada</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Demonic_Beauty" title="Demonic Beauty">Krasue</a></i>, 2002 film by <a href="/wiki/Bin_Bunluerit" title="Bin Bunluerit">Bin Bunluerit</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gong_Tau" class="mw-redirect" title="Gong Tau">Gong Tau</a></i>; both <i>Penanggalan</i> and <i>Mystics in Bali</i> feature <a href="/wiki/Actor" title="Actor">actor</a> <a href="/wiki/W._D._Mochtar" title="W. D. Mochtar">W. D. Mochtar</a> as the priest who fights the Penanggalan. Both <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Witch_with_Flying_Head&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Witch with Flying Head (page does not exist)">The Witch with Flying Head</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Mystics_in_Bali" title="Mystics in Bali">Mystics in Bali</a></i> depict an innocent transformed into a penanggalan against her will. In the former film, there is an effort to save her, and her attempt at <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a> upon learning her condition is thwarted. In the latter film, she is considered irredeemable, and her neck is spiked to destroy her. Both characters are monstrous only at night and unaware of their nocturnal behavior until informed.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Print_media">Print media</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Print media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <i><a href="/wiki/Dragon_Warriors" title="Dragon Warriors">Dragon Warriors</a></i> pen and paper RPG features a monster called the Death's Head, with a similar modus operandi to the Penanggalan, although the detached head has tiny wings and a horn.</li> <li>The penanggalan may be found described as a <i><a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i> monster in the <i><a href="/wiki/Fiend_Folio" title="Fiend Folio">Fiend Folio</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/TSR,_Inc." title="TSR, Inc.">TSR, Inc.</a>, 1981). The <a href="/wiki/Vargouille" class="mw-redirect" title="Vargouille">vargouille</a> is similar to the penanggalan in that both are vampire-like creatures in the form of a flying, detached head.</li> <li>A more recent <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> penanggalan appears in the <i>Oriental Adventures</i> setting. Even more recent <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> penanggalan appears in the <i>Monster Vault: Threats to the Nentir Vale</i> supplement.</li> <li>The penanggalan may be found described as an example of a vampire as well as the Kephn (a male counterpart from Burma) in the <a href="/wiki/GURPS" title="GURPS">GURPS</a> third edition supplement <i><a href="/wiki/GURPS_Blood_Types" title="GURPS Blood Types">GURPS Blood Types</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games" title="Steve Jackson Games">Steve Jackson Games</a>, 1995)</li> <li>The short <a href="/wiki/Ero_guro" title="Ero guro">Guro fetish</a>/comedy manga story "Head Prolapse Elegy" by <a href="/wiki/Shintaro_Kago" title="Shintaro Kago">Shintaro Kago</a> revolves around the travails of a penanggalan who desires a normal love life with a man but is constantly thwarted by her condition.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wizard_Entertainment" title="Wizard Entertainment">Wizard Entertainment</a>)'s <i><a href="/wiki/Hellboy" title="Hellboy">Hellboy</a> Premier Edition</i> features a story by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Mignola" title="Mike Mignola">Mike Mignola</a>, "The Penanggalan" (later collected in the <i>Premier Edition Volume 1</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Hellboy:_The_Troll_Witch_and_Others" title="Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others">Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others</a></i>), wherein Hellboy battles a penanggalan.</li> <li>The first book of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Malay_Mysteries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Malay Mysteries (page does not exist)">Malay Mysteries</a>, <i>Garlands of Moonlight</i>, revolves around a penanggalan.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Eastern-inspired RPG <i><a href="/wiki/Legend_of_the_Five_Rings" title="Legend of the Five Rings">Legend of the Five Rings</a></i> features penanggalans, although there they are named penaggolans.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A penanggalan appears in <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Golden" title="Christopher Golden">Christopher Golden</a> & <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Holder" title="Nancy Holder">Nancy Holder</a>'s 1999 book <i>Out Of The Madhouse</i>, Volume 1 of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gatekeeper_(Buffy_novel_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Gatekeeper (Buffy novel series)">The Gatekeeper Trilogy</a></i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shtriga">Shtriga</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Shtriga"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Supernatural_(U.S._TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supernatural (U.S. TV series)">Supernatural</a></i> features a <a href="/wiki/Shtriga" title="Shtriga">shtriga</a> in the season 1 episode "<a href="/wiki/Something_Wicked_(Supernatural)" class="mw-redirect" title="Something Wicked (Supernatural)">Something Wicked</a>". In a homage to The Simpsons, the shtriga in 'Supernatural' was said to have moved through Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, the same towns taken in by the monorail conman in the episode <a href="/wiki/Marge_vs._the_Monorail" title="Marge vs. the Monorail">Marge vs. the Monorail</a>.</li> <li>Shtrigas also appear in <a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Sapkowski" title="Andrzej Sapkowski">Andrzej Sapkowski</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Witcher" title="The Witcher">The Witcher</a></i> short stories and saga.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Strigoi">Strigoi</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Strigoi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Books">Books</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the 10th book of the <i><a href="/wiki/Spook%27s" title="Spook's">Spook's</a></i> series by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Delaney" title="Joseph Delaney">Joseph Delaney</a>, the main character master is placed under the control of a "Strigoi" and "Strigoica".</li> <li>Strigoi play a major role in <a href="/wiki/James_Rollins" title="James Rollins">James Rollins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Cantrell" title="Rebecca Cantrell">Rebecca Cantrell</a>'s series, The Order of the Sanguines: <i>City of Screams</i> (2012), <i>The Blood Gospel</i> (2013), <i>Innocent Blood</i> (2013), <i>Blood Brothers</i> (2013), and <i>Blood Infernal</i> (2015).</li> <li>The term is used to describe vampires in general in the book series <i>The Hunt</i> by <a href="/wiki/Susan_Sizemore" title="Susan Sizemore">Susan Sizemore</a>.</li> <li>The Strigoi play a central role in <a href="/wiki/Graham_Masterton" title="Graham Masterton">Graham Masterton</a>'s 2006 book, <i>The Descendant</i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richelle_Mead" title="Richelle Mead">Richelle Mead</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Vampire_Academy_(series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vampire Academy (series)">Vampire Academy</a></i> novels features Strigoi as villains.</li> <li>The Strigoi play a central role in <a href="/wiki/Dan_Simmon" class="mw-redirect" title="Dan Simmon">Dan Simmon</a>'s 1992 book, <i>Children of the Night</i>.</li> <li>A Strigoi appears in "Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistritia" by <a href="/wiki/Debra_Doyle" title="Debra Doyle">Debra Doyle</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_D._Macdonald" title="James D. Macdonald">James D. Macdonald</a> in the February 2008 <i><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_and_Science_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy and Science Fiction">Fantasy and Science Fiction</a></i></li> <li>In the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Guardians_of_Ga%27_Hoole&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guardians of Ga' Hoole (page does not exist)">Guardians of Ga' Hoole</a> book series, an evil owl whose ancestors were witch owls called hagsfiends renames herself the Striga after her escape from the Qui' Dragon Palace.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro" title="Guillermo del Toro">Guillermo del Toro</a>'s 2009 book <i>The Strain</i> references vampires as strigoi.</li> <li><i>Strigoi</i> is the preferred name of vampires in Susan Krinard's <i>Roaring Twenties</i> series.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Mignola" title="Mike Mignola">Mike Mignola</a>'s <i>Right Hand of Doom</i> from the <a href="/wiki/Hellboy" title="Hellboy">Hellboy</a> comic series features a female vampire proclaiming that the <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A2rcolac" class="mw-redirect" title="Vârcolac">vârcolac</a> (singular entity here) is the master of the moroii and strigoi.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/The_Silmarillion" title="The Silmarillion">The Silmarillion</a> by <a href="/wiki/J.R.R_Tolkien" class="mw-redirect" title="J.R.R Tolkien">J.R.R Tolkien</a>, vampires are mentioned. However, only one, Thuringwethil, is described. She is the messenger of the evil Vala <a href="/wiki/Morgoth" title="Morgoth">Morgoth</a>, and is a bat-like creature. During <a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_Beren_and_L%C3%BAthien" class="mw-redirect" title="The Tale of Beren and Lúthien">The Tale of Beren and Lúthien</a>, another servant of Morgoth, <a href="/wiki/Sauron" title="Sauron">Sauron</a>, takes the form of a vampire.</li> <li>In <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yankel_Kr%C3%BCmmel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yankel Krümmel (page does not exist)">Yankel Krümmel</a>'s <a href="/w/index.php?title=Matrice_Granit&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matrice Granit (page does not exist)">Matrice Granit</a>, the story of Gregorius the Strigoi is told.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a> wrote a novel, Carpe Jugulum, that revolves around a feud between vampires and witches. The novel is also a tongue-in-cheek reversal of popularized traditional vampire myths.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Games_2">Games</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the 2008 adventure video game <i><a href="/wiki/A_Vampyre_Story" title="A Vampyre Story">A Vampyre Story</a></i>, one of the more prominent characters is named Madam Strigoi and, although she is not herself a vampyre (as far as is known), she has great insight into vampires.</li> <li>The video game <i><a href="/wiki/Ace_Combat_6" class="mw-redirect" title="Ace Combat 6">Ace Combat 6</a></i> features an elite enemy fighter squadron called "Strigon Team" formally known as the "Vampire Team", whose insignia and paint scheme contains <a href="/wiki/Personifications_of_death" title="Personifications of death">death</a> motifs and whose commander flies an experimental aircraft named "<a href="/wiki/Nosferatu" title="Nosferatu">Nosferatu</a>".</li> <li>The Underground adventure game <i>Ben Jordan: Case 3</i> features a Strigoi who goes by the name of Zortherus.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Disgaea" title="Disgaea">Disgaea</a></i> video game series, there is a class of vampires called Strigoi.</li> <li>In the 2008 video game <i><a href="/wiki/Soul_Calibur_4" class="mw-redirect" title="Soul Calibur 4">Soul Calibur 4</a></i>, the French fencer (and vampire) <a href="/wiki/Raphael_Sorel" class="mw-redirect" title="Raphael Sorel">Raphael Sorel</a> has a move called the Strigoi Envelopment.</li> <li>The 2007 video game <i><a href="/wiki/The_Witcher_(video_game)" title="The Witcher (video game)">The Witcher</a></i>, based on the novels by <a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Sapkowski" title="Andrzej Sapkowski">Andrzej Sapkowski</a>, features a vampiric female creature known as a striga.</li> <li>The Sixth Edition of the <i><a href="/wiki/Warhammer_Fantasy_Battle" class="mw-redirect" title="Warhammer Fantasy Battle">Warhammer Fantasy Battle</a></i> game gives the name Strigoi to a bloodline of monstrous vampires, similar to <a href="/wiki/Count_Orlok" title="Count Orlok">Count Orlok</a>.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Dragon%27s_Dogma:_Dark_Arisen" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen">Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen</a></i>, Strigoi are encountered as enemies after the defeat of the main boss. They look like large, blood-red gargoyles and attack by draining blood from the Arisen and their pawns using their tail.</li> <li>One of the playable heroes in <i><a href="/wiki/Defense_of_the_Ancients" title="Defense of the Ancients">Defense of the Ancients</a></i>, Strygwygr the Bloodseeker, is based on Poltergeist, a variant of vampire.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Darkstalkers" title="Darkstalkers">Darkstalkers</a></i> heavily features vampires, such as Demitri Maximoff (a classic Dracula-type of vampire) and Hsein-Ko who is a Jiang-shi (a type of Chinese vampire), and other monsters.</li> <li>The protagonist of the 2018 action-RPG <a href="/wiki/Vampyr_(video_game)" title="Vampyr (video game)">Vampyr</a> is a vampire, as well as featuring various underground vampire communities.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Movies">Movies</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Movies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>One of the villains in the <i><a href="/wiki/30_Days_of_Night_(film)" title="30 Days of Night (film)">30 Days of Night</a></i> (2007) film is listed as "Strigoi" in the end credits.</li> <li>In the film <i><a href="/wiki/Bloodstone:_Subspecies_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Bloodstone: Subspecies II">Bloodstone: Subspecies II</a></i> (1993), some of the characters refer to vampires as "strigoi".</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula_2000" title="Dracula 2000">Dracula 2000</a></i> movie, Count Dracula calls his wolf pet by the names of "strigoi" and "<a href="/wiki/Moroi" title="Moroi">moroi</a>".</li> <li>The 2009 film <i><a href="/wiki/Strigoi_(film)" title="Strigoi (film)">Strigoi</a></i> involves vampires in <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>, which are referred to as "strigoi".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The segment <i>Terror</i> from the 2021 film <i><a href="/wiki/V/H/S/94" title="V/H/S/94">V/H/S/94</a></i> involves one character based on the "strigoi".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Music_2">Music</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The term is used in a song from the <a href="/wiki/Black_metal" title="Black metal">black metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Dark_Funeral" title="Dark Funeral">Dark Funeral</a> called "Ravenna Strigoi Mortii" on the album <i><a href="/wiki/Vobiscum_Satanas" title="Vobiscum Satanas">Vobiscum Satanas</a></i>.</li> <li>Italian musician <a href="/wiki/Alessandro_Nunziati" title="Alessandro Nunziati">Lord Vampyr</a>, famous for being the former vocalist of the <a href="/wiki/Gothic_metal" title="Gothic metal">gothic metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Theatres_des_Vampires" title="Theatres des Vampires">Theatres des Vampires</a>, has a song named "Strigoi" on his second solo studio album, <i><a href="/wiki/Carpathian_Tragedies" title="Carpathian Tragedies">Carpathian Tragedies</a></i> (2009).</li> <li>German <a href="/wiki/Power_metal" title="Power metal">power metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Powerwolf" title="Powerwolf">Powerwolf</a> has a song called "Armata Strigoi" on the album <i><a href="/wiki/Blessed_%26_Possessed" title="Blessed & Possessed">Blessed & Possessed</a></i> (2015).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Television_2">Television</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A group of strigoi appeared in the episode "Bite Father, Bite Son" in the animated series <i><a href="/wiki/American_Dragon:_Jake_Long" title="American Dragon: Jake Long">American Dragon: Jake Long</a></i>.</li> <li>Strigoi are the featured enemy in the 1999 episode "<a href="/wiki/List_of_Hercules:_The_Legendary_Journeys_episodes#Season_6_.281999.29" title="List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys episodes">Darkness Visible</a>" of the show <i><a href="/wiki/Hercules:_The_Legendary_Journeys" title="Hercules: The Legendary Journeys">Hercules: The Legendary Journeys</a></i>.</li> <li>The strigoi was featured in the Animal Planet TV series <i>Lost Tapes</i>.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> television series <i><a href="/wiki/Scariest_Places_on_Earth" title="Scariest Places on Earth">Scariest Places on Earth</a></i>, strigoi are discussed in an episode called "Return to <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> Dare." The episode originally aired on April 21, 2002.</li> <li>The vampires in the 2014 television series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Strain_(TV_series)" title="The Strain (TV series)">The Strain</a></i> are referred to as strigoi by the character Abraham.</li> <li>In "Earth Final Conflict" (1997–2002), energy vampires as such are called the Atavus. They are not the traditional style vampires of folklore.</li> <li>In the TV series "Vampire Dairies" and "The Originals" the vampires have what are called 'daylight rings' made by witches allowing them to walk in daylight. There is even one ring made that allows the user any mortal to bet death if killed. (Even the werewolves in "The Originals" series were seeking to get 'moonlight rings' to keep them all from turning into wolves when they do not want to).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Strix">Strix</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Strix"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Stirge" class="mw-redirect" title="Stirge">Stirge</a></i> was presented as a popular monster in <i><a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i>. In the game, it took the form of a many-legged flying creature which sucked the blood from its victims through a sharp, tubular beak. </p><p>A version of the <a href="/wiki/Strix_(mythology)" title="Strix (mythology)">striga</a> makes an appearance in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Witcher_(video_game)" title="The Witcher (video game)">The Witcher</a></i> video game based on the works of Polish writer <a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Sapkowski" title="Andrzej Sapkowski">Andrzej Sapkowski</a>. As a demonic undead creature, which transforms from the corpse of a dead child conceived via incest, striga in the Witcher's universe does not look like insects or vampires but looks similar to a ghoul with a muscular quadrupedal body, big claws, and a fang-filled mouth. </p><p>The strix make an appearance in the <i><a href="/wiki/Vampire:_The_Requiem" title="Vampire: The Requiem">Vampire: The Requiem</a></i> historical book <i>Requiem for Rome</i>. In contrast to the more traditional vampires presented in the line, the strix are disembodied spirits who commonly take the shape of owls and can possess both humans and torpored vampires. It is rumored that the strix restored <a href="/wiki/Remus" class="mw-redirect" title="Remus">Remus</a> to undeath, and corrupted a sixth clan of vampires who were destroyed en masse. The strix believed themselves to be betrayed by the vampires of Rome, especially those of the Julii clan, and swore to bring about their ruin. They reappear in <i>Night Horrors: Wicked Dead</i> as heralds of disaster, mainly unbound by their former oath (although they still occasionally pursue such activities for personal reasons). Immensely amoral <a href="/wiki/Libertinism" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertinism">libertines</a>, they view vampires clinging to humanity as weak, and as such will often serve as tempters in order to make them lose themselves to the Beast. </p><p>Strix are also described in the GURPS third edition Sourcebook for Vampires <i>Blood Types</i>. They are described as witches who, having made pacts with dark entities, gained the ability to become blood-drinking birds at night. What their pacts with these dark forces require of them is not described. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wurdulac">Wurdulac</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Wurdulac"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Bava" title="Mario Bava">Mario Bava</a>'s 1963 <a href="/wiki/Anthology_film" title="Anthology film">anthology film</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath_(film)" title="Black Sabbath (film)">Black Sabbath</a></i> includes one segment about the <a href="/wiki/Wurdulac" title="Wurdulac">wurdulac</a> based on Tolstoy's story and starring <a href="/wiki/Boris_Karloff" title="Boris Karloff">Boris Karloff</a>.</li> <li>In 1972, the Italian/Spanish film called <i>La Notte dei Diavoli (Night of the Devils) </i>was also based on Tolstoy's story.</li> <li>The character of Stefan (portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Adam_Croasdell" title="Adam Croasdell">Adam Croasdell</a>) in the 2012 film <i><a href="/wiki/Werewolf:_The_Beast_Among_Us" title="Werewolf: The Beast Among Us">Werewolf: The Beast Among Us</a></i> was a wurdulac.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fictional_vampires" class="mw-redirect" title="List of fictional vampires">List of fictional vampires</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vampires_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Per the Oxford English Dictionary, <i>vamp</i> is originally English, used first by <a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. 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