VAMPIRES

THESE BLOOD-THIRSTY BEINGS ARE NEVER FAR FROM OUR SCREENS, but this year has seen a number of new additions to the TV vampire catalogue. Let the Right One In is a remake of the acclaimed Swedish film and book of the same name, plus the US film remake called Let Me In, while Interview with the Vampire (pictured) brought Anne Rice’s gothic horror novel to the small screen almost 30 years after the feature adaptation starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Vampire Academy, based on the novel by Richelle Mead, also aired this year, as did First Kill, while Legacies – part of the Vampire Diaries universe – came to an end after four seasons. Meanwhile, Spider-Man’s ‘Guy in the Chair’ Jacob Batalon took the lead in Reginald the Vampire, a supernatural drama based on Johnny B Truant’s Fat Vampire, which aims to subvert the genre as Reginald crashes into a world populated by beautiful, fit and vain vampires while navigating numerous obstacles in his new undead life.

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