“With all the romantic vampire stuff going on with The Vampire Diaries and True Blood and Twilight , the most obvious. We thought it would be interesting if, in this atmosphere of the way the vampire is being portrayed right now as a romantic object, under the wire of all that in the culture the real thing moves in next door.
“And the real thing is a killer. Just a predator. It’s the shark from Jaws.
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"On the outside it’s a seductive package and it looks like a human being, but it’s just about ripping your throat out and drinking your blood. And introducing that kind of vampire into the current environment.”
Sounds not that bad. Don’t get us wrong, we love True Blood . But an antidote to the airy fairy, romanticised vampire tales that are doing the rounds would be fantastic.
Just a shame it had to be a remake.
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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.
