Banished to skulk around in the dark on the fringes of society, vampires are getting another chance to sink their teeth into pop culture. We’re in the throes of a mainstream resurgence of interest in bloodsuckers – one that actually exceeds that of the last time they bared their fangs, nearly a decade ago, with the big-screen adaptation of Anne Rice’s “Interview With the Vampire” and the debut of TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” There’s a huge upsurge in vampire awareness now,” says Dr. Thomas Garza, chairman of the Slavic Department at the University of Texas at Austin, who teaches “The Vampire in Slavic Cultures,” now a 10-year-old course. “I’d say this is probably the largest vampire resurgence in this country since just after World War II, when we had all the Frankenstein, Dracula and Mummy movies come out between 1938 and 1947, which were largely made in response to the wars.”
The New York Post
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