Vampires as movie monsters and metaphors for desire

It’s almost Halloween. We have to fit some scares in somewhere.

Vampires have been a pop culture staple for decades — as movie monsters and as metaphors for our deepest desires. And whether your favorite vampires are Nosferatu and Dracula, or Louis and Lestat, they all have a few bloody things in common.

We get into why the vampire myth prevails and how the vampire genre is changing.