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Though horror devotees often display a ritualistic distrust of movies that try to fuse other genres onto a horror structure, we believe there’s something to be said for the giddy recombination of generic registers. After all, so many of the greatest horror films are also extremely funny (Suspiria, Friday the 13th, etc.). David Wellington of [...]

Alongside news that the abstinence-preaching vampire romance novel adaptation Twilight took the top spot at this week-end’s box office, New York Times super-critic Manohla Dargis narrates a historical survey of vampire movies that, like their main characters, haven’t really aged. Before exploring the cultural graveyard for undead treats, Dargis covers the vampire canon (vamnon?):

Nosferatu (F.W. [...]