The ultimate outcasts are coming in from the cold

He’s a blood sucking parasite whose power over ordinary mortals is eternal. He has yet to be exposed for murderous acts committed years ago. And yet in the hit BBC series Being Human the vampire is the vulnerable, courageous and moral hero in a petty, vindictive world of human spite.

Best Foreign Language Film award winner, Let the Right One portrays the struggle of a lonely, bullied, isolated boy befriended by the little girl next door, who happens to be a vampire. Where the Wild Things Are tells the story of a lonely boy who runs away to find acceptance on an island full of other “wild things” -- and the strength to re-enter “conventional” society.

Twilight and its sequel New Moon are the billion pound earning films of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling books which centre on a lonely, fashion-resistant, serious young woman who falls in love with a moody, distracted boy at her school. He belongs to a stylish but rootless family of vampires and the film explores their struggle to control the destructive side of a biology predisposed to destroy.

This weekend saw the UK release of the Hollywood blockbuster Daybreakers which portrays a world where a mysterious plague has transformed the vast bulk of humanity into vampires. Humans are an endangered species and the hero is trying to find a way to sustain his fellow vampires and spare the few remaining human beings in a world controlled by fat-cat financiers, big pharmaceutical firms and oil multinationals. Corporate bloodsuckers, figuratively and literally.

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