Bloody Brilliant: Revisiting “Curing the Vampire”
Gene Ware (L) and Tilda Swinton (R) in stills from "Curing the Vampire"
An insatiable thirst has drained global resources. Gluttony has taken its toll on the world. Vampiristic irresponsibility is on the rise.
So begins Lynn’s introduction to a series of webisodes, commissioned by the Tate Modern, entitled Curing the Vampire. Although they were produced in early 2008, in this media moment saturated with bloodsucker frenzy from Twilight to True Blood, with echoes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer still reverberating through popular culture, Curing the Vampire deserves to be resurrected (so to speak) as a call to arms for the revitalization of the world’s intellectual and creative resources.