Vampire Chronicles

Studio 360

With the hit movie “Twilight” and HBO’s series “True Blood,” vampires are back in a big way. Peter Crimmins surveys culture’s long obsession with these blood suckers in an attempt to find out why the vampire motif will never die.

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