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To twist your mind even further, in both the science fiction video and novel below, Vampirism=Commodity fetishism.

Like the human's mapping of genes in the HGP, or clinical researcher's use of the OncoMouse(TM), Stephen Dorf's vampire requires the blood of a half-vampire, half-manimal (Blade played by Wesley Snipes) whom he and the other vampires harbour a resentful fascination (and obvious disgust for.)

[|Preview the Movie "Blade" on You Tube]

[|The Washington Post] discusses Octavia E. Butler's new take on vampire lore. Shori is born of extremely sophisticated genetic engineering, into a race of blood-drinkers that hate her, though the melanin in her skin marks her as their future--a way out of living always in the dark.