Pop culture is obsessed with vampires. There are movies, tv shows, books, fan fiction; a number of things that show just how many ways we can take a basic vampire (blood sucking undead) and mold them to a certain storyline. I think that vampires represent our dark desires, primal instincts and the “Hyde” that we want to keep locked away.
Our first vampire, introduced by Bram Stoker was, in my opinion, a warning to society. He was everything that they current culture shunned. Today however we have turned this being, which should terrify us and scar us away, into a seductive temptation, and more often than not, a protector of humanity. Perhaps this is societies way of saying that monsters do not need to look like a monster to still be one. Or it could simply be the fact that people are still fascinated by vampires and turning them into a teenage fantasy (cough twilight cough) is very profitable in our money driven world.
I think that Bram Stoker would be horrified to see his version of Dracula, and vampires in general, mutilated beyond recognition. Vampires are not supposed to be sparkly protectors of humanity, they are not supposed to be human at all. They are supposed to be antithesis of humanity, that darkness your mother warned you to stay away from, the Hyde that murders without remorse.
Humanities 101 