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Released by FremantleMedia Enterprises Vampire Forensics looks at the theories, reality and experiences of vampires. These creatures of the night are at the height of their fame with the film Twilight and series True Blood highlighting the fascination but do they really exist? Discover the legends of these blood drinking species with this National Geographic double feature DVD set RRP £12.99 and make up your own mind.
Is it Real? Vampires tears open the crypt on vampires. For most of us, the vampire is a fictional count who became a horror movie icon. But is there more to the legend than fiction? Have the un-dead actually been walking among us for centuries? From a self-proclaimed modern-day blood drinking vampire, to a bishop who claims to have exorcised vampires and demons, experts in anthropology, archaeology, forensics, folklore and vampirism investigate why this archetypal image has haunted us for so long.
Vampires in Venice visits Venice in 1575 the jewelled city of northern Italy is in the throes of unimaginable horror as one of the worst plagues ever to strike mankind – the Black Death – takes hold. Mass graves swell with thousands of bodies. A legend grows that a vampire known as a Shroud-eater is the cause of the plague. The Shroud-eater feasts on corpses and then rises from the earth to infect the living. More than four hundred years later Italian forensic anthropologist and CSI specialist Matteo Borrini leads a team excavating a 16th Century mass grave on one of Venices outlying islands. He uncovers a skeleton unlike any he had ever seen before. A brick appears to have been inserted between the jaws of the skull. Why? The answer shocks him. He believes the object was part of a macabre ritual designed to kill a vampire. The discovery launches Borrini on a forensic investigation unlike any he has ever undertaken as he attempts to put a face and a life to the Vampire of Venice.
Vampire Forensics are two thrilling programme to sink your teeth into and will fascinate all interested in this enduring legend.
The DVD is released on June 21st, and is available on Amazon for £9.69 (RRP £12.99).
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