Transformation

Another development in the vampire canon has been the issue of being turned into a vampire. Each movie, book, or television show has a different approach. In the Tim Burton film Dark Shadows, all that's required is a bite from a vampire to trigger the transformation. The Vampire Diaries gets a little more involved: a human must die with vampire blood in their system to return as a vampire. In Twilight vampires are venomous and once their venom enters a human's blood stream, 3 days of excruciating pain ensue before the new vampire is "born." In Dark Lover, the first book in the adult paranormal romance series The Black Dagger Brotherhood, we learn that vampires are a separate race and that one is born a vampire rather than being turned into one. In the Underworld universe, vampires can be born or turned. This is just another area of the vampire myth that has been overhauled in the past decade.