The hottest living dead on screen
Wednesday November 18 2009
It's a fate aspiring actors can only dream of, but Twilight's poster vamp Robert Pattinson has revealed he has to hide indoors from hordes of hysterical fans wherever he goes. The 23-year-old Londoner shot to fame in fireworks of pheromones as the saga's anti-hero Edward Cullen.
"It's been a little frightening," he says of being trapped in the Twilight zone. "There's always a bunch of people outside. They're obsessed. A certain amount of success you can mentally deal with, but there's a point where you think, 'Jesus Christ, what is this? I'm not that great!'
But Pattinson isn't the first bloodsucker to make lusty schoolgirls and their shameless mothers swear off garlic -- and we'll put our neck on the line he won't be the last. We look at Hollywood's hottest ever ice-cold neck nibblers.
Brad Pitt (Interview with the Vampire): He's gone from hunky to haggard in recent years but dad-of-six Brad Pitt rocked the living dead look in the big screen take on Anne Rice's hit novel. As tortured vamp Louis, pasty Pitt stole entire scenes from leading man Tom Cruise.
Jason Patric (The Lost Boys): The stars of this 1987 cult classic stared broodingly from bedroom walls across the world. And while the movie's Billy Idol-meets-Dracula wardrobe looks its age, its mantra is still a hit with today's Twilight-loving teens: "Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire."
Gerard Butler (Dracula): The world's most famous vampire is never short of female company.
So who better to reprise the role previously played by Gary Oldman than real-life lothario Gerard?
Although the movie bites, at least the sizzling Scot got to nuzzle lovelies such as Jennifer Esposito -- but perhaps rumoured paramour Lindsay Lohan would have been a better choice for the role of corpse-like love interest.
Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned): As the vampire Lestat, Dubliner Stuart Townsend donned the fangs vacated by Tom Cruise in this 2002 Anne Rice adaptation.
Simmering opposite R&B star Aaliyah (who died before the film was released) a shirtless Mr Charlize Theron saved the camp flick from being a total flop.
Irish Independent
