Within a few months, Mr. Grahame-Smith completely restructured and rewrote the screenplay, injecting it with campy humor that plays up the film's absurd premise: Barnabas Collins, a vampire played by Mr. Depp, emerges from a coffin after 200 years to find himself in the polyester, lava-lamp world of 1972.

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Mr. COTTER: "Santo vs. the Vampire Women" has probably the all-time classic scene where they're in the ring, and Santo's fighting just a difficult match against his opponent.

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Previous work by Mr Nazir includes the design and production of School of the Damned, a comic book about a vampire infestation that opens with the evacuation of St Kilda in 1930.

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