According to her, although she does not drink blood in the traditional vampire sense, she experiences physical symptoms and behaviours that align with what she believes to be vampiric traits.

Sure, Lily and her Dracula-inspired father are more interested in being a typical American family than ... on the town’s residents. Its traditional vampire lore and small-town ’70s setting ...

In some ways, Orlok is more like a demon than a traditional vampire. He’s a manifestation of Ellen’s repressed sexual desires, smothered by the restrictive social norms of the time period ...