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When all else fails, eat your family: The science behind Blade II’s Reapers
When all else fails, eat your family: The science behind Blade II's Reapers,This week we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Blade II, the movie that asked viewers to imagine what vampires are afraid of. The answer? Reapers, mutated vampires with jaws that split horizontally down the middle and who feed on their own kind. Raising the stakes for a sequel can be a challenge and creating a vampire that is even more vampiric is certainly a solution, but does it hold up to scientific scrutiny? Let's find out.

When all else fails, eat your family: The science behind Blade II’s Reapers

This week we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Blade II, the movie that asked viewers to imagine what vampires are afraid of. The answer? Reapers, mutated vampires with jaws that split horizontally down the middle and who feed on their own kind. Raising the stakes for a sequel can be a challenge and creating a vampire that is even more vampiric is certainly a solution, but does it hold up to scientific scrutiny? Let’s find out.