10 People Who Copied Movies In Disturbing Ways

On 17 November 1994, Daniel Sterling took his girlfriend Lisa to see the Tom Cruise-starring Interview with the Vampire, a film in which the titular creatures drink plenty of human and animal blood; a necessity for them to survive.

The next morning, Lisa woke up to find Sterling in bed, staring at her. She asked him what was wrong, and he replied, "I'm going to kill you and drink your blood".

It sounds like an absolutely ludicrous threat, but on this occasion it wasn't a joke. The very next evening, Sterling stabbed his partner seven times in the chest and back before consuming her blood for several minutes. Thankfully though, Lisa survived, while Sterling was banged up in jail on an attempted murder charge.

Strangely, Sterling - who claimed to believe in vampires - stated that he did not blame Interview with the Vampire for his actions, perhaps indicating that his desire to feast on blood actually pre-dated the movie.

Whatever the case, people copying big-screen vampires is, unfortunately, a lot more common than you think. Another vampire-themed, movie-inspired incident occurred in 2009, when a young boy took inspiration from the Twilight flicks and started sinking his teeth into his classmates. He probably wasn't popular at break time.