V Wars Review: 5 Ups & 3 Downs

4. A New Take On A Tired Old Concept

Vampires have always been a popular basis for films and TV shows, but the Twilight-era evolution a decade ago has left audiences with something of a vampire fatigue. Somerhalder would know how powerful that era was as he was part of the reason vampires became so, for lack of a better term, sexy. But though its legacy lives on in The Vampire Diaries' aptly titled spin-off Legacies, that YA vamp era has come and gone.

So what's left now? Is it back to the traditional tropes of capes, bats and garlic? Hardly. V Wars attempts to put a new spin on the idea of vampirism by establishing that its the effect of an ancient virus so to speak - one that had lay dormant in the Arctic for centuries and has the ability to turn humans into a parallel, and superior, species.

A unique blend of multiple horror conventions with a large dash of originality thrown in for good measure, and you have a thoroughly compelling and admirably realistic take on something that could have easily descended into the predictably supernatural territory.

The vampire market is an overcrowded one so if you're going to go there, it's important that you do something unique to make yourself stand out. V Wars accomplished that.