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''[[The Vampyr: A Soap Opera]]'' was a 1992 BBC miniseries based on the opera ''[[
The story follows Ripley, a vampire who was frozen in ice in 1793 and accidentally thawed in the 20th century by a construction crew. He quickly rises to power in the world of business, but learns that his long life has come with a price: he must kill three women in the next three nights in order to keep his power.
Davenant, a bankrupt business man, makes a deal with Ripley: in exchange for helping to save his business, Ripley will marry his daughter, Miranda. But Miranda has a secret lover -- Ripley's protegee, Alex. Determined to save Miranda, Alex tries to find out who -- or what -- Ripley really is.
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* [[Compressed Adaptation]]: Much dialogue and several musical numbers were cut.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Apparently the way to modernize an opera that was ''already'' dark and violent is to include excessive nudity wherever it's remotely plausible and show the discovery of a murdered woman with a river of blood gushing out of a car's trunk.
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