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The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries: American supernatural teen drama on The CW, 2009-2017, 8 seasons, 171 episodes, adapted from L.J. Smith's 1991 novels; developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec; stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder; spinoffs The Originals and Legacies.
The Vampire Diaries (novel series)
The Vampire Diaries is a young-adult vampire romance novel series created by L. J. Smith, published 1991–2014 in thirteen volumes about Elena Gilbert and the Salvatore brothers, later a CW TV franchise.
The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Lestat (1985, Knopf) is Anne Rice's second Vampire Chronicles novel, Lestat de Lioncourt's autobiography from 1760 France, made a vampire by Magnus, to his 1980s rock stardom and breaking of the vampire code of silence; adapted as AMC's retitled season 3 series with Sam Reid.
The Vamps (British band)
The Vamps are a British pop-rock band formed in 2012 (Brad Simpson, James McVey, Connor Ball, Tristan Evans), known for "Can We Dance" and UK Number 1 albums Night & Day and Cherry Blossom.
The Vampyre
The Vampyre; A Tale (1819) by John William Polidori, also known as 'The Vampyre', is the first vampire story in English prose, originally misattributed to Lord Byron. It created the aristocratic seducer Lord Ruthven and the modern vampire archetype.
The Van
The Van is a 1996 comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Roddy Doyle, following two Dublin friends whose friendship sours when they run a food van together.
The Van Beuren Corporation
The Van Beuren Corporation, also known as Van Beuren Studios, was a New York City animation studio active from 1928 until its closure in 1936.
The Vandals
The Vandals are an American punk rock band formed in 1980 in Huntington Beach, California, a Southern California skate and pop punk band known for satirical humor, the 1982 Peace Thru Vandalism EP, Kung Fu Records, and the 1998 album Hitler Bad, Vandals Good.
The Vanguard Group
The Vanguard Group is an American investment management company headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, owned by its own funds and the second-largest asset manager in the world.
The Vanished (2020 film)
The Vanished (2020), formerly Hour of Lead, is an American psychological thriller written and directed by Peter Facinelli, starring Thomas Jane, Anne Heche, and Jason Patric as parents searching for their missing daughter at an RV park; released August 21, 2020, scoring 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Vanishing (1988 film)
The Vanishing (Spoorloos, 1988) is a Dutch-French psychological thriller by George Sluizer, adapted from Tim Krabbé's Het Gouden Ei, about Saskia's disappearance and Rex's three-year search; it won the first European Film Award for Best Film and a 1993 American remake flopped.
The Vanishing (1993 film)
The Vanishing (1993 film), or La Disparue, is an American psychological thriller directed by George Sluizer. It is a remake of the 1988 Dutch film Spoorloos.
The Vanishing (2018 film)
The Vanishing is a 2018 British psychological thriller directed by Kristoffer Nyholm, starring Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, and Connor Swindells as lighthouse keepers who find gold.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: 2014 first-person detective narrative game by The Astronauts (ex-People Can Fly, Bulletstorm), photogrammetry-built Red Creek Valley, no combat, BAFTA Game Innovation winner, ~2 million copies.
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017) is an A24 drama directed by Shawn Christensen, starring Logan Lerman as a novelist who vanishes after his bestselling debut, with Elle Fanning and Kyle Chandler; Metascore 18, RT 12%.
The Vanity Project (professional wrestling)
The Vanity Project is a WWE NXT and Evolve wrestling stable (2025–2026) of wealthy-heel characters: Jackson Drake, Brad Baylor, Ricky Smokes, Myka Lockwood, Bryce Donovan, Zayda Steel; two-time NXT Tag Team Champions.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience is a 1902 book by William James, collecting his Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh and studying religion through personal experience rather than institutions.
The Vast of Night
The Vast of Night (2019) is Andrew Patterson's debut indie sci-fi film, written by James Montague and Craig W. Sanger, about a 1950s New Mexico DJ and switchboard operator tracing a mysterious frequency; Slamdance Audience Award winner released by Amazon Studios.
The Vaster Wilds
The Vaster Wilds is a 2023 historical survival novel by Lauren Groff, following a servant girl who flees a settlement modeled on Jamestown during the starving time of 1609.
The Vatican Tapes
The Vatican Tapes is a 2015 demon-possession horror film directed by Mark Neveldine, starring Olivia Taylor Dudley, Michael Peña, and Dougray Scott, in which a possessed young woman turns out to carry the antichrist; it grossed $1.8 million and scored 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Vault (2021 film)
The Vault (original title Way Down) is a 2021 Spanish heist thriller directed by Jaume Balagueró, starring Freddie Highmore, about thieves robbing Francis Drake's treasure from the Bank of Spain vault during the 2010 World Cup final.
The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian (채식주의자) is Han Kang's 2007 three-part Korean novel about Yeong-hye, who stops eating meat after violent dreams; Deborah Smith's 2015 English translation won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, the first for a Korean work, amid a mistranslation controversy.
The Veil
The Veil is a 2024 six-episode FX/Hulu spy thriller miniseries created by Steven Knight, starring Elisabeth Moss as MI6 agent Imogen Salter and Yumna Marwan as Adilah El Idrissi; Metascore 52, ended May 28, 2024.
The Veil (2016 film)
The Veil (2016 film) refers chiefly to a Blumhouse horror film directed by Phil Joanou, written by Robert Ben Garant, starring Jessica Alba, Thomas Jane, and Lily Rabe, about a cult mass suicide survivor; a separate 2016 sci-fi film of the same name stars William Levy.
The Veil (검은 태양) (South Korean TV series)
The Veil (검은 태양, Geomeun Taeyang) is a 2021 MBC Korean spy-action thriller, 12 episodes, starring Namgoong Min as NIS agent Han Ji-hyuk; Grand Prize winner with a Moebius spin-off.
The Veiled Suite
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems is a 2009 posthumous collection of the Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali's poetry, published by W. W. Norton and Penguin Books India.
The Veldt (short story)
"The Veldt," also "The World the Children Made," is Ray Bradbury's 1950 science fiction short story of the Hadley family, whose automated Happylife Home and virtual nursery with fatal lions destroy them; collected in The Illustrated Man.
The VelociPastor
The VelociPastor is a 2018 American micro-budget ($35,000) comedy-horror film by Brendan Steere about a priest who turns into a dinosaur and fights ninjas; it grew from a viral 2011 fake trailer born of an autocorrect typo.
The Velvet Rope
The Velvet Rope is Janet Jackson's sixth studio album, released October 7, 1997 on Virgin Records, produced with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. A dark, confessional concept album on depression, sexuality, and homophobia, it topped the Billboard 200 and sold over 10 million copies.
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground, American rock band formed in New York in December 1965 by Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker, managed by Andy Warhol; debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) flopped commercially but became a foundational influence on punk, glam, and alternative rock.