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Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human and half vampire, trained to guard the Moroi, mortal vampires with royal bloodlines and magical powers, against the Strigoi, the undead vampires who hunt them. Her best friend is Lissa Dragomir, a Moroi princess. The two have spent a year in hiding since they fled St. Vladimir's Academy, and the guardian Dimitri Belikov and his team find them and take them back to the school. Kirova, the headmistress, intends to punish Rose, and Victor Dashkov, an old Moroi close to Lissa's family, dissuades her. Lissa's classmates keep their distance, Christian Ozera, shunned because his parents became Strigoi, tries to court her, and Rose is drawn to Dimitri.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Vampire Academy (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Following the film's failure, Preger Entertainment launched an Indiegogo campaign to help fund a sequel based on the second novel, Frostbite, with Piers Ashworth hired to write a script. The campaign failed to reach its goal.
- The film grossed $15.4 million worldwide against a $30 million budget, making it a box-office bomb. Its theatrical release in the United Kingdom was postponed, and it was instead put out direct-to-video on July 14, 2014 by Entertainment One.
- Richelle Mead, who wrote the novels the film is based on, makes a non-speaking cameo appearance as a teacher, passing by Rose and Lissa.
- The soundtrack reaches back to the beginnings of goth rock: it includes Chvrches' cover of Bauhaus' 1979 song "Bela Lugosi's Dead", featured during the film's end credits.
