Forget about Bela Lugosi. “” biter Robert Pattinson might be an actual blood relative to Dracula.

A new twist provided by the tween-scream flick’s promotion machine (just in time for Wednesday’s release of “The : Eclipse”) says researchers at Web site Ancestry.com claim to have discovered that the 24-year-old British actor is related to the 15th-Century ruler Vlad IV Tzepesch, a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler, a.k.a. that crazy killer freak who inspired Bram Stoker‘s classic novel, “Dracula.”

There are even more famous people on the family tree — read about them here.

I knew there was no way I could match up to the “most perfect male” ever, so I decided to be Edward Cullen’s “billy-bob” toothed brother, Edmund.  I could not believe the amount of women who loved this costume.  There are a lot of “closet” Twilight fans.