Radcliffe turns vampire for The Simpsons

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who plays a mysterious youngster called Edmund, turned into a vampire to spoof the Twilight movie series in a Halloween special episode of The Simpsons.

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star Daniel Radcliffe turned into a vampire to spoof the

Twilight

movie series in a Halloween special episode of

The Simpsons

.

In the spooky episode, part of animated TV show's annual Halloween

Treehouse of Horror

series, the 21-year-old actor plays a mysterious youngster called Edmund, a reference to Robert Pattinson's role Edward in

Twilight

, reported

Contactmusic

.

Edmund falls in love with Lisa but his vampire ways are said to be foiled when he takes a bite out of Simpsons patriarch Homer and becomes ill from the large amounts of cholesterol in his blood.

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The episode is set to air in the US in the coming weeks as part of the Halloween holiday at the end of the month.