 Connections to the novel are much deeper than simply the inside joke between Manson and Wood of the obvious age difference and the heart-shaped sunglasses as associated with "Lolita" appear only in the promotional poster and cover of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the novel, not actually in the film itself or in Nabokov's novel.According to Manson, vampirism is just one of the dark themes running through "Eat Me, Drink Me".