First of all, HAHA.
Second and more seriously, I guess, it depends on what kind of vampire you're dealing with. There are vampires or vampire-like creatures from various cultures and not all of them are turned away by a cross. I used to be into all types of fables, old ghost stories, all that stuff when I was a kid, and I remember reading stories that gave all sorts of ways to turn back vampires. Crosses, rosaries, and holy water work, but so does garlic, wild roses and hawthorn branches. My favorite, when I was a kid, was mustard seeds. You would sprinkle them on your roof or before a door or entryway and a vampire was compelled to stop and count the seeds before moving on. Obviously, if you put down enough of them, the vampire would be kept counting until daybreak when they would be caught and destroyed. so yeah, in some cultures, Dracula was an obsessive compulsive and could be beaten by math.
Of course, that's just scratching the surface. Many vampire-like creatures in Asia, for example, aren't repelled by Jude-Christian imagery at all. Then again, I suppose you could say that they aren't the classical definition of "vampire" and don't apply. I tend to view them all as being part of the same folklore heritage, no matter if they are hopping Chinese corpses that drain Qi or your Twilight-style glittery blood drinker.
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