Best Ever Vampire Films

OK, added near dark to my queue. Thanks for the mention, folks...

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I enjoy it too. It's a nice all around halloween movie. It's nice to see Dracula, Frankenstein and the Werewolf all in one movie.


Absolutely! Caity put it on her list as well. Fun stuff.

Also, I like...

Vampire Hunter D--Bloodlust
Trinity Blood(anime series)

30 days of Night..
Anyone saw this?

For me no one beats Underworld...It's not only a vampire movie but fighting between the two hilarious species werewolf and vampire...Also Queen of the Damn....

I must say Blade & Blade II, a very cool movie..... I love the fighting scene of the vampires, the war of the vampires......

The sub-genre of Vampire movies is my favorite type of movie, so here are my favorites in no particular order:

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001: Come on, how could you resist a movie with a name like that?)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Night Flyer (1997: This movie has the best scene ever shot in a vampire movie. The main character, Miguel wakes up in a sensa airport & sees everyone in the place has been slaughtered. So after freaking out, he goes to the bathroom & hangs over the sling splashing himself with water. The camera angle is pointed at the wall mount mirror, so everything in the bathroom is scene from the reflection of the mirror. So Miguel hears the door open & hears footsteps that approach closer, then suddenly they stop & use hear the sound of someone pulling down the zipper on his pants then you see nothing but a red stream of urine being pissed into the urinal on the other side of the bathroom. Brilliant.)
Interview With The Vampire (1994)
Dracula (1931)
From Dusk til Dawn (1996)
John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
Dracula - Pages From A Virgin's Diary (2002)
Masterpiece Theaters Adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula (2006)

John Carpenter's Vampires
Lost Boys
Near Dark
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
Blade
Blade II
Blood and Donuts
Fright Night
The Monster Squad

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I'd add:
Vampyr


Martin


and third Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

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Too many to choose from.
But my current favorites as the change on a weekly basis are

Underworld
Interview With a Vampire
Monster Squad

of and just for cheese factor.

The original Buffy the Vampire Slayer featurning Luke Perry and Donald Sutherland

Check out Nadja.



Sooo strange and funny. Great cast too: Elina Lowensohn, Martin Donovan, Peter Fonda, David Lynch...loved it!

Humor + vampires (well, only very loosely on the "vampire" front) = Mr. Vampire.

Hi!

My favorite vampire movies are From Dusk 'til Dawn and Underworld..

and Josh Hartnett's '30 Days of Night' looks good

Vampire movies are great, but it seems like they have lost their style since the start of the 80's.

There seems to be only two type of vampire movies made these days. A vampire movie which uses the laws of mythology & superstition or the movie that tries to validate the existence of vampires using vague screenplay science by making a 10 second mention of some hybrid of anemia or hemoglobin deficiency which makes them grow fangs & become allergic to tanning salons.

Then there is list of cliche after cliche recycled over & over again in modern vampire movies.

Like the dim witted reporter who's leaking implants that have left her blind & naive to anything past the horizon of her own breasts who that stumbles into the neo gothic techno scene which is a front for a coven of vampires.

Then you always get the "There is no God only vampires" moment right after the nitwit main character realizes the exceptionally beautiful & androgynous man with flowing locks of raven hair, 4 inch canines, skins so translucently pale you could use him as a anatomical diagram, who's body is cold as the artic winds when touch, that carries around chalice full of a strange crimson liquid that is thick & viscid, who is seen walking into a back room of the club with one or two women all the time but always comes back out alone is in fact.... Dracula.

Then there is what the gothic kiddies like to refer to as 'The Embrace' where the dumb broad who cant say no to Viggo the Mosquito so she drinks a mouthful of his blood & in five minutes she has gone through a complete metaphysical skeletal & cells restructuring in one minute & fourty five seconds.

Dont forget the newly formed kindred who can't comes to grips with having to deliver the worst hickie of all time to humans in order to stay alive, so he decides to kill himself.. but not before he helps the one human on in town who's mission is to kill every vampire in the state because they made a midnight snack out of his ex-wife who divorced him to start a career acting in midget pornos, but he will always love her & now that she is dead, he's been ordained by his parish priest & given instant knowledge on how to operate a cross bow & the ability to throw a silver stake with pinpoint accuracy.

I need something fresh from hollywood, i love vampire movies but lately. They are all crap.

Hell yes, that was a funny movie!

"You bit my buttons!"

I don't know if it's really 'best ever' but Grave of the Vampire scared the crap out of me back in the 70's. I'm a huge William Smith fan but haven't seen his more recent vampire flicks.

One of my favorite flicks, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, is a ghost/vampire sort of thing that's very good if you like creepy 70's films.

Many other great mentions above that I concur with.

Don't forget Blacula--he's deadlier than Dracula!

Another vampire movie I like is....

From Dusk Till Dawn

Dracula Has Risen From The Grave-C.Lee best Dracula in my opinion
Fright Night was very good

Dram Stoker's Dracula - 1992
Interview With The Vampire - 1994
The following people should be sentenced to death for the 2002 film adaptation of Queen of the Damned - Director Michael Rymer, Writers Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni, Vincent Perez as Marius, Lena Olin as Maharet, Claudia Black as Pandora, Matthew Newton as Armand. Aaliyah has paid her debt to society for her portrayal of Akasha while Stuart Townsend who played a Lestat will only be sentenced to 5 years supervised probation. Marguerite Moreau will be sentenced to 5 years supervised probation as well for her portrayal of Jesse Reeves. Paul McGann punishment will be to serve the rest of his career acting on English television and doing putrid voice over work. For the rest of you I am dismissing all charges since you did not recite any dialog in final edit you only meet the criteria of a stand in but heed this warning. If I ever see you in my court room again I promise you I will not be so forgiving, dialog or no dialog. *Slams Gavel* Next case!

I sure did see this movie and although I saw it as entertaining and there were aspects that I thought were really interesting I don't think I could rank it up there as one of the best Vampire movies ever.

I mean the Hammer & Universal Dracula movies with Christopher Lee & Bela Lugusi were wonderful films. And we can't forget Count Yorga.