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A guide to the best vampire movies of all time, from classics like Dracula and Nosferatu to modern hits like Twilight and Daybreakers. Find out the critics' consensus, synopsis, and starring cast for each film.
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- Vampyr
- Bit
- Fright Night
- Bloodsucking Bastards
- The Lost Boys
- Norway
- Cronos
- Blade II
- Stake Land
We’re talking about the 1992 feature starring Kristy Swanson, not the worshiped television show. Before Sarah Michelle Gellar started staking vamps on television, Swanson starred in a '90s horrorcomedy that favored pep rally humor over sharpened weapons. Swanson’s vibing off the bubblegum-popping cheerleader stereotypes of '90s high school comedies...
Criterion has dubbed 1932’s Vampyr a horror classic with good reason. Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer implements what little technological advancements benefitted cinema at the time to create a black-and-white vampire mystery that operates in absurdist brush strokes. Most notably, Vampyr heavily uses shadows that maneuver with free will, givin...
The “Vibe Check” on Brad Michael Elmore’s Bit passes with flying (neon) colors. Nicole Maines stars as a transgender teenage girl who moves to Los Angeles and falls in with a badass crew of vampires (run by cooler-than-everyone Diana Hopper as Duke) who do not allow men in their undead club. Elmore’s indie oozes LA’er attitudes from messaging to se...
Yes, 2011’s Fright Night remake earns an entry while the beloved 1985 original does not. Why? Because 2011’s Fright Night, starring Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, and Toni Collette, is an upgrade in fierceness and pacing, and separates its performances from the originals enough to exist without competing against its elders. There’s no ...
Vampirism can represent numerous metaphors — for example, vampirism as addiction is popular — and in Bloocksucking Bastards, vampires invade office spaces. The horror comedy starring Fran Kranz and Pedro Pascal is about a sales office slowly turning into nocturnal sales agents of doom. The soul-sucking drain of cubicle life becomes quite literal be...
The Lost Boysis a Peter Pan riff with more neck biting and less innocence. It's quintessential '80s horror at a crossroads between bloody eruptions and glitter usage, infamous for its inclusion of "Sexy Sax Man." Kiefer Sutherland's gang of vampiric Santa Carla misfits ride dirt bikes and play mind tricks by making others think they're eating insec...
Chances are you don’t even know Yannis Veslemes’ Norway exists — it sat around waiting for U.S. distribution from about 2014 until 2021. Maybe that’s because it’s hard to describe this Eurotrash take on vampirism about a bloodsucker who says he’ll die if he stops dancing. It’s a period piece about 1980s nightclubs and their underbellies that turns ...
Guillermo del Toro’s debut is as del Toro as they come. Cronosis an alternative vampire movie about a golden insect mechanism, a scarab that grants eternal life, and vampirism in its least traditional forms. You’ll glimpse a baby-faced Ron Perlman acting as a mob goomba, and minimal bloodsucking except for del Toro’s entire impetus for writing the ...
One or two more slots on this list and Wesley Snipes’ first Blade movie would appear. As is, Guillermo del Toro’s Blade II represents the comic book franchise here as a rare sequel that outshines its original. Del Toro’s flourishes are an upgrade from industrial blood rave aesthetics since landscapes are more colorful, vampires become terrifying cr...
The feral intensity of Stake Land can feel like a direct response to Twilight, as this film was released only about two years after the infamous young adult vampire romance. Jim Mickle and co-writer Nick Damici (who also stars) approach vampires with an apocalyptic lens, where survivors now wander infested territories trying to find safe havens lik...
- Matt Donato
1. Nosferatu. 7.9 (106K) Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. 2. Let the Right One In. 7.8 (227K) 82. Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl. 3. The Night Stalker. 7.4 (7.4K) TV Movie.
- Declan Gallagher
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- Let the Right One In (2008) The quintessentially Swedish horror-drama Let the Right One In tells the tale of bullied young Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) who is befriended by Eli (Lina Leandersson), a mysterious new neighbor who harbors a centuries-old secret.
- The Lost Boys (1987) The myth of the modern teenage vampire took root with Joel Shumacher's stylish yet droll teenspolitation flick, without which there would be no Twilight and certainly no Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 (2012) Bill Condon infuses the finale to this mostly tepid franchise with something the previous four films lacked: a true holy-s–- factor.
- John Carpenter's Vampires (1998) Vampires is one of John Carpenter's better late-era efforts. (Even Gene Siskel, a notorious opponent of violent horror pictures, loved the film.)
- The Lost Boys (1987) 35 years old and a cultural touchstone for the generations that have grown up with it: what else could top Empire’s vampire list but The Lost Boys?
- Nosferatu (1922) Denied the rights to Bram Stoker’s novel, F.W. Murnau turned Dracula into Count Orlok. Played by theatre actor Max Schreck (which seems to have been his real name, even though it means "fright" in German) in astonishing make-up, the character conveys an almost indescribable malevolence.
- Dracula (1958) Quatermass and Frankenstein preceded it, but to a great extent, Hammer Horror begins here. Directed by the incomparable Terence Fisher, written by Jimmy Sangster, pairing Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (with Lee getting actual lines for the first time), and going all-out with colour, glamour, sex and blood, Hammer’s Dracula aligns the elements and distils the formula that powered the studio for the next two decades.
- Near Dark (1987) A vampire romance from a time before that phrase became horrifying, Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark centres on star cross’d lovers Adrian Pasdar and Jenny Wright.
The 20 Best Vampire Movies Ever Made, from ‘The Lost Boys’ to ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’. Vampire stories are older than cinema itself, gushing with bloody classics. From "What We Do in the...
Jun 29, 2022 · Whether you prefer classics, modern hits, or outlandish tales, this list of vampire movies has something for every taste. From Nosferatu to Blade, from The Lost Boys to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, discover the best vampire films to watch right now.
