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3 days ago · The 30 Essential Vampire Movies To Watch Right Now. Werewolves, mummies, and cobbled-together lab freaks have been around since the earliest decades of film, but no monster was perhaps more...
Oct 18, 2024 · The following 25 films, presented in the order in which they were released, are a collection of great movie recommendations, but they also speak to how movie vampires have evolved and...
4 days ago · Blood and Roses (1960) Dracula is by far the most famous vampire in film and letters, but Carmilla is really the one who started it all. The titular character of Sheridan Le Fanu’s gothic ...
- “Nosferatu” (F.W. Murnau, 1922) The godfather of vampire cinema, F. W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” began as an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula” and ended has one of the most influential horror movies ever made.
- “Let the Right One In” (Tomas Alfredson, 2008) Vampires got hot on the big screen in 2008 with the first entry in the “Twilight” franchise, but they had some delightfully creepy company from Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish gothic romance, the atmospheric look at a 12-year-old boy and the vampire girl who befriends him.
- “The Hunger” (Tony Scott, 1983) Reflecting on the inspiration behind 1994’s surprise Sundance hit “Go Fish,” filmmakers Rose Troche and Guinever Turner famously said they were sick and tired of seeing “The Hunger” play on repeat at every lesbian bar.
- “Only Lovers Left Alive” (Jim Jarmusch, 2013) If the fashionable bloodsuckers of the “Twilight” movies traded their frantic stares for expressions of ennui, they might have something in common with Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton), the retro cool vampires at the heart of Jim Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers Left Alive.”
- 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...
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Aug 11, 2023 · Popularized in folklore and books, the vampire was a natural fit for the silver screen. Today, Paste is counting down the 100 greatest vampire films that cinema has to offer. First—a few...
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