With André Øvredal's Dracula film
The Last Voyage of the Demeter hitting theaters this weekend (which I wasn't able to see a screening of so no, I have no idea if it's any good or not) I've got Vampire Movies on the brain. Which is exactly where they should be, at all times. And so I made a list! Well I made it
first on Twitter, but I figured this is the kind of thing that needed to be immortalized here on the site, and y'all could then tell me in the comments your picks. Anyway these were my picks today -- tomorrow I might choose differently, but today is not tomorrow. So without further ado...
My 5 Favorite Vampire Movies
Thirst (2009) by Park Chan-wook
Runners-up: From Dusk Til Dawn, Blade and Blade II, Vampyr, Nosferatu 1922 and Nosferatu 1979, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Let Me In, What We Do in the Shadows, Once Bitten...
... The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Vampire Lovers, Twins of Evil, Byzantium, Shadow of the Vampire... and I am sure there are a million more that I'm forgetting.
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What are your favorite vampire movies?
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You left out Dracula's Daughter, Only Lovers Left Alive and Renfield.
I've shamefully still never seen Dracula's Daughter! And I'm not a fan of the other two.
'The Lost Boys' is a fun, sexy 80's vampire romp.
LOST BOYS is another one that I like pieces of but've never been able to truly love, for as hard as I've tried. Jason Patric in that thing though, HUBBA HUBBA
What about The Hunger? I can't believe that didn't make your list.
Where´s Only Lovers Left Alive?
Deneuve and Bowie in The Hunger are INCREDIBLE, as cool as Delphine Seyrig in Daughters of Darkness is, but otherwise I find The Hunger kind of tedious. I know this is a wildly unpopular opinion.
And same goes for Only Lovers Left Alive. And basically for the exact same reasons. My feelings about these two movies are actually very similar. By the time OLLA came out I couldn't believe Jarmusch thought he could get away with playing the played-out "drug-addict = vampire!" metaphor still. That said I should probably try to give it a re-watch - I remember LOVING Mia Wasikowska especially in it.
The Addiction, Tod Browning's Dracula, The Hunger, Only Lovers Left Alive
Let's Scare Jessica to Death, House of Dark Shadows, Fright Night (1985).
Interview with the Vampire?
I always liked Vampire's Kiss with Nick Cage.
What about Andy Warhol's "Blood for Dracula (1974)" just because it's funny and it has Udo Kier and Joe Dallesandro in it?
I always loved 1985's Fright Night. Also as a kid I used to stay up late watching the old Christopher Lee vampire Hammer films on TV and they scared the piss out of me. Today they are a guilty pleasure.
While not films, I have recently enjoyed Flannagan's "Midnight Mass" vampire show on Netflix as well as the 2020 Claes Bang "Dracula" mini series (I just try to ignore the final episode that moves to the modern era).
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