A good vampire movie?

There are one hell of a lot of vampire movies out there but not many good ones lately. I'd recommend Bram Stoker's Dracula by Coppola. If you can stand a little cringe inducing acting by Keanu, the rest is brilliant. For something different, go with Near Dark. It's a little movie from the 80's and it's quite a bit of fun.

Try the Lugosi Dracula or the Lee Dracula...Both are excellent.

And I also recommend Near Dark...One of the best vampire movies ever.

Fright Night of course.

In the dusty heart of the southwest, innocent country boy Caleb Colton is seduced by a beautiful girl into joining a raving pack of vicious drifters led by the enigmatic Jesse. But this is no ordinary band of outlaws, Caleb is now trapped in a nightmare of souless evil that wails in the shadows, hellish mayhem that thrives on blood and absolute horror that begins NEAR DARK.

I took this right off the back of the two disk collectors edition of Near Dark. Its a great flick, not so much your traditional vampoire movie. For one they never actually say the word vampire. They just let you slowly find out what they are all about. Plus this got a great DVD relese. Check it out, youll have to like it.

"Near Dark" is great (and the DVD kicks butt); "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is good cheesy fun; Lee's "Dracula" is pretty chilling; props have to go to "From Dusk" for its genre-bending cheakiness...

But I'm going to have to go with "Love At First Bite" being the best vampire movie out there...

The two I was going to mention have been mentioned already so I'll second them.

Near Dark, one of the best.

Habit. Fessenden's twist on vampire lore!

these are not movies but are both decent TV shows about vamps

1. Kindred: The Embraced
2. Ultraviolet (theres a post around here about that one already, I started it but am to lazy to look for it)

both sadly only lasted 6 eps. but they where both fun.

Kindred had vamp clans all looked human but the Nosfaratu clan looked like the character from said movie (nosfaratu, I think I spelled that wrong). the show also has an interesting Romeo and Juliet thing going for it starting around ep. 2 or 3

both are on DVD as 2 disc sets (although I think kindred switched to a single disc with 2 sides after I got my copy way back when)

should I shut up now?

Yes I agree

Although I haven't seen it since it first came out, I remember The Addiction ( Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken ) being pretty good ...

Also, check out Romero's
Martin ... Both of these films steer away from the usual "legend/stakethrutheheart" take on vampirism ( even though I enjoy those too )

I always forget about martin, that was a great flick

The Hunger.
One of those "I'm a lonley vampire" flicks. But it's still darn good viewing. It doesn’t spiral into the usual vampire soap opera type story. And David Bowie is a treat to watch. Just enough twists to keep it good and the ending is memorable.

I forgot about "Shadow of the Vampire". Really great fictional retelling of the filming of the original "Nosferatu". Great stuff. Dafoe is brilliant. Awsome ending. Can't say enough about it...

Vampire Hunter D and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, both great.

The Hunger is arty fun, and I love Habit (it's cerebral, not a guy with fangs kicking but film), Near Dark is awesome until the end, very lame fucking ending.

The Addiction has moments, and then there's one produced by David Lynch but I can't remeber what it's called, It's got Martin Donavan in it and Peter Fonda as a spacey trippy Van Helsing, I think it's called Nola or something.

And if you like indie gore stuff there's always Darkness, the guy went on to do Night Flier (made for cable looking vamp movie) and if you want 80's cheapie stuff there's Vamp and Graveyard Shift, but GS was renamed on dvd as New York Cabbie Vampire or some such shit. And except for the death that is Winona Ryder and Keanu's performances, Dracula is pretty cool.

But that shit's just off the top of my head. I'm not into vamps much.

Something like "The Great Vampire Hunters?" Henchmen in biker helmets?

Don't forget about:
Interview with a Vampire
Queen of the Damned
Kingdom of the Vampire
The Forsaken
Once Bitten

N lets forget about about queen of the damned, and the forsaken. In fact lets forget, destroy, set fire to and piss on those two ok?

Its called NADJA...part of it was filmed in Pixelvision (ie: a Fisher-Price video cam)

Its a little too artsy for its own good. Check out Abel Ferrera's THE ADDICTION for a better neo-noir-black-and-white vampire flick.

Geez, I'm surprised no one's mentioned the ultra-campy: "Sundown: A Vampire in Retreat."

Something that goes down really smooth with a 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew and a Pizza Hut pizza.

Junk food for a junk movie...but it tastes so darn good.

Plus, Bruce Campbell's in it.

It's not from the last 10 years, but "The Night Stalker" is a great vampire movie.

Vamp with Grace Jones short story adaptation.

Did somebody mentionned Christopher Lee
Uhhhhhhhhhhh! damn you ! all the fear coming back ahhhhhhhhh! dady were are you!

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I would also suggest.

( in no specific order )

THE REFLECTING SKIN

directed by Philip Ridley
<a href="http://amazon.imdb.com/Title?0100469" target="_blank">http://amazon.imdb.com/Title?0100469</a>
combines the lynch and cronenberg style.
a very bizarre film. (great music and cinematography)
my grade: 7/10
if you're looking for something different, rent or buy a copy of this film.
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THE HUNGER
(feat David Bowie & Catherine Deneuve)

directed by Tony scott
<a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085701" target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085701</a>
the last 20 mins of this film are dreadful, but the rest is captivating & estetically beautiful.
NOTE :
the movie opens in a 80's gothic club with Bauhaus singing "Bella Lugosi's Dead".
- this film also features an erotic-lesbian scene (a la Mulholland drive) , with Deneuve & Sarandon.

images are available at
<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/film/thehunger/pics.html" target="_blank">http://www.angelfire.com/film/thehunger/pics.html</a>

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CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER

directed by Brian Clemens
<a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0071276" target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/Title?0071276</a>
NOTE:
Vampire movie from the 70's , feat swashbuckling,spaghetti western, and a hunchback
4 images + a review....are available at
<a href="http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/kronos.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/kronos.shtml</a>

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DEATHMASTER

campy vampire flick from the 70's
in brief...
(a vampiristic charles manson + chanting sessions+ hippies + mediocre actors + rituals )
<a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068459" target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068459</a>

"We groove on what you're saying" He's told. It isn't long before a cult around this mysterious stranger emerges. What the flower children don't know is that their new leader is a vampire.
<a href="http://www.esplatter.com/reviewsatog/deathmaster.htm" target="_blank">http://www.esplatter.com/reviewsatog/deathmaster.htm</a>

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EROTIKILL
(also known as " the bare breasted countess, the loves of irina )

Note: the loves of irina offered additional hardcore shots of bloody fellatio)
<a href="http://www.fearsmag.com/members/reviews/videodvd/femvamp/femvamp.html" target="_blank">http://www.fearsmag.com/members/reviews/videodvd/femvamp/femvamp.html</a>

Directed by j. franco
poster and dvd available at
<a href="http://www.lfvw.com/erotikill.htm" target="_blank">http://www.lfvw.com/erotikill.htm</a>
the uncut hardcore version is also available at
<a href="http://www.xploitedcinema.com/dvds/dvds.asp?title=448" target="_blank">http://www.xploitedcinema.com/dvds/dvds.asp?title=448</a>

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BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE
(from IG prod, the creators of gits and jin-Roh )

directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo
<a href="http://www.theblackmoon.com/Watching/blood.htm" target="_blank">http://www.theblackmoon.com/Watching/blood.htm</a>
in brief: ( average film...fantastic animation,action, not enough violence,but still impressive, Too short )

on an american military base in japan, a new kind of vampire emerges:Teropterids. they are monstrous shape-shifting creatures that can only be killed with special swords. Saya is the last "original", the only person capable of dealing with the menace of these creatures.
<a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0275230" target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/Title?0275230</a>

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NADJA

directed by michael Almereyda
<a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110620" target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110620</a>
Note: there's a short cameo of David lynch.
- the cultisim,romanian & international actress Elina Löwensohn has lots of charisma.

a short clip ( 3mb quicktime) of Lynch's cameo is available at
<a href="http://www.lynchnet.com/nadja/" target="_blank">http://www.lynchnet.com/nadja/</a>

(in brief:.... very experimental, a bit pretentious, nice cinematography....somehow memorable, but deeply flawed )

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LES VAMPIRES

directed by Louis Feuillade
A must own!
feat the original Irma Vep
<a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0006206" target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/Title?0006206</a>

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HA-4 OUT!

Any Hammer vampire films rocks. Beside the Lee Draculas there is also
VAMPIRE LOVERS(comming to DVD in Augest)and KISS OF THE VAMPIRES and LUST OF A VAMPIRE. Not released on DVD yet but good are BRIDES OF DRACULA and CAPTAIN KRONIS VAMPIRE HUNTER. Also COUNT YORGA VAMPIRE and RETURN OF COUNT YORGA.

The list starts and stops with My Best Friend is a Vampire

Only ONE mention of Lugosi in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931)? For shame, chewers, for shame. wink

If you haven't seen this one--or any of the Universal Horrors from the 30s and 40s (the triumvirate is Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man , but there are so many excellent others), you receive an incomplete in your Horror Movie appreciation course. There's a reason almost every cartoon vampire you see is a caricature of Lugosi--because, as Lugosi said so eloquently himself,

"I....AM...Dracula..."

Some young'uns going back to the black and white classics find the melodrama a little thick, and the lack of dentures offputting, but it's seminal, and you must see it. If you can appreciate a gothic picture window into the past, THIS is the definitive filmic Dracula. Not definitive as in closest to the book (Bram Stoker's Dracula takes that), but definitive as in informing all else that came after it, and putting most that came after to shame.

Plus, Dwight Frye as Renfield is both the Shizz and the Nit.

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Great to be back, guys.

Don't watch Vampires Kiss with Nicholas Cage and Jennifer Beals. It is not worth it.

As Bram Stoker's novel is a fairly episodic and uncinematic yarn, I've never considered that a bad thing. Coppola's movie is a visually lush, hammy but faithful adaptation of a story that was best left to print. Universal and Hammer took the meat of the story and turned it into something that worked on film.

No one has mentioned Embrace of the Vampire. Lily Tyler is in it, too. It's a pretty decent, cerebral, vampire movie that would be good even without the Alyssa Milano nudity.

Vamp (with Chris makepiece and Grace Jones)
Cronos (Del Torro) from Mexico
The Breed

The Night Flier was an all right vampire movie.

The Night Stalker TV movie. Good luck finding it though.