5 Awesome Vampire Movies

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No, this list does not include Twilight. You're welcome.

1. The Thirst


I really enjoyed this film because for once, the vampires weren't these ridiculously beautiful sterilized creatures. They were raw and gritty, and blood was blood, and violence was violence, and it wasn't pretty. Someone biting into another person's neck, wrist, or other body part, should not come with soft lighting and swells of beautiful music all the time. The vampires depicted here are more your average human with a very disturbing secret which makes the more supernatural scenes all the more shocking and gritty when they happen.

2. Bram Stoker's Dracula


I will forgive Keanu Reeves being in this movie, and Winona Ryders terrible accent for the likes of Gary Oldman playing one of the best Dracula's of all time. He carries this film be it a young brutal warrior or an intense older blood lust of a count, or a wolf like creature in the night, he is magnificent. Add to that the incredible costuming, make-up, and visuals throughout the film.

3. Night Watch


This film about a battle between the Light and the Dark, involves several mystical creatures including vampires. The special effects are insane, and reminds me a lot of the Blade series in this depiction of this underground world beneath the world we all know, but that is right in front of us.

4. Kiss of the Damned


This film pays homage to the Vampire films of the 70s. Blood, Sex, Music. I liked the intellectual conversation mid film with the vampires talking about their role in the world kind of like True Bloods take on Politics. This is a film which creates a world where even as vampires, the characters try to abide by a moral code that doesn't really serve them all that well. Bloody, violent, sexy, and intense.

5. Daybreakers


Finally a movie that tackles the logistics of what it would be like if the vampire population were to really come into it's own in a world where that would be very much at odds with the goals or humanity to thrive and survive. Vampires have the upper hand here, and begin doing the only logical and less messy thing they can to acquire human blood, and that's farming human beings. However, that has it's limits--mainly the dwindling supply.

5 Awesome Vampire Movies
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