What's your favorite vampire movie?

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abc3643 · Accepted Answer

I am something of a purist. I don't like goofy shit.
For instance, I love the original 1954 (and 1956) "Godzilla", but all the sequels/remakes are all bullshit.

With vampire movies, for me, it's original 1931 (*) "Dracula" and there's no substitute.

For many people, Dracula = Bela Lugosi who, when he died in 1956, was buried in his Dracula cape.

I also enjoyed these versions because they took the original material seriously...
1. "Count Dracula", the 1977 BBC version with Louis Jordan. It was broadcast on PBS and I haven't seen it since.
2. "Nosferatu the Vampyre", a 1979 film with Klaus Kinski.
3. For Halloween 1973, CBS had a TV movie version called "Bram Stoker's Dracula" but it got pre-empted and broadcast in early 1974.
It starred Jack Palance. For a variety of reasons, it has been called also as "Dracula" and "Dan Curtis' Dracula" because Francis Ford Coppola released his "Bram Stoker's Dracula" in 1992, but I've never seen it and it deviates from the Bram Stoker story because, in this movie, they make Dracula's original human persona be "Vlad The Impaler" who was a real person from the 1400s who allegedly was Bram Stoker's inspiration for Dracula. This was common knowledge by the 1980s, so that's probably why Coppola did that. Anyway, I really can't comment on Coppola's version because I didn't see it and I have no significant motivation to.

This is the 1977 BBC version with what looks like Portuguese subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztgVBpjZbUs

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(*) Unfortunately, the original is now almost impossible to come by because some asshole named Ben Model decided that the movie needed music throughout. This fucks up the movie considerably because it was actually vastly more creepy with no music beyond that used in the opening title sequence ("Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky). Before him, famous composer Philip Glass also added a score. This movie should NEVER have a score - the silence makes it so much creepier. After all, in real life, you don't have a soundtrack, do you?

Here's Ben Model discussing it.
www.silentfilmmusic.com/dracula-musical-score

And here's a comment on that page that I completely agree with...

todd harrell holmes
10 months ago
Okay, I get it, you wanted to “improve” a classic film. But I watched the film last Halloween and you totally ruined it. If Tod Browning wanted music running all the way through it, he would have done so. You even had the misfortune of replacing the original Swan Lake title score with some other abomination. The impending doom of the story was made more evident in the silent sequences, such as the interior of Dracula’s Castle, and the scene with his wives creeping up on Jonathan Harker. Thanks for ruining my Halloween.

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While not a vampire movie, I will leave you with the famous (and arguably first) goth song from 1979: "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus.
The lyrics don't start until almost 3 minutes into the song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY

Undead, undead, undead.

Undead.

naraku · Accepted Answer

'What we do in the Shadows ' 'Interview with the Vampire ' 'Bram Stokers Dracula ' 'Mr Vampire'  Gotta love those Jumping Vampires!  What's yours?

DizzyDesii · Accepted Answer

The Little Vampire Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1 Blood The Last Vampire  Ultraviolet

readyplayer001 · Accepted Answer

Hmm toss up between fright night the original with chris sarandon and the lost boys

Kaneki05 · Answer

Oh that one is easy. Let the right one in, Both the American and Swedish one.
Blood red sky a recent good one is apparently a vampire film but eh more of just zombies that light hurts good but in my mind for sure just a zombie film. Zombies on a plane really.

Though it should be said, vampires bore me especially in the horror aspect. It's kinda like unless that vampire is kinda hot and has some romance what's the point? Might as well just have zombies which Blood red sky kinda did. Also a lot of vampire films seem to mention it as a blood disease or something which again.. Zombies.

A key difference is the fact vampires are cursed to be that way and have stuff which are actual powers not just a blood disease that makes one a bit more monstrous. Not that powers a vampire has interest me though, since one of the main power's is just to mind control people which means movie over in 3secs realistically. Since vampire just does that drains the guy the end.
Also with that all be said and now gonna sound a bit counter to my whole feeling on the thing, i really liked AHS S5 aka Hotel possibly my favourite season which had so called vampires in it but in reality a blood disease. But it was the most i've enjoyed the thematic theme of vampires.

The last thing to mention is The Omega Man. Not a Vampire or a Zombie thing, it's a virus that created mutants which act much like vampires or zombies. Now even though it's not really either. I feel like this film beats all Vampire and Zombie films it is a master peace.

MCheetah · Answer

Byzantium (2012). With Saoirse Ronan.

Also liked The Old Guard (2020). They aren't gods like most of them are, which is why I liked it.

Least Favorite:
All the Twilights. Even "Vampires Suck" was better than the franchise that gave us Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

TadCurious · Answer

Bella it's not a movie but I used to like watching The Vampire Diaries. I thought the acting in that TV series was much better than the acting in the Twilight movies. But I still enjoyed the Twilight movies anyway partly because the acting was so cheesy that I found it humorous, especially with how the teen angst was played.
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Uptowngirl88 · Answer

Twilight  Interview with the vampire  Dracula (Gary Oldman pictured 😍)

DJB72 · Answer

Ok, not a movie but personally I loved the series "Angel"

spartan55 · Answer

That one with Keanu Reeves in it. Since he is seemingly ageless, I believe that he IS an actual 🧛‍♂️ vampire too.

Zigzagwigwag · Answer

Hotel transalvaina 1,2 and 3 Adam sandler is count

TallAnon · Answer

I always end up thinking the vampire parts are cliché, never really liked them. If they can make a good series where the main character happens to be a vampire, cool, but don't put too much focus on it. 3 episodes of "I'm so pretty and need blood" is a snoozefest.

NathanDavis · Answer

it was this low-budget European movie... I forgot the name

BCRanger10 · Answer

I don't know, but I've been told that I would really like What We Do In The Shadows.

Agape93 · Answer

30 days of night  Also, awesome Rudy guiliani picture

t-8900 · Answer

do you count: Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula? If not then the Underworld movies.

shortster · Answer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Though the show is so much better.

KellyKOO · Answer

Underworld, but I'm not sure it counts as a vampire movie.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Wish I would sit and watch a vampire movie, I have never seen one LMAO

Grond21 · Answer

It's a toss-up between the first Underworld movie and Dracula Untold.

Middle-aged_maniac · Answer

Vampires. John Carpenter movie. The Lost Boys was good too.

NightOwl8801 · Answer

Top three  Hammer Horrors : Dracula  Nosferatu  And who could forget Bella Lugosi as Dracula

Minahh · Answer

Nosferatu. It's the only vampire movie I've seen besides Twilight but I don't like those movie.

boxxie2002 · Answer

Underworld.  It has werewolves too but a lot of vampires

Whytepowerhanma · Answer

A vampire in Brooklyn  Evil is good Ass is good And if you get you a piece of evil ass WOOOO‼️🤣🤣🤣

Anonymous · Answer

" Dracula" made in 1973 , Jack Palance was Count Dracula.

DaveJord · Answer

Interview with Vampire

Cherry234 · Answer

Dracula? That's the only one I can think of

Gwenhwyfar · Answer

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

A_Nihilist · Answer

Underworld movies count?

The_Shadow_Dweller · Answer

Dracula, the 1992 one.

Wise4myage · Answer

The original Dracula.

faye_girl · Answer

Twilight 😃😃😃😃😃yesssss team Edward yessssssss

JosyJosy · Answer

Dracula untold. And Van Helsing

Texaskid1 · Answer

Interview with a vampire. That was a fine movie.

clampfan101 · Answer

Hotel Transylvania. lol

kitkills · Answer

Interview with the Vampire

Andres77 · Answer

Fright Night... old, campy, stupid... still funny.

Vigors · Answer

Twilight

Miristheiss · Answer

Blade Let Me In

ChefPapiChulo · Answer

twilight. srs

CuriousJC · Answer

Hotel Transylvania

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

Van Helsing (2004)

EmbraceThePain · Answer

30 Days of Night.

Shamiah02 · Answer

30 days of night

ChiPaPa · Answer

Queen of the Damned

Deku2009 · Answer

Hotel Transylvania

Dayman343 · Answer

Let the Right One In

Texas_guy · Answer

The lost boys

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Nosferatu.

IronsKev · Answer

Bram Stokers Dracula

Retiever · Answer

Dracula untold

ZoeyRedbird · Answer

Twilight

dolemite89 · Answer

blade of course 😎

scott04sa22 · Answer

too many

Fuentes · Answer

None i dont watch

Anonymous · Answer

Bat man

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