What is your fav vamp movie?

[Nix]

Just wondering after seeing a comment in a jessica v sarah thread about movies in the 90's..... What is your fav all time top of the tops Vampire movie...... think .... choose only 1....

now i know there are many so if i missed your fav and i probably have then post what it is 🙂

Edit:

LOL i took too long setting up the poll so i'll list them here!!!


Nosferatu (1922)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

John Carpenter's Vampires (19980

Blade (1998)

Lost Boys (1987)

Dracula (1958)

From dusk till Dawn (1996)

Salem's Lot (1979)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Interview with a vampire (1994)

Dracula 2000 (2000)

Queen of the Damned (2002)

Ultraviolet (1998)

Underworld (2003)

Dracula (1931)

Not in the list above!::bbat::

 

[LittleMissLikesToFight]

Lost Boys without a doubt. Has some great laugh out loud moments but is also really frickin creepy. nothing beats it for me. not so far, anyway.

 

[The Ferg]

Dracula (1931) - Is that the one with Bela Lugosi? (sp?) If so, that's my favorite. (If you read this Joyce, that's one exception to black and white movies that I like. 😉 )
Not in the list above - Van Helsing and League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Is that considered as a vampire movie? There's a vampire in it.

Also, is Ultraviolet really vampire flick?

 

[Bluebird]

There was a very good BBC Dracula tv movie made I think it was in the 80s. I know that's a bit vague but does anyone know of it?

Also Salems Lot, very creepy.

 

[white avenger]

The 1931 "Dracula" with Lugosi. ("I never drink...wine.") Anything else is just cheap imitation.

 

[Lyri]

I have to admit, I have a soft spot for Kirsty Swanson's Buffy. She kicked ass, lol.

But I think, out of those listed, I think I'd have to go for Blade. Wesley rocks, lol.

I'm also a big fan of Hugh Jackman's Van Helsing

 

[Senior Watcher]

for me its a bit of a toss up between interview with a vampire and underworld.

iwav was more into the legend of vampires throughout the ages while underworld was more of an action/adventure.

in the end, i choose iwav because it really captures the essence of a vampires life.

 

[T.I.P]

Interview with a vampire. easy.
Blades really good as well.

 

[Aethra]

Bela Lugosi's Dracula is a classic, too lazy to look up the director though. I should revisit that one, was quite distracted while watching it. Otherwise, the Blade movies I thought were excellent. And I've owned Underworld for years, but haven't gotten around to watching it somehow.

 

[LittleMissLikesToFight]

the lost boys date is wrong on the poll. it says 1997 and it should be 1987. typo i guess.

 

[InsaneMystic]

You've left out my favorite, The Fearless Vampire Killers (or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck) (1967).

I've first seen that one when I was actually way too young to be watching it, and I've always loved it.

 

[Washburne]

I must admit I havn´t seen nearly as many vampiremovies as I should, so for now it has to be "Interview with a vampire".

 

[palabravampiress]

"Interview" for me, man.

It was a great book and a great adaptation of the book. I love Claudia. The idea of a child vamp was beautiful and really helped to explore the psychological ramifications of vampirism. I also really liked the way Louis and Lestat served as character foils with two opposing philosophies on vampirism. The book tackles a lot of questions about the meaning of life, about the value of life, about family and lover relationships, about right and wrong and how that is defined, about marginalized populations (especially with regard to sexual orientation), etc. etc. and the movie really captures all of those elements, too. It's more than your typical vampire gore or thrill fest. It's not just a monster movie. It's really quite brilliant.

Honestly, it's the best vampire book since Dracula and the movie adaptation was, in my opinion, superior to any Dracula film adaptation that I've seen. This book/movie really made me think. It wasn't just "Oooh. Vampires are sexy and/or scary."

EDIT: I read the book and watched the movie when I was like 13 or so. I may have been a little young for it. Reading the book was fine. The slower pace gave me time to adjust/absorb the information. When I saw all the gore on the screen, though, I was a little freaked out by all the blood. I had to cover my eyes during the part in which Lestat tortures the prostitute by bleeding her slowly, putting her in a coffin, and making her beg to Louis for her life. I was watching it with my dad and trying to be brave and prove I was grown-up enough to handle scary movies, but that part still got to me. lol. Also... talk about great vampire makeup. When Lestat ate that boy at the 18th century party... oy vey. He looks freakin' scary, man. Soooo scary.

 

[caitaintdead]

I love Nosferatu, I saw it when I was going through a silent movie phase when I was about 14 and really enjoyed it.
I love the way they use shadows in particular. I haven't seen it in awhile, probably because in Perth it's quite hard to get hold of. Maybe i'll buy a copy. I think this thread has inspired me.

I must also give credit to Salem's Lot. Although I don't really remember the movie to well (I saw it in my 15 year old watching Steven King movies phase) I love the book so much that I must give it a mention.

 

[Tueuse de Vampires]

Interview with the vampire. It's just like the bestest vamp movie, without question.

And Salem's Lot is also with vampires? I have the book at home and meant to read it for ages, didn't know it was a vamp story though.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

I have a couple of other contenders for you: Near Dark (featuring Lance Hendriksen, Adrian Pasdar and Bill Paxton) and the Hammer Dracula films (featuring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee). The former is under-rated in my opinion and the latter were probably the first horror films I ever watched...in all their hammy Hammer greatness 🙂

 

[Oz77700777]

I love Queen of the Damned, but in the poll It was hard to choose because I love a lot of those movies. Even if I have seen them all, I still only could pick one.

 

[palabravampiress]

NIX agrees: bless - hun have u read memnock the devil??? i love a.rice

I read Memnoch. It was my second favorite of Anne Rice's vampire series.


Honestly, though? I thought her work went downhill after Interview and especially after Memnoch. I tried to read one or two after that and I just couldn't get into them. They seemed to lack the depth of her earlier work.

 

[Old Master 3.0]

What? Is there no love for "Fright Night" (1985)? 😛

At that point in time, while the whole vamp genre was still doing okay in literary form, it was flagging on celluloid and the small screen. The seminal "Fright Night" injected new life and interest (much in the way "The Howling" did for the werewolf genre, to a lesser extent), and changed our way of viewing the undead. It's a big fave of mine.

I did pick "Lost Boys" in the poll, though, as it is another huge fave.

But as far as all-time favorites, I'm in the same boat as our Mr. Pointy in the appreciation of the great Christopher Lee's Hammer Films portrayal of Dracula. I grew up watching those. In fact, Mr. Lee's Dracula may have been the very first Dracula (and vamps in general) that I was ever exposed to. Great stuff. (Although one has to admit that his "Dracula A.D. 1972" was garbage).

 

[Blondie Bear]

I haven't seen many of the movies listed, so I picked Lost Boys, though Underworld comes in a close second. My husband and I recently watched The Wicker Man (the original, not the Nicolas Cage one), which is making me want to hunt down the Dracula movie with Christopher Lee in it, though. I hadn't realized he hadn't always looked like he does now. 🙂