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What’s The Best Vampire Movie?
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Twilight should be #1....Edward is soooo hot!
NONE OF THE ABOVE... I LIKED THE HAMMER PRODUCTIONS OF THE LATE 1950'S AND EARLY 1960'S
Mel Brooks' spoof on vampire movies is among the best. Why isn't it listed?
Frank Langella's dracula was the BEST!
NOSFERATU is the BEST Vampire movie made to date - NO CONTEST! Max Schreck is the creepiest, most loathsome bloodsucker to slither from a crypt. His is what a vampire is all about. The current crop of eye-candy, brooding, lovesick aberrations passing as vampires are losers. A vampire is an accursed, nasty, vile, fearsome and nightmarish creature of fantasy lore. The trend to portray the monster as a desirable thing of dark beauty and power is to miss the mark completely. But movie/tv and book profiteers (the real vampires) know there is a lucrative audience of suckers out there.
I'm with Debbie! Frank Langella's is the best and it's not even on the list--why not?!
Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU and Roman Polanski's THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS; should be on the list, in any case.
DRACULA [ 1931 ] is the best vampire movie ever made.
What they are calling vampire movies now, are NOTHING ... compaired to the 1931 Dracula.
I think "Let The Right One In" is equal best along with Herzog's "Nosferatu", followed by "Interview with the Vampire" ... and the Langella "Dracula" is better than several on the list, as is "The Fearless Vampire Killers".
Hammer classic films are so cool. I think Christopher Lee as dracula is the best vampire. The Horror of dracula and dracula has risen from the grave are my favorites! I wish they would shoow Hammer classic Christopher lee vampire films on tv.
I agree w/the ones who named Herzog's NOSFERATU & LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. But you can't dismiss NEAR DARK as an excellent vampire movie.
To clarify my earlier vote, it is the 1922 film of NOSFERATU that I'm referring to as the BEST vampire movie in the history of motion pictures so far. Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU failed to capture the terror and decadence of the original 1922 film. And Klaus Kinski never achieved the perfection of Max Schreck's performance. Bela Lugosi's vampire was suave and urbane with a great accent, Christopher Lee's vampire was a wild animal, David Peel's vampire was unctuously evil and deceptive and the best of Hammer Films's vampires, Frank Langella's vampire was a pompous bore (as was the film itself), Polanski's THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS is the champion of vampire satires. However, when the dust settles from sifting through 80 years or more of vampire themed movies, F.W. Murnau's 1922 Classic NOSFERATU towers over them all with Max Schreck's performance remaining THE DEFINITIVE VAMPIRE with no peer.
I'm not sure if it's the "best" but Tobe Hooper's t.v. movie from 1979 "Salem's Lot" should at least be on the list. Also, let's not over-look female vampires either. "Daughters of Darkness" is exceptional.
I LOVE anything with Christopher Lee.In my estimation He was the consummate vampire, very sexual as well.Not much talk,but the looks He gave would send ANY woman into a swoon.
What about "The Lost Boys"? This was a very entertaining movie!!!
i'll go with p.k.& kimberlee & k. w. christopher lee.
hammer films were great,scary without alot of blood
and gore.
I can't vote in your poll because you left out the best vampire movie! There is no vampire movie as good as Underworld!
THe Hunger should be on the list. Also, Van Helsing
I agree Dracula with Bela Lugosi was best and yes Salems Lot with David Soul the best tv movie Best Tv vampire show was blood Ties.
It's a tie between Max Schreck in Nosferatu, and Bela Lugosi in Dracula Those were real vampires.
In my mind the best vampire movie was a Dracula adaptation with Jack Palance playing Dracula. I was very impressed with it the first time I saw it. I think it might have been made for television but I'm not certain.
i am a huge 1931 drac fan. i must give big credit for the person who mwntioned the hammer draculas. i love lugosi ansd his stagey style, but lee... wow! he is absolutely great. and not to be who's better, but really as a universal drac guy.. lee really is the best all around, classic and modern dracula.. with ALL ASPECTS A CONSIDERED. and that is difficult for me to say considering my loyalty to both bela and universal.
--- russ gambino
I agree with one poster that the 1922 film of NOSFERATU by far the best, creapiest, etc... Lagosi a close second or almost tie. I think Stephen King's "Salems Lot" TV movie from the late 70's captured the look of the main vampire in the grand tradition of Schreck's portrayal and look, pretty darn scary....
DRACULA - 1931
w/Bela Legosi (The look on his face, his hand out-stretched, curling: him saying "COME HERE"!) Chilling.
Classic Funny line from this movie: (The caretaker of the "manor" to his assistant): "Sometimes I think everyone in this world is crazy 'cept me & you, and sometimes I have me doubts 'bout you!"
Any "Dracula" movie is one worth watching, Christopher Lee was my favorite next to Bella. But, Obviously, none of you have seen Subspecies...Radu is one horrific, scary beast! And he lets you know it. I also appreciated Willam DeFoe as Nosferatu, in "Shadow of a Vampire" what a fantastic story line! what if Max Schreck, the actor of Nosferatu, was an actual vampire! Great movie. And I'm sorry, but movies like "Twilight" should be banned as an embarrassment to the vampire race!
"Nosferatu", (Herzog) and "Let the Right One In"; Langella's "Dracula" and "Interview With The Vampire". The Palance "Dracula" was also very good.
I agree with the poster who said the Langella version was pompous and over-produced, but I think it all only added to the fun of a big, super lush, over-the-top romantic version.
As for Twilight, ... I'd like to see a few feminist teen-aged girls line up with Buffy and stake that crashing bore Edward through the ventricles.
30 Days of Night is the best vampire movie ever. Lugosi's Dracula is a classic, but 30 Days... is a better movie, with more plausible vampires.
I loved Dracula with Frank Langello, of course I'm a senior and I thought he was the sexiest and
great kissing scenes
Larry Fessenden's Habit is my all time favorite. It's bleak, gritty and conveys a sense of hopelessness better than any vampire movie I have seen, and I have over 930 of them in my collection.
Dreyer's VAMPYR should be on the list. Also, I saw a snippet of the Spanish version of the 1931 Dracula, and the cinematography blew the English version out of the water. If only the Spanish crew had Lugosi.
Bela Lugosi was the best, but Frank Langella was the sexiest. Another terrific one was Louis Jourdan in a TV adaptation.