Vampire Movies

@AmbiePam (85496)
United States
March 25, 2009 3:03pm CST
I see that Twilight is out on DVD. And HBO has a show called True Blood (I've not seen it) which is apparently based on a series of books. I can recall a film or two about vampires. For instance, Interview with the Vampire and of course Dracula. I have not seen those either. Are there different "kinds" of vampire movies? I mean, movies with different tones? What are your favorite vampire movies? And what is it about those movies that you like? I saw the TV show Angel, and that's about it.
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@jimbomuso (950)
26 Mar 09
Hi AmbiePam! yeah there are quite o lot of sub-genres, like the vampire love angle, comedic vamipire hunters, the totured exsisents biopic style and good old fashioned explosive violence/taste the brain matter gore! some good ones are 'Near Dark' staring Lance Henrikkson, Bill Paxton-really good 'old' taut thriller. The Fearless Vampire Killers- its a comedy by Roman Polanski. Lesbian Vampire Killers- new brit film in the hapless would be victims become comedy vampire killers.'Salems Lot' brilliant classic. 'Nightwatch' and 'Daywatch' not really a specific vampire film but absolutely two of the best fantasy horror films ever made and its Russian. I cannot recommend it more highly. what I love about fantasy horror is that it tries to explore all the humananity or lack of it in a world of mythical creatures.
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Thank you for the insightful answer.
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14 Apr 09
Hi again AmbiePam! Thank you for the BR.Hope you got a chance to check some of them out. your post actually encouraged me to watch Twilight - it's not to bad with some great scenes - cool. I prefer a bit more grit and gore like '30 days of night' but I'm still a sucker for a good yarn!
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
27 Mar 09
I will try to look for the very first Anne Rice vampire novel... and from there i will decide if i will go on with the other novels... thanks for encouraging me...
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@schulzie (4061)
• United States
28 Oct 09
I have not seen Twilight yet. I know I should have seen it by now but I haven't yet. I do watch True Blood though. I have never missed an episode of it. It is a great show and I would say it is one of my favorite shows. There are vampires and shape shifters on that show. It is really good, always keeps you on your toes. Have a great day and happy myLotting!!!
@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
30 Oct 09
Twilight was written by a Mormom woman, so the movie is tame, but stll sweet.
• United States
25 Mar 09
My absolute favorite vampire movie is "Dracula" starring Frank Langella, Sir Lawrence Olivier and Kate Nelligan. IMO there is not and probably will never be a better movie about vampires. It was creepy, scary, sexy and not blood and gore every where but enough ghouls to be satisfy anyone. This was real classy film. I have a CD and a VHS tape of this film.
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• United States
25 Mar 09
Here is a YouTube clip of the movie I am talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glTBzcwB7-Q
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Great, thanks!
@umart13 (841)
• Ireland
29 Mar 09
Hi AmbiePam, There are so many vampire films, but I will try to name three of my favourites. My first choice is the first Hammer Studios version of Dracula made in the 1950s with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. These were serious actors (e.g. Cushing was an ex-Shakespearian actor) who created a whole new gendre with the Hammer people. The movies were not cheaply made and they brought a darkness and sensuality to the story which made you use your imagination a lot more than the modern shock-horror films. My second choice is the more recently made True Story of Dracula, which is based on the true story of the Romanian Prince - Vlad the Impaler. It is very well made and is by far the most original of all the modern films. My third and final choice is Polanski's film "Dance of The Vampires", which is the best satire ever made on the Dracula story, including the beautiful Sharon Tate as the Count's victim, the brilliant Irish comedy actor Jack McGowran as the bungling Professor, Polanski himself as the Prof's assistant and the inspired casting of Alfie Bass as the Jewish vampire, who is immune to crosses... Have a great weekend. Umart
@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
29 Mar 09
The last one you mentioned sounds really good. I'll have to see if Netflix has it.
14 Apr 09
Dance of the Vampires is also known as the fearless vamipre killers - I thought I'd mentioned the wrong film but I checked on IMDB because there is another film called the 'the fearless vampire killers - or pardon me put your teeth back in'
@umart13 (841)
• Ireland
14 Apr 09
Hi, Yep! "Pardon me! but Your teeth are in my Neck is also the same film". Polanski was playing with all three names. It's well worth seeing. Even as satire it's very well made and the music is worthy of any real horror film.
@camomom (7535)
• United States
27 Mar 09
I love all types of Vampire movies. I don't know why I like them so much. The Blade series is one of my favorites. I LOVE Twilight. I own the Angel series on VHS. I have not seen True Blood yet. I also really enjoyed Interview with a Vampire. I never got into the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer though.
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
27 Mar 09
The only season if Angel I didn't like was season 4. What they did with Cordelia and Connor grossed me out.
@camomom (7535)
• United States
28 Mar 09
That was the only thing I didn't like about it too.
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@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
25 Mar 09
I would say my favourite Vampire movies would be any of the Hammer Horror productions with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. I always loved the settings and the atmosphere in them and I think Christopher Lee was an excellent Count Dracula. I did love Interview with the Vampire, I think they did a decent job translating it from the book to the screen and I would recommend that you get to see it. Always from the eighties was The Lost Boys, that is a very fun movie and very funny in parts. Quentin Tarantinos, From Dusk till Dawn is also worth a watch if just for the great cameo roles by so many cult horror icons.
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@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
26 Mar 09
I forgot about the hammer movies. My husband loves those kind of movies. Christopher Lee is amazing!
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@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Christopher Lee was great in the Fu Manchu movies too!
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@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
26 Mar 09
Yes the Hammer movies were great. If you had a movie with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price you would be on a winner.
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@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
26 Mar 09
I just bought Twilight last weekend for my daughter and I to watch...it was pretty damn good...More of a vamp romance than anything....True Blood is based on the Charlaine Harris books which I hve but havent read yet..the show is FABULOUS..the kids and I watched it faithfully LOL...Interview I've seen and read the book series but its certainly not my fav...then there was also Queen of the Damned which is another of the Interview series....then there are the Blade flicks...three in all...they're pretty good..and of course Angel and Buffy (both t.v shows)..Of course there are the NUMEROUS classic vamp flicks staring ppl like Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi..omg I could go on and on come to think of it LOL I guess if I had to pick some favs it would be the Angel series and True Blood with the Blade flicks coming in third...
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@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
26 Mar 09
Interview with a Vampire is my all time vampire movie... and i was actually waiting for a sequel movie... but that never happened... instead they made a somewhat B movie about Lestat... and that did not even live up to the greatness of Interview with a Vampire... i wanted to read the books... but i am afraid i might get nightmares...
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26 Mar 09
read the books ... If you liked Lestat the read 'The Vampire Lestat' it'll blow you away .. the films that were made after Interview where just appalling. All of Anne Rice's Vampire books are brilliant I'd highly recomend 'Memnoch the Devil'
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@mflower2053 (3223)
• United States
26 Mar 09
I just said the other day that I wanted to watch interview with a vampire since I haven't seen it in years. I read the whole Twilight series very good books they are hard to put down. The movie is ok but the book is so much better. The movie does make me want to read the book again. Its more of a love story then anything and at some points in the book it makes you want to become a vampire yourself. The vampires in Twilight fest on animals instead of humans so they can stay in one place. I only catch some shows of Angel which of course are reruns. I never watched it but one day I will have to record it so I can know whats going on. It does look like a good show.
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Just a warning about Angel. I HATED season four. I don't think you'd like it either. I heard a lot of people talk about how parts of the book weren't in the movie Twilight. I understand when a person feels loyal to a book and wants the movie to mimic it. I think maybe they (the studio who made it) were afraid of turning people off by the running time of the movie. I rented it from Netflix and it was 2 hours and two minutes. The thing it, time went by so fast, I think they could have safely made it two hours and 30 minutes and no one would have minded.
• United States
27 Mar 09
Yes, they have romantic and comedic ones. And horror ones, and action ones. I like the old buffy and Angel tv shows. I also enjoy the Blade movies.
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
27 Mar 09
Good picks!
• Philippines
29 Mar 09
Hey there! I have also seen Angel. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is also good. Interview with the Vampire is also good. It stars Brad Pitt and other notable stars. I can't remember them all for the movie has been shown long ago in the nineties'. The lastest Vampire movie that I've seen is Twilight. It was good, it was okay. One of my favorite Vapire movie is "Blade", "Blade II", and "Blade Trinity". It stars Wesley Snipes. I like that movie. It has a lot of action. Have a nice day. Happy posting!!
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
29 Mar 09
I didn't like Blade II, although it was the ending that I didn't like. The rest of it was good. But I enjoyed the first one and the last one very much. Although I thought what Dracula turned into was kind of cheesy at the end.
@23uday (2997)
• India
26 Mar 09
Hi friends, I will vampires movies in my computer,home theatre,TV,i like some of vampire movies good to watch some movies. some of movies which i like Vanhelsing Dracula Blade 1,2 I have seen different vampires in different movies. have a great day.
@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
26 Mar 09
I didn't like the ending of Blade II. Blade III was really campy. The first Blade had to be the best, don't you think? Of course it is hard to find any sequels as good as the originals.
@tabachi (263)
• Philippines
26 Mar 09
i love vampire movies...i have seen interview with the vampire,urban legends, and almost all the brom stoker's dracula movie adaptations and of course twilight....i really like to watch this type of movie..it's very entertaining simply because for me it's surreal....it's not normal...
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Escapism is a lot of fun.
@fasyahime (629)
• Malaysia
27 Mar 09
fave. one:the little vampire,interview with vampire and angel TV series.. the storyline of course that attract me to watch these movie,not the hot actor..seriously,i can't understand why people so obsess with tom cruise,Brad Pitt or Robert Patinson..yeah,they hot but that's it..
@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
27 Mar 09
I never got what was so hot about Brad Pitt.
• United States
25 Mar 09
I don't know for sure...but I believe there must be. Think of vampire movies of the 60's and then think of them today. Horror movies today are morbid. I could lose weight just watching those films...and I was a big Dark Shadows fan.
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
26 Mar 09
@rowantree (1186)
• United States
14 Apr 09
The HBO show True Blood is based on Charlaine Harris' books, the Sookie Stackhouse series. They are awesome reads, hopefully you get a chance to read the first one because they're great!
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Hey ambie! I have seen Dracula which I believe is still the best vampire movie of all time! And I did see Interview With a Vampire which was very good too! It was damp creepy if you ask me! I want to see Twilight too! I love vampire movies! I have always had a thing for vampire flicks! I love vampires! I kind of want to be one too, except for the blood drinking thing! I like to sleep in the daytime and be up at night so I already have one thing down pat!
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Maybe you can drink Kool Aid and pass it off for blood.
@glords (2614)
• United States
25 Mar 09
Vampire movies are very different. I loved "Lost Boys" when I was younger. Its about a high school kid getting inducted to a gang of monstrous vampires. It has a few really great scary scenes, but mostly its just fun. Twilight is not a scary movie at all. The vampires glitter in the sunlight and you hear the sound of ringing bells. They are happy lovey vampires... and not much fun. The books were okay though. Dracula seemed a little bit over sexed to me. Van Helsing was a fun action type of vampire movie... not really scary either. Hmm perhaps vampire movies arent supposed to be scary, as I make my list I'm not seeing much that would frighten you. Although lost boys did when I was a child.
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Yeah, I think parents can feel okay about their kids watching Twilight. Which is good. I mean what teen or you adult movie now days doesn't have the main characters in bed after hour one?
@ljbinkop (744)
• United States
25 Mar 09
Hi Ambie! Yes, there are certainly a lot of different telling about vampires on film as well as on TV. I really like watching vampire movies of any kind, but my favorite series was one on TV. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the greatest show ever, and I still really miss it! Angel is acctually a spin off of that show, and it was almost as good. Some vampire movies like Twilight show that Vampires can be nice people too, which is a big trend today. I did really enjoy the movie. It was a great little love story, but with some good old faskioned vampire drama included! If you havn't seen it yet, you really should! There are certaily a lot of movies out there that are darker than Twilight, though, so don't think that every vampire is a nice person, they usually are blood-sucking killers, and I like it that way, too! Have a great day!
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
26 Mar 09
I rented Twilight the other night through Netflix. I enjoyed it.
@carann (260)
• United States
25 Mar 09
I don't watch to many vampire movies but I did like "Blade" I thought it was a cool twist to the typical vampire movie. Also I saw "30 Days of Night" Now thats a thought why wouldn't vampires hang out where its night for at least a month.There was another but I can't remember the exact name. it stared Willem Dafoe and was about people making a vampire movie not realizing the lead was a real Vampire.
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@AmbiePam (85496)
• United States
26 Mar 09
I had forgotten about Blade. I enjoyed that one. I heard 30 Days of Night was really gory. Like roll the stomach gory?