YOUR FAVOURITE VAMPIRE MOVIES
February 28th 2010 22:16
The results are in! My True Believin’ fellow horrorphiles have spoken! Your favourite vampire movies have been decided upon! And there are no big surprises either.
Two movies - eighty-five years apart – share the top spot.
Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922) and Let the Right One In (2007).
These two movies masterpieces received the same number of votes and were way out in front. A silent classic of the German Expressionist movement directed by F.W. Murnau and loosely adapted from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, and a Swedish modern twist on the eternal plight of the undead directed by Tomas Alfredson based on the novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
The runner-up was Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), with From Dusk Till Dawn (1995) and Interview with the Vampire (1994) equaling third spot, and Near Dark (1987) and 30 Days of Night (2007) equaling a close fourth.
Although I’m not a fan of Interview with the Vampire, the adaptation loosely represents one of my favourite vampire novels, Ann Rice’s The Vampire Lestat (along with Dracula, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot). It’s a shame that Ann Rice’s original choices for the roles of Louis and Lestat never came to fruition; when Hollywood was pushing to make Interview with the Vampire back in the early 80s Rutger Hauer was top of the list to play Lestat, with Eric Roberts as Louis. They would’ve been perfectly cast.
It’s good to see that cinema vampirism’s lush romanticism and savage bloodlust is portrayed in equal measures by the above six movies. There’s iconography and irony, tragedy and comedy. And blood, lots of blood.
And the most loathed vampire movie, you ask? Another two drew equal: the cartoon mess called Van Helsing and that current sparkly series of anemic adolescent angst known as Twilight.
Two movies - eighty-five years apart – share the top spot.
These two movies masterpieces received the same number of votes and were way out in front. A silent classic of the German Expressionist movement directed by F.W. Murnau and loosely adapted from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, and a Swedish modern twist on the eternal plight of the undead directed by Tomas Alfredson based on the novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
The runner-up was Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), with From Dusk Till Dawn (1995) and Interview with the Vampire (1994) equaling third spot, and Near Dark (1987) and 30 Days of Night (2007) equaling a close fourth.
Although I’m not a fan of Interview with the Vampire, the adaptation loosely represents one of my favourite vampire novels, Ann Rice’s The Vampire Lestat (along with Dracula, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot). It’s a shame that Ann Rice’s original choices for the roles of Louis and Lestat never came to fruition; when Hollywood was pushing to make Interview with the Vampire back in the early 80s Rutger Hauer was top of the list to play Lestat, with Eric Roberts as Louis. They would’ve been perfectly cast.
It’s good to see that cinema vampirism’s lush romanticism and savage bloodlust is portrayed in equal measures by the above six movies. There’s iconography and irony, tragedy and comedy. And blood, lots of blood.
And the most loathed vampire movie, you ask? Another two drew equal: the cartoon mess called Van Helsing and that current sparkly series of anemic adolescent angst known as Twilight.
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Comment by Steve Gann
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The original Nosferatu
The 1931 version of Dracula
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Fright Night (1985)
House of Dracula (1945)
and for cheese lovers - Love at First Bite (1979)
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Comment by Mountain Fog
I last saw it about 15 years ago, and yes, it still creeped me out!
must try and see Let the Right One In, on DVD now I expect?
cheers
fog
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Onward and upward though I say.
Will try and not be nearly as tardy in future.
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MNG, all is forgiven.
Jason, yeah, I finished Handling the Undead a couple of weeks ago. Very strange. Some great concepts and some genuinely creepy scenes. I enjoyed Let the Right One In more though.
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