The ten-second vampyre movie

[villion]

30 days of night



[SamHain1031666]

Best vampire movie ever made was The Lost Boys, and thats the original Lost Boys, not the 2 shitty sequels. Also, id have to rate Interview With A Vampirepretty close to The Lost Boys, but other than those 2 movies, i really dont think there have been many good vampire flicks.....From Dust Till Dawn was ok

[metal9535]

@SamHain1031666 i actualy liked the third lost boy film along with the first one, but what about fright night? it was a great film, or the hammer films, or Nosferatu and the 31 dracula film? there are plenty of great vampire films, none of them are talked about these days that much though

[SamHain1031666]

I hated both Lost Boys sequels because there claiming to be part of the same franchise as the original when there nothing like the original, the look of the vampires should have been identicle to the first Lost Boys movie, and the music also should have been identicle. I wrote a script for a sequel years ago where David Survives and is human again,and as a human he starts up a cult promising his clan the chance to be vampires.Oh yeah i love Fright Night,the remake looks great too

[metal9535]

@SamHain1031666 this is very true, but i really dont look at the lost boys sequels as sequels, more as spin offs because of 2 reasons, the first one is that the first lost boys is such a great film that the other 2 dont have a chance in hell to compare to it, the other reason is it doesn't look at the original heroes it looks at the frog brothers, so i look at it more as a spin off like i said.

[SamHain1031666]

@metal9535 The thing is you can look at it how ever you want but the fact is they are meant to be true sequels and im not just saying this but i could seriously write a much better script than both The Lost Boys sequels. I mean these are meant to be real directors and story writers making these films and im just a guy that watches movies and i could write a better story lol. It feels like the original movie wasnt researched at all in the making of these 2 films

[allaboutdmagic]

Vampires are perennial, and have been since about 1897 when Stoker published Dracula All the sexual/supernatural themes were there from the beginning too.

[soundslave]

Vampires are gay.

[lmen1990]

THIRST was one of the best vampire movies  ever.

[andygoth]

Near Dark, great film with great actors. (Most borrowed from Aliens)

Twilight is a pale immitation, Twilight is Near Dark for the Harry Potter generation.

[EmpireLS56KW]

LOL "a glut of blood suckers2! Its because they suck!

Underworld

Blade

Its all getting long in the toot now.

As for the Twilight noon moon they look like EMO films LOL

Interview with a gay vampire? LOL hisssss LOL

[ElleToInterzone]

Let the right one in is in my top 4 movies of all time, it's absolutely stunning, and therefore my favourite vampire flick.

However, one of the central characters is a pedophile. And then there's the ever shocking Elis crotch shot. Questions about his Dad's sexuality, Oskar and Eli in bed together.

How can there not be sexual connotations to that?

[Wowbagger86]

Sorry, I just heard the first list. I should have seen the video through. I must check out Cronos or Kronos now...

[Webins]

A small budget unknown but wonderful film, "Blood and Donuts".

Anyone ever see it?

[ylaviv]

Your explanation to "why now?" is a bit superficial."It's all about sex" sounds bombastic yet very cheap coming from the mouth of a scholar (I presume?).

I did my own research into the myth in ancient and modern culture (literature and cinema) and came to the conclusion that Vampires have always been deeply integrated into our culture. They never disappear or reappear, they just change attire. To be short, Vampires have metamorphosed from being the sadistic villains to being the tragic heroes.

[VirtuesPenumbra]

If you look at the characteristics of vampire movies, and we are talking about movies and not the original myth, they are all sexual.

Over the years there have been good vampires, evil vampires, half-vampires, vampire hunters, half-vampire vampire hunters and the list goes on. The ways vampires are portreyed have changed, but none of that explains why vampires are popular right now.

An orgasm is a poor mans vacation. If you don't have any money, sex is a cheap way to have fun.

[ylaviv]

Sorry, but when did vampire movies stop being popular? I've been watching them since the 1970s, and never did they attract less attention than now. Vampire novels and films are the most common product of the US film industry. SEX? The vampire myth in modern cinema has always had its sexual attributes. I wouldn't say that today there's a film that doesn't have sex in it... not in the era of free porn for the masses on the internet.

Vampires connect well to the widespread Emo phenomenon.

[66lewis99]

Is it just me or has everyone forgotten the greatest and scariest vampyr movie of all time.....Nosferatu, the original of course.

[Deavi783]

Salem's Lot (1979)

[uglyenoughtobewise]

Okay, so The Reflecting Skin is not really a vampire movie, although vampire myths play a big part in the story. It's interesting - not without its share of flaws, but interesting.

[uglyenoughtobewise]

Another vote for Romero's Martin, I found it an interesting character study and the ending really caught me off guard. I'm just about to watch Ridley's The Reflecting Skin which apparently also has some vampiric themes.

[longclawson]

"Comm wiss me neow...........", Dr Mark? Where's that blighter from? Rammstein?!

For me great vampiric flicks would be; Blade(1,2&3),Coppola's Dracula, The Hunger, Martin, Near Dark, The Lost Boys, Dusk til Dawn, John Carpenter's Vampires...

And NOT bloody Twilight or Duckula.

Cheers, Mark (Nottingham, UK).

[TipTopTimes]

Vampires suck.

[Raskolnikov32]

The Lost Boys FTMFW.

[toonuraccoon]

Blade is easily just about wasting vampires and the efforts it takes to hold the disease at bay in his own body. So it is more about struggling against superior numbers and the struggle within :)

Oh I can't talk like that about movies, it's a cool movie with lot's of cool gadgets and swordplay and lot's of fighting with a bit of dark humour. And not about sex.

[theman2017inc]

@toonuraccoon :-)

[DodgerRiley]

Blade was a good vampire movie. One of the few good superhero movies as well. The vampires were actually dangerous as opposed to the harmless ones that are popular now.

[diefortacos]

Nosferatu! Both of them really, such amazing movies. Of course DR. Ks two choices are great as as well, certainly movies that deserve to be appreciated by crowds much larger than the ones they got on release

[bobbyjoe]

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a sorely underappreciated vampire movie...

[LurkingCrassZero]

Yep, i'm with you on that one, but it couldn't any MORE about sex though! lol

[Anatolij86]

"Bram Stoker's Dracula", by Coppola. Which incidentally strongly involves sex as a topic, and makes no effort to hide it, but at the same time I believe is way more about representing a striking contrast between Love and Evil. The latter I think that movie captured so perfectly that it's memorable. Everytime I watch it I am just disturbed by it;not by the horror sequences themselves, but more by the turbid atmosphere it creates.I think vampyres are a great movie topic when well written.

[6000mphx]

0:23 LOL @ Kermodefoot

[Teleringelfon]

the ending of the vid was awesome I really had to laugh.

I can't say that I have a favourite vampire movie. I don't watch them. Well, I've seen twilight, but this is one isn't worth mentioning.

[saundersco]

I like your jacket.

[joeholness]

night watch and the lost boys for me

[notaninvaildname]

I've seen Let the Right One In

But how do you spell the other one?

I'm dyslexic, btw

[fiets123koe]

Cronos

[notaninvaildname]

thanks

[Camsam84]

Good choices but for me nothing beats the atmosphere and unusual genre cross breed that is NEAR DARK

[uglyenoughtobewise]

I thought Near Dark was off to an interesting start and it really seemed like it was going somewhere, but no, it went nowhere. It's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember being very disappointed with the second half. Still watchable, though, just a wasted opportunity.

[PurushaDesa]

Yeah, because you needed the ketchup to prove you're a scary bastard.

[SpeedFreakNO]

Blade? :P

[joeholness]

Blade 2 yeah

[SpeedFreakNO]

Totally agree. The best of the three, with Blade as a second.

What I ment with saying just Blade was the series. Not about sex.

[Warnerchild]

vampire films are shit, next subject please kermode

[Flipflopab]

Before dark

Let the right one in

And those are just the recent ones

[Flipflopab]

Near dark, sorry

but still let the right one in is a great film and they are just the so called modern films

[thepluginbaby]

Jesus that bit at the end was scary...

Salem's Lot for me.

[MonoAzul]

I like Mario Bava's Black Sunday and the "Wurdulak" segment from Black Sabbath with Boris Karloff a lot.

[Spoonerism2501]

Blood: The Last Vampire. Short and Sweet and no sparkly, mamby pampy vampires in sight.

And

The Lost Boys. The soundtrack is just plain fun and it's not all about sex.

To be honest, whilst Vampire's do have this legend for being the sexist of satan's cabal of creatures (minus the succubus and incubu of course), but i think it's more to do with vanity myself.

[cuntscab555]

it's all about joss whedon

[killingalltheflies]

Werner Herzog's Nosferatu!

[alabam5]

Loved let the right one in, such a great film. Book is weird though.

[jedivisconti]

Well, you forgot to mention WAR, America has relatives dying on WAR, just like the depression, Vampires is relative with suffering and Bloodness, well it's a theory. The Gore, specially today we watch violence so close. I remember films during the Vietnam WAR? One I like must is with Frank Langella in 1978, A spanish Dracula, with John Willians souindtrack, but it's about sex. 1979.

[pypeworld]

Kronos and Let the Right One In are indeed brilliant films. My personal favourite is the gritty vampire western Near Dark, which is sadly overlooked by most horror fans.

[danxtur]

Wonder how Daybreakers are going to be.

[kevycanavan]

Shadow of the Vampire

Bram Stoker's Dracula

[petertyson2]

Let The Right One In and Cronos are two great movies full stop, let alone vampire movies. I really like Near Dark too which Mark failed to mention here, probably because even though it is a film about vampires it doesn't really come across like one at all.

[chris6770]

Polanski's Dance Of The Vampires, 1967. Still a fave - has a great atmosphere, helped by the musical score (Komeda?), and a nice balance of comedy with the mild horror. One I like to watch again on a cold winter's night :)

[jackh1992]

There is an independent movie that was made by a friend of mine and is now on YouTube called 'Die Now Or Live Forever' and that's about, to quote, 'what is supernatural?' It's about what we're familiar with that makes it natural, for example an excellent sports player and because vampires are something we're not familiar with, it's seen to be terrifyingly unreal. I recommend it! It already has 50,000+ views in 3 days so you know it's like some of the crap you find on this site ;)

[johncrwarner]

definitely a large amount of sex - especially in repressed cultures where the glimpse of a neck is shocking - then vampires are an excuse for showing a neck and the dangers of sex - remember it is puritanical - often only the virgin survives in horror movies.

[NotMissSunshine]

let the right one in was totally over shadowed by the teeny-pop vampires that are being fed to the public at a disgustingly hight level. Thank God someone finally recognised that. (yeah, i get a little worked up over this).

[mellors]

I think that vampires are so popular because their look (and in more recent times) personalities come across as human despite their otherworldly powers. That makes it easier to relate to them and more believable as being real. Add a healthy dashing of horror, mystery, philosophical pros and cons of immortality, superpowers and of course sexual tension you have the potential to reach a very wide audience with the right execution.

[antoireland09]

thinking about this yesterday how many crappy vampire movies and tv shows there is, please stop.