OK, there's been talk about Dracula movies and I've started some. But Transylvania's most famous aristocrat isn't the only vampire around, so let's expand out scope and talk about the best vampire movies in out own individual opinions.
In no actual order here...
Interview with the vampire. OK, I read the book and have issues with it but I gotta live it for being better than I thought it would be. I mean I was expecting sh-t and got a ham sandwhich instead. I pleasantly surprised me by not sucking nearly as much as I thought it would. Is that a reason to like a movie? To me I guess it is.
Dance of the damned. Yeah, yeah you never heard of it. It's actually kinda like Anne Rice's work in some ways andi'd bet it was influenced by her. Basically a low budget small cast film, a vampire looking for a victim wanders into a strip club and sees a dancer thinking of suicide. He is attached to "the little pieces of death in her soul" and apparently toy chooses to feed on those who are less likely to have a lot to live for. I can respect that. They spend a night together with him granting her wish to see her son whocs father has denied her access to. She grants his dream of 'a day on the beach" wit a flood light, blanket and trunks. The two very to know each other. Perhaps too well.
Neither character is a monster. The vampire prefers to feed on the despondent rather than the happy. In one scene he offers to let the stripper live if she agrees to let him kill a child for blood and she refuses. It's an unprententoius little movie that should have become a cult classic.
The ending is sad and beautiful at once.
Bram Stoker's dracula. One of the closest adaptations to the novel ever done and that alone earns it a spot on my list. The fact it was well made and acted are nice bonuses.
Dracula's daughter. Brings us the idea that some vampires are victims desperately seeking escape from their curse. The titular character made a noble effort to escape her vampiric state. The scene with nher disposing of dracula's body in a fire and even holding a cross while doing it made it clear she did not want to bo what she was turned into. She was the first vampire to be at least as much victim as villain.
Lifeforce. Yeah, Mathilda may was a big part of why I love it, but there was more to it than that.
FRIGHT NIGHT is probably my favorite vampire movie from the entire decade of the 80's.
Yes, I liked it better than THE LOST BOYS.
Either NOSFERATU (1922) or BLACK SUNDAY (1960).
Even the first 15 minutes of DRACULA (1931) is better than most movies combined.
THE NIGHT STALKER (1972)
http://youtu.be/R0isH8D5Lcs (http://youtu.be/R0isH8D5Lcs)
Quote from: indianasmith on July 15, 2019, 08:19:23 PM
FRIGHT NIGHT is probably my favorite vampire movie from the entire decade of the 80's.
Yes, I liked it better than THE LOST BOYS.
That's 'cause
FRIGHT NIGHT is way better than lost doys...
Hey AHD, if you want to bring up TV vampire movies what'cha think of "I, desire" Aka "Desire the vampire. "?
http://youtu.be/f_CgGipvocY (http://youtu.be/f_CgGipvocY)
BTW, the night stalker was a good choice. Karl Kolchak was the uilimatre evryman.
There was another decent TV movie about a kinda of vampire, a guy rose frommthe dead to scultp a stature of a demon from clay made with human blood to bring the demon to earth.
Edit.
The norliss tapes. Damn good movie, could use a remake. Man, this TV movie was above average.
http://youtu.be/05Af3Cwx5Es (http://youtu.be/05Af3Cwx5Es)
I think my favourite 80's Vampire movie is 'Near Dark'.
Quote from: Alex on July 16, 2019, 06:19:41 AM
I think my favourite 80's Vampire movie is 'Near Dark'.
YES! :thumbup:
Dracula with Lugosi (1931), Nosferatu (1922), Blade (1998) and Dracula Dead and Loving it (1995)
Modern:
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/155f299e9a28214753149ceb6c7f0247/tumblr_org91qYuUi1qb4bkbo1_500.gif)
Underworld (2003)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/66dc3a975039b60db591878668281fb7/tumblr_pkxrk3oHSZ1tdkro1o2_r1_500.gif)
Blade (1998)
(https://agoodbadtaste.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/tumblr_niflqbwkc41rp0vkjo1_500.gif?w=457&h=191)
Let Me In (2010)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/947093512d282336fb9ba6f95ff9fb53/tumblr_pawma98DC31wadukvo3_500.gif)
Byzantium (2012)
(https://i.imgur.com/5TajEZ0.gif)
The Night Flier (1997)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/8766f791843ee33617dca013af6fe23d/tumblr_o9hiwoEQ1v1rp0vkjo1_500.gif)
Kiss of the Damned (2012)
(https://klling.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/kiss-of-the-damned-2.gif?w=640)
We Are the Night (2010)
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2z9lrFU3y1qzj0kto1_500.gif)
My faves are the silent NOSFERATU and the near-silent VAMPYR (1932).
Pale Blood with George Chakiris.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 16, 2019, 12:52:41 AM
Hey AHD, if you want to bring up TV vampire movies what'cha think of "I, desire" Aka "Desire the vampire. "?
...
Don't know it, but I'm repelled by the
KLIMT art with the harpsichord music at the beginning. :lookingup:
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 16, 2019, 12:52:41 AM
There was another decent TV movie about a kinda of vampire, a guy rose frommthe dead to scultp a stature of a demon from clay made with human blood to bring the demon to earth.
Edit.
The norliss tapes. Damn good movie, could use a remake. Man, this TV movie was above average.
...
Like
THE NORLISS TAPES,
THE NIGHT STALKER was produced by
DAN CURTIS. I don't think
THE NORLISS TAPES is nearly as good as
THE NIGHT STALKER.
Well if you get thru I, Desire let me know want yoiu thought.
Just out of interest, anyone for Vamp?
Quote from: Alex on July 16, 2019, 12:52:07 PM
Just out of interest, anyone for Vamp?
AAAAIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!
Classics:
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
(https://i.gifer.com/A5iU.gif)
The Lost Boys (1987)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/a2a4d1614705deaa00d42435dddd243e/tumblr_ot8vjbdv861ws13fzo1_500.gif)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
(https://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/giphy-1-2.gif)
Fright Night (1985)
(http://www.pophorror.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/eviled.gif)
Salem's Lot (1979)
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ComfortablePolishedFish-size_restricted.gif)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CelebratedSpeedyChimneyswift-size_restricted.gif)
Near Dark (1987)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/b08a70c3f6dd67205f8efd6a415aeb62/tumblr_ojucom72kB1vyvg1co4_500.gif)
The Hunger (1983)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/8605298f8f6c12d9aab518db9f01dc83/tumblr_o9f1z2NN821ugsw1ro5_500.gif)
Dracula (1979)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a4/86/32/a48632e9989d92ca417da119ddbbb2b3.gif)
Vampyres (1974)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/7a4e052f2cde1451040f8c508bacdb48/tumblr_nfggyeiHZQ1snmmclo1_400.gif)
Innocent Blood (1992)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/54525e9438108e1e6363fca9d509a2d7/tumblr_pqgwmyV22h1tuvwugo1_500.gif)
Martin (1977)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/babf47a4d17430f99dedaa82f9d91d30/tumblr_oxaznxLEwZ1r11287o1_r1_500.gif)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/fb5328bd0e7d747e01c95d4e17cc3570/tumblr_p31asrtLq61snmmclo1_500.gif)
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/484130d0f83a9f6753044d3a59fdbc90/tumblr_ofz162w0k41soti42o1_500.gif)
As I see what other vampire films have been listed I'm remembering that I saw most of them.
I see Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) listed.
That's one I ended up ejecting. Keanu Reeves was woefully miscast as Harker. He singlehandedly made me lost all interest in the rest of the film. I can't remember where in the film I gave up, but I never saw Anthony Hopkins on screen.
THE HUNGER (1983)
http://youtu.be/UZiPhX-SZ88 (http://youtu.be/UZiPhX-SZ88)
BTW THE HUNGER is also quite sexual...
Shadow of the vampire was great.
Someone contradicting me in 3... 2....
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 16, 2019, 04:58:28 PM
Shadow of the vampire was great.
Someone contradicting me in 3... 2....
Not me. I loved the celery crunch sound when
WILLEM DAFOE took a bite. :thumbup: :teddyr:
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 16, 2019, 10:10:08 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 16, 2019, 04:58:28 PM
Shadow of the vampire was great.
Someone contradicting me in 3... 2....
Not me. I loved the celery crunch sound when WILLEM DAFOE took a bite. :thumbup: :teddyr:
Thank you.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 16, 2019, 10:10:08 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 16, 2019, 04:58:28 PM
Shadow of the vampire was great.
Someone contradicting me in 3... 2....
Not me. I loved the celery crunch sound when WILLEM DAFOE took a bite. :thumbup: :teddyr:
I enjoyed that movie very much!
Does anyone besides me like VAMPIRE'S KISS (1988)? :question:
Golden Classics:
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/fcc723cbc187fb4ffecc06fc1e227168/tumblr_pglyqg91Oe1qen5kxo4_500.gif)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/8db694433e8a7177b4237f3d53865082/tumblr_owqt9uPKcK1qmob6ro2_500.gif)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/TinyMiniatureCuckoo-size_restricted.gif)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/dc66104e179bb0295f1b89c2a7c62367/tumblr_ngsaehsFKe1snmmclo1_500.gif)
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 17, 2019, 11:09:13 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 16, 2019, 10:10:08 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 16, 2019, 04:58:28 PM
Shadow of the vampire was great.
Someone contradicting me in 3... 2....
Not me. I loved the celery crunch sound when WILLEM DAFOE took a bite. :thumbup: :teddyr:
I enjoyed that movie very much!
Does anyone besides me like VAMPIRE'S KISS (1988)? :question:
I loved VAMPIRE'S KISS and it kinda p**ses me off that a lot of people consider it an "unintentional comedy" just because it has Nick Cage and the "You don't say?" meme came from that movie. It seems that nobody understood that the movie is very much aware of its own dark humor.
Here's my favorite scene by far:
http://youtu.be/TmSu9PjVVI8 (http://youtu.be/TmSu9PjVVI8)
the FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS is also a favorite. I love when they pull the cross on the Jewish vampire and he says-"Boy, do you have the wrong vampire!"
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on July 17, 2019, 02:06:46 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 17, 2019, 11:09:13 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 16, 2019, 10:10:08 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 16, 2019, 04:58:28 PM
Shadow of the vampire was great.
Someone contradicting me in 3... 2....
Not me. I loved the celery crunch sound when WILLEM DAFOE took a bite. :thumbup: :teddyr:
I enjoyed that movie very much!
Does anyone besides me like VAMPIRE'S KISS (1988)? :question:
I loved VAMPIRE'S KISS and it kinda p**ses me off that a lot of people consider it an "unintentional comedy" just because it has Nick Cage and the "You don't say?" meme came from that movie. It seems that nobody understood that the movie is very much aware of its own dark humor.
Here's my favorite scene by far:
http://youtu.be/TmSu9PjVVI8 (http://youtu.be/TmSu9PjVVI8)
If one can not get that this is a black comedy - just f**king stupid. Dumb as dirt.
Nosferatu(1921)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/66df8f5d85a03c03a950fcf89b3964d5/tumblr_p8ow2uOjmG1snusg4o1_400.gif)
Return Of the Vampire(1943)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/027e109d8cb5440b80ecc019e496b506/tumblr_ontenmgamV1v85sfao4_500.gif)
Son Of Dracula(1943)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/9a2dffd3707690bcfcc3bef022f80799/tumblr_pfejn8Fgq51tset9yo6_250.gif)
The Vampire and the Ballerina(1963)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/84344f83fa87b00b85c13e3016d8c3bd/tumblr_opvhltFJ6b1v85sfao2_500.jpg)
The Vampire Lovers(1970)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/f7c17a40cecd456b04e1fb3fd6010e68/tumblr_ou0tpoFK3l1vyazr9o1_400.gif)
House Of Dark Shadows(1970)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fc/ee/ba/fceeba5b9923cb57d85bcabe55dc42fa.png)
The Vampire Doll(1970)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/f932ab6ae973ec18707375c48115b9b9/tumblr_plxkq2czOQ1y4y024o2_500.gif)
Count Yorga Vampire(1970)
(https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-04-2016/IiyspV.gif)
Night Of the Sorcerers(1974)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/5ad9de4c87ed938a4ec122905aa87dd1/tumblr_p76erc7bmB1r4ro7yo1_400.jpg)
Sooooo, anyone going to say "twilight"?
(Runs laughing maniacally while screams and shouts of outrage erupt.... :teddyr:)
(Also hoping RCmerchant doesn't have a stroke.)
(Seriously I just imagined someone dropping a twilight ref into a discussion of good vampire movies and the explosive outrage that would ensue. Yeah I hare it too.)
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 17, 2019, 07:59:05 PM
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on July 17, 2019, 02:06:46 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 17, 2019, 11:09:13 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 16, 2019, 10:10:08 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 16, 2019, 04:58:28 PM
Shadow of the vampire was great.
Someone contradicting me in 3... 2....
Not me. I loved the celery crunch sound when WILLEM DAFOE took a bite. :thumbup: :teddyr:
I enjoyed that movie very much!
Does anyone besides me like VAMPIRE'S KISS (1988)? :question:
I loved VAMPIRE'S KISS and it kinda p**ses me off that a lot of people consider it an "unintentional comedy" just because it has Nick Cage and the "You don't say?" meme came from that movie. It seems that nobody understood that the movie is very much aware of its own dark humor.
Here's my favorite scene by far:
http://youtu.be/TmSu9PjVVI8 (http://youtu.be/TmSu9PjVVI8)
If one can not get that this is a black comedy - just f**king stupid. Dumb as dirt.
Yup. I love me some VAMPIRE'S KISS and some overacting Cage.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 18, 2019, 07:48:20 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 17, 2019, 07:59:05 PM
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on July 17, 2019, 02:06:46 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 17, 2019, 11:09:13 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 16, 2019, 10:10:08 PM
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 16, 2019, 04:58:28 PM
Shadow of the vampire was great.
Someone contradicting me in 3... 2....
Not me. I loved the celery crunch sound when WILLEM DAFOE took a bite. :thumbup: :teddyr:
I enjoyed that movie very much!
Does anyone besides me like VAMPIRE'S KISS (1988)? :question:
I loved VAMPIRE'S KISS and it kinda p**ses me off that a lot of people consider it an "unintentional comedy" just because it has Nick Cage and the "You don't say?" meme came from that movie. It seems that nobody understood that the movie is very much aware of its own dark humor.
Here's my favorite scene by far:
http://youtu.be/TmSu9PjVVI8 (http://youtu.be/TmSu9PjVVI8)
If one can not get that this is a black comedy - just f**king stupid. Dumb as dirt.
Yup. I love me some VAMPIRE'S KISS and some overacting Cage.
.
So, you're saying there's actually a NON overacting Cage?
Why would you watch Cage for any other reason? Do You watch Shemp Howard for high drama? Or Brando for slapstick? I watch Nicholas Cage for over acting craziness. I don't give a f**k about his action movies. I wanna see him eat a cockroach!
I think your post could have been much shorter and effective if you'd limited it to "Why would you watch Cage?"
I can't think of anything o his I liked. I did like armored skeptic's review of his left behind movie.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 18, 2019, 10:40:31 PM
I think your post could have been much shorter and effective if you'd limited it to "Why would you watch Cage?"
I can't think of anything o his I liked. I did like armored skeptic's review of his left behind movie.
Because I DO like many of his films.
I would not watch VAMPIRE'S KISS, or PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS or WILD AT HEART, if he
wasn't in them.
I don't know who Armored Septic is ( he's wearing like knight armor s**t? and he's a septic tank?) -nor do I give a f**k what he thinks.I have my own brain. I don't give a flying f**k what anyone says about something I like. They can be as snarky as they want. I Don't agree with all reveiws I read. Because that is why I post on BAD MOVIES. I actually LIKE s**t most people hate. No other reason. I don't like MSTK 3000 kinda s**t, because, I really wanna watch this f**kin' movie.
I know that I like his movies-if someone else cuts them down-well-yippy skippy. I reckon that's his right and point of veiw. Not one that I would agree with, but of course I think everybody's wrong and I am always right! :drink:
speaking of vampire movies, even tho it's badly named the vampireless Italian film "Planet of the vampires" is a decent little SF horror movie and the oniy good SF film to escape from italy in the 60's. Mario bava directed.
From the 70's I would say MARTIN (1977) and...the WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN (1971), is a pretty cool movie. I enjoyed Herzog's NOSFERATU (1979) very much.
Lotsa folks like DRACULA (1979); I don't. Don't get me wrong- it's a beautiful film. But Langella's blow dry disco hair and pirate shirt did nothing for me.
On a BAD movie level- DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1971) is the movie to beat!
http://youtu.be/GjQP_eaFVuU (http://youtu.be/GjQP_eaFVuU)
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 19, 2019, 10:26:07 PM
From the 70's I would say MARTIN (1977) and...the WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN (1971), is a pretty cool movie. I enjoyed Herzog's NOSFERATU (1979) very much.
Lotsa folks like DRACULA (1979); I don't. Don't get me wrong- it's a beautiful film. But Langella's blow dry disco hair and pirate shirt did nothing for me.
On a BAD movie level- DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1971) is the movie to beat!
http://youtu.be/GjQP_eaFVuU (http://youtu.be/GjQP_eaFVuU)
Uh, yeah, it's been beat.
Dracula 3000.This is the
worst vampire movie ever made because of the
cape in it. Even if you ignore ire the idiotic plot, the bad acting, the seteroptypical gangsta characters, the generally bad acting, ridiculous dialog, etc, etc, the
cape alone makes it the worst vampire ever made.
Words
cannot describe how awful, stupid, ridiculous , asinine, inane, groan, eyeroll and face palm inducing this cape is. It looks like someone literally reached into a tv screen and somehow pulled a vampire cape right out of a bugs bunny or Hanna Barbara cartoon.
You have to
see it to
believe it.
(http://www.mansplat.com/dracula_3000_2.jpg)
(https://spacedj.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dracula.jpg)
If
Christopher Lee ever appeared on stage wearing this the cast and crew would collapse in full fledged laughing seizures.
If Bela Lugosi appeared in this cape RCMerchant would boo him.
This may be the worst piece of costume ever made in a film.
Quote from: Svengoolie 3 on July 20, 2019, 01:13:18 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 19, 2019, 10:26:07 PM
From the 70's I would say MARTIN (1977) and...the WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN (1971), is a pretty cool movie. I enjoyed Herzog's NOSFERATU (1979) very much.
Lotsa folks like DRACULA (1979); I don't. Don't get me wrong- it's a beautiful film. But Langella's blow dry disco hair and pirate shirt did nothing for me.
On a BAD movie level- DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1971) is the movie to beat!
http://youtu.be/GjQP_eaFVuU (http://youtu.be/GjQP_eaFVuU)
Uh, yeah, it's been beat.
Dracula 3000.
This is the worst vampire movie ever made because of the cape in it. Even if you ignore ire the idiotic plot, the bad acting, the seteroptypical gangsta characters, the generally bad acting, ridiculous dialog, etc, etc, the cape alone makes it the worst vampire ever made.
Words cannot describe how awful, stupid, ridiculous , asinine, inane, groan, eyeroll and face palm inducing this cape is. It looks like someone literally reached into a tv screen and somehow pulled a vampire cape right out of a bugs bunny or Hanna Barbara cartoon.
You have to see it to believe it.
(http://www.mansplat.com/dracula_3000_2.jpg)
(https://spacedj.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/dracula.jpg)
If Christopher Lee ever appeared on stage wearing this the cast and crew would collapse in full fledged laughing seizures.
If Bela Lugosi appeared in this cape RCMerchant would boo him.
This may be the worst piece of costume ever made in a film.
I have not seen it-but yeah- that's
awful.The thing is- I have grown to
like DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN after I seen it on TV in about 1973. I hated it then! I couldn't believe Famous Monsters had it on the cover!
Year later I found out that the editor Forrest Ackerman, was pals with Sam Serman, and was the editor of Warren's SCREEN THRILLS ILLUSTRATED. Plus Forry was in it.... :lookingup:
(https://i.imgur.com/2OticSc.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
It wasn't just awful, they acted like it was the first time drac and frank were in the same movie!
Between this and that ghawdawful torture porn movie "Assignment terror" I have a hard time picking the worse one!
I mean assignment terror didn't even call Frankenstein by his name, using some variants of it. I admit I used one of the names they called Frankenstein, "Feraxalon" (feh rax a lon) as a name for an iron warrior character in my chaos space marines armyso I got some good out of it.) But the worst thing about it was it was the. Last movie of screen legend Michael "klaatu" Rennie. Lord what a terrible note for a career like his to end on!!! :bluesad: :hatred:
The Dracula with Frank Langella dropped right in my formative years, so it's a bit of a classic for me.
https://youtu.be/w8mbmSijd4o (https://youtu.be/w8mbmSijd4o)