Favorite Vampire Flicks

but from the very beginning of the vampire myth, they not only sucked your blood, but they always contaminated your soul... there's this whole issue of a centralised Western European culture looking down upon marginalised East European local myths involved in the business, and that issue got mixed up with the authoritarianism and the pro-institutional position of the church doctrines and Western (as in post-Orthodox) Christrianity in general. you can't really secularise the vampire myth, it's all too complicated in origin.

 

famousblueraincoat,

You're right the vampire myth is complicated and includes such notable character such as Vlad the Impaler.

Toss in the fear of being buried alive (which happened often back then) and the fear of catching Rabies (which had no cure) and you've got a legend in the making...

BTW: The final stages of rabies often caused victims to bite others which also furthered the myth, and those folks who were bitten also came down with rabies



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The Lost Boys.

 

Interview With The Vampire was a classic. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas and Kirsten Dunst played great roles. The direction was carried out perfectly. The Queen Of the Damned was a parody of the original and those responsible for it's creation should be hanged

I thought From Dusk Til Dawn was fun and John Carpenter's Vampires made me LMAO!

 

as a life long horror freak, i should shoot myself for having left George A. Romero's "Martin" off my previous post.

p.s. Land of the Dead in '05!!!

 

how could i forget
jesus christ vampire slayer!

 

Giving someone a hickey is also considered a form of vampirism because you're trying to draw blood to the surface of the skin.


While technically you don't really penetrate the skin, the act itself is symbolic and it's roots date back to our earlier cannibalistic stage, when we would all partake in human flesh




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I also thought The Hunger was an awesome movie. Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon & David Bowie were great in that, along with Bauhaus doing the music! What more could you ask for!

 

Blade

Also, Mr.MiGu mentioned a Chinese vampire flick earlier on, but couldn't recall the title. If it's the one where the undead are hopping in the beginning with their arms extended then its title in the west is Mr.Vampire. You will have to search the web to find it probably, but it's well worth it.

 

The Bela Lugosi "Dracula".

Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The original silent "Nosferatu" and the German Klaus Kinsky version.
I loved the book "Interview With The Vampire" but, thought the movie was boring.

 

I have to agree with olhippie54 on Interview with a vampire. If anyone's read Anne Rice's book then they must know that the movie was more like a glossary compared to her creation. The actors were not at fault. You can't do justice to a great novel by compressing it into a 1 and half hour celluloid eye-fest. The pre 20th Century New Orleans atmosphere was merely scratched. My recommendation is waiting for a rainy day and reading this novel non stop with a bottle of '98 Paullac for company.

 

Nosferatu : A Symphony of Horror - 1922 w/ Max Schreck

Dracula - 1931 w/ Bela Lugosi

 

From Dusk Till Dawn
The Lost Boys
Interview with the Vampire
The Breed
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Orginal Dracula
Shadow of a Vampire
Nosferatu
Vampyre
Dark Prince: True Story of Dracula
and others