Best & Worst Vampire Movies

[redmarvel]

C'mon you knew I had to do it.

Good:
Interview with a Vampire
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Blade 1 & 2

Bad:
Blackula

 

[LEX]

I say the best are Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Blade 1 & 2, Underworld and Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the worst are Blade: Trinity, Dracula 2000, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Queen of the Damned.

 

[Iceman]

Interview with a Vampire is my favourite.

There's too many contenders to list for the worst.

 

[That-Guy]

Worst:

Blade 2 and Blade: Trinity
Vampire Hunter D (sorry, but I thought this movie was completely ridiculous)
VAN HELSING
Queen of the Damned

 

[The Chairman]

Best:

The Lost Boys
Fright Night
Dracula (1931)

 

[Bastila]

Best
Underworld 1 and 2
Blade
Night Watch

Worst
Blade 3
Queen of the damned

 

[kytrigger]

Best:
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

Worst:
Everything that isn't Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

 

[Halcohol]

^lol

Dracula 2000 was AWFUL... I dunno Interview with a Vampire was on CityTV a couple days ago, that was pretty good.

 

[Edd Extraordinaire]

I was just going to post about Dracula 2000 haha. Awful.

I thought Bram Stoker's Dracula by Francis Ford Coppolla was one of the best vampire movies I've seen.

 

[KingOfDreams]

Good...

Interview with The Vampire
Nosferatu
Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Bad...

not sure yet

 

[Jolie_Desastre]

Good...

Interview with The Vampire
Nosferatu
Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Bad...

not sure yet

haha my favorite! i love leslie nielson

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

How has nobody said Vampire Assassins for worst yet!

 

[Ronny Shade]

I gotta say, as much as I love Fright Night, Blade 1 and 2 and John Carpenter's Vampires


The Lost Boys

fangs down

 

[Edd Extraordinaire]

Lost Boys definitely. JC's Vampires wasn't bad.

 

[Edd Extraordinaire]

Lost Boys definitely. JC's Vampires wasn't bad.

 

[KenK]

John Carpenter's Vampires (despite being almost nothing like the novel) is pure baddassery!

 

[Darth Elektra]

Best:
Noferstra
Dracula (1931)
All those old Dracula films that Universal produced in the 40's and 50's.
Underworld .
Underworld Evolution.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

I say the best are Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Blade 1 & 2, Underworld and Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the worst are Blade: Trinity, Dracula 2000, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Queen of the Damned.

I enjoy Bloodlust, but I consider the original to be superior.

 

[HoldMyDrink]

Best--Shadow of the Vampire.
Close 2nd--Bram Stoker's Dracula
Worst--The Night Flier

 

[tzarinna]

I'm on the fence with Salem's Lot
John Carpenter’s Vampires
The Lost Boys
Dracula (1931)
Nosferatu

I feel like I'm missing something.

 

[Max J Power]

Here's all the ones I've seen:

Dracula (1930s)
Blade
Blade II
Blade: Trinity
From Dusk Till Dawn
Van Helsing

They were all good except Van Helsing and Blade: Trinity. Trinity was ok, though.

 

[DACrowe]

Best:

1. Dracula (1931): For Bela Lugosi only man, Bela Lugosi only. Oh and Dwight Frye's Renfield is incredible and incredibly unforgettable too though.

2. Interview with the Vampire (1994): It FAITHFULLY adapts Ann Rice's book and is a classic in many respects. It is dark, macbre and over the top, every bit as much as the books. It is over decedant and wasteful but the movie knew this and did so intentionally, unlike Ann Rice's writing style and added a level of depth to it all beyond the Rice goth Vampire cliche and was wonderfully directed, produced, written and acted (Yes Tom Cruise NAILED Lestat).

3. Nosferatu (1922): A classic. It invented the genre in many respects and Max Schreck's Performance is still scary all these years later. German expressionism at its best and you know how powerful is? This film CREATED the myth vampires die by sunlight and it still resonates as major cannon today (take that Rice for scoffing old superstitions when you use new ones in your book from a 1922 film).

4. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992): Over the top? Very. Unfaithful? Aggrivatingly so. Cheesy. In many scenes, you bet. But this visual piece of confection is brilliant in many turns and features fine performances (save from Keanu Reeves) and an astounding cast with some truly creepy scenes and a haunting score, cinematography and costume/set design that are unfrogetable. As an adaptation I used ot hate it and still do in that sense but as a film taken from preuly enjoyment and craft, this is an excellent movie.

5. Fright Night: A visual send up of the cheesy (but great in their own right) Hammer horror films, while being a horror movie itself. And who says Scream invented the self-parodying horror movie? It still has moments of genuine suspense and horror as well as top notch performances, especially from the very underrated Roddy McDowell who makes a Peter Cushing parody his own and is excellent in this B-movie heaven classic.

6. Shadow of the Vampire: Nothing says great as a movie about the making of Nosferatu. Here we have vampire Max Schreck playing a vampire in a bemusing and yet tragic performance from the underrated Willem Dafoe and John Malcovich sending us a subltte but genius depictioin of the abusurdity of German expressionists and the "do it and go, nevermind the consequences" style of filmmaking lamented but not as well captured in Jackson's King Kong.

7. Underworld: Yeah, the best are above but this cheesy, way too serious for its own good B-actioner is quite a revelation in itself. A triumph of style over substance (and Kate Beckinsale in tight leather) that it captures the awesome images we always wanted to see: Vampires vs. Werewolves. At the same time the deep and thick self-mythology is pretty fascinating within itself and forms a nice little bloody opera here, even if the characters are too cool to have timme to really show what little humanity they are supposed to have left (something the sequel did right, one of the few somethings). And of course Bill Nighy stole the show as the villainous Viktor in this.

8. The Horror of Dracula (1958)

9. Blade II

10. Blade

11. Underworld II? The last one is hard to say one way or the other.

And the rest are pretty much bad but the short list of bad (serious) vampire movies are:

-Dracula's Daughter
-House of Frankenstein
-House of Dracula
-Most of the Hammer sequels
-The Lost Boys
-John Carpenter's Vampires
-Blade: Trinity
-Queen of the Damned
-Dracula 2000
-Fright Night 2
-Van Helsing

I'm sure there are MANY more but that is good enough for now.

 

[Arcturus]

The Lost Boys & Interview with a Vampire, both are excellent.

 

[The Chairman]

How the **** can anyone list The Lost Boys with the bad?

 

[Arcturus]

Oh and Salems Lot and Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter are excellent.