"Top Ten Vampire Movies?" Topic

Part III and Final of my Trilogy of "Top Ten" Horror Movie Series.
I tried to make it as comprehensive as possible. Here is a list of ALL the Vampire movies I could find in in Alphabetical order.

If you want to cut it down GREATLY I recommend U Tube and search by top 10 Vampire movies.

Many have already narrowed it down and have the most popular ones listed.
VR
James Mattes

3 (1994)
30 Days of Night (2007) – Based on the comic of the same name.
30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)
A Fool There Was (1915)
A Night of Horror (1916)
A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
A Vampire Out of Work (1916)
A Village Vampire (1916)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) – Lugosi played Dracula in this comedy-horror hybrid that concluded the Universal Studios series.
Against the Dark (2009)
Angel (1999–2004)
Bad Blood (1998)
Baywatch and Baywatch Nights shares same story with Mitch tracking down a real vampire.
Being Human, BBC Three series (2008–present)
Being Human, North American adaptation of the British series (2011)
Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966) Billy the Kid must stop Dracula (John Carradine) from taking his fiance, and making her his vampire bride. (Note that the name Dracula is not used in the film, but only in the title.)
Bite Me (2002)
Black Sabbath (1963) – a portmanteau Italian horror film, introduced by Boris Karloff, in three segments, the last of which is based on Alexei Tolstoy's vampire story The Family of the Vourdalak (1839) about a father (played by Karloff) who returns to the family home as a vampire.
Black Sunday (1960)
Blacula (1972) – a blaxploitation cult film in which an African prince is turned into a vampire by Dracula. The film is also notable for featuring the first two gay male vampires in film history: both victims of Blacula.
Blade (1998)
Blade II (2002)
Blade: The Series (2006)
Blade: Trinity (2004)
Blade: Trinity (2004) – Drake the vampire is supposed to have had many forms throughout the centuries, Stoker's Dracula being one of them.
Blood & Donuts (1995)
Blood and Roses (1960) by Roger Vadim – the first of the lesbian vampire genre, based on Le Fanu's Carmilla.
Blood Bath (1966)
Blood for Dracula (1974) – also released as Andy Warhol's Dracula (X-rated)
Blood Ties (1991)
Blood Ties (2007)
Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) – An anime film about a vampire girl named Saya fighting chiropterans for a secret organization.
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) – A live-action adaptation.
Blood+ (Blood Plus) (2005–2006) – A Japanese television series involving an alternate reality of Blood: The Last Vampire still centering around Saya.
Bloodlust (2006)
Bloodlust: Subspecies III (1994)
BloodRayne (2006)
BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007)
BloodRayne III: The Third Reich (2010)
Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)
Bordello of Blood (1996)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) – attempt at filming the story quite close to Stoker's novel, but merging the medieval story of Vlad Tepeş; starring Gary Oldman as Dracula. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse (2006) – A direct to video release from The Asylum and director Leigh Scott with special effects by Almost Human Inc., the company who did creature effects for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Reboot of original, announced in 2009. Unknown release date.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Buffy vs. Dracula episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000)
Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974) – a Hammer film.
Carmilla (1964) – an Italian film, starring Christopher Lee, very loosely based on the story of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu
Charmed
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) – Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson, John C. Reilly, Michael Ceveris – based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan called Cirque Du Freak.
Coming Out (2000) – South Korean short film.
Count Dracula (1970 film) was the Jesus Franco-directed adaptation.
Count Dracula (1977) was the second BBC production, this one remarkably faithful and starring Louis Jourdan.
Count Duckula (1989–1993) – Animated series, parody of Dracula.
Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
Countess Dracula (1971)
Cronos (1993) – by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, features a vampiric parasite encased inside a clockwork beetle, cunningly devised by a medieval alchemist to pierce the skin of those who handle it, turning them into blood-thirsty vampires. Vampirism in the film is also used as a metaphor for the predatory financial exploitation of Mexico by the USA.
Curse of the Undead (1959)
Dance in the Vampire Bund (2010)
Dark Town (2004)
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Day Watch (2006)
Daybreakers (2009) – written and directed by Peter and Michael Spierig.
Dead Man's Blood (2005)
Demons (2009) – The character of Mina Harker is revealed to be a vampire in the episode "Suckers". She also has a son, Quincey, who is also a vampire.
Doctor Who
Dracula (1931) – the first Universal Studios Dracula film, starring Bela Lugosi
Dracula (1958; aka Horror of Dracula) – the first Hammer Dracula film, starring Christopher Lee as the Count. Followed by the sequels:
Dracula (1968) a made-for-television version starring Denholm Elliott.
Dracula (1973) was directed by Dan Curtis and starred Jack Palance in the title role.
Dracula (1979) – a film in the gothic romantic tradition starring Frank Langella and remake of the 1931 film with Bela Lugosi
Dracula (2002) was an Italian miniseries which updated the story to modern day.
Dracula (2006) is the third BBC version, starring Marc Warren as the title character and reworking the plot.
Dracula (Spanish Version) (1931) – Spanish-language version starring Carlos Villarías, made simultaneously with the 1931 Bela Lugosi film, using the same sets on a timeshare basis
Dracula 2000 (2000) – a modern reworking of the story.
Dracula 3000 (2004)
Dracula AD 1972 (1972)
Dracula Blows His Cool (1979) – a bizarre German film in which the vampire's castle becomes a tourist trap and the Count is reduced to providing oral service for his guests.
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
Dracula or Drakula (Original title: Дракула)(1920) – Russian film.
Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002) – a silent interpretation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's take of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) – a parody of Dracula films by Mel Brooks; Leslie Nielsen as Dracula
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) – in which Lee returns from the dead
Dracula: The Series (1990)
Dracula's Daughter (1936) – Follow up to the 1931 film, starring Gloria Holden
Dragon Ball
Drakula holalu (1921)
Drakula Istanbul'da (Dracula in Istanbul) (1953) – a rarely seen Turkish film on the subject. In order not to offend Muslim sensibilities no crucifixes were depicted.
El Vampiro (1957) – a Mexican cult classic, possibly the first film to actually show a vampire with elongated canines.
Embrace of the Vampire (1994)
Etna's Embarrassing Secret (2006)
Fangland (2011) – Dracula returns.
Feast of the Vampires (2009)[7]
Forever Knight (1992–1996)
Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku (2010)
Fresh Blood (2007)
Fright Night (1985)
Fright Night II (1989)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000)
Frostbiten (2006) – Sweden's first vampire film.
Ganja and Hess (1972) – Blaxploitation.
Gayracula (1983), an all-male pornographic film
Gothic Vampires from Hell (2007)
Habit (film) (1997)
Hellsing (2002)
Hellsing (2002) – Alucard is Dracula, controlled by the descendent of Abraham Van Helsing, Integra Hellsing.
Hellsing Ultimate (2006) – New series that sticks closer to the original manga.
Hellsing Ultimate (2006) – Remake of Hellsing following the original manga series more closely.
Hot Vampire Nights (1999) – X-rated.
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
House of Dracula (1945) – The final serious Universal Studios Dracula film, starring Carradine
House of Frankenstein (1944) – John Carradine plays Dracula as part of an ensemble cast in this Universal Studios film
I Am Legend (2007) – Based on the novel of the same name.
I Sell the Dead (2008) – Victorian grave robbers awake the undead.
Imortal (2010) – Sequel to the 2008 fantasy series, Lobo.
In the Grip of the Vampire (1913)
Innocent Blood (1992)
Interview with the Vampire (1994) – While no appearance or rendition of Dracula is made, the vampire Louis denounces the Dracula legend as "the vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman."
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) – Based on the novel by Anne Rice.
Kindred the Embraced (1996)
Kiss of the Vampire (1915)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
La Fiancee De Dracula (The Fiancee Of Dracula) (2002)
La Morte Vivante (The Living Dead Girl) (1982)
La Vampire Nue (1969)
Le Frisson Des Vampires (The Shiver Of The Vampires) (1970)
Le Viol du Vampire (1968) – vampire erotica by cult French director Jean Rollin. Followed by several more films of much the same sort, by Rollin, each usually featuring several attractive naked Frenchwomen in vampiric roles:
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) – Mina Harker, vampiric thanks to her encounter with Dracula, is a member of the League.
Lemora (1973)
Leptirica (1973) (The She-Butterfly) – based on the story Posle devedeset godina written by Milovan Glišić.
Leptirica (aka The Butterfly) (1973) – a Yugoslavian classic horror film directed by Djordje Kadijevic.
Les Deux Orphelines Vampires (Two Orphan Vampires) (1995)
Les Vampires (1915) – a 10 part silent-film serial
Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) – A spoof of the lesbian vampire genre.
Let Me In (2010) – An American remake of the 2008 acclaimed Swedish film.
Let the Right One In (2008) – An acclaimed Swedish romantic horror film based on the novel of the same name.
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Lčvres De Sang (Lips Of Blood) (1975)
Lifeforce (1985)
Little Dracula (1991)
London After Midnight (1927) – a lost silent film.
Lost Boys: The Thirst (2010)
Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008)
Lost Tapes – Vampires (Season 2, Episode 1) (2009)
Love At First Bite (1979) – romantic comedy spoof starring George Hamilton.
Love Bites (1993)
Lust at First Bite (1978) – (x-rated)
Lust for a Vampire (1971) – the second film in the Karnstein Trilogy.
Lust for Dracula (2005) is an all-lesbian, very surreal adaptation (x-rated).
Makai Senki Disgaea
Mark of the Vampire (1935) – a remake of London After Midnight, this time as a talkie. At the conclusion of the film the vampires are revealed to be fraudulent.
Martin (1977) – George A. Romero's film about clinical vampirism ambiguously confused with folkloric vampirism.
Masters of Horror
Modern Vampires (1998)
Mom's Got a Date With a Vampire (2000) – A Disney Channel Original Movie
Monster Force (1994) – an animated television series featuring Dracula as the mastermind of Evil, the Prince of Darkness and the main antagonist of the series
Moon Child (2003)
Moonlight (2007)
Mr. Vampire (1916)
My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988)
Nadja (1994)
Near Dark (1987)
Nick Knight (1989) – Pilot episode.
Night Watch (2004) – Russian fantasy film partially involving vampires.
Night Whispers (1996)
Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective – A Japanese anime based on Shido, a vampire detective who hunts the 'Nightbreed' while trying to stay a step ahead of his creator Cain.
Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979) – a strange comedy
Nosferatu (1922; starring Max Schreck) – unlicensed German adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel; featuring "Count Orlok", a thinly veiled allusion to Dracula.
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) was Werner Herzog's remake of Murnau's silent classic.
Not of This Earth (1957)
Not of This Earth (1988) – a remake with Traci Lords.
Not of This Earth (1995) – another remake with Michael York.
Once Bitten (1985)
Other vampires in televisionDark Shadows (1966–1971,1991)
Out for Blood (2004)
Pale Blood (1990)
Perfect Creature (2006) – New Zealand's first vampire film.
Ponti Anak Remaja Lit: Ponti The Teenage Vampire, Malaysian miniseries about a vampire who wants to fit in the human world (2010)
Port Charles – daytime serial on ABC that utilized vampires in story arcs from 2001–2003.
Priest (2011) – Based on the Korean comic of the same name.
Queen of the Damned (2002) – Based on the novel of the same name by Anne Rice.
Queen of the Damned (2002) – Film adaptation of a Anne Rice novel
Rabid (1977)
Razor Blade Smile (1998) – a very low budget independent British film which pays homage to the Hammer lesbian vampire films of the 1970s.
Red-Blooded American Girl (1990)
Reign in Darkness (2002)
Requiem Pour Un Vampire (Requiem For A The Vampire) (1971)
Revamped (2007)
Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)
Rockula (1990)
Rosario + Vampire (2004) – A Japanese anime/comedy series, starring the vampire Moka Akashiya, who later transforms the other main character, Tsukune Aono into a vampire as well.
Salem's Lot (1979) – Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.
'Salem's Lot (2004)
Samurai Vampire Bikers From Hell (1992)
Saved From the Vampire (1914)
Scars of Dracula (1970)
School for Vampires (2006) German-Italian kids show about a young vampire with a fear of blood
Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (2002)
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
Search & Rescue (1997)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) – Oscar-nominated film about the 1922 filming of Nosteratu, excellent recreation of the sets, filming and story.
Shaman King
Shiki (2010)
Slaughter of the Vampires, (1962) an Italian film that quickly became a cult classic and favorite: during the late 1960s and 1970s, it ran on screen and constantly on TV. Also known as La Strage dei Vampiri. The U.S. title is Curse of the Blood Ghouls.
Slayer (2006)
Sleepwalkers (1992)
Sliders – Stoker episode (Season 3, Episode 24) (1997)
Smallville
Son of Dracula (1943) – further sequel to the 1931 film starring Lon Chaney Jr.
Split (2009–Present) – An Israeli supernatural drama series.
State of Decay (1980)
Strange Things Happen at Sundown (2003)
Subspecies (1991)
Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998)
Suck (2010)
Sun Shadows: Faithful Kiss (2011) – A Swedish vampire film about a young man from a vampirehunter family falling in love with a vampiress. This leads to a war between vampires and vampirehunters. [8]
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1990) is a comedy western about a ghost town populated by vampires.
Supernatural
Supernatural: The Animation, A Japanese anime based on the first 2 seasons of the same name live-action series.
Tale Of a Vampire (1992)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969)
The Addiction (1995) A philosophical variant on the vampire film, that uses vampirism as a metaphor for AIDS and ends with a notorious and highly sexually charged orgy of blood-sucking.
The Beloved Vampire (1917)
The Bleeding (2011 film) (2011) – Katherine von Drachenberg, DMX, Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Armand Assante, Rachelle Leah, Pittsburgh Slim – Shawn Black saves the world from evil forces.
The Blond Vampire (1922)
The Breed (film) (2001)
The Brides of Dracula (1960) – the first in the sequence which doesn't feature Christopher Lee in the lead role
The Curse of Fenric (1989)
The Dark Crystal (1982)
The Devil's Daughter (1915)
The Era of Vampires (English Title) (2002) – Hong Kong film by Tsui Hark. Original Title: Vampire Hunters.
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) – a semi-spoof of the genre directed by Roman Polanski.
The Forsaken (2001)
The Gates (2010)
The Hamiltons (2006)
The Hunger (1983)
The Hunger (1997–2000)
The Keep (film) (1983)
The Kiss of the Vampire – a Hammer film (1964).
The Lair (2007–2009)
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
The Last Man on Earth (1964) – based on the novel I Am Legend
The Last Sect (2006) – Van Helsing's grandson (David Carradine) combats lesbian vampires.
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) – Christopher Lee refused to return as the Count, so John Forbes-Robertson took his place for the opening in Transylvania.
The Little Vampire (1985) – Canadian.
The Little Vampire (1993) – German.
The Little Vampire (2000)
The Lost Boys (1987)
The Monster Club (1980) – this British film features horror legend Vincent Price as a vampire for the first and only time in his career.
The Monster Squad (1987)
The Night Stalker (1972)
The Omega Man (1971) – also based on the novel I Am Legend.
The Real Ghostbusters
The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
The Return of Doctor X (1939) -In an atypical role, Humphrey Bogart plays a scientist executed for starving an infant to death, who is re-animated with a need to consume blood.
The Return of the Vampire (1944)
The Sanuguniarian (2008)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
The Thirst (2006)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1 2011/Part 2 2012) – Based on the novel Breaking Dawn.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) – Based on the novel Eclipse.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) – Based on the novel New Moon.
The Twins Effect (2003) – A Chinese martial arts vampire film, with a special guest appearance by Jackie Chan. AKA The Vampire Effect
The V Word (2006)
The Vampire (1913) – directed and co-written by Robert G. Vignola
The Vampire (1920)
The Vampire (1928)
The Vampire (1974)
The Vampire Bat (1933)
The Vampire Lovers (1970), based on the story Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu and featuring Ingrid Pitt as a lesbian vampire. This was the first of Hammer's Karnstein Trilogy and set a trend for lesbian erotica in the genre.
The Vampire of Budapest (1995) – a gay pornographic film from director Kristen Bjorn.
The Vampire's Clutch (1915)
The Vampire's Ghost (1945)
The Vampires of Bloody Island (2008)
The Vampires of Venice (2010)
The Vampire's Tower (1914)
The Vampire's Trail (1910)
The Vampire's Trail (1914)
The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)
The X-Files
Thirst (1979)
Thirst (2005)
Thirst (2009)
Transylvanian Homesick Blues (1987)
Trinity Blood (2005) – A Japanese anime shows that the story of a war between humans and vampires, and showing a new kind vampires popular as Krsnik.
Trouble Every Day (2001) – Artistic, erotic take on the vampire myth by Claire Denis.
True Blood (2008–Present)
Twilight (2008) – Based on the novel of the same name.
Twilight Watch (2009)
Twins of Evil (1971) – the third film in the Karnstein trilogy.
Ultraviolet (1998)
Ultraviolet (2006)
Underworld (2003) – battle between vampires and werewolves
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
Urban Gothic
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Vamp (1986)
Vampire Ambush/The Vampire Legend (2002)
Vampire Blvd. (2004)
Vampire Candy (2011) – Australian/South Korean production – Jung Ryeo Won, Jacob Paint, Song Kang-ho – dir. Bong Joon-ho (Original screenplay by Jacob Paint)
Vampire Circus (1973) – a Hammer film.
Vampire Clan (2002)
Vampire Cop Ricky (2006)
Vampire Diaries (2009–Present)
Vampire High (2001)
Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Vampire in Venice (1988)
Vampire Journals (1997)
Vampire Knight (2008) – A Japanese romance/anime about a school for vampires and humans.
Vampire Knight Guilty (2008) – Sequel series to Vampire Knight anime series.
Vampire Noir (2007)
Vampire of the Coast (1909) (the first silent Vampire film)
Vampire Party (2008) – original Title Les dents de la nuit
Vampire Princess Miyu (1988)
Vampires (1998)
Vampires Anonymous (2003) – A vampire trying to get away from his "eating habits" joins a 12-step program.
Vampire's Kiss (1989)
Vampires of the Night (1914)
Vampires of Warsaw (1914)
Vampires Suck (2010)
Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)
Vampires: The Turning (2005)
Vampires: The Turning (2005)
Vampirology (2000)
Vampyr (1932)
Vampyrer (2008) – Another Swedish horror thriller film about two vampire sisters.
Vampyres (1974) – an erotic film which features two lesbian vampires who inhabit a Gothic mansion in England: includes much in the way of bloody violence.
Vampyros Lesbos (1971) a West German entry in the "lesbian erotic vampire" sub-genre.
Van Helsing (2004) – action film only loosely connected to the original Dracula; Richard Roxburgh is Dracula. Van Helsing's appearance is heavily based on the look of Vampire Hunter D, a vampire hunter who is the implied son of Dracula.
Van Helsing link
Vegas Vampires (2007) – Daniel Baldwin, Richard Roundtree
Wannabe (2009) – an Independent American Horror film[6]
Was She A Vampire? (1915)
We Are the Five Warriors (1987)
Who Is Fortuneteller Baba? (1987)
Wir sind die Nacht (2010) – A German modern-day film about a clique of young, rich and pretty female vampires.
Wizards of Waverly Place
Wizards vs. Vampires Saga (2009)
Young Dracula (2006–2008) – CBBC Television Series.
Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (aka Dracula's Dog) (1978), a low-budget film in which the descendant of Dracula takes second billing to a vampiric Doberman

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James Mattes

you forgot the Fearless Vampire Killers with the lovely Sharon Tate and film director Roman polansky 1966

Your lists would be a lot shorter if you didn't keep double listing films…

Mick

Mick A 20 Aug 2011 7:24 a.m. PST
Your lists would be a lot shorter if you didn't keep double listing films…

Mick

Might be the case I just pulled the list from the web. I think I fixed it in the first two (Zombies and Werewolves). Let me check my source.
VR
James Mattes

Yeap there are several that are listed because of Directors cut or re-release for the poll I will edit it and delete the ones that I can tell are duplicates. Sorry.
VR
James Mattes

Also not your fault, but lists like this are hard to take seriously when they put titles beginning with "The" in the "t's"…

Flintloque 20 Aug 2011 7:41 a.m. PST
Also not your fault, but lists like this are hard to take seriously when they put titles beginning with "The" in the "t's"…

Agree and I will try and fix it before/if it goes to the poll. I have a lot of work to do to clean up the lists and edit them down some. For example Dark Shadows the series is listed and I will kill that one. I WILL leave Zombie Zombie Zombie (Zombies vs Strippers) in but it went straight to video. Only because it is on my top ten!
VR
James Mattes

Not knowledgeable enough to quote 10, but:
*
Nosferatu: seminal, even if Bela Lugosi later determined most of the imagery;
I'm a legend' the *old* one, because I favor the 'Matheson model' of vampirism;
Life Force, for the setting;
Vampires (Carpenter) for the swashbuckling ambiance, the surgical collar and the ambiguity: good guys can turn vampire;
30 days of night for the 'wolves pack' social structure of the vampires: a 'logical' way to have a society different from ours, yet credible and self-consistent.

*Hellsing Ultimate *OAV* for the 'ambiguity': an approach of 'good' (?) vampires SO different from 'Twilight'! And a 'good', if fighting on the 'evil' side, werewolf.

*The adaptations of Sheridan Le Fanus's marvelous Carmilla en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla -for me a far better vampire novel than Dracula- though none is excellent: Il Sangue e la rosa, The Vampire Lovers, Lust for a Vampire and thus all Jean Rollin's vampire films link
Seemingly I prefer Elizabeth Bathory over Vlad Tepes as historical root vampire characters?

Is the Keep(1983) a vampire film?

Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974) – a Hammer film.
I liked this as a kid but don't much care for it anymore.

Fright Night (1985) probably My favorite vampire film

Love At First Bite (1979) – romantic comedy spoof starring George Hamilton. I have a real soft spot for this one.

Nosferatu (1922; starring Max Schreck) – unlicensed German adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel; featuring "Count Orlok", a thinly veiled allusion to Dracula.
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) was Werner Herzog's remake of Murnau's silent classic. Both of these are good movies.
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) – Oscar-nominated film about the 1922 filming of Nosteratu, excellent recreation of the sets, filming and story.
I like this one because of the first two.

The Hunger (1983) Dumb
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) Dumb
Twilight (2008) Dumber

Daughter of Darkness (1990 film) This was nicely filmed with great atmosphere and Mia Sara

Les Vampires (1915) – a 10 part silent-film serial
This is about cat burglers not vampires

I agree that The Keep was not actually a vampire film, though I could see why it could be seen so.

I don't see Grey Knight, aka The Killing Box, on the list. Very low budget and not a traditional vampire flick, but I quite enjoyed it. Rogue Civil War vampire deserters, what's not to love?

I could say thay the Keep was more of a soul vampire--sucks the life right out of german soldiers..

You missed one of my favs, a recent Japanese film called 'Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl.'

Oh, and you KNOW that 'Fright Night' got remade and just came out yesterday, right? Colin Farrell's the vampire neighbor in this version. So now you can add a third Fright Night entry to your list:

Fright Night (Remake, 2011)

I know Vampirella was direct to video but I think it should count.

There is my favourite youtube vampire clip YouTube link

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Saxon Dog 20 Aug 2011 10:07 a.m. PST wrote:

I don't see Grey Knight, aka The Killing Box, on the list. Very low budget and not a traditional vampire flick, but I quite enjoyed it. Rogue Civil War vampire deserters, what's not to love?

I did not add it as I had not seen it in the references I consulted. I will for the final list.

FWIW That movie is on my list #1 in fact of the WORST CIVIL WAR MOVIE EVER! BAR NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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James Mattes

Oh, and you KNOW that 'Fright Night' got remade

I certain that this movie, unlike all the other 80s cult movies that have been remade, will be a huge success.
(sarcasm emoticon)

I love the old Salem's Lot (1979)

Lump me in with Abdul666. Same flicks but some different reasons.

Old Salem's Lot. The grave digger jumping down into the grave scene and where the vampire pops up in the jail were freaky.

My favorites…

Vampyr – silent, creepy
Nosferatu – silent, creepy
Nadja – stylish and artsy
Lemora – it has a fairy-tale feel to it.
Dracula (1931)- it's got Bela, and the bit with the brides in the catacombs is classic.
Let's Scare Jessica To Death – creepy and strange, no fangs in sight.
Martin – uses a hypodermic and razor in place of hypnotic stare and fangs. Not so much scary as interesting.
Let The Right One In
Maboroshi – there's more to it than vampires though.
Cronos – Another good del Toro movie.

I also really enjoy all the early Jean Rollin vampire movies but they're very camp and not really what anyone thinks of when they think 'vampires'. They're more like John Waters movies, if Waters had decided to make gothic horror instead of urban comedy.

I also really enjoy all the early Jean Rollin vampire movies but they're very camp and not really what anyone thinks of when they think 'vampires'.

The Carmilla en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla type of vampire, while even more venerable, is indeed less well-known than the Dracula one.
[Anyway, the archetypal, iconic, image of the vampire was set by Bela Lugosi. Really a second-hand (at best) reference.]

Then, both 'seminal' types of vampires have in common that -the wishes of minis manufacturers notwithstanding- vampires cannot be visually distinguished from normal humans.

FWIW I think at least a couple of the El Santo movies were vs. vampires and werewolves.
imdb.com/title/tt0064932
(my personal favourite of the Mexican wrestling monster movies)
But there's also:
imdb.com/title/tt0055408
imdb.com/title/tt0208504

@abdul666lw, yeah, I've never cared for the minis that shout, 'look at me! I'm a VAMPIRE !!!'… unless they're the Nosferatu sort. Just make them creepy/seductive looking and leave the walrus tusks at home.

My favourite Vampire films/series are:-

Count Dracula (Louis Jourdan)
The Last Man on Earth
Nosferatu
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Let The Right One In

However, I'll have to check out some of the other recommendations here.

Dracula films from Hammer with Christopher Lee.
Bram Stokers Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola.
Old version of Salems Lot.
Underworld series.
Blade series.
Fearless Vampire Killers.
30 days of Night.
Twilight series.
Last Man on Earth(scared me when I was a kid!)
Fright Night.
The Lost Boys.
Louis Jourdan Count Dracula…..very atmospheric!
Plenty more out there but these ones I like especially.
Geoff.
fantascene.net/cart

Nosferatu
Fright Night 1985
Near Dark
30 days of night
Interview with the Vampire
Lost boys

Are some of the movies that I like and can think of right now.

Two of my faves not on the list:

Lips of Blood (French, 1974)
imdb.com/title/tt0073324

Mr.Vampire (Geung si sin sang, 1985)
imdb.com/title/tt0089371
Plus sequels, but I've only seen and really enjoyed the first.

Kronos

I always liked he two "Count Yorga" movies. Maybe not in the top 10 but still fun to watch :)

Anything other than Twilight movies?

Don't know if I have ten, since I always considered the two-legged-tick genre to be woefully overrated.
When it is good, though, it tends to be very, very good.
My favorites are:

1. Near Dark (the most believable vampires ever put on film, and therefore the most frightening)
2. Fright Night (the original; haven't seen the remake yet, but looking forward to it)
3. Daybreakers (perfect depiction of exactly how society really would deal with "immortality")
4. The Last Man on Earth (to date, still the best film version of "I Am Legend"; more's the pity since Will Smith was excellent in an otherwise awful miscarriage of a great story)
5. Interview with the Vampire (woefuly underrated performances by Pitt and Cruise portraying "vampires" as the self-absorbed, self-centered creatures they always were, even before they ever started drinking blood)
6. Count Dracula (I've only seen bits and pieces of Louis Jordan's perfect depiction of Stoker's samguinary Count, but what I have seen was excellent)
7. Night Watch/Day Watch (vampires figure prominently in these films, but the supernatural in general is depicted in a fascinating way)
8. Curse of the Undead (horrible title for a very well-paced tale of a vampire gunslinger in a small Old west town; a "weird west" yarn of the first magnitude, far better than any that have come along since)
9. Shadow of the Vampire (just plain brilliant in every way)
10. Buffy the Vamppire Slayer (partly because it gave the world Joss Whedon, but mostly because Kristy Swanson changed my whole attitude about blondes)
HONORABLE MENTION: Atom Age Vampire (cheesy Italian horror flick (is there any other kind?) that nevertheless filled a couple of hours in regular local TV re-runs when I was a kid)