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HI! I've been reading a lot of vampire books lately, and now wonder if there are some really great vampire movies out there.  What's your favorites?

All time favorite is Near Dark.  Honorable mentions include: The Blade Trilogy, Blood the Last Vampire (anime), Bram Stoker's Dracula (Gary Oldman, yum), From Dusk Till Dawn, The Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned, Fright Night, Underworld / Underworld Evolution, Vampires Anonymous, Van Helsing, Vampire Hunter D / Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust (animes).

Near Dark is one of my all time faves.  The Brides of Dracula is one of my faves, its from the 60's.  Click this link to the top 70 vampire films of all time.  Vamp is a cool one too, its vampire strip club... an 80's classic.

http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/top-70-vampire-movies-of-all-time/

Dracula (Bela Lugosi), Dracula (Frank Langella), The Horror of Dracula (Christopher Lee), Interview with the Vampire,  The Lost Boys, Queen of the Damned, Nosferatu, Shadow of the Vampire, Salem's Lot, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Love at First Bite, Scars of Dracula, Scream and Scream Again, From Dusk Til Dawn, Let the Right One In, Thirst

My favorite vampire movies would be Vampire Hunter D, and Dracula 2000.

Without a doubt,

Interview with the Vampire

Queen of the Dammed

Shadow of the Vampire

Vampire Cop Ricky is a good oriental one

There's a Swedish film called Let the Right One In that has a limited release right now. I highly recommend it. 

The Lost Boys is my favorite vampire movie.

Lots of good ones mentioned here. I'll mention a little known but very unique movie called Children of the Night. Excellent stuff.

Martin (1977 classic)

Near Dark

Children of the Night

The Lost Boys

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

Fright Night

Nadja

From Dusk Till Dawn

Van Helsing

Devil's Den

Club Vampire

Angel of Night

Vamp

to name a few

Interview With a Vampire

The Lost Boys

Queen of the Damned

Twilight

~RaVyn FyRe~

The lost boys --(lost boys 2 was not nearly as good)

Interveiw with a vampire

Forsaken

30 days of night

buffy (comical and awsome in the giggle fest...vampires attacking a prom <3 gotta love it)

I watched Let the Right One In the other week and I fail to see the hype in it.   I found it rather boring and slow even though I knew it wasn't a true horror movie, I couldn't help but feel let down

I'm with Jason on this one. I just bought and watched the film "Let The Right One In" and I don't understand what so many have seen in the film. I waited to get the newer release of the film that included the theatrical cut on the english subtitles and the dialog in the film is still very lacking. The idea behind the film is something they could have made into a masterpiece. I also found the film boring and way too slow for my tastes. I did get a good laugh after viewing the film originally in Swedish with the English subtitles then wanting to see what it'd sound like with English dubbed voices it is horrible. If you're going to watch this film I'd recommend using the subtitles.

I'm with Mike. Thought "Let the Right One In" was excellent.

"...I don't understand what so many have seen in the film."

• creative idea
• interesting location
• excellent cinematography
• chemistry betwen the two lead characters
• theme of the two misfits finding each other and bonding
• pays homage to previous classic vampire flicks

I'm sure I'm missing some more.

My favorites are:

Perfect Creature

Blade trilogy

30 Days of Night

Interview with the Vampire

Queen of the Damned

Underworld series

Let the Right One In

Frostbitten

Rise

The Vampire Journals

Dracula 2000

Near Dark

The Forsaken

Blood is Thicker Than Water: Vampire Diaries Part 1 (low budget)

Strange Things Happen at Midnight (low budget)

Razorblade Smile (low budget)

Eternal Blood (low budget)

I also love the following television series

Kindred:  The Embraced

Ultraviolet

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Blood Ties

Moonlight

Vampire Diaries

True Blood

As previously mentioned Near Dark and Let The Right One In are 2 really great twists on the Vampire movie.

I will add another one out of the mainstream of vampire flicks (which everyone else has covered very well).

Thirst, it is a korean film by the same man who directed Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. It is not your typical vampire film, there are sme laugh out loud, truly strange scenes and some very, very creepy one.  And like his other films it also concerns revenge and how it affects both parties incolved.

Don't forget Nosferatu, the German silent from 1922. Creepiest vampire ever!

My favorites have already been mentioned but here it goes-

Interview with a vampire-(started my obsession with the vampire chronicles)

underworld series-(although the last one was just a blatant ad for the next movie)

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned too, but I'll echo others' reccomendations of Let the Right One In, Interview with the Vampire, and The Horror of Dracula with Christopher Lee.

I'm also quite fond of Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary - a performance film of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Dracula adaptation by Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin.

All my favorite Vampire films have been mentioned already in my thread but I'd like to add Innocent Blood from 1992. I think it is a very underrated Horror comedy from the 90s.

I have not seen anyone mention what I think is one of the most orginal vampire films in years: Daybreakers. Very much worth seeing!