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Post by janntosh on Sept 22, 2020 14:41:59 GMT
Nosferatu (1922)? Dracula (1931)? Dracula (1958)? Dracula (1979)? Salem's Lot (1979)? Near Dark (1987)? The Lost Boys (1987)? Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)? Interview With the Vampire (1994)? Blade (1998)? Underworld (2003)? Twilight (2008)? What We Do In the Shadows (2012?
other?
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Sept 22, 2020 14:43:45 GMT
From Dusk till Dawn is pretty entertaining
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Sept 22, 2020 14:48:02 GMT
Let The Right One In
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 22, 2020 15:16:45 GMT
Salem's Lost 1979
"Look at me teacher!"
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Post by kolchak92 on Sept 22, 2020 15:35:57 GMT
Fright Night (1985) is my favorite.
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Post by sostie on Sept 22, 2020 15:49:31 GMT
Let The Right One In
Followed by: Near Dark Blade 1 & 2 30 Days Of Night What We Do In the Shadows
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Post by politicidal on Sept 22, 2020 15:59:18 GMT
Dracula (1931).
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Post by alpha128 on Sept 22, 2020 16:07:19 GMT
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Post by movielover on Sept 22, 2020 16:08:51 GMT
The Lost Boys and Fright Night (1985) are my personal favorites.
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Post by wmcclain on Sept 22, 2020 16:12:02 GMT
The Hunger (1983), directed by Tony Scott. Ah, to be rich, beautiful and immortal, living languid lives practicing chamber music, going out to clubs at night to find young victims, taking them to a hotel for some sex play, then heartlessly killing them and drinking their blood. Dispose of their bodies at home in a big furnace in the basement. Perfect. Except: only the icy woman seems truly immortal, with memories stretching back to ancient Egypt. Her companions don't last as long; about 200 years in the most recent case. They age and became cadaverous in hours. But they don't die. They can't. They lie in boxes in the attic and just wait. She grieves and then quickly moves on to recruit another companion, man or woman. Would everyone agree to that in advance? Anyone? Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie are nicely suited as the vampire couple. She because she is like an ice queen, he because he looks carnivorous and slightly inhuman. Impressive work by makeup artist Dick Smith, both in an aging scene for Bowie, and for the vampire cadavers at the end. The final transformation scene is remarkably horrific, but also dry. Terror does not require goo. That's an unsettling sequence where Bowie ages decades in the clinic waiting room. A real horror metaphor for life: it flies by while you wait in boredom, doing nothing. We have a hot sex scene with Deneuve and Susan Sarandon, also disturbing because it is about infection and vampire recruitment. Sarandon does her own nudity but Deneuve is clearly using a body double. Scott's first feature film. For influences he cites Nicolas Roeg (particularly Performance (1970)), Kubrick, Polanski and brother Ridley. The film was slammed from all directions, critics calling it arty, self-indulgent, esoteric. "True," said Scott, "but that doesn't mean it's not an interesting film." I recall someone describing it as looking like a 97m perfume ad, which is pretty bitchy, but you see the point. The brothers Scott did thousands of commercials and music videos and brought that visual styling to the screen, in this case with blowing curtains and flapping doves. We became used to the look later, but it was new back then. Scott didn't get another film for four years: Top Gun. My little circle liked this one quite a bit when we saw it in the theater. When we were young we were fascinated by youth, life extension and immortality. Oddly enough, now that I'm old I no longer care. When we came out of the theater we told the manager how much we liked it and he did a double-take: "I've never had so many people walk out and ask for their money back". Yes: too arty, too much chamber music, slow, nothing really explained, glimpses of gruesomeness but no proper action scenes. For general audiences it's a problem. The intro was hard to see in the theater and is more visible on Blu-ray. At first I couldn't tell it was a vampire film; I thought they might be cannibalistically devouring their victims. The goth band in the intro is Bauhaus, doing "Bela Lugosi's Dead". Set in New York but filmed in London to save money. A small part for Dan Hedaya as a police detective, and early glimpses of Willem Dafoe and Sophie Ward. Available on Blu-ray with an edited commentary track by the director and Sarandon, carried over from the DVD. Scott's part must have been recorded around 2004: he mentions just finishing Man on Fire. He says the scope ratio of the film is in the tradition of Barry Lyndon (1975). That must be an inside joke with his brother, because the earlier film isn't scope. Regarding the lesbian sex, Sarandon says: "It certainly changed my fan base". I'm not sure of the logic of the ending and she confirms: the studio insisted on mucking it up, perhaps thinking of a sequel.
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Post by Raimo47 on Sept 22, 2020 16:19:50 GMT
Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Post by angel on Sept 22, 2020 16:47:45 GMT
Martin (1977) is a largely forgotten little gem from George A Romeo.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Sept 22, 2020 19:43:09 GMT
I think I'll go with Salem's Lot (1979), but an HM goes to Fright Night (1985).
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Sept 22, 2020 19:46:56 GMT
From Dusk till Dawn
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 22, 2020 19:48:36 GMT
Gotta go with 30 Days of Night (2007) for pure creep-factor and deadly serious vamps!
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Post by James on Sept 22, 2020 19:49:21 GMT
As far as I’ve seen (cause there isn’t many), From Dusk Till Dawn.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 22, 2020 20:12:19 GMT
As feature films go I guess Fright Night would be number one for me too but Salem's Lot was released theatrically in Europe!
I liked the look of the vampires in 30 Days of Night and also the fact that Mark Boone Junior gets killed by vampires just as he did in JC's Vampires. But once again, I think it needed some script doctoring. For one thing, that vampire helper guy in the jail was fucking annoying. Second, when they showed that grinding machine, my thinking was, oh I bet I know what they will do..they will set a trap in the snow with chains and catch the vampires by the legs and drop them in the machine to grind them up... but they didn't do it!!
I like JC's Vampires but I think the film would have been better if they just focused on Jack Crow and his people going around to places to get vampires instead of that cross--sacrifice thing. The master vampires were cool but didn't show enough of them.
The opening with them at the house and deliberating who would stick their hand in the door to turn the door knob was the best scene.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Sept 22, 2020 21:08:51 GMT
Salem's Lot (1979)? Near Dark (1987)? Interview With the Vampire (1994)? ...are my votes. Salems Lot scared the SHIT out of me as a kid, and is still creepy now. Near Dark was such a cool twist on the sub-genre. And Interview with the Vampire IMO is a near perfect adaptation. I feel like I'm forgetting some movie... AH! From Dusk til Dawn! Another interesting twist on the sub-genre. And Let the Right One In (both versions) are excellent twists too. Bram Stokers Dracula (Coppola) is interesting in how its technically made, but its like a beautifully wrapped gift with no gift inside.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 22, 2020 21:17:10 GMT
Martin (1978).
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Sept 23, 2020 6:49:41 GMT
My overall favourite vampire movie is Interview With the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994). I just love its pseudo-realistic depiction of vampire existence.
Meanwhile, my favourite Dracula movie is Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968).
Fright Night (1985) is my favourite 80s vampire flick.
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