Vampires (1998)

"Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires!"
Jack Crow (James Woods) has spent most of his life on tracking down and kill as many vampires as possible and along with a special group of mercenaries, they suddenly find themselves closing in on the ruthless vampire Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith). However, their battle against such a fierce opponent ends badly where as the hunters become the hunted, and Crow loses his entire team at the hands of what seems like an unstoppable enemy. 
Now he must face his toughest challenge ever, either stay and fight or flee the scene. But first, Jack has to put together a whole new team of killers.

I haven't seen this for a while, but I do remember it as an enjoyable action-western movie with some horror elements and, that it just might be the last good/entertaining John Carpenter movie, and one that was relased in a time when the vampire-western seemed to have hit a new high with From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and its sequels, Blade (1998) and well, I guess Near Dark (1987) might also be an important influence on the horror-western genre, but anyway, Vampire starring James Woods (who kicks some serious butt in this one) is the one who seems to be have gone onto to become a bit of an "forgotten" gem and I thought it was fitting to include that one here as it feels more like an action film than a horror movie. 

Beside Woods, I thought Daniel Baldwin did a good performance as Montoya who ends up getting involved (or so I remember) with a hot vampire chick played by Sheryl Lee and then we have Thomas Ian Griffith as the evil Master vampire Jan Valek.
In other parts we get to meet up with Tim Guinee, Mark Boone Junior, Maximilian Schell, Gregory Sierra and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
As with most of Carpenter's films, it also features a bad ass main theme.