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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 01:41 AM
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The Best Vampire Movie? From Dusk Until Dawn... Or pitch your favorite
Or at least R. Rodriguis's best movie to date.... (Yes, I've seen Kill Bil.


This is an opening to the other film buffers here that I'll answer in the morning.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 01:57 AM
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1. John Carpenters Vampires
That's the best one I've ever seen.:)
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 02:03 AM
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2. My fave is Near Dark
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 02:04 AM
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3. Vampire Hunter D hands down
Edited on Sat Dec-20-03 02:05 AM by 7th_Sephiroth
he has a talking hand for crying out loud
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lefty_mcduff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 02:05 AM
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4. Hands down best vampire flick - Near Dark.
Killer soundtrack by Tangerine Dream
Great over-the-top acting by Bill Paxton.
The Cramps cover version of Fever
Great 'twist' on the Vampire legends
Exploding midgets.
Tons of violence, blood and gore.
What more can you ask for?
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 03:18 AM
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11. agreed. Shadow of a Vampire pretty good tho
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POed_Ex_Repub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 02:06 AM
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5. Shadow of the Vampire
Weird, but good.
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 05:45 PM
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19. Is that the one about the making of "Nosferatu"
except with the difference that the vampire was real?
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 08:41 PM
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34. Very good
The Garbo girl was hot.

:D
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put out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 02:18 AM
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6. The Hunger
David Bowie should take a bow. Also, "Fright Night".
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WWW Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 08:26 PM
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32. The Hunger is my all time favorite movie n/t
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 02:35 AM
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7. Yes, But what other movie would dare speak the words "Now We Kill The Band
,,,: N/T
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 02:42 AM
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8. Lifeforce!
A movie just like a Dio album cover, and it had Patrick Stewart pre-STNG. What more could one ask for? Plot? Acting? Feh.

I'll go with the Naked Vampire Chick From Space, thank you very much.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 03:17 AM
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10. Possibly the worst movie ever made
althought he naked chick was pretty awesome
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ibegurpard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 07:37 AM
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15. No doubt
It was unbelievably bad.
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 05:22 PM
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17. But that's the mad genius! It inherits the Plan 9 From Outer Space crown
As all of England turns into vampire zombie freaks!

There can be only one worst space vampire movie... and Lifeforce is that movie!
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 02:52 AM
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9. From Dusk Till Dawn is the bast barfight scene too...
As well as the best post-barfight line...

"Now, let's kill that fucking band"
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Blade Donating Member (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 03:30 AM
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12. Hmmm...
I wonder which vampire movie is the best.....? (see my screen name. :)) I love "Interview With the Vampire." Other best vampire movie ever.
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crimson333 Donating Member (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 04:19 AM
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13. blade rules
The vampire versus the werewolves that came out this summer sucked. All I could think is that Blade could kill them all
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 07:36 AM
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14. Herzog's remake of "Nosferatu"
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 07:37 AM
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16. I'm sorta partial to Stephen King's "Salem's Lot."
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 05:31 PM
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18. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Salem's Lot
My two fav's are actually world's apart...

Salem's Lot, mainly 'cause it was the first horror flick I ever saw and it scared me to no end.

On the other end of the spectrum is, The Strange Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. An oldy frm the silent-film days made in Germany in (I think) 1922. Creepy *and* socially cognizant.
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Zero Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 05:56 PM
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20. My favorite is...
Interview with the Vampire. I saw the movie first and then read the book and it made me appreciate the movie even more.

As I type this I am suddenly wondering myself why I don't own this film on DVD...?
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jayfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 05:59 PM
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21. Near Dark, Vampire's Kiss & Blade -NT-
Jay
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the_boxer_ Donating Member (527 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 06:44 PM
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22. The Lost Boys...
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Martin Eden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 07:20 PM
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23. The Fearless Vampire Killers
with Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate ...

... because it was fun.

The gruesome fate that actually befell Tate was worse than just about anything depicted in any of these movies.
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 09:36 PM
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35. That WAS fun!
I had completely forgotten about this film.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 07:24 PM
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24. Interview With A Vampire
:hi:
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 07:29 PM
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25. Here are two that no one has mentioned

THE NIGHT STALKER (Made-for-TV, 1971). Darren McGavin's first appearance as newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak was set in Las Vegas and involved a serial killer who could drain all the blood from his victims in mere seconds. When "The Night Stalker" first aired on ABC in January 1972, it became the highest-rated made-for-TV movie to date.

FRIGHT NIGHT (1985). I just remember having a really good time watching this film. It was both scary and funny, which is not an easy combination to pull off!
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 07:34 PM
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27. I remember Fright Night
great flick :thumbsup:
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DerekG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 07:31 PM
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26. Herzog's "Nosferatu" remake, without a doubt...
His tone poem towers over all other vampire films, and is one of the ten greatest horror films in world cinema.

Legosi, Lee and Oldman have nothing on Kinski's Orlock.
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 07:55 PM
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28. OK, I'm having a serious brain fart here...
I'm partial to stuff like "Bordello of Blood" and that one where George Hamilton yells "Children of the night-- SHUT UP!" but I can't remember the title. (IMDB is cheating!)

Camp vampires rock.

Then there was "The Keep," or at least I think that's the title. I read the book, and the movie did a good job of it. Nazis, Jews, and tossing Bram Stoker vampire traditions works for me.

All the rest mentioned here are good, too, and anything to get away from the Lugosi-Lee cartoon vampires.
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Mick Knox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 08:18 PM
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30. Bram Stokers
re G. Hamilton ... Love at First Bite?
Good flick also -

Dusk Til Dawn...
Salems Lot
.. well .. I just love all vampire flicks i think.
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 08:14 PM
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29. Innocent Blood
was a good one, I thought, as far as vampire movies go. Don Rickles vamping out..
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methinks2 Donating Member (894 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 08:19 PM
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31. Coppola's
Coppola's Dracula is the best. The lighting is fantastic. Tom Waits eating a cockroach cracks me up everytime. The special effects are fantastic. Bought a copy of DVD already.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-03 08:40 PM
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33. Louis Jourdan's portrayal of Count Dracula...PBS back in 80's? Tried to
Edited on Sat Dec-20-03 08:45 PM by KoKo01
order from England, but they wouldn't compute the Pound ##'s for me so I gave up. It's a "highly requested." Hope it shows up on Amazon sometime in the future.

Next one was the Jack Palance, Dracula, version. (The acting was superb along with the storyline adhering to Shelly's, imho)

On Edit: Creepy/Sinister....while not being overly gory. The scariness was in the evilness and cunning cruelty of the characters (mainly the Count) which meant that you were scared longer than with just blood and gore for violence sake. Both those miniseries/movies made you think about the human condition/science/folklore that made the Vampire part all the more "sinister."
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