The Swedish movie "Let the Right One In" or the US version "Let Me In" are both good movies with a viscious vampire but also shows why people become entrance by her regardless. I know this will probably sound sacreligious to fans of the Swedish film, but I kind of liked the US version better.
"Fright Night", both original and remake are very good classic Vampire films as well, the original a bit more classic then the remake.
"Let the right one in" is a amazing movie.
"Stake Land" is realy cool , cause it takes a different turn on a vampire hunter in a sort of post-apocalyptic world.
"Priest" is worth a look to.
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Originally Posted by Innovator
The Swedish film "Let the Right One In" or the US version "Let Me In" are both good movies with a viscious vampire but also shows why people become entrance by her regardless. I know this will probably sound sacreligious to fans of the Swedish verison, but I kind of liked the US version better.
"Fright Night", both original and remake are very good classic Vampire films as well, the original a bit more classic then the remake. |
and I keep wanting to see the "Let..." movies....
haven't seen the remake Fright Night yet
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The remake was well done with its own take of the story, so if you end up watching both you won't feel like you're watching the same movie twice.
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Originally Posted by Lycanus
haven't seen the remake Fright Night yet
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If you can get hold of it, try and find the original Channel Four (UK) series Ultraviolet, which is rather good (and absolutely nothing to do with the Milla Jovovich movie). Their vamps, or Code Vs, are smart, tech-savvy, well-organised and well-entrenched in society. You could see it as one of the spiritual parents of Underworld and the global-vamp-conspiracy paranoia of the recent Blade and True Blood canons. The hunters are also equally smart and tech'd up, mind, and it owes as much to classic Brit procedural sci-fi like Quatermass or Doomwatch as Stoker.
If you like the Hammer Studios films and want to go beyond the Cushing/Lee canon, keep an eye out for Captain Kronos-Vampire Hunter, which blends a Van Helsing backstory and 70s vampsploitation cheese with some quite cool ideas.
Finally,have to admit to a soft spot for Kate Beckinsale's Underworld movies, partly for the outfits, partly for the likes of Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy and Derek Jacobi cheerfully chewing the scenery, and mainly because they're superb Saturday night popcorn flicks. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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And the book is very good as well.|
Originally Posted by Innovator
The Swedish movie "Let the Right One In" or the US version "Let Me In" are both good movies with a viscious vampire but also shows why people become entrance by her regardless. I know this will probably sound sacreligious to fans of the Swedish film, but I kind of liked the US version better.
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I like both versions myself and don't find it sacrelige at all to prefer the US version. I kind of see the movies as identical cousins or different sides of the same coin. But I really wouldn't say one was better than the other.
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Count Yorga, Vampire, although very much a 70s film, plays straight with the vampire legend, and Robert Quarry in the title role delivers a prime old-school bloodsucker performance against the setting of a contemporary Los Angeles.
Likewise, The Night Stalker, although a made-for-TV movie, does a first-rate job of updating a vampire story for the early 1970s. (Darren McGavin would reprise his role as the investigative reporter Carl Kolchak for a similarly titled TV series.)
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Finally,have to admit to a soft spot for Kate Beckinsale's Underworld movies, partly for the outfits, partly for the likes of Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy and Derek Jacobi cheerfully chewing the scenery, and mainly because they're superb Saturday night popcorn flicks. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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30 Days of Night -- I really enjoyed this. Maybe I was in the mood for a good, gory vampire movie after all this sparkly "Twilight" dreck. It delivered.
Daybreakers -- cool concept; poor execution. Sam Neill was cool (as he usually is in roles like this), but this movie was just plain bad.
Let The Right One In -- very cool, creepy movie. I've not seen the Americanized version yet, but understand it was also good in its own way.
I do appreciate the old Hammer films with Lee and/or Cushing and/or Price, but it's been quite a long time since I've seen any of them.
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Originally Posted by Defenestrator
The 3rd one (the prequel) was not very good at all, but the first two are enjoyable as guilty pleasures.
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(Speaking as an Orthodox Jedi, I have a great deal of trouble with prequels/reimaginings of any colour. Yes,meesa still bitter. Gungans. Midichlorians. Heresy, I tell you. Makes me question my faith sometimes,really does.)
However, can't believe we've got this far without namechecking the granddaddy of 'em all...
Nosferatu - by German silent director FW Murnau - is an unlicensed take on the Dracula mythos, with only the names changed (the villainous "Count Orlok" preying on "Thomas and Ellen Hutter"), and a few subtexts dropped.
But it does a heck of a lot better job than the Oldman/Keanu "Bram Stoker's" version. Dig it up via Netflix/LoveFilm and be amazed at how many directors have homaged or outright stolen shots, angles and visual cues over the years.
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Originally Posted by Innovator
The Swedish movie "Let the Right One In" or the US version "Let Me In" are both good movies with a viscious vampire but also shows why people become entrance by her regardless. I know this will probably sound sacreligious to fans of the Swedish film, but I kind of liked the US version better.
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Originally Posted by MentalMaden
And the book is very good as well.
I like both versions myself and don't find it sacrelige at all to prefer the US version. I kind of see the movies as identical cousins or different sides of the same coin. But I really wouldn't say one was better than the other. |
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Originally Posted by Defenestrator
Let The Right One In -- very cool, creepy movie. I've not seen the Americanized version yet, but understand it was also good in its own way.
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I'm not trying to suggest the original Swedish movie was bad or that a remake was absolutely necessary. But clearly the American remake had a bigger budget to work with and they used those resources to reformulate the story just enough to both maintain the spirit of the original and make it arguably better at the same time. This was definitely one of those rare cases where the "remake" was actually worthwhile.
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Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
If you can get hold of it, try and find the original Channel Four (UK) series Ultraviolet, which is rather good (and absolutely nothing to do with the Milla Jovovich movie). Their vamps, or Code Vs, are smart, tech-savvy, well-organised and well-entrenched in society. You could see it as one of the spiritual parents of Underworld and the global-vamp-conspiracy paranoia of the recent Blade and True Blood canons. The hunters are also equally smart and tech'd up, mind, and it owes as much to classic Brit procedural sci-fi like Quatermass or Doomwatch as Stoker.
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Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
Nosferatu - by German silent director FW Murnau - is an unlicensed take on the Dracula mythos, with only the names changed (the villainous "Count Orlok" preying on "Thomas and Ellen Hutter"), and a few subtexts dropped.
But it does a heck of a lot better job than the Oldman/Keanu "Bram Stoker's" version. Dig it up via Netflix/LoveFilm and be amazed at how many directors have homaged or outright stolen shots, angles and visual cues over the years. |
Also check out Shadow of the Vampire, a fictional version about making the movie, with John Malkovich as Murnau and Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck, imagined here as an actual vampire. Both deliver great performances, of course.
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Not just Coppola. Wes Craven and John Carpenter both steal riffs from it for Elm St and Halloween, and plenty of others too..
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Absolutely - despite its rip-off pedigree, it's a classic on a par with Lugosi's authorized original. (Coppola plundered it shamelessly for his thoroughly overrated Dracula adaptation.)i |
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you mean Lady Chatterly's Dracula?
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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Absolutely - despite its rip-off pedigree, it's a classic on a par with Lugosi's authorized original. (Coppola plundered it shamelessly for his thoroughly overrated Dracula adaptation.)
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Originally Posted by Lycanus
you mean Lady Chatterly's Dracula?
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On Twilight: let's not get into whether or not it's a "real" vampire movie, since there are no such things as vampires. (Though that might be what I want you to think).
It is, however, badly paced and scripted, with two pretty unappealing lead characters. Reminds me of the MopeyGoth "energy vampire" types who used to wallflower at clubs in my younger days, self-righteous and self-important in their self-loathing. Never apologise for (un)living: "sleep all day. Party all night. It's FUN to be a vampire."
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Murnau's Nosferatu, more than the (lost) The Golem or, arguably, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, established much of the visual vocabulary that all horror movies since have employed. I haven't seen Werner Herzog's 1979 remake with Klaus Kinski and Isabelle Adjani, but improving on it is hard to imagine. No matter that it's black and white, silent, and German, it remains essential viewing.|
Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
Not just Coppola. Wes Craven and John Carpenter both steal riffs from it for Elm St and Halloween, and plenty of others too..
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Originally Posted by Lycanus
you mean Lady Chatterly's Dracula?
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Some day, some A-list director is going to read Newman's Anno Dracula and realize that the vampire story to end all vampire stories has been sitting around waiting to be adapted to film.
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Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
Never apologise for (un)living: "sleep all day. Party all night. It's FUN to be a vampire."
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true, but I don't have as much of a problem with werewolf developments|
Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Vampires have had enough movies. I'm waiting on a great werewolf movie!
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the couple of "oh woe is me" werewolves out there really did have a version of the legend that DESERVED "oh woe is me"
the "Ginger Snaps" series and both versions of "Wolf Man" are good examples of werewolves that DESERVE "woe is me" and the sister from "Ginger Snaps" handles her infection head on with wonderful defiance up until crazy girl locks her up as a "pet"
"Wolf" with Jack Nicholson was very good
"Skinwalkers" was disappointing over all
the classic "Howling" was very good, the subsequent ones less so
"Cursed" was excellent
one thing on vamps vs weres....undead vamps require human sustenance and I can't really say that animal blood or blood bags would really work for something with as much of a mystical existence as a thing that's dead and walking
living vamps can theoretically live without being an overall burden on others, since that would be a biological thing...Underworld vamps being a good example (though "Underworld" vamps lack the hated "woe is me" attitude)
just like weres, being alive, also don't need to hunt people and werewolves are only one type of shapeshifting belief....shapeshifters, mythologically speaking, fall into the category of protectors and tricksters....as such, they are less prone instantly to being perceived as instantly bad
there are a lot of myths of lost children in the Pacific islands becoming sharks which sometimes guide family members from being lost back to safety (personally I think it's probably a particular species of shark that prefers shallow water which sometimes goes into deeper water, but which a boater can follow back to land.)
kitsune in Japan can be good or evil tricksters, kumiho in Korea are almost universally bad
shamanic transformation into an animal is a common thing for heroic mystics
and really, it's only hollywood that developed the idea of get bitten and become a vamp
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Dog Soldiers.
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Here are a few memorably different ones that haven't been mentioned yet:
Lifeforce. The Lair of the White Worm. Innocent Blood. Razor Blade Smile. Blood: The Last Vampire.
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Here are a few memorably different ones that haven't been mentioned yet:
Lifeforce. The Lair of the White Worm. Innocent Blood. Razor Blade Smile. Blood: The Last Vampire. |
not heard of Razor Blade Smile
the bit I've heard of Blood: The Last Vampire is....odd....
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I have it, but I can only rewatch it so many times. I just want Hollywood to make a high-budget werewolf epic. Is that too much to ask? |
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Dog Soldiers.
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Okay, watching "Shiki" on hulu and it is doing a very good job of the Victorian era Stoker-esque vampire and what would happen if some came to a place that hasn't been inundated with knowledge of their weaknesses, limits and strengths.
"Daybreakers" also showed appropriately grotesque vampires back a couple of years ago
someone on another thread mentioned "Near Dark"
there was a rather bleak movie called "The Addiction" with Christopher Walken in a bit part
What are some other good vampire movies
and by vampire movies, I mean something in either the vein of Stoker's book or earlier storylines
while I have no trouble enjoying a story with a living vampire or good guy vampire....I am very tired of
"Oh, I'm so cursed because I'm a vampire and my life is ruined because I have all these powers and these weaknesses, except these weaknesses aren't really weaknesses because they don't work because that would be silly. Why couldn't I go out in daylight and why would I be afraid of crosses and things? So I'm cursed because I'm beautiful and powerful and have no real identifiable weaknesses."
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