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The Hunger has the best opening 20 minutes EVAR. The rest, eh.
What? No love for Stephen Dorff in Blade?
Blade is on the list of 'silly silly vampire movies'. The opening nightclub scene? Brilliant. Interview with the Vampire is, yet again, eye candy. I keep hoping someone would make a movie of Those Who Hunt the Night or Anno Dracula (or even a faithful-to-the-book movie of Dracula!), but I know they'll probably never happen.
Did I miss someone mentioning Near Dark? Because that's a good one.
Thesis: There have been no good vampire movies made in Hollywood since Lost Boys, with the exception of the original BTVS movie. Discuss.
Was NEAR DARK before or after LOST BOYS? Or is it too independent to be considered "made in Hollywood"?
eta Hah! X-post with Jilli!
Was NEAR DARK before or after LOST BOYS? Or is it too independent to be considered "made in Hollywood"?
Released the same year.
Actually, I just remembered this terrific, fairly recent vampire movie from Mexico called Cronos. I saw it during the Midnight Madness screening in Toronto Film Festival about a decade ago and it left an impression. It went counter to a lot of tired convention of the genre by having the vampirism transmitted through a device, and the main victim be an old man. Good acting, too, if I recall.
I think Near Dark (the thinking man's Lost Boys) was either before or at the same time. Should count, anyway.
The Hunger may be the best vampire movie.
Worst is a horribly crowded field. And I don't know if you can count Vampiros Lesbos, since it had neither.
What? No love for "Goes Down for the Count" ???
Released the same year.
Barely released, though, as far as theaters go. I had somehow heard about it, and there was a one night double-bill with THE HUNGER at the Somerville Theater when it was brand new. I managed to see that sucker in the theater (also proud to say the same about THE STEPFATHER which played for a week - not a vampire movie, but a goodie). I love NEAR DARK although I found the ending weak.
RAVENOUS is halfway between a vampire movie and a cannibal movie, where the goriness falls towards the latter, but the effects of the eating lean towards the former.
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I LOVE From Dusk Til Dawn.
What was the Vampire movie (maybe already mentioned) where it's more about the disfunctional family of vampires? And there's some college English department where most of the faculty are vampires?
eta: The Addiction.
Also, Anthropology.
Actually, I just remembered this terrific, fairly recent vampire movie from Mexico called Cronos. I saw it during the Midnight Madness screening in Toronto Film Festival about a decade ago and it left an impression. It went counter to a lot of tired convention of the genre by having the vampirism transmitted through a device, and the main victim be an old man. Good acting, too, if I recall.
By Guillermo del Toro, who did MIMIC, BLADE II and HELLBOY (and a period ghost story I memfault on the name of).