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.

t shrinks down

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).

I LOVE From Dusk Til Dawn.

I'll go along with that - it's fun. You can tell the script was originally written to showcase the effects house, but that's part of the fun.

By Guillermo del Toro, who did MIMIC, BLADE II and HELLBOY (and a period ghost story I memfault on the name of).

And starring Ron "women are only hot for me when I'm in prosthetics" Perlman.

I'll start. I think Kevin Costner trying to do British was pretty effing funny.

When did he ever try to do a British accent?

Tony Curtis' "Yondah lies the castle of my faddah!" still sets the bar for bad accents as far as I'm concerned.

Kate Beckinsale was pretty impressively bad in Van Helsing as well - I expected her to turn to Jackman at any moment and say "Give to me large kiss!"

What? No love for Stephen Dorff in Blade?

Only because I'm hogging it all. Though parts of the movie without Dorff lounging about pantherishly with no shirt were also good, particularly that opening "Blood Bath" sequence. Does The Addiction count as a Hollywood movie?

By Guillermo del Toro, who did MIMIC, BLADE II and HELLBOY

Huh. I didn't know that. Mimic is the only one I've seen, and I remember liking that one, even though it was cheesy and reminded me of the aliens from The X-Files movie.

Oh! There was also this little Canadian movie called Reflecting Skin, which had very young Viggo Mortensen and Lindsay Duncan (now playing Servilia in Rome) as lovers, and was narrated by this boy protagonist who was Viggo's brother and thought Duncan's character was a vampire. It was an extremely disturbing flick, with the theme of child abuse weaving through the narrative. I've only seen it once, but it's the sort of film one has difficulties forgetting--it was very vivid, and tragic in a hallucinatory way. (Plus, there was an exploding frog!) I could probably track it down, but I'm afraid rewatching it would lessesn my memory of its impact.

Matt! How could you forget Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves?