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Day 21 in my 31 Days of Vampire Movies feature is going to be a little different, because I’m going to cheat a little. But never fear! You get two movies instead of just one! Fright Night 1985 and Fright Night 2011 are both great vampire movies. The…
Day 20 of my 31 Days of Vampire Movies feature takes us back to the Disco Era, baby! Love at First Bite begins with our Dracula, played by the tannest man who ever lived, George Hamilton, eschewing stodgy old Transylvania for the swinging nightlife of New York City in pursuit of his newest love, Cindy…
Day 19 of my 31 Days of Vampire Movies features brings us a more sensitive, if no less savage, sort of vampire, in the movie Tale of a Vampire. A low budget movie from Britain starring the late Julian Sands in one of his better, if more obscure roles, Alex is a vampire pining away…
Day 18 of my 31 Days of Vampire Movies Features brings you one of the bluest movies ever made. Underworld is the pinnacle of style over substance. This movie looks amazing. The dark, gritty color palette, painting the world in every beautiful shade of dark blue, transports you into a slick, seductive world of the…
Day 17 of my 31 Days of Vampire Movies takes us back to the 1990s this time, for a Made for TV Movie (do they even still do those?) from 1997 called House of Frankenstein. Sadly no Funko Pop pic for this one, as it’s never had a DVD or Blu ray release House of…
Today’s movie gives us a much different, more fantastical take on Dracula and vampires than most of the other movies on this list so far. It was one of the more recent movies that attempted a Monster Mash of Dracula, the Wolfman, and Frankenstein, and it is a glorious mess. I’m of course talking about…
We’re going back to the 80’s again with this hidden gem, diving deep into the neon-drenched sleaze with this tale of a vampire cab driver who, more often than not, takes his victims to their final destinations. I give you Central Park Drifter. Or Graveyard Shift, depending on your preference. My skeleton friend Stuart Gore-don…
Yesterday in my 31 Days of Vampire Movies feature, I brought you Dracula. Today, it seems only fitting that I bring you Renfield. Dwight Frye played Renfield in the original Dracula, and he gave almost as memorable a performance as Bela Lugosi. His manic, unhinged energy was a diametric opposite to Lugosi’s cold, vicious performance,…
Day 31 of Vampire Movies takes us back to the beginning. Not the very beginning, that’s Nosferatu, but this is the movie that cemented vampires as the cultural powerhouses they continue to be after a century of movies. I’m of course talking about Dracula, and the often imitated but never outclassed Bela Lugosi. Lugosi’s performance…
Day 12 in my 31 Days of Vampire Movies brings us something a little bit different than the British horror and American hack ‘em ups we’ve had before. This one takes us to Japan, and into the realms of animation. Vampire Hunter D blew my mind when I first saw it. I was a kid…