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Here are my personal favorites, my top ten best vampire movies.
Some are modern, some are older as far as films go. Sometimes I like sophisticated and sometimes I like a bit of splatter. You know... you want something you can really sink your teeth into...
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#10 - LOVE AT FIRST BITE
1979 - written by Robert Kaufman, directed by Stan Dragoti
"No harm done! The man's all right! This was for a werewolf! No problem! Calm down! Take it easy!
I'm a doctor! I know what I'm doing!"
Plot Basics: Dracula leaves Transylvania and arrives in Manhattan, pursuing a model he wishes to take as his bride. Her psychiatrist-boyfriend Rosenberg turns out to actually be a descendant of Van Helsing.
Orthia sez: Artie Johnson's Renfield is cute, in his bug-eating way. George Hamilton's Dracula battles Richard Benjamin's Dr. Rosenberg, nee Van Helsing in a nebbishe NY sort of way, spoofing vampire movies and NY pop culture of the day.
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#9 - FRIGHT NIGHT
1985 - written and directed by Tom Holland
"Apparently your generation doesn't want to see vampire killers anymore, nor vampires either. All they want to see slashers running around in ski masks, hacking up young virgins."
Plot Basics: No one believes a teen when he determines his next-door neighbor must be a vampire. He enlists a tv horror show host for help.
Orthia sez: Roddy MacDowell playing a washed-up actor playing a horror show host, turned real-life vampire killer was perfectly over-the-top in counterpoint to Chris Sarandon's vampire. It wound up being a big enough movie to spawn a few sequels too.
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#8 - FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
1996 - written by Quentin Tarantino, directed by Robert Rodriguez
"The world's my oyster, except for the fact that I just rammed a wooden stake in my brother's heart because he turned into a vampire, even though I don't believe in vampires. Aside from that unfortunate business, everything's hunky-dory."
Plot Basics: Two brothers are on the run from the cops, trying to get to Mexico where they can "retire" and hide. They take a man and his two kids hostage and cross the Mexican border. They then stop at a biker/titty bar where they are supposed to meet their contact in the morning. The bar turns out to be populated almost entirely by vampires and they must then fight for their lives.
Orthia sez: This is a total piece of candy, a guilty pleasure included because a top 10 list just wouldn't be the same without including something gratuitous. A lot of this movie is over the top and all over the place, but that's sort of the point of it. One of the creepiest things about this movie is Tarantino's portrayal of sexual killer Richie Gecko but that's often overshadowed by Selma Hyack as vampiress Santantico Pandemonium, or Tom Savini's turn as biker-turned-vampire Sex Machine, or George Clooney's tribal tattoo.Click for more info or to buy FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
#7 - INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE
1994 - written by Anne Rice, directed by Neil Jordan
"I know nothing of God, or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that will damn or save my soul. And as far as I know, after four hundred years, I am the oldest living vampire in the world."
Plot Basics: A journalist gets quite a surprise when a vampire decides to tell him his life's story.
Orthia sez: A lot of controversy preceeded this film. Anne Rice doubted the choice of Tom Cruise as LeStat. River Phoenix was cast as the interviewer, but his death on Halloween '93 left that role open, and was filled by Christian Slater (who donated his salary to River's fave charities). And the vampire being interviewed was a not-quite blockbuster Brad Pitt. Once the movie opened, most people's doubts skulked off into the night. Cruise's LeStat seemed appropriately self-absorbed, Pitt was the conflicted vampire-convert who still seemed to have a soul and Kristen Dunst her lovely debut as their vampire "child." We also got Antonio Banderas as the head of the European vampire coven.
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#6 - BLOOD FOR DRACULA
1974 - written and directed by Paul Morrissey
"Count Dracula may not seem like the ideal husband. Of course he's deathly pale, but he's a vegetarian, and they all seem to look like that."
Plot Basics: Dracula needs virgin blood but Transylvania seems to be running short. He and his trusted man servant set out for Italy, where they hope the stronger Catholic faith has preserved more virgins. They find a family with many daughters but the Socialist handyman is on to Dracula's mission and sets out to deflower each girl before she can be bitten.
Orthia Sez: Known as ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA in the US, the movie was in fact directed by a young Paul Morrissey. It was shot back to back with FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN and features the entire same cast in both features. Dracula is Udo Kier, his anti-hero handyman foe is Joe Dellasandro.
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#5 - THE LOST BOYS
1987 - written by Janice Fischer, James Jeremias and Jeffrey Boam, directed by Joel Schumacher
"It's not our fault, they pulled a mind scramble on us. They opened their eyes and talked."
Plot Basics: A single mom moves to a seaside town to start her life over with her two teens sons. They move in with their cantankerous grandpa and soon find themselves involved in a local gang of vampires.
Orthia sez: This movie was filmed in Santa Cruz the spring of my freshman year at UCSC. They scared the life out of some folks with the helicopter night shoots. I spent the entire next summer (after the movie was released) explaining that I did not go to college in the murder capital of the world (as claimed in the movie). The cast is packed with good performances including Bernard Hermann, Jami Gertz, not-one-but-two Coreys, pre-Bill-and-Ted Alex Winter, Dianne Weist, Jason Patric and a young-but-still-intense Kiefer Sutherland.
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#4 - RABID
1977 - written and directed by David Cronenberg
"There's nothing we can't fix if we know what's wrong."
Plot Basics: A woman injured in a motorcycle accident is given experimental surgery to regrow some damaged internal organs. The new tissue mutates and she grows a spiny stinger under her arm, and which she also uses to drink the blood of others.
Orthia sez: Bodily mutation was an early hallmark of a Cronenberg film and the hapless victim is played by porn star Marilyn Chambers. Her mutation is a precursor to AIDS or stem cell research or gene therapy. Her victims then come back from the dead as violent zombies. Interesting parallels can be seen in the movie's content and the present-day debate around stem cell research.
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#3 - NEAR DARK
1987 - Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Written by Kathryn Bigelow and Eric Red
"I hate it when they ain't been shaved."
Plot Basics: A typical farm boy flirts with a girl, only to wind up being made into a vampire by her. He's then torn between joining the vampire clan she travels with, or going back to his family for help. He opts for the help and then tries to help the girl leave the family too, followed by a vampire showdown.
Orthia sez: Vampire western! This was director Bigelow's first film, but she probably got some good advice from then-partner Jim Cameron (Aliens, Titanic). She also used several actors who'd appeared in Cameron's ALIENS the year before, namely Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton and Jenette Goldstein. Paxton's Severus is wonderfully over-the-top, while Henrinksen shines by being understated.
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#2 - LIFEFORCE
1985 - screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, directed by Tobe Hooper
"Colonel, take it from the beginning. Assume we know nothing... which is understating the matter."
Plot Basics: A space mission brings back alien lifeforms that feed on the human lifeforce instead of blood. Can the military stop the aliens with the help of the surviving astronaut before all of London is ravaged?
Orthia Sez: This is a cool and quirky production, with Texas Chainsaw's Tobe Hoober directing and Alien's Dan O'Bannon writing. Add to that Steve Railsback (Stuntman, Helter Skelter, X-File's Duane Barry) as the lone surviving astronaut from the space mission and Patrick Stewart (ST:TNG, Excalibur) as a eccentric asylum supervisor. The then-state-of-the-art special effects still maintain fairly well.
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#1 - THE HUNGER
1983 - screenplay by James Costigan, Ivan Davis, Michael Thomas; directed by Tony Scott
"Are you making a pass at me, Mrs. Blaylock?"
Plot Basics: A medical researcher working on anti-aging research finds herself having caught the eye of a woman who has been a vampire since the days of ancient Egypt. When the vampire's companion dies suddenly, she turns (bites) her new friend... but will the woman accept her new-found vampirism?
Orthia Sez: Incredibly suave vampire story! Catherine Deneuve is the ancient vampire Miriam Blaylock, David Bowie her suddenly-aging companion, with Susan Sarandon as the age researcher who catches Ms. Blaylock's eye. The sequence where Bowie's character John sits and ages decades in just a few hours is a makeup tour de force! And the sequences of Ms. Sarandon and Deneuve together aren't so bad either.
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