Abigail (2024)
Kidnappers grab a twelve-year-old ballerina who turns out to be a centuries-old vampire. The film's clever structure borrows from the heist movie.
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DramaNadja (1994)
Nadja earns its 6.5 as a singular artifact of nineties downtown independent cinema, a black-and-white art-house vampire film that filters the Dracula. Michael Almereyda made it cheaply in 1994 with Hollywood backing from David Lynch, who also appears in a…
ComedyVampire’s Kiss (1988)
Nicolas Cage delivers one of the most committed and bizarre performances ever as a yuppie who thinks he's turning into a vampire. Vampire's Kiss earns its 6.5 as a fascinating, deeply strange film that is far more interesting as a…
HorrorThe Invitation (2022)
A promising gothic premise about a sinister aristocratic family hiding a Dracula secret, sanded smooth for mass appeal. The film's fatal flaw is its caution.
HorrorSalem’s Lot (1979)
Tobe Hooper made one of the finest TV horror productions ever, with a silent Nosferatu-style vampire and unforgettable scares. Salem's Lot earns its 7.5 as one of the finest pieces of television horror ever made and proof that the right…
ComedyVamp (1986)
Judged as a complete film it is mediocre. Vamp earns its 5.5 as a stylish, uneven eighties horror comedy that is worth seeing almost entirely for one unforgettable element, Grace Jones as a vampire stripper who never speaks a word…
ComedyInnocent Blood (1992)
John Landis fuses the vampire film with the mob movie in a fun, tonally chaotic horror comedy. The film's premise is its strongest asset.
DramaThe Transfiguration (2016)
Michael O'Shea's grounded debut uses vampirism as a lens for trauma and isolation. The film never says, and the ambiguity is the point.
HorrorDracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Christopher Lee returns as Dracula without a single line of dialogue, and the resurrection scene is among Hammer's best. Dracula: Prince of Darkness earns its 7 by bringing Christopher Lee back to the role that made him famous and surrounding…
HorrorThe Brides of Dracula (1960)
Hammer built a gorgeous sequel without Christopher Lee, and it may be better than the original. Christopher Lee, in a contract dispute, sat this one out, and Hammer built a sequel around a different vampire entirely, a charming young aristocrat…
HorrorBlood for Dracula (1974)
Paul Morrissey reimagines Dracula as a dying aristocrat starving for virgin blood in a changed world. The film's central joke is also its central tragedy.
HorrorCount Yorga, Vampire (1970)
Count Yorga dropped an old-world vampire into 1970 Los Angeles and got there before the rest of the genre. The film also bears the marks of its origins.