Count 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.
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HorrorThe Vampire Lovers (1970)
Ingrid Pitt raises Hammer's adaptation of Carmilla into a melancholy gothic. There is real sorrow in the performance.
ExploitationBlacula (1972)
William Marshall plays a tragic vampire prince with Shakespearean dignity in this landmark Black-led horror film. Is Blacula as silly as its title?
HorrorBlack Sunday (1960)
Mario Bava's debut is one of the most visually ravishing horror films ever made and launched Italian gothic. Bava had been a cinematographer, and it shows in every frame.
ActionVampires (1998)
John Carpenter turns vampire hunting into blue-collar work and James Woods carries the whole film. Not a calling, not a tragic destiny, not a brooding romance with the dark.
ComedyFright Night (1985)
William Ragsdale plays Charley Brewster. Fright Night operates as one of the most successful horror-comedy productions of the mid-1980s and a foundational text for the teen-protagonist-with-aging-mentor horror tradition.
HorrorThe Lost Boys (1987)
Joel Schumacher directs the story of teenage brothers moving to a California coastal town where the local cool kids are vampires. The Lost Boys is Joel Schumacher's 1987 American horror-comedy film depicting teenage brothers who move with their divorced mother…
ActionThe Blade Trilogy (1998-2004) Review
The Blade trilogy is the foundation document of modern Marvel cinema and one of the most influential American action horror franchises of the past three decades. The franchise adapts Marvel Comics characters created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan in…
GothicBlood, Myth, and the Undying Dark
From Nosferatu's plague-carrier to Judas Iscariot, the vampire has carried every era's deepest fears for over a century. Twenty-two essential films and TV series analyzed for what each one does that no other does — and what writers can steal…
EroticaCrimson Hunger
A 237-year-old vampire who hasn't fed in nine days walks into a Paris bar and meets a hematologist who knows what she is, offers his blood, and asks to study her in return.
ComedyThe Crimson Cleanse
Vladislav Mortenson had been undead for three centuries, plenty of time to develop some very unhealthy habits. Not the blood-drinking—that was biological necessity.