Tag: Modern Vampire

The modern vampire trades castles for apartments and asks what immortality looks like with a lease. This tag collects reviews of contemporary vampire stories that drag the myth into the present day.

1970s

Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

June 6, 2026

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.

2020s

Nicolas Cage's gloriously unhinged Dracula anchors a comedy about escaping a toxic boss, undercut by an overstuffed plot. Reframe Dracula's servant Renfield as a man in a toxic codependent relationship with his narcissistic boss, and play it as a workplace…

1980s

Vampire’s Kiss (1988)

June 6, 2026

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…

2020s

The Invitation (2022)

June 6, 2026

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.

1990s

Innocent Blood (1992)

June 6, 2026

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.

1980s

The Lost Boys (1987)

May 19, 2026

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…