Vampire families make the metaphor domestic: what a household becomes when its members share blood literally. This tag collects reviews of films and stories built around vampire families, found and made.
1980sJune 6, 2026
Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark strips every vampire cliche and builds a Western instead. That tension carries the picture.
2010sJune 6, 2026
Neil Jordan returns to vampires with a feminist story of a mother and daughter surviving two centuries. The film's mythology is explicitly gendered.
1980sMay 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…
1990sMay 19, 2026
Neil Jordan's 1994 Anne Rice adaptation. Cruise as Lestat, Pitt as Louis.
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