Vampires
The ultimate in movie monsters, vampires have been in film since cameras first started rolling. From the 1922 classic 'Nosferatu' (pictured) to the modern-day Russian take, 'Nightwatch', these blood-suckers have never gone out of style. Below is Alice's collection of the undead, from the camp ('Dracula A.D. 1972'), to the erotic ('Fascination'), the humourous, ('Vampire's Kiss'), to the downright weird ('Blacula'), you're sure to find something to, er, sink your teeth into...
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
7.3/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Salma Hayek, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, C...
Director Robert Rodriguez and star-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino throw in everything they can think of in this tale of a pair of bank-robbing brother... Read more
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
7.5/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Tom Waits
This erotically-charged, blood-soaked take on Stoker's classic tale is not the faithful adaptation as promised but is sensational viewing nevertheless... Read more
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
6.9/10
Director: E Elias Merhige
Starring: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Catherine McCormack, Eddie Izzard, Udo Kier
What if famed German filmmaker F.W. Murnau, for the sake of authenticity, hired an actual vampire to play the lead role in his classic 1922 chiller "N... Read more
Blade (1998)
7.1/10
Director: Stephen Norrington
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson
Wesley Snipes plays the Marvel Comic's vampire killer, out to cleanse the world of bloodsuckers as he hunts for the vampire who bit his mother during... Read more
Vampyros Lesbos (1970)
5.5/10
Director: Jesus Franco
Starring: Ewa Stromberg, Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller
From the prolific Jess Franco comes this savage sexual shocker that mixes horror and lesbian thrills. Ewa Stromberg is the woman haunted by weird drea... Read more
Blade 2 (2002)
6.9/10
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Leonor Varela, Ron Perlman, Norman Reedus, Lu...
Half-human/half-vampire bloodsucker slayer Wesley Snipes is back, but this time his lifelong enemies are relluctant allies, as Blade teams up with a g... Read more
Queen of the Damned (2002)
5.3/10
Director: Michael Rymer
Starring: Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, Lena Olin, Paul McGann, Vincent Pe...
Based on the novel from Anne Rice's 'The Vampire Chronicles' series, this over-the-top horror outing stars Aaliyah as Queen Akasha, an evil and powerf... Read more
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
7.6/10
Director: Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Jonathan Brugh, Taika Waititi, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stu Ruther...
Flatmates Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonny Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) are three vampires who are just trying to get by in modern soci... Read more
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
6.7/10
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Bill Nighy, Derek Jacobi
The violent feud between the snooty vampires and thuggish werewolves escalates as beautiful Death Dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and her forbidden Ly... Read more
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
7.6/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Adjani, Klaus Kinski
A reverential remake of Murnau's classic by the perversely talented Herzog. Klaus Kinski's Count cannot match Schreck's original for sheer terrifying... Read more