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...
Perfect Creature (2007)
5.5/10
Director: Glenn Standring
Starring: Saffron Burrows, Dougray Scott, Leo Gregory, Stuart Wilson
The second film from Kiwi Glenn Standring is an ambitious vampire tale set in Nuovo Zealandia, a 1960s-style alternative to our past. The 'Brotherhood... Read more
Priest (2011)
5.7/10
Director: Scott Stewart
Starring: Brad Dourif, Christopher Plummer, Madchen Amick, Karl Urban, Paul Bettany, Maggi...
In a post-apocalyptic world, a savage war between man and vampire raged for centuries. A warrior priest (Paul Bettany) receives word of fresh attacks... 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
Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)
4.9/10
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
Starring: Mako , Michael Chiklis, James D'Arcy, Robert Forster, Lucy Liu, Cameron Richards...
Journalist Sadie Black (Lucy Liu) finds herself in the morgue, transformed into one of the undead in this revenge flick that has her on the trail of t... Read more
Rockabilly Vampire (2001)
4.7/10
Director: Lee Bennett Sobel
Starring: Stephen Blackeheart, Margaret Lancaster, Paul Stevenson, Valentine Miele, Wendy...
A low-rent horror spoof from the Troma team about Iris, a woman whose life is going downhill - she hates her job, her landlord is on her case and the... Read more
Salem's Lot (1979)
6.8/10
Director: Tobe Hooper
Starring: Lew Ayres, Lance Kerwin, James Mason, David Soul, Bonnie Bedelia, George Dzundza
This story of vampires in modern-day New England is one of the better adaptations of Stephen King's novels on film. Some real chills go along with an... Read more
Salem's Lot (2004)
6.2/10
Director: Mikael Salomon
Starring: Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, James Cromwell, Rob Lowe, Rutger Hauer, Saman...
Welcome to Jerusalem's Lot - Salem's Lot, as locals call it. Population: 1319. And growing eerier by the moment. Because an ominous outsider has moved... Read more
Scars of Dracula (1970)
6.2/10
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Starring: Dennis Waterman, Christopher Lee, Jenny Hanley
Rising from the grave once more, Count Dracula (horror legend Christopher Lee) resumes evil residence in his mountaintop castle in Transylvania. False... Read more
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
5.6/10
Director: Bob Kelljan
Starring: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier
'The black prince of shadows stalks the earth again'. An occult ritual summons vampire William Marshall from spirit exile, and only the occult skills... 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