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...
Horror of Dracula ( Dracula ) (1958)
7.4/10
Director: Terence Fisher
Starring: Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee
Aka 'Dracula'. Probably Hammer Films' best horror, a handsomely mounted retelling of the Stoker tale, with fantasy elements de-emphasized. Christopher... Read more
Dracula (Blu-ray) (1958)
7.6/10
Director: Terence Fisher
Starring: Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee
Aka 'Dracula'. Probably Hammer Films' best horror, a handsomely mounted retelling of the Stoker tale, with fantasy elements de-emphasized. Christopher... Read more
Blood of Dracula (1957)
3.9/10
Director: Herbert L Strock
Starring: Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Gail Ganley, Jerry Blaine
Six weeks after her mother dies, Nancy Perkins' father remarries. The stepmother then sends Nancy (Sandra Harrison) off to a school for girls where th... Read more
Dracula: The Legacy Collection - Dracula / Dracula's Daughter / Son of Dracula / House of Dracula (1945)
7.6/10
Director: Earle C Kenton, Lambert Hillyer, Robert Siodmak, Tod Browning, George Melford
Starring: Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Carlo...
Bela Lugosi stars as the debonair Count in 'Dracula', the classic version of Bram Stoker's tale of the bloodsucking fiend. Also included is the Spanis... Read more
Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection - Frankenstein / Bride of Frankenstein / Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein / House of Frankenstein (1944)
7.9/10
Director: Earle C Kenton, James Whale, Rowland V Lee
Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye, Valerie Hobson,...
Boris Karloff gives one of the great screen performances of all time in the horror classic 'Frankenstein', based on Mary Shelley's novel. Also feature... Read more
Vampyr (1932)
7.6/10
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel
With 'Vampyr', Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery ('The... Read more
Nosferatu (1922)
8/10
Director: F W Murnau
Starring: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroeder
Aka 'Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror'. The first and the greatest (not to mention scariest) Dracula movie ever made starring Max Schreck as Nosferatu,... Read more