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...
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
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
Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
5.9/10
Director: Sam Irvin
Starring: Cassandra Peterson, Richard O'Brien, Mary Scheer, Scott Atkinson, Mary Jo Smith,...
Elvira's back in an all-new adventure! With her ample anatomical assets, big black bouffant, and hilarious one-liners, the Mistress of the Dark knocks... Read more
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)
7.7/10
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Starring: Animation
Based on the third novel from Hideyuki Kikuchi's series about a futuristic human-vampire hybrid warrior. D has been hired to track down Meier Link, a... Read more
Kung Fu Vampire Killers (2001)
5.7/10
Director: Phil Davison
Starring: Katherine Beresford, Aaron Orr, Ellie Swann, Vincent Wong Ming, Christopher Summ...
From Dunedin filmmaker Phil Davison comes a gruesome comedy about grave robbery, racism, and headless vampire flatmate corpses. Lucy is almost finishe... Read more
The Little Vampire (2000)
5.8/10
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Jonathan Lipnicki, Richard E Grant, Alice Krige, Rollo Weeks
Nine-year-old Jonathan Lipnicki ("Jerry Maguire") feels all alone when his family moves from California to Scotland, until he meets a boy named Hugo.... Read more
Dracula 2000 (2000)
4.9/10
Director: Patrick Lussier
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Jennifer Esposito, Omar Epps, Christopher Plu...
Bram Stoker's bloodsucker legend is updated to contemporary times, as Professor Van Helsing and his assistant try to track down the ages old Count, fr... 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
Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
6.7/10
Director: Hiroyuki Kitakubo
Starring: Youki Kudoh
At the Yokota Air Force base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam War. But a greater threat exists within the walls of... Read more