Top Ten Vampire Movies by Nathanael Hood
Top Ten Vampire Movies
{by Nathanael Hood of Totally Top 10}
{by Nathanael Hood of Totally Top 10}
When did you realize you wanted to review movies?
When I was a sophomore in college, I saw a film club screening of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) late one October night. When I saw that elevator door open and a tidal wave of blood pour out, I knew right then and there that the cinema was my future.
All-time favorite movie:
You should know better than to ask a film critic that question!
Movie you quote a lot:
Just about any movie that stars Humphrey Bogart.
Movie character that reminds you of yourself:
Marty Piletti from Delbert Mann’s Marty (1955).
Movie you wish you could un-see:
David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (1970). It isn’t so much a film as a bleak, excruciating endurance test.
Learn why Nathanael curated Vampire Movies: For almost a century, the vampire has reigned as one of the cinema’s supreme bogeymen. These immortal, blood-sucking creatures of the night have fascinated and horrified generations of movie-goers. They have appeared in many shapes and sizes: eery monstrosities, seductive temptresses, flamboyant libertines, and unstoppable agents of evil. I have collected here a list of ten essential films that document the evolution of the vampire over the decades. Presented in chronological order, these films represent the very best of vampire cinema. Please read more top 10 lists at www.TotallyTop10.com.
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- Let The Right One In (Theatrical Subtitles) DVD
- If your best friend is a vampire, you're going to do all right up against the bullies. That's what 12-year-old Kare Hedebrant as Oskar discovers when Lina Leandersson as Eli moves in next door. At first her pale skin and strictly nocturnal appearances seem like mere quirks, but the more… [ read more ]
- $14.98
- Blade DVD
- Wesley Snipes makes his first appearance as the half-mortal, half-immortal title vampire in "Blade" (1998). Determined to rid the earth of bloodsuckers, Blade hunts his own kind to avenge his mother's death. Stephen Dorff plays the leader of an advanced vampire clan who overthrows their… [ read more ]
- $5.98
- Interview With The Vampire Blu-ray
- The extraordinary popularity of Anne Rice’s series of novels led to this romantic and tragic feature film that captures all the beauty and heartbreak of a vampire with a soul. Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise are captivating as newborn vampire and his ancient vampire father/lover. It is fair to say… [ read more ]
- $14.98
- Cronos: The Criterion Collection DVD
- Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) made an auspicious, audacious feature debut with Cronos, a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality. Kindly antiques dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi) happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a… [ read more ]
- $29.95
- Blacula / Scream, Blacula, Scream DVD
- Blaxploitation vampire Blacula rises from the dead once more in "Soul Cinema: Blacula (1972)/Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973)" 2-disc double feature. William Marshall stars in both of these campy, funny and spooky films as an African prince turned into a vampire by none other than Dracula… [ read more ]
- $14.98
- Horror Of Dracula DVD
- Bram Stoker's famous Count seeks fresh blood in London, in this haunting retelling, "Horror of Dracula" (1958), starring horror heroes Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Lee's Dracula has returned to the land of the living to seek his beloved, and Cushing's Van Helsing wants nothing more… [ read more ]
- $5.98
- Vampyr: The Criterion Collection DVD
- With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (as in The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result-concerning an occult student assailed by… [ read more ]
- $39.95
- Dracula DVD
- Many have tried, but none have reached the chilling heights of Bela Lugosi's iconic portrayal of the world's most famous vampire, in Tod Browning's "Dracula" (1931). Frances Dade, Helen Chandler and Edward Van Sloan also star in the first film adaptation of Bram Stoker's famous novel. This… [ read more ]
- $14.98
- Nosferatu DVD
- F. W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922) has been established as the ultimate vampire film, particularly faithful to Bram Stoker's famous novel "Dracula." Gustav von Wagenheim stars as real estate agent Hutter, and Max Schreck as Herr Orlok, the pair finding castles on the Carpathian mountains a… [ read more ]
- $14.98
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