many about film vampires

By far, the most well-known and popular vampire in the movies is Count Dracula. An amazing number of movies have been filmed over the years depicting the evil count, some of which are ranked among the greatest depictions of vampires on film. Dracula has over 170 film representations making him the most frequently portrayed character in horror films; also he has highest number of movie appearances overall, followed only by Sherlock Holmes.^[4][5]

• Nosferatu (1922; starring Max Schreck) – unlicensed German adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel; featuring "Count Orlok", a thinly veiled allusion to Dracula.
• Dracula (1931) – the first Universal Studios Dracula film, starring Bela Lugosi

• Dracula's Daughter (1936) – Follow up to the 1931 film, starring Gloria Holden
• Son of Dracula (1943) – further sequel to the 1931 film starring Lon Chaney Jr.
• House of Frankenstein (1944) – John Carradine plays Dracula as part of an ensemble cast in this Universal Studios film
• House of Dracula (1945) – The final serious Universal Studios Dracula film, starring Carradine
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) – Lugosi played Dracula in this comedy-horror hybrid that concluded the Universal Studios series.

• Dracula (Spanish Version) (1931) – Spanish-language version starring Carlos Villarías, made simultaneously with the 1931 Bela Lugosi film, using the same sets on a timeshare basis
• Drakula Istanbul'da (Dracula in Istanbul) (1953) - a rarely seen Turkish film on the subject. In order not to offend Muslim sensibilities no crucifixes were depicted.
• Dracula (1958; aka Horror of Dracula) – the first Hammer Dracula film, starring Christopher Lee as the Count. Followed by the sequels:

• The Brides of Dracula (1960) - the first in the sequence which doesn't feature Christopher Lee in the lead role
• Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) - in which Lee returns from the dead
• Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
• Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969)
• Scars of Dracula (1970)
• Dracula AD 1972 (1972)
• The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
• The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) - Christopher Lee refused to return as the Count, so John Forbes-Robertson took his place for the opening in Transylvania.

• Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966) Billy the Kid must stop Dracula (John Carradine) from taking his fiance, and making her his vampire bride. (Note that the name Dracula is not used in the film, but only in the title.)
• Dracula (1968) a made-for-television version starring Denholm Elliott.
• Count Dracula (1970 film) was the Jesus Franco-directed adaptation.
• Countess Dracula (1971)
• Blacula (1972) – a blaxploitation cult film in which an African prince is turned into a vampire by Dracula. The film is also notable for featuring the first two gay male vampires in film history: both victims of Blacula.
  • Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
• Leptirica (1973) (The She-Butterfly) – based on the story Posle devedeset godina written by Milovan Glišić.
• Dracula (1973) was directed by Dan Curtis and starred Jack Palance in the title role.
• Blood for Dracula (1974) - also released as Andy Warhol's Dracula (X-rated)
• Count Dracula (1977) was the second BBC production, this one remarkably faithful and starring Louis Jourdan.
• Lust at First Bite (1978) - (x-rated)
• Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (aka Dracula's Dog) (1978), a low-budget film in which the descendant of Dracula takes second billing to a vampiric Doberman
• Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) was Werner Herzog's remake of Murnau's silent classic.
• Dracula (1979) – a film in the gothic romantic tradition starring Frank Langella and remake of the 1931 film with Bela Lugosi
• Love At First Bite (1979) – romantic comedy spoof starring George Hamilton.
• Dracula Blows His Cool (1979) - a bizarre German film in which the vampire's castle becomes a tourist trap and the Count is reduced to providing oral service for his guests.
• Gayracula (1983), an all-male pornographic film
• The Monster Squad (1987)
• Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1990) is a comedy western about a ghost town populated by vampires.
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993) – attempt at filming the story quite close to Stoker's novel, but merging the medieval story of Vlad Tepeş; starring Gary Oldman as Dracula. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
• Interview with the Vampire (1994) – While no appearance or rendition of Dracula is made, the vampire Louis denounces the Dracula legend as "the vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman."
• Monster Force (1994) – an animated television series featuring Dracula as the mastermind of Evil, the Prince of Darkness and the main antagonist of the series
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) – a parody of Dracula films by Mel Brooks; Leslie Nielsen as Dracula
• Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - Oscar-nominated film about the 1922 filming of Nosteratu, excellent recreation of the sets, filming and story.
• Dracula 2000 (2000) - a modern reworking of the story.
  • Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
  • Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
• Buffy vs. Dracula episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000)
• Dracula (2002) was an Italian miniseries which updated the story to modern day.
• Hellsing (2002) - Alucard is Dracula, controlled by the descendent of Abraham Van Helsing, Integra Hellsing.
  • Hellsing Ultimate (2006) - Remake of Hellsing following the original manga series more closely.
• Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002) - a silent interpretation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's take of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - Mina Harker, vampiric thanks to her encounter with Dracula, is a member of the League.
• Van Helsing (2004) – action movie only loosely connected to the original Dracula; Richard Roxburgh is Dracula. Van Helsing's appearance is heavily based on the look of Vampire Hunter D, a vampire hunter who is the implied son of Dracula.
• Blade: Trinity (2004) - Drake the vampire is supposed to have had many forms throughout the centuries, Stoker's Dracula being one of them.
• Dracula 3000 (2004)
• Lust for Dracula (2005) is an all-lesbian, very surreal adaptation (x-rated).
• Dracula (2006) is the third BBC version, starring Marc Warren as the title character and reworking the plot.
• Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse (2006) - A direct to video release from The Asylum and director Leigh Scott with special effects by Almost Human Inc., the company who did creature effects for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• The Last Sect (2006) - Van Helsing's grandson (David Carradine) combats lesbian vampires.
• Fangland (2011) - Dracula returns.

[edit] Other vampires in films

• Vampire of the Coast (1909) (the first silent Vampire film)
• The Vampire's Trail (1910)
• In the Grip of the Vampire (1913)
• The Vampire (1913) - directed and co-written by Robert G. Vignola
• Vampires of the Night (1914)
• The Vampire's Trail (1914)
• Vampires of Warsaw (1914)
• The Vampire's Tower (1914)
• Saved From the Vampire (1914)
• The Devil's Daughter (1915)
• A Fool There Was (1915)
• The Vampire's Clutch (1915)
• Was She A Vampire? (1915)
• Kiss of the Vampire (1915)
• Les Vampires (1915) - a 10 part silent-film serial
• Mr. Vampire (1916)
• A Night of Horror (1916)
• A Vampire Out of Work (1916)
• A Village Vampire (1916)
• The Beloved Vampire (1917)
• The Vampire (1920)
• Dracula or Drakula (Original title: Дракула)(1920) - Russian film.
• Drakula holalu (1921)
• The Blond Vampire (1922)
• London After Midnight (1927) - a lost silent film.
• The Vampire (1928)
• Vampyr (1932)
• The Vampire Bat (1933)
• Mark of the Vampire (1935) - a remake of London After Midnight, this time as a talkie. At the conclusion of the film the vampires are revealed to be fraudulent.
• The Return of Doctor X (1939) -In an atypical role, Humphrey Bogart plays a scientist executed for starving an infant to death, who is re-animated with a need to consume blood.
• The Return of the Vampire (1944)
• The Vampire's Ghost (1945)
• El Vampiro (1957) - a Mexican cult classic, possibly the first movie to actually show a vampire with elongated canines.
• Not of This Earth (1957)
  • Not of This Earth (1988) - a remake with Traci Lords.
  • Not of This Earth (1995) - another remake with Michael York.
• Curse of the Undead (1959)
• Blood and Roses (1960) by Roger Vadim - the first of the lesbian vampire genre, based on Le Fanu's Carmilla.
• Black Sunday (1960)
• Slaughter of the Vampires, (1962) an Italian film that quickly became a cult classic and favorite: during the late 1960s and 1970s, it ran on screen and constantly on TV. Also known as La Strage dei Vampiri. The U.S. title is Curse of the Blood Ghouls.
• Black Sabbath (1963) - a portmanteau Italian horror movie, introduced by Boris Karloff, in three segments, the last of which is based on Alexei Tolstoy's vampire story The Family of the Vourdalak (1839) about a father (played by Karloff) who returns to the family home as a vampire.
• Carmilla (1964) - an Italian film, starring Christopher Lee, very loosely based on the story of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Last Man on Earth (1964) - based on the novel I Am Legend
• The Kiss of the Vampire - a Hammer film (1964).
• Blood Bath (1966)
• The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) - a semi-spoof of the genre directed by Roman Polanski.
• Le Viol du Vampire (1968) - vampire erotica by cult French director Jean Rollin. Followed by several more films of much the same sort, by Rollin, each usually featuring several attractive naked Frenchwomen in vampiric roles:
  • La Vampire Nue (1969)
  • Le Frisson Des Vampires (The Shiver Of The Vampires) (1970)
  • Requiem Pour Un Vampire (Requiem For A The Vampire) (1971)
  • Lèvres De Sang (Lips Of Blood) (1975)
  • La Morte Vivante (The Living Dead Girl) (1982)
  • Les Deux Orphelines Vampires (Two Orphan Vampires) (1995)
  • La Fiancee De Dracula (The Fiancee Of Dracula) (2002)
• House of Dark Shadows (1970)
• Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
  • The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
• The Vampire Lovers (1970), based on the story Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu and featuring Ingrid Pitt as a lesbian vampire. This was the first of Hammer's Karnstein Trilogy and set a trend for lesbian erotica in the genre.
  • Lust for a Vampire (1971) - the second film in the Karnstein Trilogy.
  • Twins of Evil (1971) - the third film in the Karnstein trilogy.
• Vampyros Lesbos (1971) a West German entry in the "lesbian erotic vampire" sub-genre.
• Daughters of Darkness (1971)
• The Omega Man (1971) - also based on the novel I Am Legend.
• Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
• The Night Stalker (1972)
• Ganja and Hess (1972) - Blaxploitation.
• Lemora (1973)
• Vampire Circus (1973) - a Hammer film.
• Leptirica (aka The Butterfly) (1973) - a Yugoslavian classic horror film directed by Djordje Kadijevic.
• Vampyres (1974) - an erotic film which features two lesbian vampires who inhabit a Gothic mansion in England: includes much in the way of bloody violence.
• Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974) - a Hammer film.
• Rabid (1977)
• Martin (1977) - George A. Romero's film about clinical vampirism ambiguously confused with folkloric vampirism.
• Thirst (1979)
• Salem's Lot (1979) - Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.
  • A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
  • 'Salem's Lot (2004)
• The Monster Club (1980) - this British film features horror legend Vincent Price as a vampire for the first and only time in his career.
• The Dark Crystal (1982)
• The Hunger (1983)
• The Keep (film) (1983)
• Fright Night (1985)
  • Fright Night II (1989)
• Once Bitten (1985)
• Lifeforce (1985)
• Vampire Hunter D (1985)
  • Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)
• Vamp (1986)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
  • Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008)
  • Lost Boys: The Thirst (2010)
• Near Dark (1987)
• My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988)
• Vampire Princess Miyu (1988)
• Vampire in Venice (1988)
• The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
• Vampire's Kiss (1989)
• Pale Blood (1990)
• Red-Blooded American Girl (1990)
• Rockula (1990)
• Blood Ties (1991)
• Subspecies (1991)
  • Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)
  • Bloodlust: Subspecies III (1994)
  • Vampire Journals (1997)
  • Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998)
• Love Bites (1993)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
• Sleepwalkers (1992)
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Reboot of original, announced in 2009. Unknown release date.
• Innocent Blood (1992)
• Samurai Vampire Bikers From Hell (1992)
• Cronos (1993) - by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, features a vampiric parasite encased inside a clockwork beetle, cunningly devised by a medieval alchemist to pierce the skin of those who handle it, turning them into blood-thirsty vampires. Vampirism in the film is also used as a metaphor for the predatory financial exploitation of Mexico by the USA.
• Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) - Based on the novel by Anne Rice.
  • Queen of the Damned (2002) - Based on the novel of the same name by Anne Rice.
• Embrace of the Vampire (1994)
• Nadja (1994)
• The Addiction (1995) A philosophical variant on the vampire film, that uses vampirism as a metaphor for AIDS and ends with a notorious and highly sexually charged orgy of blood-sucking.
• Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
• The Vampire of Budapest (1995) - a gay pornographic film from director Kristen Bjorn.
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
  • From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
  • From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000)
• Bordello of Blood (1996)
• Razor Blade Smile (1998) - a very low budget independent British film which pays homage to the Hammer lesbian vampire films of the 1970s.
• Blade (1998)
  • Blade II (2002)
  • Blade: Trinity (2004)
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)
• Vampires (1998)
  • Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)
• Modern Vampires (1998)
• Hot Vampire Nights (1999) - X-rated.
• The Little Vampire (2000)
• Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
• Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) - An anime movie about a vampire girl named Saya fighting chiropterans for a secret organization.
  • Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) - A live-action adaptation.
• Coming Out (2000) - South Korean short film.
• The Forsaken (2001)
• The Breed (film) (2001)
• Trouble Every Day (2001) - Artistic, erotic take on the vampire myth by Claire Denis.
• The Era of Vampires (English Title) (2002) - Hong Kong film by Tsui Hark. Original Title: Vampire Hunters.
• Queen of the Damned (2002) - Film adaptation of a Anne Rice novel
• Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (2002)
• The Twins Effect (2003) - A Chinese martial arts vampire movie, with a special guest appearance by Jackie Chan. AKA The Vampire Effect
• Moon Child (2003)
• Vampires Anonymous (2003) - A vampire trying to get away from his "eating habits" joins a 12-step program.
• Underworld (2003) - battle between vampires and werewolves
  • Underworld: Evolution (2006)
  • Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
• Vampire Blvd. (2004)
• Night Watch (2004) - Russian fantasy film partially involving vampires.
  • Day Watch (2006)
  • Twilight Watch (2009)
• Vampires: The Turning (2005)
• BloodRayne (2006)
  • BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007)
• Ultraviolet (2006)
• Frostbiten (2006) - Sweden's first vampire movie.
• Perfect Creature (2006) - New Zealand's first vampire movie.
• The Hamiltons (2006)
• Vampire Cop Ricky (2006)
• The Thirst (2006)
• Vegas Vampires (2007) - Daniel Baldwin, Richard Roundtree
• Revamped (2007)
• Gothic Vampires from Hell (2007)
• 30 Days of Night (2007) - Based on the comic of the same name.
  • 30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)
• I Am Legend (2007) - Based on the novel of the same name.
• Vampire Noir (2007)
• Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)
• Let the Right One In (2008) - An acclaimed Swedish romantic horror movie based on the novel of the same name.
• Vampyrer (2008) - Another Swedish horror thriller movie about two vampire sisters.
• I Sell the Dead (2008) - Victorian grave robbers awake the undead.
• The Sanuguniarian (2008)
• Twilight (2008) - Based on the novel of the same name.
  • The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) - Based on the novel New Moon.
  • The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) - Based on the novel Eclipse.
• The Vampires of Bloody Island (2008)
• Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) - A spoof of the lesbian vampire genre.
• Thirst (2009)
• Against the Dark (2009)
• Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) - Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson, John C. Reilly, Michael Ceveris - based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan called Cirque Du Freak.
• Wannabe (2009) - an Independent American Horror movie^[6]
• Feast of the Vampires (2009)^[7]
• Daybreakers (2009) - written and directed by Peter and Michael Spierig.
• Vampires Suck (2010)
• Suck (2010)
• Let Me In (2010) - An American remake of the 2008 acclaimed Swedish film.
• Wir sind die Nacht (2010) - A German modern-day film about a clique of young, rich and pretty female vampires.
• Priest (2011) - Based on the Korean comic of the same name.
• Vampire Candy (2011) - Australian/South Korean production - Jung Ryeo Won, Jacob Paint, Song Kang-ho - dir. Bong Joon-ho (Original screenplay by Jacob Paint)