Top 10 Vampire Movies of All Time
10. Bram Stoker?s Dracula
Dracula (also known as Bram Stoker’s Dracula) is a 1992 American Gothic horror-romance thriller directed and co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula and Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, also featuring Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker, and Sadie Frost as Lucy Westenra.
Dracula was greeted by a generally positive critical reception and was a box office hit. The film’s score was composed by Wojciech Kilar and featured “Love Song for a Vampire” by Annie Lennox as the closing credits theme. In 1462, Vlad Dracula, a member of the Order of the Dragon, returns from a victory against the Turks to find his wife Elisabeta has committed suicide after hearing reports of his death. Enraged at the notion of his wife being damned for committing suicide, Dracula desecrates his chapel and renounces God, declaring that he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness. -Wikipedia.org
9. 30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night is a 2007 American horror film based on the comic book miniseries of the same name. The film is directed by David Slade and stars Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, and Danny Huston. The story focuses on an Alaskan town beset by vampires as it enters into a thirty-day long period without sunshine.
30 Days of Night was originally pitched as a comic then a film but was rejected. Years later Steve Niles showed IDW Publishing and the idea it took off. The film was produced on a budget of million and grossed million in the box office during its 6 week run starting on October 19, 2007. The sequel, 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, was released on October 5, 2010 straight to home video. -Wikipedia.org
8. Vampires
Vampires (also known as John Carpenter’s Vampires) is a western-horror film directed by John Carpenter in 1998. Adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley, the film stars James Woods as Jack Crow, leader of a Catholic Church-sanctioned team of vampire hunters. The plot is centered on Crow’s efforts to prevent a centuries-old cross from falling into the hands of Valek, a master vampire. Vampires also stars Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Tim Guinee and Maximilian Schell. Two sequels followed: Vampires: Los Muertos in 2002 and Vampires: The Turning in 2005. A team of Vatican sponsored mercenaries led by Jack Crow (Woods) rids an abandoned house of vampires in the middle of New Mexico. The sun sets and, as the Slayers leave, the Master bursts out of the ground outside the house. -Wikipedia.org
7. Blade
Blade is a 1998 vampire action film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the Marvel Comics character Blade. The film was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer. Snipes plays Blade, a human-vampire hybrid, who protects humans against vampires. Blade grossed million at the U.S. box office, and 1.2 million worldwide. Two sequels, Blade II and Blade: Trinity, were subsequently produced. The movie begins with a flashback of a pregnant woman being hospitalized after being bitten by, as one of the doctors said, some kind of wild animal. In the process of trying to revive her, she gives birth to her baby boy and dies. -Wikipedia.org
6. Dracula ? 1931
Dracula is a 1931 horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring B
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