Vampire Movies

The vampire genre is almost 100 years old, there was created so many movies about them and I will talk about few, which impressed me the most.

First movie, the godfather of vampire cinema, F.W. Murnau’s ‘Nosferatu’, created in 1922. It had no language, only sound effects, but, I have to admit, was kind of creepy even for that period of days. I can imagine, how terrifying it had to be for people in 1922, who were not familiar with horror at all. It’s about old vampire, who falls in love with real estate agent’s wife, but story ends tragically.

‘Bram Stocker’s Dracula’ 1992, based on ‘Nosferatu’, gothic, mysterious, scary film, about Count Dracula, who also falls in love with real estate agent’s fiancée, Mina. Dracula travels from Transylvania to London to seduce Mina and make her a vampire, but famous vampire hunter Van Helsing doesn’t let Dracula’s desires to come true.

Speaking of Van Helsing, there are two movies about this character I liked, Its ‘Van Helsing’, 2004 and ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’, 2002. Both movies are about strong, handsome mortal man, hunting vampires professionally. First one little bit different, because there are werewolves involved too and action is happening in Romania. In second movie Abraham becomes US president and fights war with vampires. Both movies full of darkness, romance, good soundtracks, pain and killing.

Now about little bit different movies, for example Iranian-American directors indie feminist twist “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” in 2014. A vampire girl falls in love with regular guy, but they are not meant to be together because of what she is. It’s sad, slow action movie-drama, but I liked it because it’s different. Another unusual movie ‘Let the Right One In’, Swedish gothic romance, about creepy 12-year-old girl, who turns out to be a vampire, and little bullied boy. She starts defending and protecting him, so they become best friends, but sadly this movie also doesn’t have happy ending. Next one, directors and actors Taika Waititi creation ‘What We Do in The Shadows’, where he plays a vampire living in New Zealand with his best friends also vampires, how they adapt to the world these days, how they’re going shopping, paying rent, dating, fighting and interacting with people. It’s actually very funny movie, about struggling vampires and heir life is not so glamorized or mystical like in other vampire movies.

There are so many more good vampire movies, like ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’, ‘Blade’, ‘Dracula Untold’, ‘Underworld’, ‘The Lost Boys’ and so on. But my personal favorites are ‘Interview with The Vampire’ with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, released 1994 and “Queen of the Damned’, 2002.

 Overall, all the vampire movies have darkness, mystery, tragic love stories, Gothic elements and good soundtracks, that’s why I like them and some of them rewatched couple times.