Good Vampire Movies

This page has a list of good vampire movies, if you're looking for the best blood sucker films then look no further.

Vampire movies are a very popular type of movie and there have been many of them, some good ones and some not so good. Film companies have been making them for years and they're still going strong.

Vampires are generally represented in the same way, supernatural creatures that live on the blood of the living. Vampires are known to have a certain set of weaknesses like, sunlight, garlic, crosses, silver and wooden stakes to the heart. Other characteristics they have is no reflection, sleeping in coffins, the ability to fly and transform into a bat like creature.

Vampires are known to have a few special abilities, such as super strength and speed, immortal/Immunity to aging, quick healing and even limb regeneration, some are represented as having mental powers like the ability to influence minds as well as other things.

History Of The Vampire

Reports about blood sucking creatures have been around for hundreds and even thousands of years, it wasn't until the 1700s when they were labelled with the name Vampires and become popular in fiction and literature.

I am only including movies which I consider scary or good, or both, I will be leaving out such films like the Twilight series as I consider them to be more Romance movies.

Good Vampire Movies

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The Lost Boys (1987)
Director Joel Schumacher
Stars Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest

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Blade (1998)
Director Stephen Norrington
Stars Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson

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Blade II (2002)
Director Guillermo del Toro
Stars Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman

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Blade Trinity (2004)
Director David S. Goyer
Stars Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Parker Posey

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Underworld (2003)
Director Len Wiseman
Stars Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly

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Underworld Evolution (2006)
Director Len Wiseman
Stars Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Bill Nighy

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Underworld Rise of the Lycans (2009)
Director Patrick Tatopoulos
Stars Rhona Mitra, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy

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Underworld Awakening (2012)
Director Bjorn Stein
Stars Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, India Eisley

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Vampires (1998)
Director John Carpenter
Stars James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee

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Dracula (1992)
Director Francis Ford Coppola
Stars Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins

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Dracula (2000)
Director Patrick Lussier
Stars Gerard Butler, Justine Waddell, Jonny Lee Miller

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30 Days of Night (2007)
Director David Slade
Stars Josh Hartnett, Melissa George

Ginger Snaps Review

Ginger Snaps Review, two outcast sisters get attacked by some kind of animal in the woods.

Director John Fawcett

Writer Karen Walton

Cast

Emily Perkins, Brigitte Fitzgerald
Katharine Isabelle, Ginger Fitzgerald
Danielle Hampton, Trina Sinclair
John Bourgeois, Henry Fitzgerald
Kris Lemche, Sam McDonald
Mimi Rogers, Pamela Fitzgerald
Jesse Moss, Jason McCardy

Copperheart Entertainment, Running time 108 minutes

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Two sisters Ginger and Brigitte are outcasts and struggle to get along with their fellow class mates, one night while they're walking in their local woods the two sisters get attacked, Ginger is bitten by some unknown creature. A few days after, Ginger starts to change physically and her personality begins to shift. Brigitte suspects the creature was a Werewolf and she comes to the conclusion that Ginger is turning into a Werewolf and starts to search for a cure.

I think we have been starved of good Werewolf movies and Ginger Snaps is one of those movies that eluded me for some years, so after doing some research on Werewolf movies I came across this, with good reviews I was very eager to get my hands on this and see what I have been missing out on.

Ginger Snaps is a refreshingly original take on Werewolf movies, it revolves around two teenage girls with low social value, struggling through life, and it deals with the confusion of puberty. The two girls are interesting characters and their lives and troubles are enough to hold the viewers attention, then add Werewolves into the mix and it makes for a very entertaining movie.

The acting is a little weak at times, but for the most part it's solid and believable with some good character development. No CG is used, the director choose to use prosthetics instead, the gore effects look good and gruesome, the Werewolf itself is very ugly and nasty, but the prosthetic model doesn't look all that realistic in a close up view, which will be down to the small budget this movie had.

Overall I enjoyed Ginger Snaps, definitely one of the best Werewolf movies I have seen in recent years.

6.5 out of 10