Lifeforce (1985)
Tobe Hooper directs this ambitious and downright strange effort for The Cannon Group called Lifeforce, based off of a deliberately Lovecraftian 1976 novel from Colin Wilson called, “The Space Vampires”, which has a reputation...
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Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
Fright Night Part 2 is a follow-up to the 1985 cult hit, Fright Night (naturally), and by just about every measure, it’s a disappointment. Here we find the same protagonist, Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale), as...
Near Dark (1987)
1987 would see two vampire movies released, Near Dark and The Lost Boys, and while the latter would earn the money and the fan base, it is the former that won the respect of the critics and...
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Indie film giant Jim Jarmusch writes and directs another genre musing with Only Lovers Left Alive, which offers a different take on the vampire movie, a subgenre that one would think would have few new...
30 Days of Night (2007)
Based on the comic book, 30 Days of Night imagines a scenario where vampires decide to attack a small Alaskan town known to have 30 straight days without sunlight annually. Steve Niles, who wrote the...
Fright Night (1985)
“…Nobody wants to see vampire killers anymore. Or vampires. Apparently, all they want are demented madmen running around in ski masks hacking up young virgins.” – Peter Vincent Charley Brewster (Ragsdale) is a typical suburban...
The Lost Boys (1987)
Lucy Emerson (Wiest) is a divorced mother of two teenage sons, Michael (Patric) and Sam (Haim), who relocates to the strange oceanside California town of Santa Carla, which is filled with a mix of punk...
Blade (1998)
After his mother (Lathan) had been bitten by a vampire during her pregnancy, her son Eric, later dubbed “Blade” (Snipes) was born with reconstructed DNA, giving him a mixture of strengths between vampires and humans. At...
Van Helsing (2004)
Stephen Sommers, the writer-director of the successfully revamped creature features The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, tries to strike up another franchise with Van Helsing, another throwback to the pantheon of monster movies released in the 30s...
Underworld (2003)
The film is called Underworld, and that’s where it belongs, as anything this perpetually derivative doesn’t deserve to see the light of day. It’s made for one type of audience: the ones who like everything...