Good vampire movies

Who can recommend? This is a genre of which I've admittedly seen little, but am intrigued to find more. The only ones I've seen are:

Dracula (1932): Barely remember it, but loved it as a child.
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Not my thing -- hated Keanu/Winona
Daybreakers: Liked
Let Me In/Let the Right One In: Loved both
30 Days of Night: Meh.
Martin: Extremely unique and interesting Romero film.

Nosferatu, both the original and the Herzog version.

http://www.stomptokyo.com/otf/Ganja-Hess/Ganja-Title.JPG

Salem's Lot, which we kicked around on another thread. Long, slow in spots, but worth it for a few great scare scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLhA9kiFCnU

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Daughters of Darkness
Lips of Blood
Martin
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
Thirst (1979)
Thirst (2009)
Twins of Evil
Vampyr
Vampyres

second Ganja & Hess, Near Dark, Nosferatu

+ Vampire Circus

anyone like Vampire's Kiss with Nicolas Cage? Want to see that one.

Shadow of the Vampire

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Blood for Dracula
Cravings
Dracula 2000
Eternal Blood (Sangre Eterna)
The Forsaken
Fright Night
From Dusk Til Dawn
Frostbitten
Innocent Blood
The Insatiable
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural
The Night Flier
Perfect Creature
Side FX
the Wurdalak segment from Bava's Black Sabbath

should keep you busy...

dunno, never cared for Vampire's Kiss. too arch.

Which Blade movie is the good one?

first one's not bad.

arthouse edition:

the addiction
nadja
trouble every day
habit

+++ (and that's it for me, i promise)
The Addiction
Angel of the Night
Blood & Donuts
Habit
Nadja

xpost. haha. and TED is cannibalism, not vampires. nor would i recommend it.

it's not for everybody but it's an interesting film. a precursor of all the blood drenched french films like haute tension, inside, martyrs, etc. definitely has vampiric overtones though they are not technically vampires.

It's a admittedly demented mix of sci-fi, end-of-days AND vampirism, but I've always liked Lifeforce.

a 70s favorite is let's scare jessica to death, very creepy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmrMRTcZSXY

i have a really vague memory of a tv movie with a creepy kid in a coffin presumably dead reveal as a vampire -- is it salem's lot?

dunno, did he look like this

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/salems-lot-floating-outside.jpg

the skin tone is right! I feel like he had a bowl haircut though but it probably looked neater at the funeral.

i don't think Denis' film, a critical and commercial flop, had much to do with the recent French horror explosion. if you don't want to go all the way back to the Parisian tradition of the Grand Guignol, Alain Roback's gory Baby Blood (1990), Gaspar Noe's nihilistic Seul contre tous (1998) or François Ozon's transgressive Les amants criminels (1999) all seem like the true precursors. and it was Breillat's gut-punch arthouse erotica and the Tarantino-esque trash of Baise-moi (2000, directed by WTF cares), rather than TED (2001), which ushered in the next, even more "extreme" wave, probably beginning with Marina de Van's gruesomely personal Dans ma peu (2002).

and TED's monsters eat flesh - cobs of it, ripped right off the bone. they're not vampires.

thinking about this question reminds me that in general i just dont really like vampire movies much

definitely has vampiric overtones though they are not technically vampires.

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where I see the trouble every day influence on french horror is purely in visual style. there were a lot of extreme films coming out of france in the late 90s but the now-cliched image of a completely blood-soaked woman is something I associate primarily with trouble every day. maybe there's an earlier example I'm not thinking of?

2001
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID5064/images/trouble_every_day23(3).JPG

2003
http://horrorart.biz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/HauteTension.jpg

2007
http://www.cinemaisdope.com/news/films/frontieres/frontieres-1024-1.jpg

carrie?

well, yeah, there are precedents in horror films everywhere for that type of imagery, but as a style specific to 00s french horror, trouble every day is the first example I remember seeing at the time.

I third Near Dark.

The Hunger is worth it for Bowie's appearance alone, but I still like it, dated warts and all.

Baby Blood (1990)
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L'interieur (2007)
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afaict, not already mentioned:

Brides of Dracula (my favourite Terence Fisher-directed vampire movie - sensual, lush, sad)
Kiss of the Vampire (a non-Fisher/Lee Hammer, and a slightly different flavour)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (the best of the post-Fisher Hammer/Lee Draculas, lots of great leering sweaty Victorian patriarchs getting their comeuppance)
Dracula AD 1972 (ludicrous, tremendous fun, and even actually scary in places - ie the ritual in the church)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (beautiful images/set dressing and an absolutely superb Komeda score)
Dracula (the 1977 BBC version, one of the most faithful adaptations w a terrific lead performance by Louis Jordan)
The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (Kung Fu vampires, say no more)
Interview with the Vampire (not a great movie overall, but good in parts - the scene with the vampiric Kristen Dunst is very very strong)
The Naked Vampire (gotta have a Rollin)

Dracula (the 1977 BBC version, one of the most faithful adaptations w a terrific lead performance by L0uis J@gger

Don't miss Razor Blade Smile - absolutely tremendous cheese.

One of my best friends played a child vampire in Return to Salem's Lot. That's not a reason to see it, however. Take my word for it - it isn't worth watching.

seen a few of these, but Ganja and Hess was a treat. I love how they allow events to just unfold and let you connect the dots, without overcomplicating.

yea, I'm still a little confused by the end, but I mostly get it. plus well Duane Jones is badass.