Alright, yeah yeah they're all good, you can't choose or there's just too many you haven't yet seen but deep down we all have one favorite embodiment of the undead.

Finding a copy of The Hunger starring David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve has to be one of my most thankful treasure hunts. I found the vhs at a used record store during a summer street fair and fell madly in love. While the movie leaves it up to the viewer to decipher what it means to be a vampire, it allows you to be completely in the moment and learn along with the characters. Add the smoldering glam of the 80s, Bowie..nuff said, and the refined class of Catherine Deneuve (along with Susan Serrandon's willful abandonment) and you've a splendid little stir of a cocktail. The music is great, too, opening With none other than "undead, undead, undead..."
Schubert's Trip op 100 sets the perfect mood as the theme for this movie of love, cigarettes and sunsets..all that wither as time moves forward.

What makes this my favorite Vampire flick is the mood and how they show the humanity of vampires, the need of companionship and the will of love as well as the dastardly depths one will go to save themselves from their own destruction.
Feel free to give an explanation to why your favorite is so or simply throw down a title. And if you really can't choose, name them all!

Let The Right One In: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/

Honestly, it's refreshing to see a vampire movie without all the aristrocratic good looking vampire crap. The setting, drama, mood, everything about this movie just clicked together. The only thing missing was Joy Division's Atmosphere playing in the background.

I'm gonna have to say, Queen of the Damned, The Lost Boys (1 or 2), or Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.

It's really hard to choose!

I would have to agree with aurora. I abosluteley love Queen of the Damned, it has to be my favorite. They should make more Anne Rice books into movies.

I'd have to say the 1992 version of Bram Stoker's "Dracula". Only because it sticks with the original story, unlike these other whackjob vampire flicks.

Ahh, so true. Queen of the Damned seemed to be a combo between the books The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned.

Bram Stoker's Dracula was awesome!

I liked that one too, I could even tolerate Keanu Reeves. I actually own that one, Interview with a Vampire, and Nosfuratu.

Im a fan of the classic versions myself. The 1931 film with Bela Lugosi and I especially love Nosfuratu because of how amazing the film is considering the lack of technology and it definatly has a creepy feel to it. Also its nice to see a vamp actually look like a monster instead of a brooding pretty boy.

Amen! It would have been incredible to be a goth back then and seen it premier in theaters. I love the shadows of his hands creeping up the door and then over her bed and her heart. I want a vampire movie that actually frightens people without being slasher/gory. To scare people using actual scary predicaments, imagery and deep thought.
And yeah, I think Twilight proved how far the undead pretty boy can be taken. It's time to get the monsters back in the mix.

1992s Bram Stoker's Dracula is awesome! I've only read bits and pieces of the actual book but the movie held the same feel. I really liked the different forms they showed Dracula in. My favorite scene is with Lucy in her tomb, feeding on the baby. All the blood on that white gown was a sweet visual.

Queen Of The Damned has an amazing soundtrack, Slept So Long and House Of Flies are two favs.

And Kristen Dunst in Interview With The Vampire...incredible for her age.

I read Dracula, most of the 1992 movie is the same except the ending. But honestly I was pissed with the books ending mainly because i wanted the vampire to burst out of the coffin and kill everybody lol instead of just getting killed himself. The movie's ending was more satifying to me. And this comes from someone who wishes death on movie producers who change the plot of books to suit their movies.

I also liked how they tried to incorporate Vlad the Impaler with the fictional story. I think its the first version to do that.

I agree with you Count, that is probably my favorite scene in the movie when you see his shadow growing and reaching for her. I think the scariest movies are the ones that are done with little to no CG affects.

Nosferatu, from 1922.

Nosferatu for its time was both horrifying (you have to admit, Count Orlok was freaky looking, especially for the 1920's) and cleverly done in that it wasn't allowed to use Stoker's story directly, so it had to work with alternate plans--and it actually stood on its own.

There's a certain lost element of creativity you don't see without a silent film. The actors have to work harder to emulate themselves without actually being heard. Also, being a black and white film, the makeup has to be intensified, like a stage play, and shadows are strong and abound throughout the film, which I've always loved for the dramatic effect it has even today. Oh, German expressionism.

And because it's related, I have to give a nod to Shadow of the Vampire, for being so tastefully done. Also, since there was a strong legend amongst the German film community that Max Schrek played such a good vampire because he actually was one; it's a great idea to use as a basis for a story and I'm glad someone thought to do it. I think it helped the rumor that the name "Schrek" means "terror" in German. Heh.

I've always liked, From Dusk til dawn, Blade and the Horror of Dracula

This is beautiful. I especially love the way the real villian of the piece is the director who just wants the perfect shot, and not the undead killer.

Excellent movie that's now public domain and free for viewing.

Bram Stoker's Dracula is also a winner, as is Interview with the Vampire and The Hunger.

Thanks for the link, broken!

I'll be watching that one soon.

man thanks for the link, I bookmarked it lol.