I know! Magnus was never mentioned, nothing about Lestats life was really explained in that movie, well not nearly enough anyway. But I will say, Stuart Townsend makes a very good looking vampire. And that's were it gets my vote

I haven't seen that many vampire movies, though more than some, less than most. But I always loved Dracula with Bela Lugosi. Nothing beats that in my book.

I never warmed to Anne Rice's stuff or the films based on her stories. The new stuff (read Twilight and so on) is entertaining, but not classics.

I also have to add that I haven't watched many vampire flicks. All I've watched were the Blade movies, Nosferatu, and Universal's Dracula (the one featuring Bela Lugosi). I've seen some other cheesy vampire flicks, but I don't remember the names of all of them (one of them was the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer). I'm more of a reader than a watcher of any horror-related thing (because horror tends to be gore-ish, especially in movies made nowadays, so I'd much rather read gore than watch it happen (because I'm admittedly scared of gorey movies).

As for TV shows, the only vampire shows I've watched are Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Angel.

I have to admit that Copollas Dracula is still my favorite overall. It follows the novel closely, yet still adds a more human side to Dracula that was missed in most other adaptions. Great as Lugosi and Lee may be, Gary Oldman helped truly make the character believable in my eyes. Plus the scene where he turns into a giant bat creature and lights the cross on fire is seriously awesome. God even Keanu wasn't THAT bad in the movie. His accent was awful though, I won't deny that. And Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing was perfect. And the movie not only had every major character from the novel, but it got their roles right for once. I swear I want to punch stuff everytime a Dracula adaption either omitted Arthur or Quincey (and even Mina in some versions), or completely changed characters realtionships with each other. Arthur isn't Minas Dad, Lucy's cousin or Harkers Mom. Copolla was, to my knowledge, the first person to get the whole thing (at least 90%) right. Plus he made a seriously badass, and romanctically charged, vampire movie without making the vampire a total fop.

Plus Gary Oldman just plain rules no matter what he's in.

Yeah. I just watched Copolla's Dracula and it was a good movie, with minor disagreements from my part. But I like this one a whole lot more than the version staring Bela Lugosi.

I totally forgot about the movie Van Helsing. Yeah, it was a total rape on the original book, I won't disregard that. But I liked how they crushed the three great gothic novels of the age together (Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula). And I have to admit that I liked Richard Roxburgh as Dracula, that and how he and his brides turned into those gargoyle-harpy monsters.

And Gary Oldman Dracula's glasses kicked ass. XD

For just being plain silly I love Dracula: Dead and Loving It... has me in stitches everytime I see it and also The Buffy movie (the epitome of cheese, but it has Rutger Hauer, and I've liked him since I saw LadyHawke).

I did like Bram Stoker's Dracula... and I loved the accent that Gary Oldman had (very much like Bela Lugosi) I just adore that accent! I think that he brought a very sad and lonely element to the role, and I am totally on his side... probably because I'm meant to be, it is a love story after all I actually cried when I first saw the film (and I still get a little teary now, I just so want them to be together ). I think that Keanu Reeves also affected my decision, too... his acting was horrible, and I wondered if one day he would grow up to be a real boy! (anyone remember Pinocchio?) I just wanted the three brides to drain him dry and throw the Harker-shaped husk out of the castle window! Poor Mina... there's really no choice, is there?!

I'm also am a great lover of Christopher Lee in the character of Dracula... tall, elegant, drain you in an instant, that air of brooding menace, **swoons** (but then I love tall men and Hammer films in general).

The other film I really like, that hasn't been mentioned yet is Dracula 2000, with Gerard Butler and Jonny Lee Miller... I love the film, purely because Gerard is Dracula (and I think that in that role, at least, he is totally gorgeous, and he can bite me anytime!! ) Also the way they explain just why vampires are averse to the things they hate (the cross/crucifix, daylight, silver... I just thought that it was a clever way to explain it).

Fright Night was funny, and my sister still has nightmares about the mouth on the red-haired girl at the end (can't recall her name, maybe Kate?). I burst out laughing, she screamed (and after she forced me to watch the remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I found her getting scared over a large mouth hilariously funny )

-- Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:37 pm --

Oh yeah... forgot about Van Helsing... all the monsters, and Hugh Jackman... nuff said

Hugh Jackman is hot anytime, but especially so in Van Helsing. I likez them sexy beasty werewolf!

I hear ya!! The final 15 minutes of that film!! Pure heaven (with lots of Mr. Jackman to see )

Remarking on Van Helsing - and that Kate Beckinsale co-stared in it as well - that brings up the Underworld series. I've only seen clips of the first movie, so I can't really say anything about the movies, but I have read a hefty amount about its vampire/werewolf orgins, plot, mythology and science.

edit: Now I remember yet another Dracula film that I've watched. I think it was a 1970s version, because I remember it being in "glorious techni-color."

Ah yes, I had forgotten about Fright Night. The girl with the super wide mouth at the end was pretty frightening for some reason. I don't exactly even know why, but I really loved that movie. Probably because it had that 'kid who no one listens to until it's too late' kind of feel to it. Plus goofy fun 80s Horror is always the best.

I've got the strangest sense of deja vu.

As for me, my favourite Vampire flick is most probably Near Dark. That, to me, perfectly demonstrates how vampires in the modern day would operate if they existed. For the classic-style vamp I go for Copolla's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula or, despite it's faults and its age, Interview With The Vampire.

I'm keen to see "Let The Right One In" though. I hear it's bloody good (no pun intended).

- trag

God-damn Cammies, always giving us a bad name.....

I might not have liked Dracula starring Bela Lugosi, but I like the parody of it ten times more. ;D

Plus I liked that D:DALI kept more to the Victorian era. That put me off with the original.

Quiet you uncouth, Anarch pleb.

Arghhhh!! FURRIES! Quick, hide...