30 Years of Night: The Best Vampire Films - 1979 to 2009
By Eric SchneiderIn 1979, Werner Herzog's atmospheric Nosferatu the Vampyre (a reworking of the 1922 classic) began a new era of blood-sucking cinema. What followed were inventive films that recast vampires in wide array of dark scenarios and settings, from next door to border-town barrooms to snowy Scandinavia.
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Let the Right One InTomas AlfredsonA Swedish horror tale filled with atmosphere and emotion. >> |
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30 Days of NightDavid Slade |
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From Dusk Till DawnRobert Rodriguez |
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CronosGuillermo del Toro |
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DraculaFrancis Ford Coppola |
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The Lost BoysJoel Schumacher |
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Near DarkKathryn Bigelow |
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Fright NightTom Holland |
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The HungerTony Scott |
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Nosferatu the VampyreWerner Herzog |
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