TV & Film List

30 Years of Night: The Best Vampire Films - 1979 to 2009

By Eric Schneider

In 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.

CRITICAL LIST

Let the Right One In

Tomas Alfredson
A Swedish horror tale filled with atmosphere and emotion. >>

30 Days of Night

David Slade

From Dusk Till Dawn

Robert Rodriguez

Cronos

Guillermo del Toro

Dracula

Francis Ford Coppola

The Lost Boys

Joel Schumacher

Near Dark

Kathryn Bigelow

Fright Night

Tom Holland

The Hunger

Tony Scott

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Werner Herzog