# Your favorite vampire movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550 "2010-11-13T13:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/61 "2010-11-17T15:11:41Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Lost Boys. > > But the various opinions are reminding me just how many vampire movies I have. 🙂 > > BTW, there’s one I cannot recall the name of, all I recollect is a group of young guys in a car that spins out in the middle of an intersection and they end up in the dark-side of town somehow
 a vampire getting (ineffectively) stabbed with formica is also floating around in the morass I call a memory
 anyone care to name it? I believe that would be [Vamp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vamp_(film)), one of a string of 1980s films based on the untenable premise that Grace Jones was sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/62 "2010-11-17T15:19:30Z")
_Shadow of the Vampire_ for me. “Much as a I hate to admit it, the writer is necessary”. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/63 "2010-11-17T15:21:46Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > I believe that would be [Vamp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vamp_(film)), one of a string of 1980s films based on the untenable premise that Grace Jones was sexy. I think she is, except for her face and that haircut the usually had. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/64 "2010-11-17T15:29:21Z")
> [@TPWombat](#): > > Also Chan-Wook Park’s (Oldboy, Landy Vengeance) [Thirst](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762073/combined). Priest who has lost his faith volunteers for a dangerous medical experiment and becomes a vampire. Then a young woman in an abusive arranged marriage falls for him. Hilarious and sweet. Warning - contains slurping noises. I was going to mention this movie. Although I though the girl was lying about the abusive marriage and making it look abusive when actually it wasn’t- kind of making her the bad guy in how the story played out
 Ditto for the Herzog movie. Plus, if I remember correctly, a piece of music in that movie is also in one of my favorite Kate bush songs. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/65 "2010-11-17T23:31:41Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > I believe that would be [Vamp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vamp_(film)), one of a string of 1980s films based on the untenable premise that Grace Jones was sexy. That looks like the one, thank you! Weird, I have no memory of Grace Jones in it
 and yet
 mmmm
 might have to go find that one on disc. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/66 "2010-11-18T16:36:26Z")
I saw _Let the Right One In_ last night. It is now my favorite vampire film, hands down. I hate subtitles, but I loved that film. Eli wasn’t some candy coated vampire that was full of angst or even regreted killing and feeding - she’s a monster. But she wasn’t cartoonish evil; her motives were simple survival. A lonely predator that must prey on humans. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/67 "2010-11-18T16:36:37Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > That looks like the one, thank you! Weird, I have no memory of Grace Jones in it
 and yet
 mmmm
 might have to go find that one on disc. 🙂 She’s wearing full-body makeup through most of her scenes, so she’s not immediately recognizable. I wouldn’t call \*Vamp \*a good movie, but it’s worth seeking out for a look. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/68 "2010-11-18T20:23:25Z")
I’m old school, so I prefer the 1931 Tod Browning/Bela Lugosi classic. It’s sequel, _Dracula’s Daughter_, is really good, too. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/69 "2010-11-18T21:24:28Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > She’s wearing full-body makeup through most of her scenes, so she’s not immediately recognizable. Yeah, that may be why I couldn’t remember **Grace Jones** , but I suspect it was two movies getting scrambled in my head – I had this idea that Vamp had a rather more
 errr
 luscious female vampire, but I think now that I was getting confused with **Lauren Hutton** , the vampire lead in _Once Bitten_ which came out the year before. Took me a while to remember and find details for _Once Bitten_, and I had no recollection of a young **Jim Carrey** starring in it
 as the only thing I could clearly remember was a particular exchange between his girlfriend and the vampire: \*\*Robin \*\*(the _ingĂ©nue_ and our hero’s girlfriend) to the **Countess** (sexy vampiress): “Mark doesn’t want you because you’re mean and evil. He wants me because I am nice and sweet and pure, so _fuck off!_”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/70 "2010-11-19T05:08:55Z")
Just got back from seeing [Let Me In](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228987/), the American remake of [Let the Right One In](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/), and I have to say they did a really nice job with it. They even made, IMHO, an improvement over the book and the previous movie by
 
spelling out pretty clearly that the older man who is traveling with the vampire had been with her since he was a kid himself
and thus that the protagonist, Owen, is in danger of falling into the same trap. Which adds a nice tragic element to the plot. Kind of odd to set the movie in Los Alamos, I thought. I would have expected a more northerly spot. But at least they did keep the wintry feel of the original. Anyway, I would add [Let Me In](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228987/) to my (very short) list of good vampire movies. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550/71 "2010-11-19T05:30:11Z")
Mostly I find vampire movies to be borefests, but the original “Nosferatu” is a fine horror flick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-vampire-movie/560550.md?page=3)