Vampire Movies

Top Vampire Movie Series/Themes (chronological order by first movie in series/theme):

(Movies I have seen are in bold.)

1. Silent Films

• • • Georges Méliès’s Le Manoir du Diable/The Haunted Castle (1896) (French film)
    • Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 “The Vampire” poem as The Vampire (1913) (American film)
    • The Death of Drakula (1921) (lost Hungarian film)
    • Nosferatu (1922) (German film)

2. Universal Classics

• • • Dracula (1931) & Drácula (1931) (Spanish-language version)
    • Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
    • Son of Dracula (1943)
    • House of Frankenstein (1944)
    • House of Dracula (1945)

3. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) Movies

• • • Universal’s Dracula (1931)
    • Count Dracula (1970)
    • Dracula (1979)
    • Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

4. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1871) Movies

• • • Vampyr (1932)
    • Karnstein Trilogy: The Vampire Lovers (1970)
    • Lust for a Vampire (1971)
    • Twins of Evil (1971)

5. Femme Fatales

• • • Le Viol du Vampire (1968) & La Vampire Nue (1970)
    • Vampyres (1974)
    • Embrace of the Vampire (1995)
    • Trouble Every Day (2001)

6. Countess Elizabeth Bathory Movies

• • • Hammer Films’ Countess Dracula (1971)
    • Daughters of Darkness (1971)
    • Thirst (1979)
    • Eternal (2004)

7. Comedy Vampire Movies

• • • Universal’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
    • Love At First Bite (1979)
    • Once Bitten (1985)
    • Vamp (1986)
    • The Monster Squad (1987)
    • Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
    • Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
    • The Little Vampire (2000)
    • Vampires Suck (2010)
    • Dark Shadows (2012)

8. Not of This Earth Movies

• • • Not of This Earth (1957)
    • Not of This Earth (1988)
    • Not of This Earth (1995)

9. Hammer Vampire Movies

• • • Dracula (1958)
    • The Brides of Dracula (1960)
    • The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
    • Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
    • Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
    • Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
    • Scars of Dracula (1970)
    • Countess Dracula (1971)
    • Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
    • The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
    • Vampire Circus (1973)
    • The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
    • Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974)

10. I Am Legend Movies

• • • The Last Man on Earth (1964)
    • The Omega Man (1971)
    • I Am Legend (2007)

11. Other Sci-Fi Vampire Movies

• • • Lifeforce (1985)
    • Daybreakers (2009)
    • Bloodsuckers/Vampire Wars (2005)
    • Ultraviolet (2006)

12. Stephen King’s Vampire Movies

• • • Salem’s Lot (1979)
    • A Return to Salem’s Lot (1987)
    • Sleepwalkers (1992)

13. Anime Vampire Movies

• • • Vampire Hunter D (1985) & Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)
    • Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) & Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) (live-action adaptation)
    • Vampire Princess Miyu (1988)
    • Hellsing Ultimate (2006)

14. Fright Night Movies

• • • Fright Night (1985)
    • Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
    • Fright Night (2011)
    • Fright Night 2 (2013)

15. The Lost Boys Trilogy

• • • The Lost Boys (1987)
    • Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008)
    • Lost Boys: The Thirst (2010)

16. Subspecies Series

• • • Subspecies (1991)
    • Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)
    • Bloodlust: Subspecies III (1994)
    • Vampire Journals (1997)
    • Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998)

17. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (written by Joss Whedon)

• • • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

18. Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles

• • • Interview with the Vampire (1994)
    • Queen of the Damned (2002)

19. From Dusk Till Dawn Trilogy

• • • From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
    • From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
    • From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter (2000)

20. Blade Trilogy

• • • Blade (1998)
    • Blade II (2002)
    • Blade: Trinity (2004)

21. Vampires Movies

• • • John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998)
    • Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)
    • Vampires: The Turning (2005)

22. Dracula 2000 Trilogy

• • • Dracula 2000 (2000)
    • Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
    • Dracula III: Legacy (2005)

23. Shadow of the Vampire

• • • Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

24. Action Vampire Movies

• • • League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
    • Universal’s Van Helsing (2004)
    • Priest (2011)

25. Underworld Saga

• • • Underworld (2003)
    • Underworld: Evolution (2006)
    • Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
    • Underworld: Awakening (2012)
    • Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

26. Night Watch Trilogy

• • • Night Watch (2004)
    • Day Watch (2006)
    • Twilight Watch (2009)

27. BloodRayne Trilogy

• • • BloodRayne (2005)
    • BloodRayne 2: Deliverance (2007)
    • BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2011)

28. 30 Days of Night Movies

• • • 30 Days of Night (2007)
    • 30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)

29. Let the Right One In Movies

• • • Let the Right One In (2008)
    • Let Me In (2010)

30. The Twilight Saga

• • • Twilight (2008)
    • The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
    • The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
    • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)
    • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)