Hard to believe this one is more than 20 years old.
Posted on 11/30/2008 8:25:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“Worse Vampire flick (IMO)
Jack Palance (made for TV movie) (1973)”
Laughs, and nods in agreement, but Palance as Jekyll and Hyde, was amazing. His Dr. Jekyll was a total Harvey Milquetoast, while his Mr. Hyde, was absolute evil, just barely cloaking itself with charm. Incredible performance.
Returning to the Dracula/TV vein ; P ,heehee, Louis Jourdan had an interesting take on it, although the scene I remember VERY clearly, was when he was crawling down a tower wall...eeeeeeee : |
Tatt
That’s a good pick. Kolchak rules.
Freegards
I think Fright Night is the best vampire movie ever. What is really interesting to note is the striking resemblance between the gaping mawed Hillary Clinton and the gaping mawed female vampire in this film. Both have such large teeth that they cannot seem to close their mandibles :D
As far as werewolf movies go, American Werewolf in London is hands down the best.
Too bad for Hollywood that Vlad Dracula and vampires had nothing in common. Too bad Hollywood glorified this man for untrue reasons instead of providing the truth: Ottoman a$$ kicker.
Hard to believe this one is more than 20 years old.
Salem’s Lot, Misery, and Needful Things (with a great Max Von Sydow) are my fave movies based on Stephen King novels.
Vlad the Impaler also had a creative way to deal with the homeless/pauper problem in Transylvania. I prefer the way he used his methods on the Ottomans, however.
The original Dracula is a literary classic. But what do I know about literature as I am apparently a retard. Who has the "Tard" ping list...?
My thoughts exactly...nothing better than those bosomy Brit Vamp flicks when I was 14 years old. ;~)
This list is seriously flawed by their omission.
Not Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption? They’d be on my list.
You took the words out of my mouth. A piece of dreck like “From Dusk Till Dawn” as the best of all time? What an idiot! The list is more notable for what’s excluded - no “Black Sunday,” no “Vampire Circus,” no “Fearless Vampire Killers.” Heck, even “Love At First Bite” is better than most of the list. Yeesh!
Lacking that, they cannot tolerate anything that is good and holy. They cannot even sustain themselves without feeding on the essence of others.
There is nothing sympathetic about them, and I don't ever want to see another movie from the vampire's point of view. They are purely evil. Anne Rice's whiny Lestat forsakes the essence of vampirism. No true Undead would ever bemoan the loneliness of his existence or feel betrayed by his would-be victims. Regret and sadness are for beings with feelings, and feelings arise from the soul. Vampires have none.
American Werewolf in London, check.
American Werewolf in Paris.... probably one of the worst movies DH and I have ever paid to watch, lol.
Heh, I have never seen American Werewolf in Paris. I saw previews of it, and the suspect CGI turned me off right away. The werewolf transformations in London were so magnificent! I hate how computer animation is now so prominent in movies. I generally avoid all horror films done after the year 2000 due to this. It seems that the art of make-up effects demonstrated so brilliantly in such films as American Werewolf in London and The Thing is a lost art along with most other movie making in general.
Barackula!!!
Dracula perhaps
Go to a movie theater and look around and see the morons at the vampire movie. This world is dark enough without such drek
You think Anne Rice is a happy person? Just look at her!
Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Coppola should be number 1.
Innocent Blood, a black comedy horror movie about gangsters turned vampires is a great movie, Don Rickles and Robert Loggia are in it.
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