And he has really bad taste in what he does know.
But to list 15 vampire movies without any entries from Hammer Studios?
No Christopher Lee?
No Ingrid Pitt?
Sheesh.
Posted on 11/30/2008 8:25:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Vampire movies are dark and moronic ...Don’t indulge in them. They are for retards and this can be confirmed by checking out the demographic they are aimed at
I will not be replying to the mini me vampires who take offense at my post. My words to them are — “Don’t get stuck on stupid”
Dracula 2000 staring the handsome Gerard Butler was okay. The story of who Dracula really was was an interesting twist.
Yep, for me it’s like a bad car accident. I can’t help but watch sometimes. And then I feel bad afterwards.
Let me tell you about Joss Whedon and how he decided on Buffy.
Joss, not Josh, was getting irritated about the opening scenes in movies when we already know the young girl walking in an alley after dark was going to be horribly murdered. Joss wanted to change all of that.
He wanted to depict a young girl as being strong and resourceful. Someone who can be a hero to other girls and women.
Unfortunately his movie was taken away from him and turned into a complete joke. Luckily, the movie did well enough to give Joss a try at his real vision.
I’m a big fan of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series because as I try to explain to people, the vampires is just a hook to view the stories of people who are faced with challenges.
I don’t think I have ever heard of a super hero before Buffy who had to figure out how to get a job, pay utility bills and fix the rusty plumbing in the basement.
I compete wtih women at the IDPA matches. I have already told them they are action heroes.
So many good ones there it’s hard to pick.
The new HBO series ‘TrueBlood’ is a different take on vampires.
And he has really bad taste in what he does know.
But to list 15 vampire movies without any entries from Hammer Studios?
No Christopher Lee?
No Ingrid Pitt?
Sheesh.
But, pardon me for being tacky, isn't it actually "gate"...being a reference (Tannhäuser Gate) to the Gate to Heaven in Tannhäuser (this line in "Androids Dream..." beautifully written by Philip Dick IMO)?
I just did a search for a 1931 Browning version with a 1998 Philip Glass score. Netflix doesn’t have it. Has anyone here seen it? Glass is good.
I can understand much of this list, but putting Dusk Till Dawn on the top is absolutely WRONG. It was good, but not that good. Underworld was better.
Worse Vampire flick (IMO)
Jack Palance (made for TV movie) (1973)
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Best Vampire flick (IMO)
Frank Langella (Universal) (1979)
Underworld is the best werewolf movie ever. I would place it in the top 5. Blade II is up there as well.
The election really is over, isn’t it? OK, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein. Serious pick.
The Jewish vampire made that flick.
Blade Runner is one of my all time fave films, and the Dick novel is amazing.
The Night Stalker (1972) with Darren McGavin.
Agree partly with your opinion of Van Helsing. I’d hoped it might be a serious movie about a younger Van Helsing of the kind potrayed by Anthony Hopkins in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but Hollywood chose to go, well, Hollywood.
Chris Lee/Pete Cushing Hammer Dracula stuff should show up on any vampire list. The one with Bela is No.1 though. And the version of Nosferatu with Type O Negative doing the soundtrack rules too.
Freegards
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