Master Gau, along with his two bumbling assistants, Man Choi and Chou Sheng, are asked to rebury the patriarch of the Yam family in order to generate good luck, but the patriarch turns out to be a vampire and breaks free. Gau, and in his own way, the dim, obnoxious police captain, attempt to destroy
Mere seconds after Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan)—and yes, it is now “Von Helsing” instead of “Van Helsing”—staked Dracula, the bobbies show up. Van Helsing goes with the “I was killing an immortal undead” defense which gets him arrested for murder, although as an upper class professor, he’s treated ridiculously well. Psychologist Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger), another
Occultist Kay Caldwell (Louise Allbritton) brings Count Dracula (Lon Chaney Jr.)—not his son no matter what the film’s title might be—using the name Alucard, to her Louisiana plantation. This vexes her conventional sister (Evelyn Ankers), her unstable boyfriend Frank (Robert Paige), and the pushy Dr. Brewster (Frank Craven). Her plan is to marry Dracula, gain
Kathleen (Lili Taylor), a philosophy graduate student, is attacked and bitten by an unknown woman (Annabella Sciorra). She soon develops an addiction to blood, and to the evil that goes with taking it. An older vampire (Christopher Walken) cruelly attempts to teach her how to exist in her new state, holding her hostage and feeding
A half-vampire (Wesley Snipes) hunts the undead with guns, swords, spikes, and drugs. When an upstart vampire gang leader (Stephen Dorff) decides to overthrow the old order of their society, Blade’s job gets a lot harder. An early entry in the style-first monster film sub-genre (Resident Evil, Underworld), Blade, like those that followed, is exciting, rich
In this third entry in the series, Blade (Wesley Snipes) joins up with a vampire hunting band (Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds) to stop Dracula (Dominic Purcell) and perhaps to end the vampire race forever. With big, shiny, action films, it’s easy to ignore the skill level of the director. This isn’t Shakespeare after all, so anyone
The fearless knight, Vlad (Gary Oldman), returns home from protecting Christendom to find his wife dead. Cursing God, he becomes a vampire. Four hundred years later, he decides to move to London and finds his dead wife reincarnated as Mina Murray (Winona Ryder). Opposing him are members of polite society including the vampire expert, Van
One hundred years ago, the youthful vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing (Rhett Giles) killed Dracula, but failed to protect his wife from a lesser vampire prince, Sebastien (Andreas Beckett). This caused Van Helsing to make a deal with the Church, making him immortal as long as a vampire prince survives. Since that time, he has
The vampires have decided to join human society and become just another racial group. However, murder disrupts the political system and a mix matched pair of police, one vampire (Adrian Paul), one human (Bokeem Woodbine), must solve the crimes. An astonishingly bad film. Now why do the vampires want to join this future society that’s
Valley-Girl Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is the chosen one, the vampire slayer, except she doesn’t know it and instead spends her time shopping and cheerleading. Then her “watcher” (Donald Sutherland) comes to town to train her before the master vampire, Lothos (Rutger Hauer) kills her. Teaming up with rebel-teen, Pike (Luke Perry), Buffy attempts to stop the vampire