In this house we love bloodsuckers*

This list will provide an overview of several key pieces of vampire films, while also offering some possibly more obscure ones for those who have already done their essential vampire homework. For those who are not a fan of horrors there are also several family friendly vampire flicks included too.

A brief(ish) overview on vampires from a vampire lover:

The vampire has a long history in both film and literature, having a strong presence within horror canon but also crossing over into other genres such as comedy or family adventure at times. The most famous and influential one being of course Count Dracula—who was actually predated by our first rendition of the lesbian vampire trope in the Irish novella Carmilla—who was considered a horrific character upon publication but has since been adapted across many different genres and mediums. While vampires are more commonly identified by their inability to withstand the sun and Christian iconography/weaknesses (such as crucifixes and holy water), in more recent years we have seen the vampire take many differing forms with alternative strengths and weakness (Twilight being the most obvious, if controversial, example of a vampire unharmed by the sun). Similarly their motivations, both literally but also metaphorically, have shifted throughout the years. Traditionally there was a strong link to Christianity within the western vampire stories (hence the crucifix and holy water), and being used to explore societal anxieties about sexuality, atheism, and modernity, however more recently we have seen western vampires being used to explore more modern themes such as racism, gentrification and sexual predation. You will notice that queerness is also a very common theme within vampire media across the years, though whether it is something intended to be viewed with horror (such as the original publications of Dracula/Carmilla) or sympathy (as in modern films) largely depends on the time period in which the media was created. In this sense, while the vampire is inherently a (blood) predator, how it does so is reflected by the film maker and also the society in which the story itself was created within.

Overtime the vampire has become a sympathetic or desired character as opposed to a feared one, though there are still film makers now who are doing their part to remind us of their original nature.

Love em or hate em Vampires are immortal and here to stay.

*mosquito's dni