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Here is a review for the vampire movies I have seen...the reviews could ruin the movie so if you want to see the movie without it being ruined first don't read these.

bat.jpg Abbot and Costello Meet the Frankenstein:
This is a comdey it's under the vampire movie section because as noted on the main vampire movie page it has Dracula in it.(as well as the werewolf).  This movie is very funny if you like classic humor.  It's mostly about Dracula who is making a monster (Frankenstein) Dracula wants to  use Costello's brain for his creatation.  Meanwhile the wolfman keeps trying to warn both Abbot and Costello they are in danger but everytime he tries something comes up. I highly recommend it if you enjoy a good laugh.
 
Staring:
Bud Abbot - Chick Young
Lou Costello - Wilbur Grey
Lon Chaney Jr. - Lawrence Talbot/ The Wolfman
Bela Lugosi - Dracula
Glenn Strange - Frankenstein
Lenore Aubert - Sandra Mornay

heart.jpg Blade:
      Based off the comics, Blade is about this vampire hunter who is half-vampire, half-human.  Having all the vampire strengths and only the weakness of the thirst for blood. Blade has a whole system worked out.  Along with his partner Whistler. Meanwhile this beautiful doctor name Karen is bitten.  She eventually teams up with Blade as he goes after the vampire who killed his mother.  It's a very action packed and interesting to see how it all unfolds.
 
Staring:
Wesley Snipes - Blade
Stephen Dorff - Deacon Frost
Kris Kristofferson - Abraham Whistler
N'Bushe Wright - Karen

bat.jpg  Blade II:
        The sequel to Blade is good but not as good as the firts one.  I can't remember if this one completely ignores the girl from the first one (like so many sequels do) But this time vampires seek out Blade asking him for his help.  Which is kind of odd since he's the slayers of vampires. Nonetheless Blade teams up with them to stop a super league of mutant vampires. Somehow this when didn't give me the same secure feeling as the first one did. Even though I do have to admitt I love the very end....
 
Staring:
Wesley Snipes - Blade
Kris Kristofferson - Abraham Whistler
Norman Reedus - Scud
Leonor Varela - Nyssa

bat.jpg  Blood & Donuts
       When I first started to watch this movie the first thing that came to mind was "My God this movie is fucked up." Because it starts off with a vampire waking to the new world by getting hit with in coming golfballs. Yet I continued to watch it and it grew on me. It's about a vampire named Boya who goes to sleep for some twenty years.  When he finally wakes up things are a bit different.  He winds up in a all night donut shop (think Dunkin' Donuts).  He instantly falls for the waitress named Molly who works the night shift and becomes friends with a cab driver named Earl. But problems occur as he has constantly flash blacks. Plus the fact that his old girlfriend Rita from 1969 is pissed that he never made her vampire.  It's very funny and strange I highly recommend it.
 
Staring:
Gordon Currie -Boya
Justin Louis - Earl
Helene Clarkson - Molly
Fiona Reid - Rita

deadflower.jpg  Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie):
       This movie was the reason why I started watching the series. The movie is about this senior named Buffy, she's you're average bimbo on the cheerleading team, only caring about shopping and boys. But her whole world gets shaken up when she discovers she is a vampire and only she alone can stop the undead from taking over. Buffy soon starts to realize how shadow her friends really are as the only person she come to trust is Pike, a high school drop out. This movie was all right. If you've watched the show than this movie looks like crap. It is good for a few good laughs though. Note if you familiar with the show this is suppose to take place before she goes to Sunnydale...which doesn't make sense since in the movie she's a senior but oh well.
 
Staring:
Kristy Swanson - Buffy Summers
Luke Perry - Pike
Donald Sutherland - Merrick
Rutger Hauer - Lothos
Paul Reubens - Amilyn
David Arquette - Benny
Hilary Swank - Kimberly

heart.jpg  Dracula (orginal):
       How can you not love this movie! Ok as most you know the story of Dracula is about Count Dracula who comes to England with his helper Renfield  looking for a new bride. He quickly sets his sights on Mina.  Even though he turns Miss Lucy (I think she was like the bonus).  Soon Dr. Seward (Mina's father and Miss Lucy's adpoted father) gets suspicious he calls upon his friend Dr. Van Helsing who instantly knows that Dracula is a vampire.  He warns that Mina is in danger but Mina is too under Dracula's spell.  Leaving Jonathan Harker (Mina's fiance), Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward to stop Dracula and Renfield.

 
Staring:
Bela Lugosi - Count Dracula
Helen Chandler - Mina Seward
David Manners - Jonathan Harker
Dwight Frye - Renfield
Edward Van Sloan - Dr. Van Halsing
Herbert Bunston - Dr. Seward
Frances Dade - Lucy Weston

heart.jpg  Dracula: Dead and Loving It:
       I love this movie. It is my all time favorite spoof.  It has the same layout as the orginal Dracula does but there's all sorts of jokes and comdey along the way.  I really can't describe how funny it is or what makes it funny without rambling out random lines. But it's made by Mel Brooks and what else do you need to know? I really really really recommend this unless you don't like laughing
 
Staring:
Leslie Nielsen -  Dracula
Peter MacNicol - Renfield
Steven Weber - Harker
Amy Yasbeck - Mina
Lysette Anthony - Lucy
Harvey Korman - Dr. Seward
Mel Brooks - Dr. Van Helsing

bat.jpg Dracula - Prince of Darkness:
      This movie was ok.  It's about two brother's and their wives going on a vacation they stay at an old mansion.  They ignore the warning of an old priest.  When they get there they are informed by the butler that the owner is dead.  Soon the woman hear noise in the middle of the night.  One of the girls goes missing and we find out that the owner of the house is undead and well....
*Please note that Count Dracula says nothing only because Christopher Lee refused to read the lines because he thought the dialogue was poorly written.*
 
Staring:
Christopher Lee - Count Dracula
Barbara Shelley - Hellen Kent
Francis Matthews - Charles Kent
Suzan Farmer - Diana Kent
Charles Tingwell - Alan Kent
Andrew Keir - Father Sandor
Phillip Latham - Klove
Thorley Walters - Ludwig

sun.jpg  Count Yorga Vampire:
        Bashing time! This movie was sooo awful. (and I'm really stressing on so) Let me give you the horrible run down of this movie.  Cout Yorga (which his name is easy to make fun of ex: Count Yoga or Count Yogert take your pick...) comes to this town. He poses as a pyschic who can talk to the dead after one of the leading female's mother dies. (excuse me if can't remember names...I tried to block this movie out of my memory...so this doesn't get too confusing she'll be known as W1) He hypnotizes her so he could call on her anytime he wishes. Then he turns this other girl (the other leading female W2) into a vampire.  That's when you discover he made W1's mom into a vampire as well. Then he makes W1's mom and W2 make out for his enjoyment...which really doesn't have any point to the movie expect he has mind control of other vampires...which could have been shown in other ways. W1's husband figures out along with W2's husband that Count Yorga (hey as a clue when someone's name starts with Count I'd be supsicious from day one) is really a vampire.  They set their alarm clocks to awake before sun rise because they spent the previous night proving Count Yorga was a vampire. But W1 who still under Count Yorga's control has her turn off the alarm clocks.  She goes over to C.Y.'s place where she is raped by his servant.  It just really goes down hill from there...the only reason why I am giving such a long review is because i don't care if i ruin any of this movie for anyone.  Surprisingly this movie had a sequel, which i would never see after this nightmare. The acting was terrible, there was no plot and painfully drags on.  It's movie like these that make people kill others. It's also movies like this that give vampires a bad name.  This is a type of movie that makes Hell complain to us about stealing all their good torture techniques.  
 
Staring:
Robert Quarry - Count Yorga
Roger Perry - Hayes
Micheal Murphy - Paul
Micheal Macready - Micheal
Donna Andrews - Donna
Judith Lang - Erica
Edward Walsh - Brudah

heart.jpg  Fright Night:
       Ah now on to a good movie...Fright Night is one of those movies that comes off as really cheesy but at least it was meant to be cheesy.  It's about this kid named Charlie who suspects his new neighbor is a vampire.  Of course his girlfriend Amy nor his friend Evil Ed believe him. So he goes and seeks out the of help Peter Vincent a self pro-claimed vampire killer (or at least he plays one on tv.) Charlie is afraid that the vampire will come after him and to kill him.  And he must he the vampire before it's too late.
 
Staring:
Chris Sarandron - Jerry Dandridge
William Ragsdale - Charlie Brewster
Amanda Bearse - Amy Peterson
Roddy McDowall - Peter Vincent
Stephen Geoffreys - Evil Ed
 

deadflower.jpg  Fright Night Part II:
        Again disappointment with the sequel.  The only ones who return from the orginal cast is Charlie and Peter.  Again they do not mention what happens to Amy either. This time Charlie is in college it starts off him seeing a shrink who finally conviences Charlie that vampires don't exsist. So Charlie's life seems to be going pretty well and he's got a new girlfriend.  But things go bad when he falls in love of this vampire named Regine.  Charlie soon realizes that he's turning into a vampire and must rely on the help of his new girlfriend and Peter.
 
Staring:
William Ragsdale - Charlie Brewster
Roddy McDowall - Peter Vincent
Traci Lin - Alex
Julie Carmen - Regine
 

deadflower.jpgFrom Dusk Till Down:
     I don't know i mean this movie was all right, but it didn't really pull off as a great vampire movie.  One of the main reasons is because vampires are not even in the movie until the last hour or so. It's mostly about these two brother who are crimnials. They hijack a family and take them to Mexico.  At a stripper bar (in Mexico) the two brothers and the family start to realize that there are vampires in the town.  The criminals sort of become the heros of the movie.  It just kind of dragged on. It really was dull, but not as bad as Count Yorga.
 
Staring:
Harvey  Keitel - Jacob Fuller
Juliette Lewis - Kate Fuller
Ernest Lui - Scott Fuller
George Clooney - Seth Gecko
Quentin Tarantino - Richard Gecko

deadflower.jpgFrom Dusk Till Down:
     I don't know i mean this movie was all right, but it didn't really pull off as a great vampire movie.  One of the main reasons is because vampires are not even in the movie until the last hour or so. It's mostly about these two brother who are crimnials. They hijack a family and take them to Mexico.  At a stripper bar (in Mexico) the two brothers and the family start to realize that there are vampires in the town.  The criminals sort of become the heros of the movie.  It just kind of dragged on. It really was dull, but not as bad as Count Yorga.

heart.jpg Interview with a Vampire:
       This is one of my favorite movies.  Based off the novel by Anne Rice it doesn't butcher it.  Sure there are some changes and what-not, but it's not that bad (like Queen of the Damned but we'll get to that later). It's about vampire named Louie who tells his story to a reporter on how he became a vampire.  Louie talks about Lestat who made Louie what he is and Claudia their daughter.  Louie also struggles with the guilt of killing others.  This movie is filled with action, romance, and of course some dark humor.
   
Staring:
Tom Cruise - Lestat de Lioncourt
Brad Pitt - Louis Pointe du Lac
Kristen Dunst - Claudia
Christian Slater - Daniell
Antonio Banderas - Armand
Stephen Rea  - Santiago

deadflower.jpg  Jon Carpenters' Vampires:
        A well known vampire hunter Jack Crow and his partner Montoya try to stop a master vampire Valek from obtaining a cross that will allow him to walk in sunlight making him unstoppable. Meanwhile along the way they meet girl who was bitten by the head vampire.  They take her along because she now has a special link with the master.  Jack soon discovers the head vampire needs his blood order to complete the rituial.  Jack goes out in search of a prists who must help them. Meanwhile Montoya is bitten by the girl to prevent himself from turning he burns the wound.  I'll stop from there cause I really hate ruining movies...
 
Staring:
James Wood - Jack Crow
Daniel Baldwin - Montoya
Sheryl Lee - Katrina
Thomas Ian Griffith -Valek
Tim Guinee - Father Adam Guiteau