Favorite Vampire Movie...

[PeruvianSkies]

My vote goes to the one that set the standard for every vampire movie to follow: Lugosi's Dracula. Most of the conventions that we now take for granted (garlic, cross, wooden stake, no reflection) were established by this ground-breaking flick. And to this day, I don't think that any vampire movie has equaled the tension-filled atmosphere of this one.

Well, have you seen NOSFERATU? Considering it was made in 1922, and that people actually thought that the lead actor Max Schrek really was a vampire, it was clearly a realistic film that still to this day is amazing.

[RoyY51]

Well, have you seen NOSFERATU? Considering it was made in 1922, and that people actually thought that the lead actor Max Schrek really was a vampire, it was clearly a realistic film that still to this day is amazing.

I agree. I have seen Nosferatu and it creeped me out big-time. It was an amazing performance (if it was a performance) but one that would have been very difficult for anyone else to emulate, given Mr. Schrek's unique physical characteristics. Lugosi made it possible for a larger gene pool of actors to aspire to celluloid vampirism.