The Best Vampire Movies of All Time!

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Mark Rozeman, Jim Vorel & Paste Movies Staff put together their list of The 100 Best Vampire Movies of All Time.

I like their list.  I’ve viewed almost half of all of the movies listed.  Of the one’s I’ve seen, these are my top ten (listed by year of release)…

  • Dracula (1931):  Forced to pick my all-time favorite vampire movie, this is the go-to.  Bela Lugosi IS Count Dracula.

  • Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948):  How could anyone not love this one?  You get Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Dracula (Bela is back) plus Abbott and Costello!  Look for the secret Vincent Price cameo.

  • The Night Stalker (1972):  I remember watching this as a kid when it first premiered on tv.  The build-up to it had me so excited.  A great memory of watching it with my mom.

  • Salem’s Lot (1979):  Another vampire movie that premiered on tv.  Again, the build-up was great.  Watched it for the first time with my future wife.

  • Near Dark (1987):  Very under-rated.  Love this modern take on vampire.

  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992):  has some great moments.  I remember seeing it in a theater when it premiered and loved that Coppola was making a movie experience and not just a horror movie.

  • Interview with The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994):  I love this film and think it’s also under-rated.  I’d never read any of the Anne Rice novels (and still haven’t) which I really should fix.

  • From Dusk Till Dawn (1996):  Tarantino and Rodriguez made a winner. (No surprise there.)  Love how FDTD starts out as a crime flick and transitions to a horror film.

  • Blade II (2002):  I didn’t care for Blade  but absolutely love Blade II.

  • 30 Days of Night (2007):  I was familiar with the comic and love the movie even more.

  • What We Do in the Shadows (2014):  I was surprised how funny and well done WWDitS was.  Check it out!