DRACULA SUCKS
Here’s something I’m sure we’ve all been waiting for: a DRACULA porno!
PSYCHEDELIC SEX VAMPIRES: JEAN ROLLIN CINEMA
In the absence of a comprehensive English language book (as of 2012, at least) on the French filmmaker Jean Rollin, this lavishly illustrated trifle will have to do
DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS
One of the great vampire films, a dreamy, seductive evocation of undead sensuality
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (Film)
The big budget 1994 movie adaptation of Anne Rice’s classic novel. It’s a handsomely mounted film to be sure, but also a dull and uninvolving one
IMMORTALITY
An interesting British made take on vampirism, with an impressive Jude Law as a suave bloodsucker on the hunt for a romantic partner
NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE
One of the small handful of movie remakes that actually surpass the original, this is German filmmaker Werner Herzog’s stunning redo of F.W. Murnau’s legendary NOSFERATU
THE NIGHT STALKER
One of the most popular TV movies of all time, and still a witty and enjoyable, if extremely dated, 1972 film
NEAR DARK
One of the great vampire movies, and in my view the best-ever film by director Kathryn Bigelow
NADJA
The “masterpiece” of American indie film darling Michael Almereyda, a highly evocative and idiosyncratic (read: pretentious) black and white reverie set in mid-1990s NYC
Richard Matheson: 1926-2013
What made the late novelist/screenwriter Richard Matheson great? A number of factors, I’d say