I hated The Mist. The ending was audacious, but nothing leading up to it made it worthwhile.
1. The Lost Boys
2. Night Angel
3. Under the Skin
4. Dracula (1931)
5. Horror of Dracula.
6. Dracula Untold
7. Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight
8. The Wolfman (2010)
9. Tales From the Dark Side: The Movie
10. Tales From the Hood
11. Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
12. Bram Stoker's Dracula
13. Oculus
14. Gothic
15. Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood
16. The Howling: Reborn
17. From Dusk 'Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
18. Would You Rather
19. Vampires
20. Interview with the Vampire
21. Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet
22. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDH7P0qvSMU
The first vampire film I could remember that was entirely about the vampires. Cruise really gives a hell of a performance, and I think this was Kirsten Dunst's debut, as the memorable child vamp. It's a fine gothic tale, gory and crazy at times. Not my favorite take on vampires but it's an interesting one. Ironically, the much-talked about homoerotic overtones are far more pronounced with Antonio Banderas character than with Cruise's. I got the impression that Lestat really doesn't give a rat's ass about physical sex with anyone, just drinking blood, whereas it sure seemed like Armand wanted to jump Louis's bones. I've also seen Queen of the Damned, and even setting aside the lesser recasting of Lestat, that movie didn't at all feel like a sequel to this.
Some things I didn't understand, such as (I'll try to avoid spoilers)
- Do they need to sleep in coffins, or is that just a preference?
- Where does their money come from? Fancy clothes and world travel don't come cheap. Especially after the characters have seemingly lost all their mortal belongings.
-How can most of the vamps kill as regularly as they do without creating problems for themselves more often?
- Why Louis uses a farming scythe of all things when he's out for blood, especially one as unwieldly looking as that. Where did he even find it?
- Why did the people he was going after apparently not even consider that he'd want revenge?
I've never read Ann Rice, but given that the book was published in 76, I think it's safe to say she's the most influential vampire author since Stoker. At least, I've never heard of "Ann Rice style" vamps from anything older. But everything from Vampire Diaries to Twilight to True Blood, for good or ill, seemingly took at least a few cues from her. And certainly White Wolf's World of Darkness game line. I wonder if she has any vampires who aren't pretty aristocrats with expensive taste, though?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDDUjEdNDx0
Blood Night is a supernatural slasher from 2008. It doesn't reinvent the wheel, though I can't say I recall another such movie featuring a super hot naked killer ghost. There's a grisly, extended prologue that then gets retold during the course of the opening credits sequence, the latter probably could have been cut down a lot. It has some scenes that are very well shot, along with a few that look out of place and shoddy. Stars Danielle Harris, who is, if not the reigning Scream Queen, at least a Princess. She was Jaimie Lloyd back in Halloween 4 and 5, then was in the remake (which I haven't seen). Her IMDB credits look to be half horror, at least.
A 30 minute short from Disney I haven't seen for ages. I was surprised to realize that the Horseman legend doesn't even get mentioned until the last 7 minutes or so. Everything prior to that is just Ichobod coming to town as schoomaster and vying for the affections of Katrina Van Tasl. Incidentally, I'm pretty sure Katrina's appearance in the Burton movie owes much to this, unless blonde and heaving bosom was mentioned in the original story.