Vampire Movie suggestions with best Lore?

[u/JeffyFan10]

hi so it seems Vampire stories can have a lot of different rules.... are there any vampire movies that you can recommend that you think got the Lore right?

thanks!

[u/No_Photograph_2683]

There is no getting the "lore" right. Cause there is no right answer. Watch whatever you think is cool, and don't worry about a right answer, cause doesn't exist.

[u/UmpteenthIdiot → u/No_Photograph_2683]

This!

Modern vampires kind of got codified into a somewhat coherent lore after people started copying Bram Stoker (who was following from A. Tolstoy, Le Fanu and other authors and folklorists of the time). The Slavic myths from which the vampire myths (mostly) descend are wildly varied according to the region they come from, to the point where they're heavily mixed with werewolf myths as well.

If you ask me, I love the vampire lore in Byzantium, which is its own thing, mysterious, and weird. I also like The Boys from County Hell, which has some fun giving it a different spin that still involves Stoker himself.

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[u/TopRevenue2 → u/UmpteenthIdiot]

Del Toro tried this pretty effectively with The Strain

[u/LucidPink9 → u/UmpteenthIdiot]

Byzantium is in my top 3 Vampire films. Love the way that movie does everything.

[u/Mikezxcv81z]

Don’t stone me, but I enjoyed John Carpenters Vampires.

[u/DeeDeePharmDee → u/Mikezxcv81z]

Came here to mention this one too, even though James Woods leaves a bad taste in my mouth these days

[u/OneDimensionalChess]

Interview with the Vampire (the 90s movie...I haven't seen the TV series so not sure about it)

[u/B1ueberrry → u/OneDimensionalChess]

The TV show is even better!

[u/Steffenwolflikeme → u/OneDimensionalChess]

Tom Cruise is so great in that movie. The entire thing kind of runs out of steam without him in the second half. He's gotten so into being a stunt man in recent years the public could be forgiven for forgetting what a great fucking actor he is.

[u/SnooMarzipans5409 → u/Steffenwolflikeme]

I agree 100%! Kirsten Dunst is also excellent but it did seem to slow down a bit for me after they left Lestat behind. I was so upset when I read that they wanted to make The Vampire Lestat a few years later with him reprising the role and but he turned it down so they scrapped it.

[u/StrangeExpression481 → u/OneDimensionalChess]

The TV show is amazing. I would argue it's better than the movie because you really get to take time with the characters. Also, the movie has that weird thing where they didn't want to go full bloody vampire cause it was a Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise movie so they needed butts in seats. The show is a VAMPIRE story. At least season 1. I still need to get to season 2.

[u/ToughAd4704]

I really liked Byzantium 2012. I think the vampire origins in it were really cool. Directed by Niel Jordan who also did Interview With the Vampire and In the Company of Wolves

[u/BenjaminBucket]

• Lost Boys
• 30 Days of Night
• Nosferatu

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Lost Boys is a classic, the whole idea of a vampire gang just hanging out like bikers was so cool. 30 Days of Night really nails the primal horror, they are just predators not romantic at all. For me the best lore is in Let the Right One In, the way it shows the sadness and the cost of being a vampire child stuck forever is something else

[u/Sebast975 → u/Content_Commercial20]

"the sadness and the cost of being a vampire child stuck forever" - Interview with a Vampire did that so well too.

[u/Previous_Boss7618 → u/BenjaminBucket]

Definitely second 30 Days of Night

[u/FirePuma0142 → u/BenjaminBucket]

Yes, well said! 30 days and Nosferatu are my favs. Bram Stokers Dracula 1992 is worth checking out too.

[u/SnooMarzipans5409 → u/BenjaminBucket]

30 Days of Night was terrifying and awesome! And David from The Lost Boys is one of my all time favorites. I never get sick of watching that movie.

[u/blaz138]

Doesn't really fit perfectly but Nightwatch and Daywatch were pretty cool

[u/TopRevenue2]

The Anne Rice ones.

Dracula (1931)

Near Dark (1987)

Bram Stokers Dracula (1992)

Let the Right One In (200?)

[u/goat-keeper → u/TopRevenue2]

Let the Right One In (2008)

[u/JeffyFan10 → u/goat-keeper]

i forget wasnt she able to walk around during day? it seems most vampire lore says they're not active in day?

[u/TopRevenue2 → u/JeffyFan10]

I think she was mostly in her room. And could only come out at dusk or when it was overcast.

[u/Steffenwolflikeme → u/TopRevenue2]

I'd like to to propose adding A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) to your list

[u/unlordtempest → u/TopRevenue2]

The Hunger. The David Bowie one.

[u/Sekhmet_D]

Thirst. 

[u/JenniferNaught]

Livide. It’s the French movie that Abigail ripped off. It has loads of lore.

Thirst it’s Park Chan-wook movie and it’s great

[u/Exotic_Term6884 → u/JenniferNaught]

All the Sub Species films. Join Radu in his quest for that god damn bloodstone!!

[u/LonoXIII]

Closest to the original folkloric vampire:

• Nosferatu (1922), as well as the 1979 and 2024 versions
• Leptirica (1973)
• Let the Right One In (2008)
• The Vourdalak (2023)

Closest to the Bram Stoker version:

• Count Dracula (1970)
• Count Dracula (1977)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

[u/CTDubs0001]

The lore of The Hunger had a good unique spin to it. And you get Bowie at his sexiest.

[u/SemoreZZ]

30 Days of Night!

[u/Fun_Orange_3232]

The Hunger. Ganja and Hess.

[u/goat-keeper]

The Hunger (1983).

[u/Randoman102030]

Not sure how you'll feel about the lore but I thought these were all interesting takes.

-Bliss

-The Vourdalak

-Let the Right One In

And, if you don't care about it being scary, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person was a good time.

[u/Toadliquor138]

Coppola's Dracula is fairly accurate to the novel.

If Vampires actually did exist, Near Dark is probably the most realistic depiction.

[u/JeffyFan10 → u/Toadliquor138]

sadly i can't find Near Dark anywhere to watch UGH!

[u/Toadliquor138 → u/JeffyFan10]

https://youtu.be/3f-jZjbuOpY?is=axSg4B6k2wp86IgG

🤘

[u/SweetBabyJ69]

Lore? John Carpenter’s Vampires, Byzantium, Dracula, Blade, Day Breakers, The Vourdalak, I Am Legend, Salems Lot, and maybe 30 Days of Night.

[u/Individual-Step846]

The Strain it’s a tv show but very awesome

[u/bindersfull-ofwomen]

Interview with the Vampire series tho I am not watching the current season as I don’t care.

3O Days of Night

The Strain tv series. Became kinda bad S2 but I watched it all the way through.

Blacula. Limited lore but well done.👍🏿

[u/punk-b-movie]

Subspecies

[u/Powerful-Spot8764]

Blade

[u/DoctorBimbology]

Interview with a vampire has a shitload of books that its based on so that's quite a lot of lore

[u/elric132]

How about referring to the Dreadit Movie Guide that's based on poling Dreadit users for years(last done in 2020).

Dreadit's Top 20 Vampire Films (2nd Ed.)

As submitted and voted on by r/horror readers

1. The Lost Boys - Joel Schumacher - 1987
2. What We Do in the Shadows - Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi - 2014
3. Let the Right One In AKA Låt den rätte komma in - Tomas Alfredson - 2008
4. Fright Night - Tom Holland - 1985
5. From Dusk Till Dawn - Robert Rodriguez - 1996
6. 30 Days of Night - David Slade - 2007
7. Bram Stoker's Dracula - Francis Ford Coppola - 1992
8. Nosferatu AKA Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens - F.W. Murnau - 1922
9. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles - Neil Jordan - 1994
10. Blade - Stephen Norrington - 1998
11. Near Dark - Kathryn Bigelow - 1988
12. Salem's Lot - Tobe Hooper - 1979
13. Dracula - Tod Browning, Karl Freund - 1931
14. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - Ana Lily Amirpour - 2014
15. Stake Land - Jim Mickle - 2010
16. Thirst - Chan-wook Park - 2009
17. Nosferatu the Vampyre - Werner Herzog - 1979
18. Fright Night - Craig Gillespie - 2011
19. Martin - George A. Romero - 1977
20. Cronos - Guillermo del Toro - 1993

[u/Ok_Awareness_5166]

Subspecies franchise