50 Vampire Books and 50 Vampire Movies

I myself think that vampires are pretty cool and interesting subject matter. I remember watching Buffy the vampire slayer, Dark Shadows and reading Interview with the vampire when I was younger. That's when I got hooked, way before this phenomena but since this phenomena I'm glad to share my thoughts on some vampire movies and books. Vampires have been in the news since the dawn of time, so I thought it would be interesting to examine the films and books all in one article. This you could say is part two, to my Dracula Article.

The Books/Short Stories
1. Interview with the vampire
Author: Anne Rice
Publication Date: 1976
Plot Summary: Vampire Louis tells his story to Daniel. He tells of losing his brother, then becoming suicidal but instead a vampire (Lestat) turns him into the undead. The book also talks about how he lost the only person, he really ever loved Claudia. This novel takes place in New Orleans and Paris. Louis is probably the weakest and depressed character Anne Rice made.

2. The Vampire Lestat
Author: Anne Rice
Publication 1985
Plot Summary: Lestat writes his story about his life in the French revolution, becoming a vampire from Magnus, and his misadventures with other vampires and humans. It is a great historical and modern times vampire story. Lestat is the most popular of her characters, he is charismatic and well his name is "Prince Brat."

3. Queen of the Damned
Author: Anne Rice
Publication Date: 1988
Plot Summary: Tells the story of how Lestat becomes a rock star, Akasha queen of all vampires comes to destroy the world, and the vampires must band together to stop her. In addition, the book tells about the red haired twins and the Talamasca.

4. The Vampire Armand
Author: Anne Rice
Publication Date: 1998
Plot Summary: Armand tells his story to David, tells about him being a boy in Kiev, sold into sex slavery, meets Marius and learns from him at his school in Italy. Also tells about his dark past, where he was in the Paris and Roman coven.

5. Blood and Gold
Author: Anne Rice
Publication Date: 2001
Plot Summary: Marius, the ancient vampire of the chronicles tells his story to Throne a wary traveler. He tells about the Roman times were he first becomes a vampire and gets the job to protect the queen and king. Also tells about how he found Armand and lost him, and his hatred for Santino.

6. Blackwood Farm
Author: Anne Rice
Publication Date: 2002
Plot Summary: Quinn Blackwood calls on Lestat for help to get rid of his doppelganger that hurts and ruins his life. Lestat comes to his aid, but first Quinn tells his story. He tells about him living in the dank Sugar Devil Swamp, his mother who never loved him and his love with Mona, a Mayfair witch. Merrick is also called to help with the predicament. This is a southern gothic tale, which only Anne Rice could imagine.

7. Blood Canticle
Author: Anne Rice
Publication Date: 2003
Plot Summary: This book is the last of Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles its tells about Lestat, Quinn, and Mona. Mona is part of the Mayfair witches; they turn her into a vampire. It revolves around trying to find the last remaining Taltos and the history of the Mayfair clan.

8. Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Publication Date: 1897
Plot Summary: A story about a vampire named Dracula, who wrecks havoc in 19th Century England. All he wants is to turn Mina Harker into a vampire, and kill the ones dear to her. Van Helsing is the only person that can help Victorian England from him.

9. Dracula's Guest
Author: Bram Stoker
Publication Date: 1914 (It was published in Dracula's Guest and other weird stories)
Plot Summary: About an Englishman (never said but it is presumably to be Jonathan Harker) on a visit to Munich before leaving to Transylvania. It is Walpurgis Night but he stills decides to leave in his carriage. He gets to his destination and takes shelter in a grove of cypress and yew trees. While there, he is forced by the Hail to take shelter in a tomb. A woman's body is in the tomb, she is supposed to be dead. However, it never bothers him until a sound of thunder throws Harker from the doorway. As another lighting bolt strikes the iron spike, it destroys the tomb and the screaming woman inside. Harker is in shock because he thinks she was dead, another thing scares him, a gigantic wolf with blazing eyes finds him. Luckily, military men save him and he goes back to his hotel room. While he is away, he learns about a telegram from Dracula which states to of "Dangers from snow and wolves of the night." I thought that I would explain the whole story, because most people do not know anything about this short story. It is something to read, if you really liked Dracula.

10. Dracula the Un-Dead
Author: Darce Stoker and Ian Holt
Publication Date: 2009
Plot Summary: This is the sequel to Dracula. Both Darce Stoker and Ian Holt are the great grandnephew of Bram Stoker. You get to read about each character 25 years after the tragedy and get to meet Quincy Harker, the son of Jonathan and Mina. Dracula comes back of course, and Quincy is forced to kill him. Also has Elizabeth Bathory in the mix.

11. In the Forest of the Night
Author: Amelie Atwater-Rhodes
Publication Date: 1999
Plot Summary: Tells a story about a vampire named Risika who is over 300 years old. She tells about how she was a human named Rachael but after becoming into the undead world, she became a dark vampire with the name Riskia. Her story is mostly about her feud with Aubrey who killed her twin brother. It is a young adult book but very craftily written for any age.

12. Companions of the Night
Author: Vivian Vande Velde
Publication Date: 1995
Plot Summary: Before Bella and Edward, there was Kerry and Ethan. While Kerry is at the Laundry mat she sees a young man get beat by these people, she helps him unknowing he is a vampire. She then learns he is a vampire and learns the vampire hunters kidnap her father and young brother. Fast paced story that is a great young adult story.

13. Salem's Lot
Author: Stephen King
Publication Date: 1975
Plot Summary: Jerusalem Lot, a small town that gets new neighbors two vampires, it is noticed when some of them kept turning into the undead. One thing about this book, you never get to know that there are vampires around until you get more into the book that was his greatest mystery. It is more about the secrets of the town that makes this book freaky.

14. Carmilla
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publication Date: 1872
Plot Summary: Short story about a young woman that is getting terrorized by a female vampire. It has been long immortalized as plays, movies, just as Dracula has been.

15. Anno Dracula
Author: Kim Newman
Publication Date: 1992
Plot Summary: What if Dracula won? This book answers it, Dracula and the vampires take over Victorian England but they have a mystery one their hands a vampire version of Jack the Ripper.

16. His Father's Son
Author: Nigel Bennett and P.N. Elrod
Publication Date:
Plot Summary: Richard d'Orleans once known as Lancelot now is a vampire. He is in the modern day world who protects people now. He helps a family who is on a run with assassins. Nigel Bennett who co-wrote this was from Forever Knight, a vampire TV show but some think that this a based off his character or the TV show but to note neither are related.

17. Red Death
Author: P.N. Elrod
Publication Date: 1993
Plot Summary: Jonathan Bartlett goes to Cambridge under his mother's advice in war torn America from the Revolutionary war. While he is there, he finds Nora a vampire who turns him. He then goes to America, to help the colonist not really knowing about being a vampire until he is shot with a musket, and comes back to life. This is the first book, of the Jonathan Bartlett series.

18. Blood Lines: Vampire Stories from New England
Author: Lawrence Schimel (Editor) and Martin Harry Greensberg (Editor)
Publication Date: 1997
Plot Summary: Ten Short stories about vampirism, some of the authors are HP Lovecraft, Chelsea Quinn Yarbo and Sarah Smith. It is a neat collection to have if you collect vampire literature.

19. The Historian
Author: Elizabeth Kostova
Publication Date: 2005
Plot Summary: A story based about Vlad the Impaler being a vampire. It is told to a teenage girl from her father, she learns that history is evil and that her father saw a vampire. This book is well written and it is a good tale of gothic horror.

20. A Room in the Tower
Author: E.F. Benson
Publication Date: 1912
Plot Summary: A man keeps having this recurring dream about a room in the tower at his friend's house until the dreams become factional and turn dark.

21. The Vampyre
Author: John William Polidori
Publication Date: 1819
Plot Summary: A short story about Aubrey, a young Englishman meets Lord Ruthven, where they become good friends and travel together. Aubrey never really knows that he is a vampire until he learns the secret. Of course, because of their friendship he never tells. Nevertheless, he has a nervous breakdown seeing Ruthven with his sister. No more in detail I don't want to ruin the ending, but let us just say it ends very badly.

22. The Vampire Tapestry
Author: Suzy McKee
Publication Date: 1980
Plot Summary: Edward Weyland is a vampire who is changed by four people after a vampire hunter shoots him. He meets a sensitive teenager Mark, Floria a disturbed psychiatric and a troubled Professor Irv.

23. Circus of the Damned
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Publication Date:
Plot Summary: Third novel about Anita Blake, the vampire Hunter. The story has Blake fighting a rogue vampire who wants her as his servant and fighting a giant cobra.

24. Paris Immortal
Author: Sherry Roit
Publication Date: 2009
Plot Summary: When Trey meets his new clients Michael and Gabriel, he likes them they seem nice until he finds out their vampires. His life begins to spiral out of control.

25. Dead until Dark
Author: Charlaine Harris
Publication Date: 2001
Plot Summary: This is book one to the Sookie Stackhouse series. Now a TV show True blood. Sookie is a woman who lives around vampires and other supernatural forces. She finds love with a vampire who just came to town, but at the same time, people start being killed.

26. The Tale of the Body Thief
Author: Anne Rice
Publication Date: 1992
Plot Summary: Lestat trades bodies with a murderer, and then gets deathly sick while being human. He then want's his body back but has to find the trader. David, his friend helps him on his journey. The book is very interesting because you get to read about Lestat being human and more on his friendship with David.

27. Varney the Vampire
Author: James Malcolm Rymer
Publication Date: 1845
Plot Summary: A classic tale concerns about Sir Francis Varney a vampire who inflicts around the Banners worth family. Varney's story is one of the first stories actually about the pathetic vampire who hates the gift of immortality.

28. The Glass Paintings
Author: Jan Alexander
Publication Date: 1972
Plot Summary: Beneath the ruins of the old French mansion is a cruel force that wants to claim a young American girl.

29. Blood Price
Author: Tanya Huff
Publication Date: 1991
Plot Summary: This is Victoria Nelson Series first book. Former Toronto homicide detective Vicki Nelson witnesses the first in a wave of supernatural killings in the city, and becomes deeply involved in the ensuing investigation and meets Henry Fitzroy, the bastard son of Henry VIII who is a vampire.

30. Vittorio the Vampire
Author: Anne Rice
Publication Date: 1999
Plot Summary: Young Vittorio lived in a castle, and in the Renaissance. Vampires attack his family and killed them. He then is thrust into darkness, and tries to get his vengeance. It is a wonderful period piece from Anne Rice.

31. The Tomb of Sarah
Author: F.G. Loring
Publication Date:
Plot Summary: Short story about a church restorer that has to move a decaying tomb, he does not think much about it until sinister and odd things start to happen.

32. For the Blood is Life
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Publication Date: 1905
Plot Summary: Another short story about some mounds that contains more than dirt. In fact, they are the burial places for things that should remain unearthed. Disturbing those leads to dangerous consequences.

33. I am Legend
Author: Richard Matheson
Publication Date: 1954
Plot Summary: Story about a man who is the last man earth because of a plague that turned everyone into the Undead. On his journey he does find out that, there are more survivors.

34. Fevre Dream
Author: George R.R. Martin
Publication Date: 1982
Plot Summary: A struggling riverboat captain meets aristocratic Joshua York, who will give him what he wants a new boat and becoming rich beyond his own dreams. However, Joshua York is not a normal person, with his pale face and sinister eyes.

35. The Silver Kiss
Author: Annette Curtis Klause
Publication Date: 1991 Plot Summary: A young girl's mother is dying of cancer, she goes out and feels depressed. She meets Simon who is a vampire, only because to get revenge on his brother who killed his mother centuries years ago. After they meet, they fall in love. It is a powerful story, for just being a young adult book.

36. The Horla
Author: Guy De Maupassant
Publication Date: 1887
Plot Summary: A man writes a log about how he is he being overtaken by a lifeless spirit, it has vampirism themes and is alien themed in my opinion they could be classified as both of them.

37. Pandora
Author: Anne Rice
Publication Date: 1998
Plot Summary: Pandora tells her story to David, the book revolves around her first meeting Marius, and it explains her relationship though the history. Her story is the only female vampire of Anne Rice's Chronicles that gets a full book.

38. The Vampire in Moscow
Author: Richard P. Henrick
Publication Date: 1988
Plot Summary: Scientist and archeologists unearthed a terrifying secret in Soviet Union Russia.

39. Dracula Unbound
Author: Brian Aldis
Publication Date: 1991
Plot Summary: In the far future, the sun is gone and there is only the darken sky. The only remaining humans are imprisoned by bloodthirsty beings.

40. Lost Souls
Author: Poppy Z. Brite
Publication Date: 1992
Plot Summary: A teenage boy figures out he is a vampire and finds his father and his two companions. This story also takes place in New Orleans.

41. London after Midnight
Author: Simon Clark
Publication Date: 2007
Plot Summary: Magazine editor Ben Ashton is hired to write a story about a person behind mysterious graffiti that states, "Vampire Sharkz, They're coming to get you." Clark does get behind it and figures out its April Connor a vampire.

42. Morningstar
Author: Peter Atkins
Publication Date: 1992
Plot Summary: Donavan Moon decides to find the Serial Killer who signs the word Morningstar in his decapitated victims. He then finds Jonathan Frost, a rich man who has a story tell. He is afraid of the serial killer who may actually be a vampire hunter.

43. No release: A Vampire's Tale
Author: Elaina Harper
Publication Date: 2001
Plot Summary: Vincent is a vampire, who lives a life of loneliness until he meets Jessica, but their love is forbidden and his past could make it much worse for both of them.

44. Dracutwig
Author: Mallory T. Knight
Publication Date: 1969
Plot Summary: Well the adventures of Dracula's daughter, she has a body like Twiggy and makes a vampire whenever she makes love. Odd story but I just had to add it.

45. Night Blood
Author: E. Flanders
Publication Date:
Plot Summary: Driven by a hunger that must be satisfied with blood Val Romero rides across the country in his '69 Cadillac, feeding upon the living and leaving a trail of lifeless and bloodless bodies.

46. Curse of the Vampires
Author: Karl Alexander
Publication Date: 1972
Plot Summary: Los Angeles actor Melanie Ross in Transylvania to shoot in film. While she is at a tour of Vladimir castle, an evil is unleashed. Melanie becomes into a hideous creature, by day, she is normal but at night, she as lust for blood and nothing can stop her.

47. The Devouring
Author: F.W. Armstrong
Publication Date: 1987
Plot Summary: Psychic detective Ryerson Biergarten investigates a series of killings and finds himself battling against an ancient entity that intends to make Biergarten's girlfriend one of its victims.

48. Sunglasses after Dark
Author: Nancy Collins
Publication Date: 1989
Plot Summary: This is the story of a dangerous woman, and the trail of corpses she leaves behind. Is the woman a vanished heiress? Only psychic evangelist Catherine Wheele knows the answer.

49. No Blood Spilled
Author: Les Daniels
Publication Date: 1991
Plot Summary: Vampire Sebastian Newcastle relieved to have escaped from England and a ruined affair with his love, Felicia. However, India soon proves to hold terrors for even him.

50. The Last Vampire
Author: Katherine Meyer Griffin
Publication Date: 1992
Plot Summary: As the human race is slowly dwindling because of a series of earthquakes, floods, and fires, Emma, one of the survivors of the chaos, realizes that she is one of the walking dead--the last vampire.

The Movies

1. Interview with the Vampire
Director: Neil Jordan
Year: 1994
Cast: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Stephen Rea, Kirsten Dunst, and Antonio Banderas.
Plot Summary: Vampire Louis, loses his wife and child as a mortal. He then becomes suicidal, but instead of a mortal killer, he gets a vampire named Lestat. After years together, they turn a child named Claudia into a vampire. Then things get hectic and heartbreaking.

2. Queen of the Damned
Director: Michael Rymer
Year: 2002
Cast: Stuart Townsend, Vincent Perez, Paul McGann and Aaliyah.
Plot Summary: It is about the vampire Lestat becomes a rock star and awakes Akasha, the queen of all vampires. This movie gives hard rock music and gothic tones.

3. Blade
Director: Stephen Norrington
Year: 1998
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorf, Kris Kristofferson, Udo Kier, and N'Bushe Wright
Plot Summary: Blade is born a half vampire and half human. Whistler his mentor and he are vampire hunters and they are trying to defeat Deacon Frost. Karen, a doctor was attacked and Blade saved her from becoming the undead. She then founds that she is in the world of vampires. The movie is a fast pace thriller, that keeps you on the edge your sit.

4. Dracula
Director: Tod Browning
Year: 1931
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners and Edward Van Solan
Plot Summary: I think we all know this story; Dracula keeps Jonathan as a prisoner, and then wants to turn Mina his fiancée into a vampire. Before this was a movie, it was a play, interesting fact, also if I am not mistaken Bela played Dracula on the stage.

5. Dracula 2000
Director: Patrick Lussier
Year: 2000
Cast: Gerard Butler, Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell and Omar Epps.
Plot Summary: Dracula is now in the 21st Century, there he wrecks havoc on Van Helsings daughter. This film is more of an updated version of Dracula.

6. Nosferatu
Director: F.W. Murnau
Year: 1922
Cast: Max Shreck, Gustav Von Wangenheim, Greta Schroder, Ruth Landsoff, and Alexander Granach.
Plot Summary: Silent film about Count Orlock, who wrecks havoc on Europe, a German version of Dracula. I do not think I have to go in much detail, since this film is as popular as Dracula (1931).

7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui
Year: 1992
Cast: Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, and Hilary Swank.
Plot Summary: A teenage girl named Buffy, who lives in Sunnydale California, finds out she is a vampire slayer. It is a comedy, and teen movie. Buffy then became a TV show with Sarah Michelle Gellar.

8. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Year: 2000
Cast: Hideyuki Tanaka, Ichiro Nagai, Kochi Yamadera, and Megumi Hayashibara.
Plot Summary: Hunters race to save a girl stolen from her home by a vampire thousands of years in the future.

9. Underworld
Director: Len Wiseman
Year: 2003
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly, Bill Nighy, and Scott Speedman.
Plot Summary: Selene for centuries kills werewolves, but then helps Michael who is going to be used for an experiment by the Lycans. Therefore, she tries to save him from his destiny to become a hybrid. It is a film that tells about Vampires vs. Werewolves.

10. Near Dark
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Year: 1987
Cast: Bill Paxton, Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, and Lance Henriksen.
Plot Summary: A farm boy, falls in love with a vampire then gets turned and his forced to be with the brutal vampire family. It is a darker film, not like Lost Boys, which came out the same year.

11. Lost Boys
Director: Joel Schumacher
Year: 1987
Cast: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne West, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, and Jami Gertz.
Plot Summary: Two brothers go to Santa Monica, the eldest brother Michael becomes a vampire after hanging out with teenage vampires. The youngest brother becomes friends with two young vampire hunters. This film is funny, dramatic, and a good thriller that is why it probably has a cult classic status.

12. Bram's Stoker Dracula:
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Gary Oldman, Wionna Ryder, Richard E. Grant, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves.
Plot Summary: Jonathan Harker goes to Transylvania leaving his fiancée Mina. Dracula then holds him captive, while he goes to England to Mina. Dr. Van Helsing is the only one who can save them. His methods are raw but he gets the job done. It is a sleek Victorian gothic horror story with a slight humor by Anthony Hopkins and a great performance by Gary Oldman as Dracula.

13. The Night Flier
Director: Mark Pavia
Year: 1998
Cast: Miguel Ferrer, Julie Entwisle, Michael H. Moss, and Dan Monahan.
Plot Summary: Richard Dees a reporter for a sleazy tabloid is assigned to investigate series of "vampire" murders but after awhile he thinks, it might actually be a vampire. Stephen King wrote this story.

14. John Carpenter's Vampires
Year: 1998
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: James Woods, Sherry Lee, Daniel Baldwin, Thomas Ian Griffith, and Maximilian Schell.
Plot Summary: A vengeful vampire hunter must stop a vampire master before he gets a cross that allows them to endure the light.

15. Out for Blood
Director: Richard Brandes
Year: 2004
Cast: Kevin Dillon, Vanessa Angel, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, and Lance Henriksen.
Plot Summary: A police detective investigates some mysterious disappearances from a club and finds out it is full of vampires and he then becomes the next victim.

16. Subspecies
Director: Ted Nicolau
Year: 1991
Cast: Angus Scrimm, Anders Hove, Laura Mae Tate, and Michael Watson.
Plot Summary: The vampire villain Radu comes back to his hometown Prejnar after many years of exile. He kills his father and wrecks havoc for his brother Stefan. Meanwhile, two American girls come to Romania, which makes Radu attracted to one, Michele.

17. The Addiction
Director: Abel Ferrara
Year: 1995
Cast: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Edie Falco, Annabella Scioraa, and Paul Calderon.
Plot Summary: A New York anthropology student turns into a vampire and then tries come to terms with her frequent taste for blood.

18. The Hunger
Director: Tony Scott
Year: 1983
Cast: Susan Sarandon David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, Cliff De Young, and Beth Ehlers.
Plot Summary: Egyptian vampire Miriam gets blood donors in return she gives them youth until she gets sick of them. That happens to John who gets help from a doctor, the doctor does not believe him until she contacts Miriam.

19. Horror of Dracula
Director: Terence Fisher
Year: 1958
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, John Van Eyysen, Melissa Stribling and Olga Dickie.
Plot Summary: Jonathan Harker knows that Dracula is actually a vampire, so he acts as a spy, until he gets in trouble and killed. Van Helsing, figures out what happened, gets his revenge, and destroys Dracula. This story is Hammer Productions way of telling the classic tale of Dracula.

20. Daywatch
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Year: 2006
Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mariya Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov, and Galina Tyunina
Plot Summary: A story about Anton who is framed for a vampire murder but he never did it. He also tries to protect his son because he is from the darkness. The plot is about the clash between light and darkness. It is a Russian horror film.

21. Vampire Journals
Director: Ted Nicolaou
Year: 1997
Cast: Jonathan Morris, David Gunn, Kristen Cerre, Starr Andreeff, and Illica Goia.
Plot Summary: Zachary, a vampire who wants vengeance on his master's bloodline, goes to Eastern Europe. There he finds Sofia, he uses her as bait to kill the Master Vampire Ash.

22. Dracula's Daughter
Director: Lambert Hillyer,
Year: 1936
Cast: Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Edward Van Sloan, and Irving Pichel.
Plot Summary: Story about Dracula's Daughter who wants to escape from drinking blood and how Van Helsing gets charge with murder on killing Dracula.

23. The Night Stalker
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Year: 1972
Cast: Darrin McGavin, Carol Lynley, Ralph Meeker, and Simon Oakland
Plot Summary: Carl Kolchak investigates a string of gruesome murders in Las Vegas which the victims are drained of blood. This makes it believe that a vampire is to be blamed and Kolchak is hot on the trail.

24. Fright Night
Director: Tom Holland
Year: 1985
Cast: Chris Sarandon, Amanda Bearse, Roddy McDowall, and William Ragsdale.
Plot Summary: A teenage boy thinks his neighbors are vampires; he then calls on the help of a TV host who plays a vampire hunter.

25. Night Watch
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Year: 2004
Cast: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Yuriy Kutsenko and Mariya Poroshina.
Plot Summary: Story about wars over light and darkness, vampires and "The others" (example like witches). The Power shifts and it is a war, Anton is the main character.

26. Frost: Portrait of a Vampire
Director: Kevin VanHook
Year: 2004
Cast: Gary Busey, Jeff Manzanares, Karen Bailey, and Charles Lister
Plot Summary: Two friends clash after one is turned into a vampire. It is a simple plot about vampires, friends and revenge.

27. The Forsaken
Director: J.S. Cardone
Year: 2001
Cast: Kerr Smith, Brandon Fehr, Simon Rex, Izabello Miko, and Jonathan Schaech.
Plot Summary: Sean is driving cross-country to his sisters wedding he then picks up a hitchhiker who is actually a vampire hunter. He then is caught in a war with vampires; also, they meet a girl who is infected with the virus.

28. Blade II
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Year: 2002
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Norman Reedus, Leonar Varela and Tony Curran.
Plot Summary: Blade is enlisted in army of vampires to get rid of a hybrid that is killing vampires and humans.

29. London after Midnight
Director: Tod Browning
Year: 1927
Cast: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall and Conrad Nagel.
Plot Summary: An abandoned house that was once inhabited by a wealthy man who committed suicide. The house then is taken up by ghoulish figures and the question is are they vampires?

30. House of Dark Shadows
Director: Dan Curtis
Year: 1970
Cast: Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott, and Roger Davis.
Plot Summary: Barnabes Collins wants a cure, he find helps with Dr. Julia Hoffman. However, amidst the horror he finds love with Maggie.

31. Count Yorga
Director: Bob Kelljan
Year: 1970
Cast: Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, and Judy Lang.
Plot Summary: Count Yorga wrecks havoc for two couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica. A great underrated vampire movie.

32. Vampire Effect
Director: Dante Lam
Year: 2003
Cast: Ekin Cheng, Charlene Choi, Gillian Chung, Edison Chen and Jackie Chan.
Plot Summary: Two girls and a guy start a fight with the Fifth Prince of the vampire nation and with the Duke. It is just a comedy with good action sequences. Not much too really say about this film, you have to watch it to believe it.

33. Innocent Blood
Director: John Landis
Year: 1992
Cast: Anne Parillaud, David Proval, Chazz Palminteri, Anthony LaPagila, and Rocco Sisto.
Plot Summary: A vampire woman decides to help a detective to take down a mafia boss.

34. The Vampire Night Orgy
Director: Leon Klimovsky
Year: 1973
Cast: Jack Taylor, Dyanik Zurakowsa, Jose Guardiola, Charo Soriano, and Helga Line.
Plot Summary: Do not worry about the title, some would think it is perverse hardly, there is little nudity in this movie. This film is about a group of tourists who are stuck in this creepy village, which just happen to be run by a countess who is a vampire. One by one, they are killed off.

35. Wisdom of Crocodiles
Director: Po-Chih Leong
Year: 1998
Cast: Jude Law, Jack Davenport, Timothy Spall, and Elina Lowensohn.
Plot Summary: A vampire in London is searching for an ideal woman because most of his relationships end in tragedy. The title refers to a quote from Francis Bacon, "who shed tears when they devour their prey." He was talking about crocodiles, which it is a statement about Jude Law's vampire character.

36. 30 Days of Night
Director: David Slade
Year: 2007
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, and Ben Foster.
Plot Summary: In Alaska each year the Sun leaves, well normally it is okay until a bad of very dangerous vampires decide to viciously attack the townspeople. This is a real good vampire movie, it strays away from the vampire being hero.

37. Perfect Creature
Director: Glen Standring
Year: 2006
Cast: Saffron Burrows, Dougray Scott, Leo Gregory, Craig Hall, and Scott Willis.
Plot Summary: Two brothers, one who is affected with a disease becomes evil. Therefore, he has to track him down and kill him. In addition, a woman detective and her friend help with the problem.

38. Martin
Director: George A. Romero
Year: 1977
Cast: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest and Tom Savini.
Plot Summary: A young man lives with his uncle, he thinks that he is a vampire, and he wants to try help his blood urges. This was one of George Romero's first movie.

39. Nadja
Director: Michael Almereyda
Year: 1994
Cast: Elina Lowensohn, Nic Ratner, Karl Geary, Peter Fonda and David Lynch.
Plot Summary: Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, since their father's death. While this happens, Van Helsing and his nephew are hunting them down.

40. Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm
Director: Ted Nicolaou
Year: 1998
Cast: Anders Hove, Denice Duff, Jonathon Morris, Iona Abur, and Mihai Dinvale.
Plot Summary: Michelle finally escapes Radu, and finds a doctor Ana who will help her. Radu then finds aid in Ash but in reality Ash and his protégé Serna want to kill Radu. Therefore, they find aid with Michelle and Ana.

41. Daybreakers
Director: Michael and Peter Spiering.
Year: 2009
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Allan Todd, Damien Garvey, Harriett Minto-Day and Jay Laga'aia
Plot Summary: The world is now full of vampires and the blood supply is dwindling. Therefore, the last humans are trying to escape and small groups of vampires are trying to find a cure and help humankind.

42. Vampires the Turning
Director: Marty Weiss
Year: 2005
Cast: Colin Egglesfield, Stephanie Chao, Roger Yuan, and Patrick Bauchau.
Plot Summary: An American muay-thai fighter in Thailand must join forces with a group of vampire's hunters to destroy a Lord who kidnapped his girlfriend.

43. From Dusk Till Dawn
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Year: 1996
Cast: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, and Salma Hayek.
Plot Summary: Two thugs decide to take a family hostage; they make them stop at a bar, which is actually full of vampire strippers.

44. The Last Man of Earth
Director: Ubaldo Ragona
Year: 1964
Cast: Vincent Price, Franco Bettoia, Emma Danieli, and Umberto Raho.
Plot Summary: A plague happens and everyone is a vampire until one man who is not affected decides to destroy them and help humanity.

45. Son of Dracula
Director: Robert Siodmark
Year: 1943
Cast: Robert Paige, Lon Chaney Jr., Frank Craven, and George Irving.
Plot Summary: Count Alucard is now in the deep swamps of the south. He is involved with a woman who is obsessed with the supernatural. Only her fiancé, Dr. Brewster and Professor Lazlo can stop her and Count Alucard.

46. Condemned to Live
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Year: 1935
Cast: Ralph Morgan, Maxine Doyle, Pedro de Cordoba and Russell Gleason.
Plot Summary: After a series of unsolved murders, a man finds out that a vampire bat bit his mother during her pregnancy. So this makes him to believe that he may be the vampire committing the murders.

47. Mark of the Vampire
Director: Tod Browning
Year: 1935
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, and Jean Hersholt.
Plot Summary: When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult believes that vampires caused it.

48. The Devil's Commandment
Director: Ricardo Freda and Mario Bava
Year: 1956
Cast: Giana Maria Canale, Carlos D'Angelo, Dario Michaelis, Wandisa Guida and Angelo Galassi.
Plot Summary: A scientist captures young women and drains their blood just to keep an ancient evil duchess alive.

49. Tale of a Vampire
Director: Shimako Sato
Year: 1992
Cast: Julian Sands, Suzanna Hamilton, Kenneth Cranham, and Marion Diamond.
Plot Summary: Alex is a vampire who falls in love with a librarian named Anna until another vampire Edgar ruins his life.

50. Let the Right on In
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Year: 2008
Cast: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leanderrson, Per Ragnar, and Henrik Dahl.
Plot Summary: A young child finds out that a 12 year old, girl is actually a vampire. They then find some sort of a friendship.

This is is not a complete list, just a small list of films that are either great or terrible it is your call. So that's it there is no order of best or worst, just when I thought of a film or book I wrote it down.