The Dracula movies and their hundreds of derivatives is a classic that always comes back, even with a multitude of tweaks. Because what used to be a preserve reserved for fans of horror genre has gone on to find new audiences. From adolescents eager for sensual bites and eternal youth to morbid viewers of gore and blood, through rethinking seen with humor.
Anything goes now to make original myth of Dracula a marketing product capable of everything. Which I don't think is good or bad. A legend can derive, in new imaginaries, towards any new reconstruction to encompass more and more potential lovers of such a fascinating universe. Nightlife, icons of a suspicious immortality... symbols too attractive not to give them new spins.
However, the undersigned is one of those who grew up with most threatening vampire movies from which came dream interpretations that pointed to the vampire as a source of fears to psychoanalyze. But also the origin of sexual desires due to the thirst for other people's fluids... So my selection tends more towards works that still maintain that interest in scaring from time to time, with vampires eager to suck the juice from our jugular to turn us into new ones. undead beings...
Top 3 Recommended Vampire Movies
Dracula by Bram Stoker
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Well, I don't start classic or anything. But the fact is that this movie is the last one that has stuck to the myth, taking advantage of more modern resources (ahem, from the end of the XNUMXth century). When trying to approach a classic work such as that of Bram Stoker to new lovers of the myth, never better than to revive the matter from an adaptation that starts from reliable aspects with respect to the original.
Then there is the personal stamp of a director like Francis Ford Coppola, who could not help but deform a few things here, readjust stereotypes there... But the matter of the sinister count renounced by God himself and his cursed legacy in the first instance about his own perdition as a revenge of the Creator himself.
A demonic being who knows how to make the precise charm of forms to captivate humans as the devil never knew how to do with his temptations to Christ. Without a clear end to the world beyond the destruction of everything to take him ahead in his sentence, there is still in old Vlad a disturbing hindrance of life, of longing for so many losses in front of his avenging God after the wildest apostasy and bloodthirsty ever seen in our world.
Open till dawn
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:We changed the third, and a lot. We come to Robert Rodriguez the Terrible on the day he thought he too could shoot a vampire movie. And boy, did he do it… A fascinating plot that draws from the scene of the night, the excesses and perdition for souls in any slum to introduce us to unsuspecting bar patrons who are delighted to come and taste the delights of carnal vice.
But in reality, to the delight of Robert Rodriguez's imagination, "La teta enroscada" is the name of a roadside bar between Mexico, Texas and hell. Silver bullets, the constant threat of undead beings from afterlife, the disturbing eroticism of Shalma Hayek and the dawn as the last hope to get out of there unscathed.
With its Road Movie point, the improvised and never-desired group of travelers that arrives at that bar offers us that ideal miscegenation so that each one interprets the situation in the most bizarre way. From the priest who believes he is capable of sending those beings to the underworld, to the murderer who has no problem insisting on the death of everyone who comes near him, or the poor girl who discovers in that adventure to the limit the pasta of which is done.
Blade
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Inspired by those black film Blaxploitation movies brought back from the 70s, this brutal film needed the trilogy to quench the thirst of so many viewers enchanted by a Wesley Snipes who had abandoned his vampire origins by accident. Even Santiago Segura had the role of him at the beginning of the second installment and the matter was well…
Arsenals of silver, garlic solutions and lots of action. Blade does not skimp on violence to try to silence any vampire who does not stick to dwelling in the shadows without assaulting the reality of the humans who dwell above them.
As half-man, half-vampire, Blade has the upper hand to defeat all bloodsuckers who come near him. And although the temptation of blood also strongly claims him, he knows how to keep himself at bay with his own serums...