Favourite vamp and zombie film

[Kaptain Von]

Favourite film with undead in it's Evil Dead 3: Bruce Campbell vs. the Army of Darkness. Every last time. It's pure trash, but I love it to bits, and it may have had something to do with me getting back into Undead armies after my year off gaming.

Favourite vampire film's Interview with the Vampire. I'm not quite sure why. It looks spectacular - gorgeous even - and it manages to be so charmingly low-key and character-focused and ahh, I love it. Queen of the Damned (and, for that matter, all of the Vampire Chronicles after Interview) I can't be doing with at all.

I question the assertion that Coppola's Dracula follows the book closely. Bit of a struggle to find reincarnated lost loves or curses for blasphemy in the original text...

 

[lorgoth]

True Evil Dead 3: Bruce Campbell vs. the Army of Darkness is great.
And of course From Dusk Till Dawn from Rodrigez/Tarantino duet.
And last one Vampire Hunter from Carpenter was quite good too.

 

[Zephyr]

Perhaps I'm slightly biased, as Queen was shot here in my home town of Melbourne, but if you take it as a nicely budgeted Vampire movie with a cool soundtrack, not a bad cast, loosely based on the original book then I find that I really quite enjoy it.

True, if you just look at it as just an average vampire-flick it's not horrible but it's hard for me to disconnect it from the book since I read the books first.

I question the assertion that Coppola's Dracula follows the book closely. Bit of a struggle to find reincarnated lost loves or curses for blasphemy in the original text...

I don't know if you have seen it but around December last year there was a special edition available on DVD in where they explained why they slightly changed some scenes. I did not say it followed the book every word but it's still the closest possible version out there.

Seems like I also need to check out modern vampires because I love the WoD setting; both the old and the new one.

 

[Kaptain Von]

I question the assertion that Coppola's Dracula follows the book closely. Bit of a struggle to find reincarnated lost loves or curses for blasphemy in the original text...

I don't know if you have seen it but around December last year there was a special edition available on DVD in where they explained why they slightly changed some scenes. I did not say it followed the book every word but it's still the closest possible version out there.

I hadn't heard about that. Will have to look into it...

I must admit I'm hard-pressed to think of a particularly close version...

 

[Bloodwolf]

Fav Vamp Film(s):

Probably the Blade Trilogy, Underworld (although I loved it more for the werewolves, and I didn't like Underworld: Evo), and of course Bela Lugosi's original performance in Universal's Dracula. But do you want to know what the greatest Vampire film ever made is?

Mel Brooks' Dracula: Dead and Loving It.


Fav Zombie Film(s): Definatly Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. "WHO'S LAUGHING NOW???!!! AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Ash is awesome.

 

[Bloodlust]

Favourite Vampire Film: Nosferatu
Favourite Vampire Anime: Hellsing Ultimate (Check it out)

 

[N.I.B]

Favourite Vampire Film: The Lost Boys (Keanu Reeves putting Coppola's Dracula down to 2nd place)
Favourite Zombie Film: Evil Dead 3: The Army of Darkness

 

[darknesseternal]

Favourite Vampire Film: The Lost Boys (Keanu Reeves putting Coppola's Dracula down to 2nd place)

I heard recently that they are doing a The Lost Boys 2.... really not sure what to make of that at all. In fact I'm feeling quite skeptical about it.. I love the original, I first saw it when it came out on VHS, which shows you how long ago that was, but part of it's immense charm is that it's an 80's movie, and all the bad hair and bad fashion that comes along with the 80's :lol:

A sequel, pretty much around 20 years later, I just think I'm going to end up feeling disappointed with it..

 

[Zephyr]

A sequel?! Good gods no...
I loved the Lost Boys, I wanted to grow up and be like David. I thought he was so cool.:lol:

Another fun vampire movie I saw was 30 Days of Night. Only watch it if you like survival-horror movies, don't bother watching flicks without complicated storylines and don't mind your vampires on the Strigoi side.

 

[N.I.B]

I remember having a huge crush on Star in the Lost Boys.

 

[mannfred]

Favourite Vamp film would be Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola), I actually forgot all about Lost Boys, I remember really liking it, any chance it's on DVD?

Zombie film, Shaun of the Dead followed closely by Dawn of the Dead.

IMO Dawn of the Dead was really well done but Shaun will become a classic.

 

[Cpt_Fluffy]

Lost Boys is totally on region 2 DVD. The soundtrack CD is particularly awesome too, so 80s.

The sequel I think is due to focus on the Frog brothers as grown ups which was Corey Feldman and... another guy... in the original. DC comics are just about to do a four issue mini-series to fill the gap between the two movies. The whole thing looks a bit like it will wreck the old charm of Lost Boys to me.

And I'm seconding the classics here; Nosferatu and Night of the Living Dead.

Though I would love to have the talent to model a Varghulf up to look like the giant vampire dog from Dusk till Dawn.

About the only movie that hasn't been mentioned here is Braindead. Some great zombie comedy.

 

[VON_KRUG]

Near Dark for vampires, as well as Lost Boys and Interview. 30 Days of Night was great.
The Original Night Of The Living Dead!!!!
Why cant they make Castlevania into a movie or anime?

 

[Grish]

Why oh why has no one mentioned VAMPIRE CIRCUS?!!?

 

[Falahk]

Favourite Vampire Film: to duficult, since i have yet to see many of the classics (im more into sci-fi, hack and slash/gorey stuff, zombie movies etc...)
Favourite Zombie Film: Die Zombie Jäger....by far.....or possibly house of 1000 corpses (<---if that one can be called a zombie movie, its in the same vein...but dont really have zombies in it)

 

[Drakki]

Favourite vampire film: well i do like the underworld series, but for storyline, not vampires, the blade films are good too but what really carries it home for me is Queen of the Damned...primarily for the soundtrack though.

Favourite zombie film: I cannot believe that noone's mentioned the Resident Evil films yet, all three Resi's are pure liquified awesome

 

[Beithir Seun]

Shaun of the Dead is a great film and is among my favourite movies. FFC's Dracula with Gary Oldman is another favourite but the all-time best Vampire movie has to be the original 1958 'Dracula' with Christopher Lee. Pure brilliance.

 

[Trevy the Great]

The only real "Zombie" movie I've seen is I am Legend. Oh, and the first 15.3 seconds of 28 Days Later because my science teacher made us turn it off. We got to watch Surf's Up instead (twas' a very educational class)!

 

[Drakki]

The creatures in 'I Am Legend were vampires, not zombies, and it was completely different from the book, in my eyes IAL failed miserably, Will Smith being the only redeeming feature...cos he's Will Smith

 

[Trevy the Great]

I never said it was good, I just said it was the only I've seen.

 

[scarecr0w14]

Bram stokers dracula, and 28 days/weeks later

 

[Simon von Carstein]

Zombie Flesheaters aka Zombi 2 those Zombies really look like they've been dead a while and the way they move is faultless.

 

[Social_Infidel]

Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Shaun of the Dead