The original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie has always been a favorite of mine. The TV series was basically icing on the cake for me. I love them both so so much. RIP Luke Perry 😢❤ My first crush.
There's a movie from either 91 or 92 called Children of the Night that you should check out if you can find it. It's interesting and the things about it that stick out most in my mind is that instead of coffins, the vampires sleep in bathtubs full of water and they expell their lungs outside of their bodies.....it also features Ami Dolenz who's father is Micky Dolenz of the 60s TV show turned band The Monkees
One of my favorite vampire movies, from the '90s or otherwise, is TO SLEEP WITH A VAMPIRE from 1992. Scott Valentine plays a vampire who takes a suicidal dancer (Charlie Spradling) hostage, striking a bargain to help her go through with it painlessly if she'll spend the night telling him what life and living in the daylight is like. Pretty decent character study for what was supposed to be an early 90s New Horizons Skinemax film.
I’ve seen BSD with lots of people over the years, and when Winona kisses the dying demonic version of Dracula, complete with massive bleeding wounds, the reaction is a nearly universal “yuck”. Love over oceans of time can get pretty yucky, I guess.
Before I clicked the video I quickly counted in my head how many 90s vampire movies I know. I came up 13 titles. 11 of them are on your list. So, pretty nice. Glad always to see Cronos and Night Flier get some attention.
Daughter Of Darkness(1990) is one you should check out. The legend is a little different in that the vampires dont have fangs, they have a weird thing in their tongue and the story is set in Romania, its pretty cool and worth finding.
1. The Addiction 2. Interview with the Vampire 3. From Dusk Till Dawn 4. John Carpenter's Vampires 5. Cronos 6. Innocent Blood (Although, if the mobsters are sensiitve to light, should they need sunglasses standing in the middle of Atlantic City?) 7. Nadja 8. Bram Stoker's Dracula 9. Blade I never made the connection before that Rutger Hauer and Donald Sutherland were both in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and the remake of Salem's Lot.
The TV show is actually quite good and they is changed some things, it some how manages to still be quite faithful to the books even more so than the movie
Great video. Have you ever seen a 1995 vampire movie called THE ADDICTION? It was directed by Abel Ferrara, who also made films such as KING OF NEW YORK, THE DRILLER KILLER, BAD LIEUTENANT, MS .45 and a remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS called BODY SNATCHERS. It stars Lily Taylor (who you might recognize from the remake of THE HAUNTING), Annabella Sciorra and Christopher Walken. It was filmed in black and white and is more of an "art house" movie than you would probably like, but worth checking out.
Great list. Was really stunned to see Rockula on the list! So happy for it. Loads of fun. Was happy to find it streaming recently. I am a fan of both the Buffy movie & tv series. Very different vibes but both are wonderful. Been eind since I've seen Innocent Blood. Need to rewatch it. Hopefully I can track down Night Flyer. Miguel Ferrer seems like an interesting lead. Thanks for an interesting list.
4 amazing movies. They're cheap, they're campy and they sometimes crawl or seem badly portrayed, but the main events and the overall creepiness are fun as hell.
Some really great choices! I loved Innocent Blood! Robert Loggia was great, one of my favorite lines in the movie is when he says to his men, "When you're made by me, nobody really can touch you". Speaking of Vampire movies, is there any information on the re-make of Salem's Lot? I thought the movie was done and was having trouble being released. Someone told me that it might be released on HBO Max. Have you heard anything about that?
Yes! They actually just officially announced that it will be coming to HBO Max this year. No exact date yet though. I’m so happy to know it’s not getting shelved, I’ve been excited for it for so long.
I don't know if you caught it but in Buffy the Movie, in the basketball scene where the guy turns vampire and scares the team, there is one guy who just step back and it's Ben Affleck. It's super fast and he's not in the credit as he is just an extra in the movie but that's him. 😉
STRONG agree on your #1! What a masterpiece and its atmosphere is unparalleled. What a special movie. Also, I love Carpenter's Vampires. I think Valek is one of the most badass vampires ever put to film. He is very intimidating. And Subspecies...I watched the first one probably 15 or so years ago but I never watched the others. I have heard others rank the 3rd one as the best. Maybe I need to dive into those.
Kirsten Dunst stole that movie. I also love the Dracula movie. Gary Oldman was fantastic. That’s when I fell in love with him now I love him in Slow Horses.
Really should watch Buffy TV series. It's my favorite TV series of all time. The first 3 seasons are perfection. Don't watch much TV myself, but Buffy was pretty incredible.
OK, from my collection (with a little name-dropping), for your consideration: Dracula Rising (1993) Christopher Atkins Embrace of the Vampire (1995) Alyssa Milano Forever Knight (1992-95) (Canada) 70 Episodes Immortality (1998) (UK) Jude Law Kindred, the Embraced (1996) 8 Episodes Brigid Brannagh Love Bites (1993) Adam Ant Modern Vampires (1998) Casper Van Dien, Kim Cattrall, Rod Steiger, Natasha Lyonne, Craig Ferguson, Udo Kier (Who WASN'T in this movie?) Nadja (1994) Peter Fonda Pale Blood (1990) George Chakiris Project Vampire (1993) Tale of a Vampire (1992) (UK) Julian Sands The Addiction (1995) Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra The Vampire Project (1995) To Sleep with a Vampire (1992) Two Orphan Vampires (1997) (France) Vampire Journals (1997) (Romania) Vampirella (1996) Roger Daltrey There are a few others, but they are of the "Hey gang, I've got a video camera, let's make a vampire movie!" caliber.
Excellent list! The 90s were a strange year for vampire flicks. Night Flier is easily my favorite vampire movie from the 90s. I do also enjoy the Subspecies movies. The mother witch in the subspecies movies is super creepy and just gross. Innocent Blood is terrific... Thanks for the video!
Just so you know the 90 is a DECADE not….one year long. Also the wasnt a strange “year” for vampires…..I’m gonna assume you weren’t alive then cuz you’d know it was an EXPLOSION of vampire movies and themes cuz of Anne Rice and her novels….then the movies…..ya know Dracula 1992 and Interview with a Vampire 🙄🤷🏼♀️
I COMPLETELY agree with your assessment of Tom Cruise as Lestat! I always wished they would have gone with someone else. I loved Brad Pitt in the movie at the time, but that's probably because i was a teenage girl when the movie came out. He definitely seems more cheesy and melodramatic to me when i watch the movie these days
Very very great epic list I like it a lot very very great job number one is one of my absolute favorite vampire movies ever and has a great cast too 😊❤
I can say we agree on the number one film, the only good thing of TomCruise is he's dead in the film do not like him one bit, Brad Pitt was great. Awesome job Dan.
Lestat was supposed to be 6’3’ or so with shoulder length blond hair…..think Chris Hemsworth. In the books, he is described as having gone out and killed predators with primitive weapons…no guns yet
From all the things that I've heard about Dead and Loving It, I feel like it came at time when Leslie Nielsen was going full on super goofy. If it was lucky like Airplane! where he had never done comedy before, I think he might have worked. And maybe if it wasn't a spoof, but rather just a horror-comedy, I think it would have been better.
I have to agree, Bram Stoker's Dracula is the greatest vampire movie of all time and also one of my all time favorite films. I was wondering, what made you choose the 3rd Subspecies film above the others? Don't know if you seen it, but 1997s Vampire Journals is an offshoot of the Subspecies series. It's 100% Eurotrash but still worth checking out if not just to laugh at.
Nice to see somebody else holds the underrated SUBSPECIES series in high regard. Anders Hove is such a menacing, fiendish presence as Radu and Denice Duff brilliantly captures Michelle's torment and lust for blood.
Interview with a Vampire as it was called on my VHS was the first 18 I saw in cinema in England when I was 16 as id just started working at my local cinema. I used to be Evil though and get my boss to refuse my bullies as they were the same age or younger 🤣💜🐾👍
I love this channel because I feel like I've seen a lot of films but there's always a few new ones for me every video. This time it's Innocent Blood and Subspecies. I've seen a lot of the others and I agree that the 90s is not the best decade for vampire films. It's funny because the Anne Rice / Vampire the Masquerade stuff meant that the 90s was the first wave of the vampire obsession with many people (who were into that kind of thing) but the movies mostly failed to back that up. They tried, with Interview With The Vampire, but to mixed results. I think casting Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt was great from a box office perspective and terrible from a movie perspective: they're too familiar to play radically different characters than their typical leading man fare. I have this theory that Bram Stokers Dracula is sort of what killed off "regular" vampire horror films in the 90s. I have mixed feelings on the film, and I know some people hate it, but it really did all the Dracula stuff one could do in a single movie, leaving not much else for any other film. We had to wait for that movie to fade from peoples' awareness, for it to be considered "old" for people to start doing something with vampires other than action or comedy. Of course, just as that was starting to happen, Twilight occurred and pretty much killed off vampires for another decade or more.
The narrator of this video is entitled to his opinion, of course. But as far as I'm concerned, Cruise crushed it as LeStat in "Interview With A Vampire." I remember when it was announced that Tom Cruise would be playing LeStat in the film adaptation of the novel. The author Anne Rice was one of the naysayers who didn't think he could pull it off. Boy, was she wrong. When that movie dropped, Tom Cruise's performance was the talk of the town. And that's not to take away from Brad Pitt or Kirsten Dunst.
Great video, a couple I need to check out but of the ones I know I'm of a similar mind to you with one significant exception in that I do not understand the love for Bram stokers Dracula, its glossy, overproduced, inconsistent in tone imho and the romantic side pretty much destroys the atmosphere.... one or two bright points but not a great decade for the Vampire nevertheless worse was to come! ^^
Can't say enough about Buffy the TV series. Amazing writing, great characters, great stories and some pretty good monsters. Please give it a shot Daniel. For 90s vampire films I put Subspecies above all others. Tough decade for horror IMO
good list although I would not have included a few of them like Interview (I never could deal with many elements of it). -Bram Stoker, despite the awful accents by Keanu and Winona -From Dusk Til Dawn. As 2-dimensional as the Vampires are, they are rather comical -Carpenter's Vampires, while the whole Southern Vampire thing makes next to no sense and it does come across being derived a bit from From Dusk til Dawn. It still works oddly. I really like Subspecies 3, although I hold the 1st 2, maybe the 1st one actually highest. Also Vampire Journals is good. a few that were not in there: -Pale Blood - Wings Hauser is good in this and the woman he meets falls for the head vampire, which is weird as she had some sort of desire to be turned. Also the ending is surreal as Hauser's character is seeing her and the head vampire in a Psych ward. -Blood Ties - This was I think more of a Miniseries, but some consider it a tv film. It involves this family of Carpathians who have morals about who they kill and they don't like the word "vampire." But it reminds me of a like a cross between The Lost Boys and like Vampire the Masquerade. With rival factions within the Carpathian society. Sort of a Civil War. -Daughter of Darkness - Anthony Perkins and Mia Sara star in this, where Sara's character goes to Romania to meet her father and discover her family roots. 1 of the main unique parts of this is instead of baring Fangs, the vampires have these teeth coming out from the inside of their tongue. It was odd, but it worked somehow. also 1 that might also have been worth mentioning from the 80's list is "Nick Knight" which was Rick Springfield playing a Vampire cop in LA. A Pilot for the much beloved tv series "Forever Knight." Although it was released in 1989.
Dracula at #1. The production value is amazing and just beautiful. Night flyer at 2 because it is so dark and has more to do with this burned out reporter than the vampire... plus the original and unique idea of this filthy vampires mode of living. I really love the blade movies just as a fun entertainment (which they'll no doubt destroy in the coming remake) and nobody but Snipes is Blade. But man o man the young villain is a joke. Why the older vampire's put up with him and not just kill him is a HUGE mystery to me. Should have just had the AMAING Udo Kier play the main villain, wasted opportunity. Every time I watch this I'm screaming at the screen, destroy Frost and be done with it! There was 0 reason why any of the elders were afraid of him or even put up with him. Oh that's right he had a "cool" young gang lmao!
Glad we’re not alone, whole family loves Blade and yell at the council to just wack the brat Frost. So hard to watch his increasing disrespect for Udo’s personal boundaries and status with nary a consequence in an extremely ordered and ancient hierarchical vampire society 😡
I'm glad he included Night Flier. I'm not a Stephen King fan, or a horror film fan. I like films a great deal, but I'm really a literature devotee. I was surprised by how effective Night Flier was. It had such a strange queasy other worldly feel to it, though at the same time having that Stephen King small East Coast town flavour as well. The vampire and his...conveyance cum coffin, are very eerie. His guessed at story makes him seem both tragic, while what he has become is disgusting. I like reading heavy weight literature. But I like this odd made for telly on a small budget film. It is, properly, haunting.
Blade 2 was more fun than Blade, and the Blade tv series is CRIMINALLY underrated..The series version From Dusk Til Dawn is light years better than the movie. The vampires in the series are NOT zombie cannon fodder but rather a terrifying cartel, and Santanico is the hero! Super deep dives into backstories, Jake Busy is unbelievable as Sex Machine..and Richie Gecko doesn't get offed when hes turned, and he and Seth continue robbing banks and fighting the ancient vampire cartel, which incidentally is part Conquistador and part Aztec in origin...
My favorite Vampire movies of all time are: Interview With The Vampire, 30 Days Of Night, Fright Night (1985), Fright Night (2011), John Carpenter's Vampires, The Lost Boys, From Dusk Till Dawn, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Little Vampire, Blade (1998), Blade II (2002) & Van Helsing.
I always thought it was hilarious that William Shatner's daughter was in the Subspecies movies. I think she even got naked in one of them. Weird-o-rama
x Watched Royal Warriors, fantastic film! o That totally change the way I see Hong Kong films from the 80s, what incredible action sequences! o The airplane fight, the club fight, and the shack fight at the end are just incredible, LOVE IT! x The next film I am going to watch is Blue Steel (hopefully watch it tomorrow night). o Interestingly in sequence... Royal Warriors has Michelle Yeoh and Blue Steel has Jamie Lee Curtis, who won Best Actress (Yeoh) and Best Supporting Actress (Curtis) at last year's Academy Awards. x I watched Buffy The Vampire Slayer in the theater in 1992 (haven't seen it again though) o I thought it was amazing, I don't understand why there are so many haters out the film. o That is Hillary Swank's film debut (she is from Nebraska). † The other night when I went to watch Ordinary Angels (2023), that was only the second time I had seen Swank in a film in my hometown theater, the first being in 1992! x From this video, I added two 1992 vampire films to my April Watchlist: Buffy The Vampire Slayer (looking forward to seeing that again for the second time!) and Innocent Blood.
I guess your personal preference for horror vampires made you put John carpenter’s vampires over interview with the vampire.. I love both but vampires is not better
Have you seen The Addiction, Modern Vampires, Blood and Donuts or Nadja @The Cobwebs Channel? Those are four great 90s Vampire movies and I think better than some of your entries. I do agree with you that Vampire in Brooklyn, Bordello of Blood, and Dracula Dead and Loving It aren't as bad as commonly (or even if their directors) thought.
See, your feelings on Interview are the same as mine on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I know people love it, but it doesn’t even crack my top ten Dracula adaptations let along 90s vampire moview
Definitely Vampires and Dracula are my fav. Blade is a close 2nd. The Vampires in carpenters movie were real badass, especially when they literally rise from the ground!!
Don't forget Don Rickles as the mob boss's lawyer. His employer turns him into a vampire and just before he's about to kill his first victim, she opens some curtains and exposes him to sunlight before he can do anything! I mean, is that funny or what?
The original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie has always been a favorite of mine. The TV series was basically icing on the cake for me. I love them both so so much.
RIP Luke Perry 😢❤ My first crush.
There's a movie from either 91 or 92 called Children of the Night that you should check out if you can find it. It's interesting and the things about it that stick out most in my mind is that instead of coffins, the vampires sleep in bathtubs full of water and they expell their lungs outside of their bodies.....it also features Ami Dolenz who's father is Micky Dolenz of the 60s TV show turned band The Monkees
I love Bordello Of Blood! Always preferred it over Demon Knight as a kid. From Dusk Till Dawn is one of my all time favorite movies. Great list man!
Nice! Thanks Ken!
One of my favorite vampire movies, from the '90s or otherwise, is TO SLEEP WITH A VAMPIRE from 1992. Scott Valentine plays a vampire who takes a suicidal dancer (Charlie Spradling) hostage, striking a bargain to help her go through with it painlessly if she'll spend the night telling him what life and living in the daylight is like. Pretty decent character study for what was supposed to be an early 90s New Horizons Skinemax film.
I’ve seen BSD with lots of people over the years, and when Winona kisses the dying demonic version of Dracula, complete with massive bleeding wounds, the reaction is a nearly universal “yuck”. Love over oceans of time can get pretty yucky, I guess.
haha I guess ultra-macabre gothic romance isn’t for everyone.
Before I clicked the video I quickly counted in my head how many 90s vampire movies I know. I came up 13 titles. 11 of them are on your list. So, pretty nice. Glad always to see Cronos and Night Flier get some attention.
Daughter Of Darkness(1990) is one you should check out. The legend is a little different in that the vampires dont have fangs, they have a weird thing in their tongue and the story is set in Romania, its pretty cool and worth finding.
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) is such a highly entertaining 90s Film !
Absolutely!
1. The Addiction
2. Interview with the Vampire
3. From Dusk Till Dawn
4. John Carpenter's Vampires
5. Cronos
6. Innocent Blood (Although, if the mobsters are sensiitve to light, should they need sunglasses standing in the middle of Atlantic City?)
7. Nadja
8. Bram Stoker's Dracula
9. Blade
I never made the connection before that Rutger Hauer and Donald Sutherland were both in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and the remake of Salem's Lot.
I think this is a Way better list...
After watching this video I watched the whole Subspecies series and man they are some of my new favorites. Radu is goated
Rutger Hauer was Anne Rice’s choice/basis for Lestat when writing the interview with a vampire series
Ohhh, now that would’ve been perfect. He was so awesome.
Wow, Vampires above Interview is a wild choice. :))
Never would have done it before the rewatch.
Interview sucked😂Pun intended
I said the same thing outloud to myself 😂
The TV show is actually quite good and they is changed some things, it some how manages to still be quite faithful to the books even more so than the movie
Good list, and I love seeing Rockula on it!
Also, If you've never seen Blood & Donuts, I recommend it.
Rutger Hauer also played vampires in Salem's Lot(2004) and Dracula lll: Legacy.
That’s right!
He's also van helsing in the godfuckingawful argento's dracula
Great video. Have you ever seen a 1995 vampire movie called THE ADDICTION? It was directed by Abel Ferrara, who also made films such as KING OF NEW YORK, THE DRILLER KILLER, BAD LIEUTENANT, MS .45 and a remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS called BODY SNATCHERS. It stars Lily Taylor (who you might recognize from the remake of THE HAUNTING), Annabella Sciorra and Christopher Walken. It was filmed in black and white and is more of an "art house" movie than you would probably like, but worth checking out.
Love the respect for Subspecies! One of my favorite franchises of all time. Radu is the man. I think you really nailed while the series works so well.
Great list. Was really stunned to see Rockula on the list! So happy for it. Loads of fun. Was happy to find it streaming recently. I am a fan of both the Buffy movie & tv series. Very different vibes but both are wonderful. Been eind since I've seen Innocent Blood. Need to rewatch it. Hopefully I can track down Night Flyer. Miguel Ferrer seems like an interesting lead. Thanks for an interesting list.
Subspecies brilliant. Also vampire journal
4 amazing movies. They're cheap, they're campy and they sometimes crawl or seem badly portrayed, but the main events and the overall creepiness are fun as hell.
Great video - Subspecies looks great. 🧛🏻♀️🦇🏰
There is a whole Subspecies series. I actually saw the second in the series, Blood Stone, first.
23:43 Really? Winona Ryder gets a lot of criticism for "Bram Stoker's Dracula"? I think she's wonderful there. To me she is the ultimate Mina.
She really does, even in the comment section of this video. But I’m with you, I love her in the film.
Some really great choices! I loved Innocent Blood! Robert Loggia was great, one of my favorite lines in the movie is when he says to his men, "When you're made by me, nobody really can touch you". Speaking of Vampire movies, is there any information on the re-make of Salem's Lot? I thought the movie was done and was having trouble being released. Someone told me that it might be released on HBO Max. Have you heard anything about that?
Yes! They actually just officially announced that it will be coming to HBO Max this year. No exact date yet though. I’m so happy to know it’s not getting shelved, I’ve been excited for it for so long.
I’d also include Nadja 1994, The Addiction 1995 and Tale of a Vampire 1992.
Dude, the Night Flyer, excellent choice! My favorite Stephen King film. Also just saw Rockula and enjoyed it quite a bit.
So glad you enjoyed Rockula!
I think Dracula Untold is underrated but that's me. It could've gone on to more and I love the song. Great picks and video 👍😊💜🐾👋
Top five:
Interview With the Vampire
Blade
From Dusk to Dawn
Subspecies
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Worst:
Innocent Blood
A+ video!
Awesome 1990s Vampire Movies choices!
Gary Oldham looks like Glenn Close when he changes into Dracula.
I don't know if you caught it but in Buffy the Movie, in the basketball scene where the guy turns vampire and scares the team, there is one guy who just step back and it's Ben Affleck. It's super fast and he's not in the credit as he is just an extra in the movie but that's him. 😉
STRONG agree on your #1! What a masterpiece and its atmosphere is unparalleled. What a special movie. Also, I love Carpenter's Vampires. I think Valek is one of the most badass vampires ever put to film. He is very intimidating. And Subspecies...I watched the first one probably 15 or so years ago but I never watched the others. I have heard others rank the 3rd one as the best. Maybe I need to dive into those.
I like Subspecies 1, but 2 & 3 are huge improvements, in my opinion.
I'm a huge, massive and die hard fan of Vampire, Werewolf & Dracula movies
Kirsten Dunst stole that movie. I also love the Dracula movie. Gary Oldman was fantastic. That’s when I fell in love with him now I love him in Slow Horses.
Really should watch Buffy TV series. It's my favorite TV series of all time. The first 3 seasons are perfection. Don't watch much TV myself, but Buffy was pretty incredible.
I like Buffy and Angel so I agree he should watch Buffy 👍💜🐾
Rockula is one of my all time favorite comedies. I'm very happy someone else loves it.
Please consider adding chapters to your videos
Great list. Blood and Donuts is also worth a look.
I know you’re not a TV guy, but you really should give Buffy a shot
Totally agree, it’s just hard to find the time.
Dude. Watch it. And watch ANGEL (at the appropriate time in the timeline) too. You will not be sorry.
OK, from my collection (with a little name-dropping), for your consideration:
Dracula Rising (1993) Christopher Atkins
Embrace of the Vampire (1995) Alyssa Milano
Forever Knight (1992-95) (Canada) 70 Episodes
Immortality (1998) (UK) Jude Law
Kindred, the Embraced (1996) 8 Episodes Brigid Brannagh
Love Bites (1993) Adam Ant
Modern Vampires (1998) Casper Van Dien, Kim Cattrall, Rod Steiger, Natasha Lyonne, Craig Ferguson, Udo Kier (Who WASN'T in this movie?)
Nadja (1994) Peter Fonda
Pale Blood (1990) George Chakiris
Project Vampire (1993)
Tale of a Vampire (1992) (UK) Julian Sands
The Addiction (1995) Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra
The Vampire Project (1995)
To Sleep with a Vampire (1992)
Two Orphan Vampires (1997) (France)
Vampire Journals (1997) (Romania)
Vampirella (1996) Roger Daltrey
There are a few others, but they are of the "Hey gang, I've got a video camera, let's make a vampire movie!" caliber.
Great list Thanks for adding these 😮
Excellent list! The 90s were a strange year for vampire flicks. Night Flier is easily my favorite vampire movie from the 90s. I do also enjoy the Subspecies movies. The mother witch in the subspecies movies is super creepy and just gross. Innocent Blood is terrific... Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching!
Just so you know the 90 is a DECADE not….one year long. Also the wasnt a strange “year” for vampires…..I’m gonna assume you weren’t alive then cuz you’d know it was an EXPLOSION of vampire movies and themes cuz of Anne Rice and her novels….then the movies…..ya know Dracula 1992 and Interview with a Vampire 🙄🤷🏼♀️
Interview with the Vampire this low is criminal.
Great list. I totally agree with your top 2 on this list
I agree Dracula de Francis ford Coppola is beautifull i love it 😍
Rockula is the best kind of cheese!!! Absolutely love that movie 🖤
Love this series! You should do one for the 2000's and the 10's too!
Love your list, Daniel! I've never watched Innocent Blood - I need to remedy that.
Thank you!
I COMPLETELY agree with your assessment of Tom Cruise as Lestat! I always wished they would have gone with someone else.
I loved Brad Pitt in the movie at the time, but that's probably because i was a teenage girl when the movie came out. He definitely seems more cheesy and melodramatic to me when i watch the movie these days
Tom Cruise not even close to Lestat in the book
The Night Flier was primo!!!! I saw it back in the day and recently tracked down the DVD....❤
Subspecies was awsome Radu is the monster in the mountain from draculauntold
Very very great epic list I like it a lot very very great job number one is one of my absolute favorite vampire movies ever and has a great cast too 😊❤
Embrace of the Vampire starring the actress who was in the "Who's the Boss" and "Charmed"
I love the Subspecies series and Rockula!!! Really glad it was on you list!
I can say we agree on the number one film, the only good thing of TomCruise is he's dead in the film do not like him one bit, Brad Pitt was great. Awesome job Dan.
Thank you!
Lestat was supposed to be 6’3’ or so with shoulder length blond hair…..think Chris Hemsworth. In the books, he is described as having gone out and killed predators with primitive weapons…no guns yet
I totally agree with your number 1 Pic, went to see this when it was released in 1992, I was 18, still my favorite movie of all time
From all the things that I've heard about Dead and Loving It, I feel like it came at time when Leslie Nielsen was going full on super goofy. If it was lucky like Airplane! where he had never done comedy before, I think he might have worked. And maybe if it wasn't a spoof, but rather just a horror-comedy, I think it would have been better.
Great point. It's not terrible, but it's not Young Frankenstein.
I have to agree, Bram Stoker's Dracula is the greatest vampire movie of all time and also one of my all time favorite films. I was wondering, what made you choose the 3rd Subspecies film above the others? Don't know if you seen it, but 1997s Vampire Journals is an offshoot of the Subspecies series. It's 100% Eurotrash but still worth checking out if not just to laugh at.
U always have awesome lists 80s and 90s horror is my fav
Nice to see somebody else holds the underrated SUBSPECIES series in high regard. Anders Hove is such a menacing, fiendish presence as Radu and Denice Duff brilliantly captures Michelle's torment and lust for blood.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is the greatest vampire movie of all times.
@Thecobwebschannel I love the Bella Lugosi vampire t-shirt. Where could I buy one?
I got it from Fright Rags
@@cobwebschannel Awesome, I'm checking it out now.
I agree with the top 5 and #1 and #2 were spot one. Now I will check out your list from the 70s and 80s.
I LOVE the Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie! ❤❤❤
I love love Innocent Blood, it’s such an entertaining movie! I wondered if it would make your list.
Interview with a Vampire as it was called on my VHS was the first 18 I saw in cinema in England when I was 16 as id just started working at my local cinema. I used to be Evil though and get my boss to refuse my bullies as they were the same age or younger 🤣💜🐾👍
I love this channel because I feel like I've seen a lot of films but there's always a few new ones for me every video. This time it's Innocent Blood and Subspecies. I've seen a lot of the others and I agree that the 90s is not the best decade for vampire films. It's funny because the Anne Rice / Vampire the Masquerade stuff meant that the 90s was the first wave of the vampire obsession with many people (who were into that kind of thing) but the movies mostly failed to back that up. They tried, with Interview With The Vampire, but to mixed results. I think casting Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt was great from a box office perspective and terrible from a movie perspective: they're too familiar to play radically different characters than their typical leading man fare. I have this theory that Bram Stokers Dracula is sort of what killed off "regular" vampire horror films in the 90s. I have mixed feelings on the film, and I know some people hate it, but it really did all the Dracula stuff one could do in a single movie, leaving not much else for any other film. We had to wait for that movie to fade from peoples' awareness, for it to be considered "old" for people to start doing something with vampires other than action or comedy. Of course, just as that was starting to happen, Twilight occurred and pretty much killed off vampires for another decade or more.
Going to check out those blood lust movies , they free on tubi, thanks 👍
Tubi is where I watched them too!
The narrator of this video is entitled to his opinion, of course. But as far as I'm concerned, Cruise crushed it as LeStat in "Interview With A Vampire."
I remember when it was announced that Tom Cruise would be playing LeStat in the film adaptation of the novel. The author Anne Rice was one of the naysayers who didn't think he could pull it off.
Boy, was she wrong.
When that movie dropped, Tom Cruise's performance was the talk of the town. And that's not to take away from Brad Pitt or Kirsten Dunst.
Indeed. And after the release, Rice completely reversed her stance and publicly adored his interpretation.
Innocent Blood went on a bit too long for me. My top 3 would be Dracula, Interview With the Vampire and Buffy.
Give it another try. It's great fun!!
Great video, a couple I need to check out but of the ones I know I'm of a similar mind to you with one significant exception in that I do not understand the love for Bram stokers Dracula, its glossy, overproduced, inconsistent in tone imho and the romantic side pretty much destroys the atmosphere.... one or two bright points but not a great decade for the Vampire nevertheless worse was to come! ^^
Can't say enough about Buffy the TV series. Amazing writing, great characters, great stories and some pretty good monsters. Please give it a shot Daniel. For 90s vampire films I put Subspecies above all others. Tough decade for horror IMO
Great call with Innocent Blood. My mom and I love this movie but seems to be excluded from a lot of vampire movie list.❤
good list although I would not have included a few of them like Interview (I never could deal with many elements of it).
-Bram Stoker, despite the awful accents by Keanu and Winona
-From Dusk Til Dawn. As 2-dimensional as the Vampires are, they are rather comical
-Carpenter's Vampires, while the whole Southern Vampire thing makes next to no sense and it does come across being derived a bit from From Dusk til Dawn. It still works oddly.
I really like Subspecies 3, although I hold the 1st 2, maybe the 1st one actually highest. Also Vampire Journals is good.
a few that were not in there:
-Pale Blood - Wings Hauser is good in this and the woman he meets falls for the head vampire, which is weird as she had some sort of desire to be turned. Also the ending is surreal as Hauser's character is seeing her and the head vampire in a Psych ward.
-Blood Ties - This was I think more of a Miniseries, but some consider it a tv film. It involves this family of Carpathians who have morals about who they kill and they don't like the word "vampire." But it reminds me of a like a cross between The Lost Boys and like Vampire the Masquerade. With rival factions within the Carpathian society. Sort of a Civil War.
-Daughter of Darkness - Anthony Perkins and Mia Sara star in this, where Sara's character goes to Romania to meet her father and discover her family roots. 1 of the main unique parts of this is instead of baring Fangs, the vampires have these teeth coming out from the inside of their tongue. It was odd, but it worked somehow.
also 1 that might also have been worth mentioning from the 80's list is "Nick Knight" which was Rick Springfield playing a Vampire cop in LA. A Pilot for the much beloved tv series "Forever Knight." Although it was released in 1989.
Dracula at #1. The production value is amazing and just beautiful. Night flyer at 2 because it is so dark and has more to do with this burned out reporter than the vampire... plus the original and unique idea of this filthy vampires mode of living. I really love the blade movies just as a fun entertainment (which they'll no doubt destroy in the coming remake) and nobody but Snipes is Blade. But man o man the young villain is a joke. Why the older vampire's put up with him and not just kill him is a HUGE mystery to me. Should have just had the AMAING Udo Kier play the main villain, wasted opportunity. Every time I watch this I'm screaming at the screen, destroy Frost and be done with it! There was 0 reason why any of the elders were afraid of him or even put up with him. Oh that's right he had a "cool" young gang lmao!
Oh man you’re so right, I would’ve loved Udo Kier at the center.
Glad we’re not alone, whole family loves Blade and yell at the council to just wack the brat Frost. So hard to watch his increasing disrespect for Udo’s personal boundaries and status with nary a consequence in an extremely ordered and ancient hierarchical vampire society 😡
I'm glad he included Night Flier.
I'm not a Stephen King fan, or a horror film fan. I like films a great deal, but I'm really a literature devotee.
I was surprised by how effective Night Flier was. It had such a strange queasy other worldly feel to it, though at the same time having that Stephen King small East Coast town flavour as well.
The vampire and his...conveyance cum coffin, are very eerie. His guessed at story makes him seem both tragic, while what he has become is disgusting.
I like reading heavy weight literature. But I like this odd made for telly on a small budget film.
It is, properly, haunting.
Dwight Renfield. No need to turn into a bat when you're an aviator with a plane, a black one, of course.
Interview with the Vampire will forever be my favorite vampire movie. I have all of the books and Anne Rice is queen!
Blade 2 was more fun than Blade, and the Blade tv series is CRIMINALLY underrated..The series version From Dusk Til Dawn is light years better than the movie. The vampires in the series are NOT zombie cannon fodder but rather a terrifying cartel, and Santanico is the hero! Super deep dives into backstories, Jake Busy is unbelievable as Sex Machine..and Richie Gecko doesn't get offed when hes turned, and he and Seth continue robbing banks and fighting the ancient vampire cartel, which incidentally is part Conquistador and part Aztec in origin...
I had never heard anything about the show, so this is very interesting! And I’m totally with you on Blade II.
Happy to see some love for the Blade and From Dusk Til Dawn TV series.
@paloma3484 happy to know we are out there!
Damn this channel is great!! I love a lot of these films but I can’t find innocent blood or rockula on streaming dammit!!!
Innocent Blood was actually much closer to the Morbius comics than the movie. Great pick.
haha Good call
Daniel, in case you didn't know, "Ritual" was the third and final "Tales from the Crypt" film.
Love the Buffy film as well as the series, its a great laugh 👍👍
My favorite Vampire movies of all time are: Interview With The Vampire, 30 Days Of Night, Fright Night (1985), Fright Night (2011), John Carpenter's Vampires, The Lost Boys, From Dusk Till Dawn, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Little Vampire, Blade (1998), Blade II (2002) & Van Helsing.
I always thought it was hilarious that William Shatner's daughter was in the Subspecies movies. I think she even got naked in one of them. Weird-o-rama
Holy cow, I didn’t even realize that. And she’s good in them!
Oh yeah now I know what to watch.!!!!!
Yay! Someone else has seen Rockula! I have always loved this movie but everyone I talk to about it never knows it.
x Watched Royal Warriors, fantastic film!
o That totally change the way I see Hong Kong films from the 80s, what incredible action sequences!
o The airplane fight, the club fight, and the shack fight at the end are just incredible, LOVE IT!
x The next film I am going to watch is Blue Steel (hopefully watch it tomorrow night).
o Interestingly in sequence... Royal Warriors has Michelle Yeoh and Blue Steel has Jamie Lee Curtis, who won Best Actress (Yeoh) and Best Supporting Actress (Curtis) at last year's Academy Awards.
x I watched Buffy The Vampire Slayer in the theater in 1992 (haven't seen it again though)
o I thought it was amazing, I don't understand why there are so many haters out the film.
o That is Hillary Swank's film debut (she is from Nebraska).
† The other night when I went to watch Ordinary Angels (2023), that was only the second time I had seen Swank in a film in my hometown theater, the first being in 1992!
x From this video, I added two 1992 vampire films to my April Watchlist: Buffy The Vampire Slayer (looking forward to seeing that again for the second time!) and Innocent Blood.
Hey Ben! So glad you enjoyed Royal Warriors, that’s awesome!
Have you checked out from dusk till dawn 2 and3?
I saw Bram Stoker's Dracula in the theater. Still one of my favorite movies.
Cue Blade🗡️
did you not watch subspecies 4 the vampire jounals and the fifth
Not yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
@@cobwebschannel I think you'll like them
"Nut For Dracula" is my least favourite of those "X For Dracula" movies. :))
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I guess your personal preference for horror vampires made you put John carpenter’s vampires over interview with the vampire.. I love both but vampires is not better
Have you seen The Addiction, Modern Vampires, Blood and Donuts or Nadja @The Cobwebs Channel? Those are four great 90s Vampire movies and I think better than some of your entries. I do agree with you that Vampire in Brooklyn, Bordello of Blood, and Dracula Dead and Loving It aren't as bad as commonly (or even if their directors) thought.
I'm very surprised Nadja wasn't included in this list !
See, your feelings on Interview are the same as mine on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I know people love it, but it doesn’t even crack my top ten Dracula adaptations let along 90s vampire moview
Definitely Vampires and Dracula are my fav. Blade is a close 2nd. The Vampires in carpenters movie were real badass, especially when they literally rise from the ground!!
Do love the Night Flyer
Love subspecies. The second film being my favorite. And for the record there are for four subspecies films not three.
There are 5, but I’ve only seen the first 3.
How in the World did Rockula get placed Before Interview with the Vampire.....
I think the Forsaken is underrated for a 90s vampire movie. Oh damn it's 2001 so I was just a bit off lol.
Vampires kicks ass!
What about "Subspecies"
Don't forget Don Rickles as the mob boss's lawyer. His employer turns him into a vampire and just before he's about to kill his first victim, she opens some curtains and exposes him to sunlight before he can do anything! I mean, is that funny or what?
The Addiction (1995)
also Nadja (1994)