Vampire Movie Collectors


Anybody collect vampire movies? I have over 50. I did a search on IMDB of movies with vampire in the title or plot. I was shocked at home many had been made. I think it must have been over 200. It seems that quite a few are straight-to-video movies. I have all the best vampire flicks, but I have quite a few that are awful.

I really hated Daughter's of Darkness. Even if they remastered it and cleaned it up it would still be awful. Another one was the Queen of the Damned. Good photography but the whole thing left me cold.

I don't enjoy the movies with apologetic vampires (Forever Knight being the exception). These dudes are evil, and anything that ever had been good was long gone.

On the other hand, the ones that I think are the best are: Dracula (1931 & 1979), Blade, From Dusk Til Dawn, several of the early Hammer titles, Vampires (Carpenter) and Salem's Lot.

I have been trying to get my hands on the series of movies made in Romania. I think the general title was Blood Species. The bits and pieces I have seen of a few of them (I think there might have been four) indicate a mix of good and bad. There is the angle of it being filmed in the same country of Stoker's Dracula and by scores of other movies that followed.

I have a few of the silent versions done in Europe, and they are interesting in their own way.

One of the wackier versions was Uncle Was Vampire (Italian) with Christopher Lee as the vampire.

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Keep collecting, Im up to 137 not including the Buffies with another three on order. The series you mentioned is called 'Subspecies' and you can get 1-5 in a box set called 'Subspecies - the epic collection. There is also a sixth called 'Subspecies - The Awakening'. Keep collecting and remember to be home before dark!

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The series you mentioned is called 'Subspecies' and you can get 1-5 in a box set called 'Subspecies - the epic collection. There is also a sixth called 'Subspecies - The Awakening'.
There are actually only four Subspecies movies. "The Awakening" is just an alternate title for the first film.

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