Comments on: Our Favorite Vampires

By: Darin

Darin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:33:46 +0000

so far only in print, but my favorite vampire is Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s Saint-Germain

By: Nyghtbeauty

Nyghtbeauty — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:22:35 +0000

Elvira’s not a vampire; I’m 99.8% sure that was never a part of her schtick. There was some confusion with Vampira, which (according to the Cassandra Peterson interview) stemmed from some higher-ups in charge of her show who insisted that she wear black hair instead of red. But the fully licensed Elvira costume does not include fangs.

By: Helenann

Helenann — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:07:29 +0000

Frank Langella. So, so hypnotic…and Chris Sarandon in, “Fright Night” as well! YOWZA!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:44:51 +0000

What? No mention of Leslie Nielson? (Dracula – Dead & Loving It!) Boooo! No ‘Blade’ either?

By: J Gorman

J Gorman — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:10:08 +0000

Okay, I was surprised to see Elvira on here. Mostly because I always saw her as vampish,but never a vampire. She had a whole movie, where she played this character Elvira, and still never was a vampire. Her biggest superpower was twirling pasties at the end of the movie.

Granted, the list is mostly for fun (As you have a cereal and a muppet on it), but both of them at least are specifically called a vampire, with fangs and such. Whereas Elvira is just the ‘mistress of the night’ – also ambiguous.

Just looking for someone to point me to the definitive statement so I can put this childhood quandary behind me!

By: Mr. Bond

Mr. Bond — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:15:18 +0000

For those who don’t know, Dark Shadows is available on demand on Netflix.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:46:17 +0000

Frank Langella was amazing in the 1979 Dracula.

By: thomas dobias

thomas dobias — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:53:29 +0000

holly wood needs to have a dracula film festival
for us fans of the dracula movies that would be
the highest honer for film & stage actors who
played dracula though out the years both on
stage and film

By: thomas dobias

thomas dobias — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:49:18 +0000

i also have prefered bela lugosi as dracula he will
always rayne as the king of the cinmanic vampires
both on stage & the cinma bela lugisi played the
vampire prince. christopher lee who thaken up the
role of count dracula never come close to the style
of acting that bela lugisi who played dracula in
1931. chritopher lee who played dracula in the
horror of dracula didnt come close to recreating
dracula in all the dracula movies he acted in
from 1958/1972

By: ysbaddaden

ysbaddaden — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:26:39 +0000

I always prefered Bela Lugosi.

He was so sleek in the original

And he even seemed to exude warmth in Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein.

But I’ve always wanted to see Timothy Dalton in the part in a definitive version that we haven’t had yet.

The closest so far has been the Louis Jourdan version, but he stayed one constant age, and Arthur and Quincy were merged into a single character, Mina too weak a character, and although it tried to open it up some the film was mired in Stoker’s epistolary construction, and looked like a videotaped version not a cinemagraphical one.