Vampire Veek
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To kick it all off, here are 18 suggestions from Vulture staffers for what to watch this week.
Vampire, are a lot more like zombies than anything resembling the conventional Western concept of vampires.
They are indiscriminate in their need to suck out the life force, or Qi, of the living.
They can be paralyzed indefinitely, if you slap a talisman on their foreheads.
They move around by hopping, which sounds funny at first but is actually pretty creepy.
Directed by Ricky Lau and produced by the legendary Sammo Hung,Mr.
Mr. Vampire,now considered a classic of Hong Kong cinema, was incredibly successful upon its release.
And lucky for us, a remastered version of the movie was reissued on Blu-ray last year.
Did I mention Mr. Sheffield plays a vampire??
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Moms Got a Date With a Vampireis available to stream onDisney+.
Instead, I watched it for the first time during the pandemic.
WatchingOnly Lovers Left Aliveduring a long period of isolation helped ease my lockdown malaise because the film mirrored it.
(The scorestraight-up rules.)
Her apartment is wrapped wall-to-wall with books that shes probably read and reread.
Its a thriller, its a love story, its thebirth of the man-bun.
What more could you want in a 90s vampire film?
Simultaneously objectifying and empowering, lesbian vampires are at the heart of vampire fiction.
After all, Carmilla predates Dracula by 26 years.
Yes, this movie is that dumb.
One character has what can only be called a clown dildo.
We stan a horny king!Vampyros Lesbosis replete with terror, eroticism, and aesthetic wonder.
Plus so much 70s bush.
Who could be mad at that?Bethy Squires
Vampyros Lesbosis available to stream onPrime Video.
Hotel Transylvania(2012)
Lets have a bit of a laugh.
Most vampire movies are transfixing in their horror, but the only horrors inHotel Transylvaniaare the realities of parenting.
the spark of true love, which sends Dracula into DEFCON alert mode.
But the gooey parental anxieties remain this movies steady undead heartbeat.
(The subjects of those films are fake vampires; theyre actually a bunch of gangsters and thieves.)
Still, there are plenty of vampire tropes afoot.
Maggie Cheung, playing herself, is an outsider recruited into an ancient order, namely Frenchcinema.
Can she make her call time after sneaking around all night trying to get into her jewel-thief character?
Melvin Backman
Irma Vepis available to stream onHBO Maxand the Criterion Collection.
Unfortunately, the gentrifiers hes up against turn out to be actual vampires.
Anne Victoria Clark
Vampires vs. the Bronxis available to stream on Netflix.
Putting out a remake, and only two years after the originals release, seemed ludicrous at the time.
Some scenes also are basically replicated, including the famous swimming-pool sequence near the end.
(Let the Right Oneadmittedly did that one better.)
The vibe of the 80s in America the sounds of Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Anytime Jeremy gets within arms length of a girl he likes, calamity strikes.
The staring creeps out his crush.
He attempts a tryst with a mysterious neighborhood woman, who bites him during the encounter.
He immediately takes ill, spooking his parents as he behaves strangely around the house.
Its also just a gorgeous film with enchanting dialogue.
Near Dark(1987)
Cute vampire boys are Babys First Female Gaze object.
Dangerous but not real, worldly but young, too mannered but also too passionate.
Youve got yourVampire Diaries,yourLost Boys,your Tom Hiddleston on break between Loki gigs.
In contrast, Severen is a pure-evil murder machine.
Hes also a complete scumbum, looking like he hasnt changed his shirt in decades.
Yet the film is still, in its own way, essential.
The picture can lay claim to its share of Dracula firsts.
Its the first time he appeared with fangs in a sound film.
The first time he crawled up the side of a building onscreen.
Its also interesting to see what happens to Dracula when placed in a Muslim context.
