5 Most Stylish Movies About Vampires for Your Halloween Costume Inspiration
Not for nothing are they called the rock stars of the supernatural world.
It's no secret that it was the movies that made vampires superstars. The literary Dracula could never have dreamed of such worldwide fame.
Here are five of the most exquisite movies that will help you see for yourself that vampires are terrifyingly cinematic.
1. The Hunger, 1983
Dr. Sarah Roberts studies sleep and aging. She encounters an incredible phenomenon: the cellist John is aging by leaps and bounds. As he turns into an old man, Sarah enters into a relationship with John's wife, Miriam, in an attempt to unravel his mystery.
Thus Sarah becomes the new favorite of the eternally young vampire, whose wives and husbands are also immortal, but fade quickly. They are condemned to collect dust as mummies in the company of their own kind in the attic of their house.
The Hunger is a horror film overflowing with beauty and eroticism that was destined for cult status when it hit the big screen. Luxury, impeccable style, flying white curtains and a designer knife to initiate the bloodsucker – Tony Scott definitely threw the most fashionable vampire party of the 80s.
2. Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992
Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is surprisingly the closest film to Bram Stoker's original novel. The story begins in the 15th century, when the brave warrior Vlad loses his beloved wife at the hands of his enemies.
This lush production, with its well-deserved Academy Awards for makeup and costumes, now looks like a parade of A-list stars: Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldman vie for Winona Ryder's heart, Anthony Hopkins watches over God's peace, and Monica Bellucci becomes one of Dracula's brides.
3. Blade, 1998
Blade is a half-human, half-vampire, dressed and equipped in the latest fashion of the 90s. He is both a Marvel superhero and a new unkillable tough guy like Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone.
Blade does not waste words and silver bullets in vain, but methodically exterminates ghouls all his life, hoping not to miss the one for whom it all started.
The fact is that Blade's pregnant mother was bitten by a vampire, which killed her and gave the newborn the superpowers of both worlds: he is unafraid of daylight and silver, suppresses his dark side with garlic injections, but at the same time has superhuman strength and agility.
4. Thirst, 2009
Priest Sang-hyun's thirst to serve God plays a cruel joke on him. He volunteers to test a vaccine against a deadly fever. In fact, no one has ever survived this experiment, and taking part in it is practically legalized suicide.
At first, Sang-hyun dies a martyr, but is soon resurrected as a saint. But no one knows that along with a new life, the former priest also gains superhuman strength, the ability to fly, and an irresistible thirst for human blood.
The author of the cult Oldboy fills the classic French novel Thérèse Raquin with new blood in his own crazy way. And there will be a lot of blood, as well as spectacular scenes of carnage, extreme eroticism and Spider-Man-style flying.
5. Nosferatu the Vampyre, 1979
A Transylvanian aristocrat sets out across the sea in a coffin to fetch his bride. The bride, Lucy, sees an invasion of rats and a plague coming to town with an empty ship and the captain's corpse at the helm, and is the first to realize what is going on and convinces Dr. Van Helsing to begin the fight against Dracula.
German film classic Werner Herzog considered Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror to be the greatest film ever made in his homeland. So when the copyright on Bram Stoker's novel expired and Dracula entered the public domain, Herzog immediately set about adapting it.
In fact, the director pays more tribute to the silent masterpiece, often copying Murnau's film frame by frame, and most importantly, almost exactly reproducing the appearance of the first screen vampire, finally establishing him as a standard, an icon, and one of the most recognizable images in cinema.