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O-D-C on 06 April 2009

Dracula (well the play at least)



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twesterm on 06 April 2009
phinch1 said:
I may have missed it but cant believe no one had mention underworld 1-2 and i dunno about 3rd haven't seen it yet

 

I actually liked the Underworld movies, but not because they're vampire movies.  I like them because Kate Beckensale (however you spell her name) is nice to look at.



 

colonelstubbs on 06 April 2009

Blade for sure. 'fuck you motherfuckers!'



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megaman79 on 06 April 2009

I dk, most of them kinda suck imo. I vote for the corny 70's titty ones. Hammer certainly and Blade for sure. Monster movies just arn't very good and i don't think they were actually ever very good to begin with.

Nosferatu is amazing for its time but Murnau made better films.

If i had to pick a great monster film i would say Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein.

AHHHHHH, Cronos is good. The first film by Guillermo del Toro (devils backbone,pans labyrinth + hobbit). Its a vampire film sort of, try and find it bcoz its great.



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madman25 on 06 April 2009
twilit said:

This whole thread and not one mention of Murnau's Nosferatu. Tsk, tsk.

The first Dracula film which is arguably the most frighting, eerie adaptation.
You can watch the full film on youtube here

 

Also I couldn't agree more Madman and Lolita about Twilight. Both the book and the movie are crap. The fact that so many people go crazy over it annoys the hell out of me >.>

 

 Nosferatu is pretty terrifying...I can imagine today's audience looking at it for 10 minutes(if that) and laughing out loud. Did anyone else see Shadow of the Vampire? Here's a summary I plucked from imdb:

Shadow of the Vampire is a film about the making of Nosferatu. The production of Nosferatu had to deal with a lot of strange things (some crew members disappeared, some died). This movie focuses on the difficult relationship between Murnau, the director, and Schreck, the lead actor.

Max Schreck's performance in the classic film Nosferatu has become legendary. What if the reason he was so good is that he really was a vampire? That's the premise of this film, which features director F.W. Murnau so enamored with creating the perfect vampire film that he seeks out an actual member of the undead to play the title role. But when Schreck starts taking more and more advantage of the opportunities to feed he suddenly has, can Murnau come to his senses and destroy him?

Cast is very interesting with John Malkovich, Eddie Izzard, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes. More of a drama with touches of horror and some very entertaining hamming up.



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madman25 on 06 April 2009

Anyone else watching True Blood? No holds barred vampire tv show that goes straight for the jugular. Great stuff.



Ps. Just when you think this thread is dead I will drag it back to life :)



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twilit on 06 April 2009
madman25 said:
twilit said:

This whole thread and not one mention of Murnau's Nosferatu. Tsk, tsk.

The first Dracula film which is arguably the most frighting, eerie adaptation.
You can watch the full film on youtube here

 

Also I couldn't agree more Madman and Lolita about Twilight. Both the book and the movie are crap. The fact that so many people go crazy over it annoys the hell out of me >.>

 

 Nosferatu is pretty terrifying...I can imagine today's audience looking at it for 10 minutes(if that) and laughing out loud.

Haha, got me there. Definatly, by today, Nosferatu wouldn't seem terryifing.

Though personally I still always found the film eeire. Count Orlok always always creeped the hell out of me :P

 



BTFeather55 on 06 April 2009

I haven't seen True Blood yet, but I think both the original Dark Shadows from the late sixties and early seventies and the truncated nineties version were both great television programs.



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madman25 on 06 April 2009

Shadow of the Vampire trailer:



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BTFeather55 on 06 April 2009
twilit said:
madman25 said:
twilit said:

This whole thread and not one mention of Murnau's Nosferatu. Tsk, tsk.

The first Dracula film which is arguably the most frighting, eerie adaptation.
You can watch the full film on youtube here

 

Also I couldn't agree more Madman and Lolita about Twilight. Both the book and the movie are crap. The fact that so many people go crazy over it annoys the hell out of me >.>

 

 Nosferatu is pretty terrifying...I can imagine today's audience looking at it for 10 minutes(if that) and laughing out loud.

Haha, got me there. Definatly, by today, Nosferatu wouldn't seem terryifing.

Though personally I still always found the film eeire. Count Orlok always always creeped the hell out of me :P

 

 

 

I think that Nosferatu is still frightening. Especially if one were to see one of the restored versions with all of the color plates added back in and one of its better modern scores. If you were to see it in an older theatre late at night instead of on a tv, it would definitely still be frightening. There was truely something otherwordly about Max Shrek that gore and modern special effects can't capture.



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