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I'm not sure if it counts, but my favorite vampir-esque movie/show/whatever was Midnight Mass. It was such an interesting take on the core ideas.

That show was absolutely perfect, not a single second I would do differently.

I understand why they had to shoot it they way they did, producing during COVID seems like it would have been a nightmare, but there were far too many times when a character would be talking to another character and effectively just go full soliloquy and it really killed the pacing for me.

This was my only real gripe with it. I love a good monologue, but I actually found myself fast-forwarding through the one halfway through (where they talk about death). It honestly felt like they just kept going around in circles.

So yeah I definitely get it, and I wish the writer would have edited himself a bit more.

I agree with GP that the show has an extremely interesting take on the core ideas, but I think the execution falters slightly, especially in the last couple of episodes. The characters started doing some fairly silly things, and I also don't like that they gave up completely on the science-investigation angle they had going. They had some interesting players set up against one another with the infighting among the vampires, and then the sheriff, and the main woman character, but then in the end they basically wasted it all by relying almost entirely on the vampires screwing up massively for no reason in order to end the story. Not to mention the fact that surely there must have still been a couple of things left here and there for the vampires to hide from the sun behind.

* spoiler alert ;-)

One of the best shows of 2021

>counts

Haha

Really good and unexpectedly so. I would not have bothered to watch it had I not seen Red Letter Media's review.

I'd been a fan of the creator since his first Netflix show (The Haunting of Hill House). I honestly liked Hill House more, it's a beautiful story if you haven't seen it.

I have to say that I was impressed by this article. Not only did Mattison get #1 correct, but every single Dracula that I was thinking, I’ll bet she missed ⸻, there it was. Buffy vs Dracula? On the list. Nosferatu? On the list. Well, if you’ve got Nosferatu do you have the remake? Of course. And Shadow of the Vampire? What kind of fool do you think I am?

Though no Count Chocula.

I was disappointed not to find the Dracula color theme on the list

https://draculatheme.com/

The Jess Franco Dracula was missing, although I am not surprised. It is a remarkably unmemorable film, especially for Franco. It felt as if someone was had described the plot of some book about these fictional blood sucking creatures, and one was named "Dracula," and then you got some people who had never heard of vampires or anything like that to stage a production.

Also, Love at First Bite is missing. "Children of the night ... SHUT UP!"

I was waiting for Count Duckula.

> Not only did Mattison get #1 correct

tl;dr: 1 is Bela Lugosi.

But sadly, Bela Lugosi's dead.

Since other commenters are talking about vampire movies and not limiting themselves specifically to Dracula pictures, allow me to recommend Near Dark (1987).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093605/

Not only a fantastic take on the vampire myths of cinema, but also a movie with one hell of a powerful, nostalgic soundtrack..

Does anyone know where the line "and STAY dead!" came from? I was told it was from the first Dracula movie from 1931, but I downloaded the movie and could not find it there.

This has been bugging me for a while so figured I'd try if someone here knows (tried other sources of info, even downloaded the original movie with no luck).

A similar line appears in The Halloween That Almost Wasn't, a 1979 children's comedy short.

"It's one of those days I wish I was dead, and stayed dead"

https://youtu.be/5YTfHHWlsDU?t=1338

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!

I just watched the Leslie Nielson one when it popped up on Tubi for me and hadn't laughed that hard at a movie in a while.

I'd have preferred "Draculi, Ranked" for a title

If it were a Latin noun ending in -a the plural would probably be Draculae.

Except that assumes that Dracula is first declension, and it might as much be third declension which would make it Dracules.

Dracula isn't even Latin. It's Slavic declension. His father was Dracul (Dragon), from Emperor Sigismund's Order of the Dragon and he's son of Dracul - syn Dracula.

The Slavic languages, of course, have their own declension patterns, although a common masculine suffix is -y or -i which brings us back to the original Draculi (!).

As far as sound is considering that’s how it’ll be in Hindi as well ;-)

Joota (shoe) — Joote (shoes)

I wonder where he would have ranked George Hamilton's portrayal in Love at First Bite or Lauren Hutton in Once Bitten?

For me it's Hellsing's Alucard (either version).

"...policcccce girl..."

The Abridged version is so good. I have it downloaded just in case it gets disappeared.

No Alucard from Hellsing Ultimate or Alucard from Netflix' Castlevania?

Was definitely expecting Castlevania, that show took a thin concept and made real art out of it

Castlevania is on the list at #15.

Except the last season, writing turned so bad there, as if the writer ruined it all on purpose. It reminds me GoT ending fiasco.

I never understood the appeal of Helsing Ultimate over the original - the original was very stylish and interesting, but it seems like someone asked 'how can we make this bigger?' and the answer turned out to be 'yes' and thus Ultimate was born?

people that liked the manga didn't understand the original anime.

ultimate was seemingly made to appease that fan-base while opening the door to more marketable goods and characters.

I like things from both of them. The original soundtrack was killer.

Ah I see, I never read the manga - thanks for the clarification.

The soundtrack was indeed fantastic - one of my favourite anime series all round.

There is no universe in which Klaus Kinski is better than either Max Schreck or Christopher Lee.

There is a universe where Lugosi is better than Lee; just not this one.

It's unbelievable to me that there could be dracula's worse than the one in Blade Trinity. I'm going to have to see those.

Gary Oldman is #1.

Gary Oldman should be #1 for evvvvveryyyyyone!

Anyone know about a show that was genre savvy about Dracula's? Like they explicitly called it out?

You mean like Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

What about Jason Segal’s puppet Dracula in Forgetting Sarah Marshall?

As a Hammer Films lover, Christoher Lee will always be my number one.

is this tangential publicity for the current Renfield movie, which has Nicolas Cage as Dracula? A meaty role that his extravagant style surely suits.

As a side note: Penny Dreadful is a fantastic show!

I get Lugosi is the OG but he's not the best.

Count von Count for me! ah ah ha ha!

In the title photo but missing from the list.

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