YOUR Best Vampire Film All-time?

[neverending]

Originally Posted by phantomstranger

Another good vampire movie is "John Carpenters Vampires".
plenty of scares, lots of gore and some damn fine looking women.
Has virtually nothing to do with the book it's based on, but a highly entertaining film.

This is one of the most stupid movies I've ever seen.

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally Posted by phantomstranger

Another good vampire movie is "John Carpenters Vampires".
plenty of scares, lots of gore and some damn fine looking women.
Has virtually nothing to do with the book it's based on, but a highly entertaining film.

I like that one too. Love how it's old school Carpenter the whole way. James Woods is great in it too.

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by Straker

Has it ever been done well?

I can't even think of an example where an overdub is anything other than laughable. It's bad enough when you get those cheesy censored word overdubs for TV, or when they have to overdub an actor because their accent is too strong, but overdubbed movies are generally just a bad idea.

Well... I have to say two things: one is yes, I have seen it done well tens of times; and two, you don't really know what you don't know -- meaning, one might say you'd have to be conversationally bilingual in order to judge just how well an overdubbed job has been done. I don't speak two languages. However if I ignore that fact and just go by how well I perceive the overdub job, then I've seen it done well.

To name a few: Godzilla Vs the Thing, Godzilla Vs the Smog Monster, Godzilla Final Wars, all the episodes of Speed Racer, Space Giants, Ultraman and Spectreman. They were all good to me.

Last overdub I saw was REC. It was fine, except for the interview with the old Asian woman, which was HILARIOUS and completely ridiculous. What was most ridiculous was the lines they had the character speak, and had nothing to do with any 'lost in translation' from Spanish to English. The script writer simply made the Asians sound like they were imbeciles. What made it great was the delivery of the English dubber, who correctly mocked the stupid lines. And that was in fact my buddy and my's favorite part of the film.

So, I really do prefer overdubs when they are done well, or well enough. Plus most films made today have English dubbing services in the budget before the film is ever shot.

[Sculpt]

I wasn't sure I was picking the right films, but 8 of the 10 have votes, that's really quite a surprising spread of votes.

Interesting too, one of the highest rated films, and unquestionably the highest rated vampire film of the last 70 years, Let the Right One In, received zero votes. Maybe other people hate subtitles as much as I do. ;)

Not to mention the 3rd highest rated, Nosferatu the Vampyre 79, which is the other film to receive zero votes. I suspect Nosferatu the Vampyre is the least viewed of all ten films.

Has anyone here seen Nosferatu the Vampyre 79? What did you think of it?

[realdealblues]

Originally Posted by Sculpt

Has anyone here seen Nosferatu the Vampyre 79? What did you think of it?

I've got both the German and English cuts on DVD and have seen it many times. Kinski and Herzog do a good job as usual. It's very well done but for most people it's probably pretty...dry. It's slowly paced. It's what I usually call more of an "Art Film". You don't really watch it for the gripping action or witty dialogue or the special effects. You watch it for the mood, and the feel and the way it's shot. A film buff or another director would watch it and go "it's beautiful". The average person turns it off after a few minutes because they got bored.

[Anthropophagus]

Originally Posted by Sculpt

Interesting too, one of the highest rated films, and unquestionably the highest rated vampire film of the last 70 years, Let the Right One In, received zero votes. Maybe other people hate subtitles as much as I do.

I voted Nosferatu as we where asked to vote for one.But i also added that Let the Right One In would be my modern choice.Maybe if we could vote two movies then we would see a different view.

[Wednesday]

Tbh, I haven't seen most of the films on the list :(

I voted Let the Right One In. I don't mind subtitles, in fact some of the best movies i have seen have had subtitles.

However, if 30 Days of Night was on the list, i would have voted for that.

[Giganticface]

Originally Posted by Sculpt

Interesting too, one of the highest rated films, and unquestionably the highest rated vampire film of the last 70 years, Let the Right One In, received zero votes. Maybe other people hate subtitles as much as I do.

I guarantee that's not because it's subtitled. The vampire is one of the most representative characters in the horror genre, and there are several classic vampire films, cherished by horror fans, and recognizable by a broader audience. It's almost a certainty that those films will be picked over a modern film that's just too new to be in that conversation. Heck, Nosferatu almost won the leading characters tournament, which spans subgenres.

Also, while Let the Right One In is, IMO, an excellent addition to the subgenre, its portrayal of vampires is fairly non-traditional, a bit like Cronos or Trouble Every Day. For that reason it's probably not going to win a vampire contest among horror fans.

[Straker]

Originally Posted by Sculpt

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Interesting too, one of the highest rated films, and unquestionably the highest rated vampire film of the last 70 years, Let the Right One In, received zero votes. Maybe other people hate subtitles as much as I do.

I doubt that's the reason....

[Straker]

Originally Posted by Sculpt

Last overdub I saw was REC.

Is this the version you are talking about?! :eek:

This is exactly why I would never waste my time watching an overdub. Truly awful stuff.