The vampire: that harbinger of everlasting life and eternal damnation. From the cloaked gothic majesty of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” to the down and dirty night-crawlers of Kathryn Bigelow’s “Near Dark”, vampire’s have formed the basis for more literary and cinematic horror than any other fictional creature.
Early cinematic incarnations of the blood-sucking sun-haters were based on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Infamously, Friedrich Murnau made “Nosferatu” in Germany without acquiring the rights to film the novel. After a lawsuit, all copies of the film were ordered to be destroyed. The film …

I originally wrote this for my old site Strange Conversation HERE. I present it on Top10Films.co.uk in its entirety including my feature on the horror genre which looks at the films in America leading up to the 1980s. Also, I’ve included by top 5 “moments” from 1980s horror films, as well as a link to watch film clips and trailers related to all the films mentioned.
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I vaguely remember my introduction to the horror film. My cousin was visiting, the …