Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In breathes new life into the vampire genre with a tale of survival and coming of age. If Twilight was the fast food of vampire films, then this is fine dining.

Still stuck for horror film ideas this Halloween?

Well, if our Top 30 horror films released between 1967 and 1979 hasn’t helped, and our Top 10 horror films of the 1980s doesn’t interest you, maybe our Halloween marathon will give you some much-needed inspiration. The following ten films are the ones we’ll be watching when day turns to night.

What films have you got lined up for your horror film marathon?

Despite John Carpenter’s fall from grace you can’t help looking at his back catalogue with fond memories. Anyone with a knowledge of cinema only dating back to the middle 1990s would be forgiven for thinking Carpenter was a straight-to-video hack with little discernable talent. That’s understandable. There have been few worse films than “Escape From L.A.” or “Ghosts of Mars”, and Carpenter has gone into hibernation since. But cast your mind back to 1978 and the release of “Halloween” and you might think differently.

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 …