Vampires Suck !

No supernatural creature has been portrayed as frequently in cinema history as the vampire. Bram Stoker’s Dracula, everyone’s favourite bloodsucker, has alone racked up nearly 200 different movie appearances. Even today, the vampire continues to fascinate, guaranteeing the box office success of franchises such as the “Twilight” and “Underworld” films. The flipside of this popularity is that the monster has become too hokey and familiar. Indeed, to quote the title of one “Twilight” spoof, “Vampires Suck!”. But they are also supremely versatile, as Offscreen shows with
a selection of 21 transgressive vampire movies which turn the genre conventions upside down, breaking with the clichés of Gothic castles, garlic and crucifixes to depict the creatures as hyper-realistic, modern, exotic, hybrid, unusual, or simply deranged. These films provide unique spins on vampire mythology and inject the genre with compelling stories about the human condition, sexuality, addiction, disease, and mortality.