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Suggested Vampire Films, Series & Fiction for Discussion

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Some suggestions to watch / re-watch, read, and/or discuss.

This is not an exhaustive list by any means, as there's a zillion vampire films, series, and books that have been created over the years. Along with the suggestions listed here, I'm sure folks will have their own personal favorites to bring to the discussion!

FILMS (by year of release)

- Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror (Silent Film - Max Shreck) 1922

- Dracula (Bela Lugosi) 1931

- Dracula's Daughter (Gloria Holden) 1936

- Horror of Dracula (Hammer Films - Christoper Lee) 1958

- Dracula – (Frank Langella) 1979

- Nosferatu the Vampyre (Klaus Kinski) - 1979

- Bram Stoker's Dracula (Gary Oldman) 1992

- Interview with The Vampire 1994

-  Shadow of the Vampire (A homage to the original 1922 Nosferatu - Willem Dafoe) 2000

- Last Voyage of the Demeter 2023

- Nosferatu (Robert Eggers version - Bill Skarsgård) 2024


OTHER ROBERT EGGERS FILMS (not vampiric, but all unusual period films with horror / fantasy themes, and interesting to study as examples of his work):

- The VVitch 2015

- The Lighthouse 2019

- The Northman 2022


SERIES

- Dark Shadows - Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins (1966-1971)

- Dark Shadows - Ben Cross as Barnabas Collins (1991)

- Penny Dreadful (original version set in the Victorian era) 2014-2016

- Interview with the Vampire 2022 (series still on-going)


SUGGESTED READING 

- Camilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1872

- Dracula by Bram Stoker 1897

- Interview with the Vampire (1976) - The Vampire Lestat (1985) - The Queen of the Damned (1988) by Anne Rice 

- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005)