Jumping in here with the first comment to address what some of you might be thinking: Where's the original Dracula? Murnau's Nosferatu? Or Dreyer's Vampyr? Of course we've seen them. But when we drew up this list from memory we seemed to skip over these titles from film history classes, and instinctively focused on post-1970 films. Those were the vampires we were given, culturally speaking, and we can speak to them far more biographically.
Jumping in here with the first comment to address what some of you might be thinking: Where's the original Dracula? Murnau's Nosferatu? Or Dreyer's Vampyr? Of course we've seen them. But when we drew up this list from memory we seemed to skip over these titles from film history classes, and instinctively focused on post-1970 films. Those were the vampires we were given, culturally speaking, and we can speak to them far more biographically.
Good choice otherwise it would take ages