Let the right one in - best vampire movie ever

[Dowly]

I hated 30 days of night. IMO it "raped" the whole Vampire genre. It had more zombie stuff in it than vampire. Ow and the ending has to be one of the stupidest I've ever seen. As an horror movie, it was pretty good, but as a vampire movie, a disgrace.

[A Very Super Market]

Nosferatu made me laugh hysterically as a child, partly because he looked so funny, and partly because my dad had left in fast foward like an old-fashioned comedy. Vampires, unfortunately are no longer scary to most people, so the genre is dead. Apart from sappy teen "literature"

[UnderseaLcpl]

I think I might actually rent that movie someday. There are a lot of really good foreign films that don't get the credit they deserve, and I don't mean films like Das Boot, which a disturbingly large number of people don't appreciate. I mean films with mainstream appeal that don't require the average American to be aware of the exsistence of a historical event that didn't happen during their lifetime.

This movie appears to feature the more subtle elements of vampirism. Does it? I seriously cannot take another second of some idiot attempting to kill a vampire with a wooden stake or a suitably applied cross when a shotgun would easily do the trick. If you blow a vampire's head off, it can't even see you, let alone bite you, right? How is it going to chase you if it only has one leg, or you split it in half? IMO, in most action-horror flicks, whatever the genre, there is a serious lack of appropriate resource use on the part of the victims. Moreover, there is the consistent failure of "defenseless" female victims to be able to run without falling and/or cornering themselves.

As long as this film doesn't have much of that garbage, I'm in

[August]

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by August

I wonder where he got his Knights Cross from :hmm:

[Frame57]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I wonder where he got his Knights Cross from :hmm:

Seeing that Vampires are old at least ole Drac there. I would guess maybe from king Arthur?

[August]

That's no Knights Cross:

[stabiz]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

I think I might actually rent that movie someday. There are a lot of really good foreign films that don't get the credit they deserve, and I don't mean films like Das Boot, which a disturbingly large number of people don't appreciate. I mean films with mainstream appeal that don't require the average American to be aware of the exsistence of a historical event that didn't happen during their lifetime.

This movie appears to feature the more subtle elements of vampirism. Does it? I seriously cannot take another second of some idiot attempting to kill a vampire with a wooden stake or a suitably applied cross when a shotgun would easily do the trick. If you blow a vampire's head off, it can't even see you, let alone bite you, right? How is it going to chase you if it only has one leg, or you split it in half? IMO, in most action-horror flicks, whatever the genre, there is a serious lack of appropriate resource use on the part of the victims. Moreover, there is the consistent failure of "defenseless" female victims to be able to run without falling and/or cornering themselves.

As long as this film doesn't have much of that garbage, I'm in

I can assure you, it has none of that garbage. It doesnt even have ONE (1) Boooooo!-I was-right-behind-you-but-decided-to-wait-for-the-music-to-calm-down-before-attacking-moment. And I agree, lots of really good foreign movies get lost in the world of blockbusters.