Dracula is arguably one of the most famous vampires in the world. The blood-sucking creature of the night was first featured in Bram Stoker’s iconic novel of the same name. In the book, Count Dracula sends for English solicitor Jonathan Harker to help him buy a home in London. While staying at Dracula’s castle in Transylvanian, Harker discovers Dracula is a vampire and must escape, following the count to England where he is after Harker’s fiance. The novel laid the groundwork for vampires and the lore that surrounds them. Stoker’s vampire has influenced vampires throughout the ages, in both print, and on screen. Many different actors have played the charming Dracula over the decades, including the likes of Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman, Max Schreck, and Luke Evans in the underrated Dracula Untold. And while Dracula gets all the plaudits, there is a host of other worthy vampires throughout history worth mentioning.  To celebrate these undead blood lovers, here are 12 famous vampires that aren’t Dracula.

  1. Blade (Blade) Movieclips/YouTube Originating in Marvel comics, Blade is a half-human, half-vampire who became massive when Wesley Snipes portrayed him in a trilogy of movies. Born of a human mother but a vampire father, Blade has all the abilities of a vampire but can also walk in the daylight, hence his nickname, the Daywalker.  Blade’s mission in life is to rid the world of vampires by any means necessary. He’s a very popular character who has appeared in comics, novels, video games, movies, animations, and even a short-lived TV series starring the rapper Sticky Fingaz as the titular character. Blade is set for a cinematic comeback in 2023, with Mahershala Ali taking on the role. 
  2. Edward Cullen (The Twilight Saga) Lottie Kejser/YouTube The Twilight saga reinvented the vampire for a modern-day audience. Edward Cullen is one of the main characters in the young adult series of novels. The plot of the movie surrounds the love story between vampire Cullen and human Bella Swan. In this vampire universe, the undead creatures sparkle in the sunlight and are unable to sleep. The movie version of Cullen is played by actor Robert Pattinson, who quickly became a teen heartthrob. He appears in all five movies and his romance with Swan is the crutch of the entire story. While not a favorite amongst vampire pursuits, Cullen is still one of the most famous modern pop culture vamps loved by teen girls (who are mostly adults now) around the world. 
  3. Damon Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries) catouroyx/YouTube Damon Salvatore is another vampire from literature adapted to the big screen. He is one of the main characters in the book and TV series The Vampire Diaries. At first, he appears to be a vampire with no regard for human life or the rules that govern vampires. As the books and series unfold, Salvatore reveals there is more to him than partying and drinking blood. In the TV series, he is wonderfully played by Ian Somerhalder. The actor gives the vampire an intriguing personality as spends the seasons salvaging the damaged relationship he has with his brother, Stefan Salvatore.
  4. Bill Compton (True Blood) 129Ashley129/YouTube The vampire craze went up another level in 2008 when the adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ The Southern Vampire Mysteries aired on HBO. Renamed True Blood, the show was a surprise hit for the network and revitalized the career of Anna Paquin. As well as vampires, the show features werewolves, mind readers, and all sorts of strange supernatural creatures. One of the main characters is the 100-year-old vampire Bill Compton, who becomes the love interest of Sookie Stackhouse.  Throughout the series, his character changes from Stackhouse’s lover to her sworn enemy, although by the end of the series the two manage to reconcile before Compton’s death. In the show, Compton is played by British actor Stephen Moyer, in easily his best-known role to date. 
  5. Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) El/YouTube Buffy Summers is a teenage vampire slayer in the supernatural-plagued town of Sunnydale. During the seven seasons of the award-winning TV series, she battles a variety of vampires and monsters but also counts two of them as friends. There’s Angel, a tormented vampire who becomes Buffy’s first great love, and Spike, a savage vampire who forms a love/hate relationship with the Slayer. Known as William the Bloody, Spike kills both humans and vampires and is very unlikeable when he first shows up. As the series progresses, he becomes a much more multi-dimensional character who obsesses over Buffy but also wants to kill her. While Buffy’s friends never warm to him, he proves himself worthy time and time again by helping them during major battles, eventually sacrificing himself in the show’s final episode. 
  6. Selene (Underworld Franchise) Binge Society/YouTube British actress Kate Beckinsale plays undead warrior Selene in the long-running Underworld movie franchise. Selene is a Death Dealer, a type of vampire intent on ridding the world of their mortal enemy, Lycans. As the series progresses Selene discovers secrets about both vampires and Lycans that change the way she thinks and ultimately alter the course of vampire and Lycan history.  Throughout the series Selene is the ultimate ass-kicker, taking down anyone who stands in her way. She also shows a softer side when she discovers she has a child of her own. While your outlook on the movies will depend on whether you like big, dumb, supernatural action movies, there is no doubting Selene is another complex vampire.

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  1. Lestat De Lioncourt (The Vampire Chronicles) Rach Edits/YouTube Anne Rice’s gothic horror series, The Vampire Chronicles, is much loved by literary critics. There are 13 main books in the series, with the first and most famous, Interview With the Vampire, being adapted into a hit film in 1994. In the movie, the vampire Lestat De Lioncourt is played by Tom Cruise, whose casting was not well received by Rice. But after seeing the movie even she had to admit that Cruise was the right choice. With his blonde hair and pale face, Cruise embodies Lestat with a chilling charisma. He is a vampire who loves nothing more than hunting humans and drinking their blood. He is the epitome of what you think of when you hear the word vampire. Lestat features heavily in the books and crops up again in the movie Queen of the Dammed, a sequel of sorts to Interview With the Vampire that stars Stuart Townsend as the legendary bloodsucker. It’s not a good movie. 
  2. Lord Ruthven (The Vampyre) Escanor/YouTube Fictional vampire Lord Ruthven was one of the first vampires in literature history. He is based on another fictional character, just to confuse you a little. In the story, Ruthven is a seductress who uses his charm and sex appeal to cause drama as he murders all those who he comes across. While you might not be familiar with the character, Lord Ruthven has appeared in many more stores over the past couple of centuries, with other writers featuring him in their stories, animated movies, and TV shows. His most recent appearance was in human form in the BBC series Dracula.
  3. Jerry Dandridge (Fright Night) Movieclips/YouTube Fright Night is a classic 80s horror about young kid Charley Brewster who discovers his neighbor, Jerry Dandridge, is a vampire. When nobody believes him, Brewster decides to take matters into his own hands. He tracks down TV vampire hunter Peter Vincent to dispose of his undead neighbor. Unlike modern vampires, Dandridge’s vampire adheres to vampire lore from yesteryear. He can’t enter a home without being invited inside, he can turn into a bat, he is afraid of crosses, and has the ability to hypnotize people. Dandridge is a great movie villain who tries every trick in the book to stop Brewster from taking him out. 
  4. Akasha (Queen of the Dammed) Movieclips/YouTube While the movie is a mess, Aaliyah’s portrayal as vampire queen Akasha is incredible. In her final movie role before her tragic death, she commands the screen every time she appears. Akasha is the first vampire who is awoken by Lestat’s music, with the undead monster now a rock star in modern times.  The film itself is let down by a poor script and cheap production. One reviewer on Rotton Tomatoes called it “a muddled and campy MTV-styled vampire movie with lots of eye candy and bad accents.” Ouch. The one shining light is Aaliyah, who demonstrates her star power with a captivating performance that hints at a talent we never got to fully unearth. 
  5. David (The Lost Boys) Movieclips/YouTube When you think of 80s cult classics, The Lost Boys is usually one of the first movies that come to mind. It’s a film of its time, with a cast of up-and-comers (Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, and Alex Winter) who would go on to do great things, an excellent soundtrack, and a tight script that balances horror with laughs. The general plot concerns a family who moves to a small coastal town that just so happens to be a haven for a colony of vampires. Oldest son Patric is bitten and spends the rest of the film trying to fight his bloodlust while his younger (Haim) brother and new friend Edgar Frog (Feldman) plot to take down the vampires causing all the mayhem.  Of all the vampires in the flick, Sutherland’s David is the most menacing. Always wearing black with bleached blonde hair, he follows in the footsteps of the great vampires before him who only want to feast on humans and embrace their bloodlust. He’s an evil son of a bitch you wouldn’t want to run into while walking down a dark alley and is masterfully played by a young Sutherland. 
  6. Morbius (Marvel Comics) Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube Forget the big-budget Jared Leto take on this Marvel character and get stuck into the comic book version. Michael Morbius is a famous scientist who contracts a deadly blood disease. In trying to find a cure he mutates into a vampire who must survive by drinking blood. Throughout his run in the comics, Morbius has been portrayed as a hero and villain and is now considered an anti-hero.  He has managed to control his urges with medication at different times, often thanks to help from Spider-Man, who was originally his enemy. What makes Morbius such a compelling character is the heartache he’s been through. Plus, you never really know if he’s going to help the good guys or go rogue and look out for his own interests. 

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Dracula is arguably one of the most famous vampires in the world. The blood-sucking creature of the night was first featured in Bram Stoker’s iconic novel of the same name. In the book, Count Dracula sends for English solicitor Jonathan Harker to help him buy a home in London. While staying at Dracula’s castle in Transylvanian, Harker discovers Dracula is a vampire and must escape, following the count to England where he is after Harker’s fiance. The novel laid the groundwork for vampires and the lore that surrounds them. Stoker’s vampire has influenced vampires throughout the ages, in both print, and on screen. Many different actors have played the charming Dracula over the decades, including the likes of Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman, Max Schreck, and Luke Evans in the underrated Dracula Untold. And while Dracula gets all the plaudits, there is a host of other worthy vampires throughout history worth mentioning.  To celebrate these undead blood lovers, here are 12 famous vampires that aren’t Dracula.

  1. Blade (Blade) Movieclips/YouTube Originating in Marvel comics, Blade is a half-human, half-vampire who became massive when Wesley Snipes portrayed him in a trilogy of movies. Born of a human mother but a vampire father, Blade has all the abilities of a vampire but can also walk in the daylight, hence his nickname, the Daywalker.  Blade’s mission in life is to rid the world of vampires by any means necessary. He’s a very popular character who has appeared in comics, novels, video games, movies, animations, and even a short-lived TV series starring the rapper Sticky Fingaz as the titular character. Blade is set for a cinematic comeback in 2023, with Mahershala Ali taking on the role. 
  2. Edward Cullen (The Twilight Saga) Lottie Kejser/YouTube The Twilight saga reinvented the vampire for a modern-day audience. Edward Cullen is one of the main characters in the young adult series of novels. The plot of the movie surrounds the love story between vampire Cullen and human Bella Swan. In this vampire universe, the undead creatures sparkle in the sunlight and are unable to sleep. The movie version of Cullen is played by actor Robert Pattinson, who quickly became a teen heartthrob. He appears in all five movies and his romance with Swan is the crutch of the entire story. While not a favorite amongst vampire pursuits, Cullen is still one of the most famous modern pop culture vamps loved by teen girls (who are mostly adults now) around the world. 
  3. Damon Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries) catouroyx/YouTube Damon Salvatore is another vampire from literature adapted to the big screen. He is one of the main characters in the book and TV series The Vampire Diaries. At first, he appears to be a vampire with no regard for human life or the rules that govern vampires. As the books and series unfold, Salvatore reveals there is more to him than partying and drinking blood. In the TV series, he is wonderfully played by Ian Somerhalder. The actor gives the vampire an intriguing personality as spends the seasons salvaging the damaged relationship he has with his brother, Stefan Salvatore.
  4. Bill Compton (True Blood) 129Ashley129/YouTube The vampire craze went up another level in 2008 when the adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ The Southern Vampire Mysteries aired on HBO. Renamed True Blood, the show was a surprise hit for the network and revitalized the career of Anna Paquin. As well as vampires, the show features werewolves, mind readers, and all sorts of strange supernatural creatures. One of the main characters is the 100-year-old vampire Bill Compton, who becomes the love interest of Sookie Stackhouse.  Throughout the series, his character changes from Stackhouse’s lover to her sworn enemy, although by the end of the series the two manage to reconcile before Compton’s death. In the show, Compton is played by British actor Stephen Moyer, in easily his best-known role to date. 
  5. Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) El/YouTube Buffy Summers is a teenage vampire slayer in the supernatural-plagued town of Sunnydale. During the seven seasons of the award-winning TV series, she battles a variety of vampires and monsters but also counts two of them as friends. There’s Angel, a tormented vampire who becomes Buffy’s first great love, and Spike, a savage vampire who forms a love/hate relationship with the Slayer. Known as William the Bloody, Spike kills both humans and vampires and is very unlikeable when he first shows up. As the series progresses, he becomes a much more multi-dimensional character who obsesses over Buffy but also wants to kill her. While Buffy’s friends never warm to him, he proves himself worthy time and time again by helping them during major battles, eventually sacrificing himself in the show’s final episode. 
  6. Selene (Underworld Franchise) Binge Society/YouTube British actress Kate Beckinsale plays undead warrior Selene in the long-running Underworld movie franchise. Selene is a Death Dealer, a type of vampire intent on ridding the world of their mortal enemy, Lycans. As the series progresses Selene discovers secrets about both vampires and Lycans that change the way she thinks and ultimately alter the course of vampire and Lycan history.  Throughout the series Selene is the ultimate ass-kicker, taking down anyone who stands in her way. She also shows a softer side when she discovers she has a child of her own. While your outlook on the movies will depend on whether you like big, dumb, supernatural action movies, there is no doubting Selene is another complex vampire.

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  1. Lestat De Lioncourt (The Vampire Chronicles) Rach Edits/YouTube Anne Rice’s gothic horror series, The Vampire Chronicles, is much loved by literary critics. There are 13 main books in the series, with the first and most famous, Interview With the Vampire, being adapted into a hit film in 1994. In the movie, the vampire Lestat De Lioncourt is played by Tom Cruise, whose casting was not well received by Rice. But after seeing the movie even she had to admit that Cruise was the right choice. With his blonde hair and pale face, Cruise embodies Lestat with a chilling charisma. He is a vampire who loves nothing more than hunting humans and drinking their blood. He is the epitome of what you think of when you hear the word vampire. Lestat features heavily in the books and crops up again in the movie Queen of the Dammed, a sequel of sorts to Interview With the Vampire that stars Stuart Townsend as the legendary bloodsucker. It’s not a good movie. 
  2. Lord Ruthven (The Vampyre) Escanor/YouTube Fictional vampire Lord Ruthven was one of the first vampires in literature history. He is based on another fictional character, just to confuse you a little. In the story, Ruthven is a seductress who uses his charm and sex appeal to cause drama as he murders all those who he comes across. While you might not be familiar with the character, Lord Ruthven has appeared in many more stores over the past couple of centuries, with other writers featuring him in their stories, animated movies, and TV shows. His most recent appearance was in human form in the BBC series Dracula.
  3. Jerry Dandridge (Fright Night) Movieclips/YouTube Fright Night is a classic 80s horror about young kid Charley Brewster who discovers his neighbor, Jerry Dandridge, is a vampire. When nobody believes him, Brewster decides to take matters into his own hands. He tracks down TV vampire hunter Peter Vincent to dispose of his undead neighbor. Unlike modern vampires, Dandridge’s vampire adheres to vampire lore from yesteryear. He can’t enter a home without being invited inside, he can turn into a bat, he is afraid of crosses, and has the ability to hypnotize people. Dandridge is a great movie villain who tries every trick in the book to stop Brewster from taking him out. 
  4. Akasha (Queen of the Dammed) Movieclips/YouTube While the movie is a mess, Aaliyah’s portrayal as vampire queen Akasha is incredible. In her final movie role before her tragic death, she commands the screen every time she appears. Akasha is the first vampire who is awoken by Lestat’s music, with the undead monster now a rock star in modern times.  The film itself is let down by a poor script and cheap production. One reviewer on Rotton Tomatoes called it “a muddled and campy MTV-styled vampire movie with lots of eye candy and bad accents.” Ouch. The one shining light is Aaliyah, who demonstrates her star power with a captivating performance that hints at a talent we never got to fully unearth. 
  5. David (The Lost Boys) Movieclips/YouTube When you think of 80s cult classics, The Lost Boys is usually one of the first movies that come to mind. It’s a film of its time, with a cast of up-and-comers (Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, and Alex Winter) who would go on to do great things, an excellent soundtrack, and a tight script that balances horror with laughs. The general plot concerns a family who moves to a small coastal town that just so happens to be a haven for a colony of vampires. Oldest son Patric is bitten and spends the rest of the film trying to fight his bloodlust while his younger (Haim) brother and new friend Edgar Frog (Feldman) plot to take down the vampires causing all the mayhem.  Of all the vampires in the flick, Sutherland’s David is the most menacing. Always wearing black with bleached blonde hair, he follows in the footsteps of the great vampires before him who only want to feast on humans and embrace their bloodlust. He’s an evil son of a bitch you wouldn’t want to run into while walking down a dark alley and is masterfully played by a young Sutherland. 
  6. Morbius (Marvel Comics) Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube Forget the big-budget Jared Leto take on this Marvel character and get stuck into the comic book version. Michael Morbius is a famous scientist who contracts a deadly blood disease. In trying to find a cure he mutates into a vampire who must survive by drinking blood. Throughout his run in the comics, Morbius has been portrayed as a hero and villain and is now considered an anti-hero.  He has managed to control his urges with medication at different times, often thanks to help from Spider-Man, who was originally his enemy. What makes Morbius such a compelling character is the heartache he’s been through. Plus, you never really know if he’s going to help the good guys or go rogue and look out for his own interests. 

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Dracula is arguably one of the most famous vampires in the world. The blood-sucking creature of the night was first featured in Bram Stoker’s iconic novel of the same name. In the book, Count Dracula sends for English solicitor Jonathan Harker to help him buy a home in London. While staying at Dracula’s castle in Transylvanian, Harker discovers Dracula is a vampire and must escape, following the count to England where he is after Harker’s fiance.

The novel laid the groundwork for vampires and the lore that surrounds them. Stoker’s vampire has influenced vampires throughout the ages, in both print, and on screen. Many different actors have played the charming Dracula over the decades, including the likes of Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman, Max Schreck, and Luke Evans in the underrated Dracula Untold. And while Dracula gets all the plaudits, there is a host of other worthy vampires throughout history worth mentioning. 

To celebrate these undead blood lovers, here are 12 famous vampires that aren’t Dracula.

1. Blade (Blade)

Movieclips/YouTube

Originating in Marvel comics, Blade is a half-human, half-vampire who became massive when Wesley Snipes portrayed him in a trilogy of movies. Born of a human mother but a vampire father, Blade has all the abilities of a vampire but can also walk in the daylight, hence his nickname, the Daywalker. 

Blade’s mission in life is to rid the world of vampires by any means necessary. He’s a very popular character who has appeared in comics, novels, video games, movies, animations, and even a short-lived TV series starring the rapper Sticky Fingaz as the titular character. Blade is set for a cinematic comeback in 2023, with Mahershala Ali taking on the role. 

2. Edward Cullen (The Twilight Saga)

Lottie Kejser/YouTube

The Twilight saga reinvented the vampire for a modern-day audience. Edward Cullen is one of the main characters in the young adult series of novels. The plot of the movie surrounds the love story between vampire Cullen and human Bella Swan. In this vampire universe, the undead creatures sparkle in the sunlight and are unable to sleep.

The movie version of Cullen is played by actor Robert Pattinson, who quickly became a teen heartthrob. He appears in all five movies and his romance with Swan is the crutch of the entire story. While not a favorite amongst vampire pursuits, Cullen is still one of the most famous modern pop culture vamps loved by teen girls (who are mostly adults now) around the world. 

3. Damon Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries)

catouroyx/YouTube

Damon Salvatore is another vampire from literature adapted to the big screen. He is one of the main characters in the book and TV series The Vampire Diaries. At first, he appears to be a vampire with no regard for human life or the rules that govern vampires. As the books and series unfold, Salvatore reveals there is more to him than partying and drinking blood.

In the TV series, he is wonderfully played by Ian Somerhalder. The actor gives the vampire an intriguing personality as spends the seasons salvaging the damaged relationship he has with his brother, Stefan Salvatore.

4. Bill Compton (True Blood)

129Ashley129/YouTube

The vampire craze went up another level in 2008 when the adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ The Southern Vampire Mysteries aired on HBO. Renamed True Blood, the show was a surprise hit for the network and revitalized the career of Anna Paquin.

As well as vampires, the show features werewolves, mind readers, and all sorts of strange supernatural creatures. One of the main characters is the 100-year-old vampire Bill Compton, who becomes the love interest of Sookie Stackhouse. 

Throughout the series, his character changes from Stackhouse’s lover to her sworn enemy, although by the end of the series the two manage to reconcile before Compton’s death. In the show, Compton is played by British actor Stephen Moyer, in easily his best-known role to date. 

5. Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

El/YouTube

Buffy Summers is a teenage vampire slayer in the supernatural-plagued town of Sunnydale. During the seven seasons of the award-winning TV series, she battles a variety of vampires and monsters but also counts two of them as friends. There’s Angel, a tormented vampire who becomes Buffy’s first great love, and Spike, a savage vampire who forms a love/hate relationship with the Slayer.

Known as William the Bloody, Spike kills both humans and vampires and is very unlikeable when he first shows up. As the series progresses, he becomes a much more multi-dimensional character who obsesses over Buffy but also wants to kill her. While Buffy’s friends never warm to him, he proves himself worthy time and time again by helping them during major battles, eventually sacrificing himself in the show’s final episode. 

6. Selene (Underworld Franchise)

Binge Society/YouTube

British actress Kate Beckinsale plays undead warrior Selene in the long-running Underworld movie franchise. Selene is a Death Dealer, a type of vampire intent on ridding the world of their mortal enemy, Lycans. As the series progresses Selene discovers secrets about both vampires and Lycans that change the way she thinks and ultimately alter the course of vampire and Lycan history. 

Throughout the series Selene is the ultimate ass-kicker, taking down anyone who stands in her way. She also shows a softer side when she discovers she has a child of her own. While your outlook on the movies will depend on whether you like big, dumb, supernatural action movies, there is no doubting Selene is another complex vampire.

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7. Lestat De Lioncourt (The Vampire Chronicles)

Rach Edits/YouTube

Anne Rice’s gothic horror series, The Vampire Chronicles, is much loved by literary critics. There are 13 main books in the series, with the first and most famous, Interview With the Vampire, being adapted into a hit film in 1994. In the movie, the vampire Lestat De Lioncourt is played by Tom Cruise, whose casting was not well received by Rice. But after seeing the movie even she had to admit that Cruise was the right choice.

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With his blonde hair and pale face, Cruise embodies Lestat with a chilling charisma. He is a vampire who loves nothing more than hunting humans and drinking their blood. He is the epitome of what you think of when you hear the word vampire.

Lestat features heavily in the books and crops up again in the movie Queen of the Dammed, a sequel of sorts to Interview With the Vampire that stars Stuart Townsend as the legendary bloodsucker. It’s not a good movie. 

8. Lord Ruthven (The Vampyre)

Escanor/YouTube

Fictional vampire Lord Ruthven was one of the first vampires in literature history. He is based on another fictional character, just to confuse you a little. In the story, Ruthven is a seductress who uses his charm and sex appeal to cause drama as he murders all those who he comes across.

While you might not be familiar with the character, Lord Ruthven has appeared in many more stores over the past couple of centuries, with other writers featuring him in their stories, animated movies, and TV shows. His most recent appearance was in human form in the BBC series Dracula.

9. Jerry Dandridge (Fright Night)

Fright Night is a classic 80s horror about young kid Charley Brewster who discovers his neighbor, Jerry Dandridge, is a vampire. When nobody believes him, Brewster decides to take matters into his own hands. He tracks down TV vampire hunter Peter Vincent to dispose of his undead neighbor.

Unlike modern vampires, Dandridge’s vampire adheres to vampire lore from yesteryear. He can’t enter a home without being invited inside, he can turn into a bat, he is afraid of crosses, and has the ability to hypnotize people. Dandridge is a great movie villain who tries every trick in the book to stop Brewster from taking him out. 

10. Akasha (Queen of the Dammed)

While the movie is a mess, Aaliyah’s portrayal as vampire queen Akasha is incredible. In her final movie role before her tragic death, she commands the screen every time she appears. Akasha is the first vampire who is awoken by Lestat’s music, with the undead monster now a rock star in modern times. 

The film itself is let down by a poor script and cheap production. One reviewer on Rotton Tomatoes called it “a muddled and campy MTV-styled vampire movie with lots of eye candy and bad accents.” Ouch.

The one shining light is Aaliyah, who demonstrates her star power with a captivating performance that hints at a talent we never got to fully unearth. 

11. David (The Lost Boys)

When you think of 80s cult classics, The Lost Boys is usually one of the first movies that come to mind. It’s a film of its time, with a cast of up-and-comers (Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, and Alex Winter) who would go on to do great things, an excellent soundtrack, and a tight script that balances horror with laughs.

The general plot concerns a family who moves to a small coastal town that just so happens to be a haven for a colony of vampires. Oldest son Patric is bitten and spends the rest of the film trying to fight his bloodlust while his younger (Haim) brother and new friend Edgar Frog (Feldman) plot to take down the vampires causing all the mayhem. 

Of all the vampires in the flick, Sutherland’s David is the most menacing. Always wearing black with bleached blonde hair, he follows in the footsteps of the great vampires before him who only want to feast on humans and embrace their bloodlust. He’s an evil son of a bitch you wouldn’t want to run into while walking down a dark alley and is masterfully played by a young Sutherland. 

12. Morbius (Marvel Comics)

Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube

Forget the big-budget Jared Leto take on this Marvel character and get stuck into the comic book version. Michael Morbius is a famous scientist who contracts a deadly blood disease. In trying to find a cure he mutates into a vampire who must survive by drinking blood. Throughout his run in the comics, Morbius has been portrayed as a hero and villain and is now considered an anti-hero. 

He has managed to control his urges with medication at different times, often thanks to help from Spider-Man, who was originally his enemy. What makes Morbius such a compelling character is the heartache he’s been through. Plus, you never really know if he’s going to help the good guys or go rogue and look out for his own interests. 

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