40 Best Vampire and Werewolf Movies

The genre of vampires and werewolves is almost as old as movies themselves. The first movie of its kind, Nosferatu, directed by Murnau, terrified audiences back in 1922. It was followed by its countless counterparts, which got better year after year.

Since then, each cinematic country has interpreted the myth of these creatures in its own way, resulting in some of the best vampire and zombie movies ever made.

Vampire Humaniste Cherche Suicidaire Consentant

• IMDB Rating – 7.6
• Genre: Comedy, Horror
• Production: Canada / 2023
• Director: Ariane Louis-Ciz
• Starring: Sara Monpty, Félix-Antoine Benard, Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadiot, Noémie O’Farrell, Lilas-Rose Cantin, Arnaud Vachon, Marie Brassard, Madeline Peloken, Isabella Villalba.

A bright teenage tragicomedy, ironically playing on the formulaic methods of such films. The plot centers on a very young vampire Sasha, who sympathizes with the ideas of humanism and refuses to bite people. But she feeds on the blood supplied by her parents.

One day, her parents cut off Sasha’s blood supply, and starvation is not to her liking. Luckily, Sasha meets lonely Paul, who is obsessed with suicidal thoughts and agrees to give his life to Sasha if she will help him to finish all his work on Earth.

This film was screened at the 2023 Venice Film Festival and won the grand prize of the Venice Days section.

El Conde

• IMDB Rating – 6.1
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Comedy
• Production: Chile / 2023
• Director: Pablo Larraín
• Starring: Alfredo Castro, Catalina Guerra, Paula Luchsinger, Diego Muñoz, Gloria Muenchmeyer, Amparo Noguera, Marcial Tagle, Jaime Vadel, Antonia Sejers.

A Chilean black comedy from Netflix, aka political satire, in which the ruthless dictator Augusto Pinochet appears as an ancient vampire.

His political career is behind him, and the dictator is holed up in a dilapidated villa somewhere in a cold land. Augusto has a family, a cynical wife and four children who live there as well. After 250 years of his existence, the old vampire suffers from a host of diseases that will never cease to torment the immortal creature, and an age crisis that pushes him to suicide.

The film premiered as part of the main program of the 80th Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2023.

Salem’s Lot

• Genre: Horror, thriller
• Production: USA / 2023
• Director: Gary Doberman
• Starring: Lewis Pullman, Spencer Trit Clark, Pilu Asbeck, Elfrey Woodard, Bill Camp, John Benjamin Hickey, Mackenzie Lee, Nicholas Crovetti, Debra Kristofferson, Kellan Rood

Most of the events of Stephen King’s works take place in some small fictional town in Maine. One such town is called Salem’s Lot, and it first appeared in the 1975 novel of the same name, and then mentioned in other works of the writer. “The Lot” is a movie based on that novel.

Ben, a well-known writer, arrives in Salem’s Lot after a 25-year absence, planning to create a new book about a local abandoned haunted house. He learns that the house has been purchased by a mysterious immigrant named Barlow, whose arrival coincided with the disappearance of a local boy. As Ben tries to learn more about Salem’s new resident, he unexpectedly discovers a terrifying truth-a vampire is running rampant in the town, killing locals or turning them into his own kind.

This is the second film adaptation of King’s “Salem’s Lot” after Tobe Hooper’s 1979 mini-series.

Renfield

• IMDB Rating – 6.4
• Genre: Comedy, Horror, Crime, Action
• Production: USA / 2023
• Worldwide Box Office: $26,345,571
• Director: Chris McKay
• Starring: Nicholas Holt, Nicolas Cage, Aquafina, Ben Schwartz, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Brandon, Scott Jones, Adrian Martinez, Camille Chen, Bess Rouse, Jenna Kanell

Chris McKay’s freshest horror comedy, inspired by Stoker’s classic, is about the complexities of the relationship between a vampire and his familiars.

Eternity is a very long time. Dracula has long realized this, dragging himself from age to age without former passion. Fortunately, he has his faithful servant Renfield, an irreproachable assistant who fulfills any errand the Count may have, even the most humiliating.

But one day Renfield decides to try to break from this slavish bondage with the help of the charming Rebecca Quincy, a policewoman, and a psychotherapy group.

The character Rebecca Quincy is a loose interpretation of the only American in Bram Stoker’s original novel, Quincy P. Morris.

Night Teeth

• IMDB Rating – 5.6
• Genre: Horror
• Production: UK, USA / 2021
• Budget: $21,700,000
• Director: Adam Randall
• Starring: Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Debbie Ryan, Lucy Fry, Raul Castillo, Alfie Allen, Marlene Forte, Ash Santos, Brian Batt, Megan Fox, Sidney Sweeney

The movie shows the adventures of Benny – an ordinary American guy who works in a cab service. One night he gets an order from two girls who decided to go out all night and so they ask the main character to take them for a ride to all the night clubs in Los Angeles. After the girls have fun, Benny takes them home. The friends invite him to their place, where they tell him that they are actually vampires, and they needed him only as a dinner.

The cab driver understands the complexity of the situation and was ready to accept his fate, as the house is broken into by vampire hunters, who are agents of a secret organization. They tie up the girls, but Benny decides to help them escape, thus becoming part of the conflict between the world of humans and vampires.

Reviews of movie critics about the picture turned out ambiguous and contradictory.

Only Lovers Left Alive

• IMDB Rating – 7.2
• Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Drama
• Production: UK, Germany, Greece, France / 2013
• Budget: $7,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $7,609,187
• Director: Jim Jarmusch
• Starring: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi, John Hurt, Carter Logan, Aurélie Tepo, Ali Emin.

The movie tells about the eternal love of two vampires, who caught the still invasive campaigns of Genghis Khan in Asia and the bloody Inquisition in Europe. Adam is currently a rock musician living in an American city. His younger days, full of crazy adventures and bloody nights, are long behind him. He decides to live the rest of his life alone. The only thing he dreams of is peace and quiet.

Adam’s beloved Eve is his complete opposite. She still leads an active life, even though she is older than Adam. Eva decides to visit him from another town to bring him out of his depression and cheer him up. She succeeds and their life starts to get better, until suddenly Eva’s younger sister Ava appears out of nowhere and turns everything upside down.

The actors’ wigs are made of human hair and animal hair – goat and yak.

In the course of the movie, the word “vampire” is not mentioned once.

Blood Red Sky

• IMDB Rating – 6.1
• Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action
• Production: Germany, USA / 2021
• Budget: €15,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $401,834
• Director: Peter Torwart
• Starring: Peri Baumeister, Karl Anton Koch, Alexander Scheer, Kais Setty, Gordon Brown, Dominic Purcell, Graham McTavish, Kai Ivo Baulitz, Roland Møller, Chidi Ajufo.

The main character Nadia suffers from an unknown disease that makes her feel an unbearable thirst for blood. The only thing that holds her back is the medicine that she constantly has to take. But the doctors tell Nadia that they have found a way to cure her. To do so, she must fly to another city.

Nadia and her eight-year-old son board the plane and all goes well until the airliner is hijacked by a group of terrorists. Their plan includes hijacking the plane, so they change course. Nadia, seeing no other way out of the situation, decides to destroy the terrorists herself, showing them her true nature.

Neukdae sonyeon

• IMDB Rating – 7.3
• Genre: Melodrama, Fantasy
• Production: South Korea / 2012
• Worldwide Box Office: $46,282,588
• Director: Jo Sung-hee
• Starring: Song Joon-gi, Park Po-yeon, Yoo Young-seok, Jang Young-nam, Kim Hyang-gi. Lee Young-nan, Yoo Seung-mok, Woo Jong-gook, Seo Dong-soo, Koo Kyo-hwan

Kim Soon-Yi is a single mother raising two daughters, one of whom has a lung disease. So the family decides to move out of town and live in a house owned by a family friend.

One sunny day, the eldest daughter Soon-Yi finds a feral boy of about 19 years old in her garden. The mother of the family decides to keep him, thinking he is one of the many children orphaned during the Korean War.

Chul-So (that’s the boy’s name) at first behaves like a wild animal, but over time, the women manage to tame him. He begins to show his loyalty to his family and superhuman strength by helping them with everyday tasks. Eventually, Soon-Yi falls in love with Chul-So, and he with her. But the villagers find out that the guy is actually a werewolf and decide to kill him.

Cho Seong-hee began writing the screenplay for this movie while he was still a student at the Korean Academy of Motion Picture Arts, later rewriting it several times.

What We Do in the Shadows

• IMDB Rating – 7.7
• Genre: Comedy, Horror
• Production: New Zealand / 2014
• Budget: $1,600,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $7,251,226
• Director: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
• Starring: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh, Corey Gonzalez-Macuer, Stew Rutherford, Ben Frensham, Jackie van Beek, Elena Steiko, Jason Hoyte, Karen O’Leary

Next, on our list of movies about vampires and werewolves is an unusual picture, which is more like a comedy. It tells about the ordinary everyday life of modern vampires and their attempts to adapt to life in the XXI century.

The main characters of the movie – Petyr, Deacon, Vladislav and Viago live in New Zealand. They all had their own reason for moving there and their own story that bound them together. Deacon has a maid – Jackie. She fulfills all their whims for the promise of one day turning her into one of them. For this reason, Jackie brings her boyfriend to them to drink his blood. But instead, the vampires decide to turn him into one of their own kind, which leads to a series of problems and even deaths.

The footage amounted to 125 hours and its editing lasted about a year.

Jakob’s Wife

• IMDB Rating – 5.5
• Genre: Horror, Comedy
• Production: USA / 2021
• Worldwide Box Office: $47,768
• Director: Travis Stevens
• Starring: Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Bonnie Aarons, Nisha Bell, Sarah Lind, Mark Kelly, Robert Rassler, Jay Devon Johnson, CM Punk

Anna is a woman who married a small town official and thought her fate was very fortunate. But after 30 years of such a life, with no personal business, no children, and no longer in love with her husband, she begins to realize that her existence has no meaning.

She starts looking for ways to entertain herself and meets a certain “Master”. After this meeting, she wakes up the next day, remembering nothing and feeling a bite on her neck. Gradually, she discovers new strength and a thirst to live life to the fullest.

Underworld (film series)

• IMDB Rating – 7.0
• Genre: Fantasy, action, thriller
• Production: USA, UK, Germany, Hungary / 2003
• Budget: $22,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $95,708,457
• Director: Len Wiseman
• Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly, Bill Nye, Erwin Leder, Sophia Myles, Robbie Gee, Wentworth Miller, Kevin Grevier.

The first movie “Another World” introduces us to the main character – Celine. She is an elite agent of a vampire organization that has decided to rebel against the system. The rest of the movie shows Celine and her human friend Michael Corwin trying to end the war, while both sides are trying to kill them: vampires and werewolves.

Kate Beckinsale and director Wiseman on the set of this movie began a relationship, which was later formalized in marriage.

Dracula Untold

• IMDB Rating – 6.2
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Drama
• Production: USA, UK, Ireland / 2014
• Budget: $70,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $217,124,280
• Director: Gary Shore
• Starring: Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Art Parkinson, Charles Dance, Diarmed Murtha, Paul Kaye, William Huston, Noah Huntley, Ronan Weibert

Vlad Tepes, son of the Prince of Wallachia, joins the Ottoman army. As the strongest and most powerful warrior among the Janissaries, Vlad quickly gains recognition and respect. But after a while, he begins to realize that everything he has done over the years is evil.

So he leaves the army and returns home, where he peacefully rules his principality and has a loving family. But soon the peaceful idyll ends and the Turks decide to attack Wallachia. Vlad, realizing that he cannot protect his people, asks the evil power to grant him immortality.

In Romanian, “Ingeras” (son of Dracula) sounds like “little angel”.

Van Helsing

• IMDB Rating – 6.0
• Genre: Fantasy, action, thriller, adventure
• Production: USA, Czech Republic, Romania / 2004
• Budget: $160,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $300,157,638
• Director: Stephen Sommers
• Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Shuler Hensley, Elena Anaya, Will Kemp, Kevin J. O’Connor, Alan Armstrong, Sylvia Colloca.

The movie is about a former member of the Holy Order, Van Helsing, who is wanted for murder. He makes his living by exterminating monsters of all kinds.

One day he finds himself in Transylvania, a town known as a “den of monsters”. The locals ask him to look into what’s been happening in their neighborhood lately: buried corpses going missing, a fire in a mill, and the appearance of four flying creatures. Van Helsing takes on the case, not even realizing he’s about to stop a war between humans and monsters.

The decorations for Dr. Frankenstein’s lab, specifically – “antique medical equipment” – were purchased on eBay.

Let Me In

• IMDB Rating – 7.1
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
• Production: UK, USA / 2010
• Budget: $20,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $24,145,613
• Director: Matt Reeves
• Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Kara Buono, Elias Koteas, Sasha Barresi, Dylan Kenin, Chris Browning, Richie Coster, Dylan Minnette.

The story of an ordinary American boy named Owen, an outcast in society and with problems in his family. He is constantly bullied and beaten up at school. He has no friends. But one day, while he is in the yard practicing self-defense tactics, he sees his neighbor named Abby. She immediately tells him that they can’t be friends, but that doesn’t stop Owen and they start socializing.

Tapping Morse code over the wall, going to visit each other, going on adventures together – the boy thought he had finally found a friend. But soon a series of ritual sacrifice-like crimes occur in his neighborhood. Suspects: Abby and her father…

The filming of the scene where Abby (Chloë Grace Moretz) walks barefoot in the snow was real – the actress had her feet warmed between takes, as she was indeed barefoot.

Dog Soldiers

• IMDB Rating – 6.8
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Adventure
• Production: UK, Luxembourg / 2001
• Budget: $2,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $3,530,620
• Director: Neil Marshall
• Starring: Sean Pertuis, Kevin McKidd, Emma Clisby, Liam Cunningham, Thomas Lockyer, Darren Morfitt, Chris Robson, Leslie Simpson, Tina Landini, Craig Conway.

During the exercise, six soldiers, under the command of Wells, had to cross the border of the conditional enemy. But on the way they meet a defeated camp with a pile of corpses. The only survivor – Captain Ryan, severely wounded, lay bleeding. To the questions of the soldiers he answered only: “Run!”.

The soldiers begin to move out, but they are attacked by a squad of some creatures. They are forced to hide on a strange farm where they meet a zoologist who tells them about werewolves. Now they must hold their defenses for an entire night, under a full moon.

In one scene, Kevin McKidd (Cooper) slightly miscalculated and actually punched Sean Petui (Wells), but he didn’t feel a thing because he was drunk.

Queen of the Damned

• IMDB Rating – 5.2
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
• Production: USA, Australia / 2002
• Budget: $35,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $45,479,110
• Director: Michael Rymer
• Starring: Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez, Paul McGann, Lena Olin, Christian Manon, Claudia Black, Bruce Spence, Matthew Newton.

A relatively young vampire, named Lestat, is awakened from his sleep by a rock band that was playing nearby. He decides to become the lead singer of this band and after a while, he becomes world famous.

During one of his concerts in Los Angeles, Lestat awakens with his music the oldest vampire – Akasha. She offers him to become her husband and rule the world. Lestat agrees, but soon regrets it, as he realizes that Akasha is going to commit genocide. Now Lestat, along with the other vampires, must find a way to stop Akasha.

American singer and actress Alia died in a plane crash. The main scenes were already filmed, but it was necessary to solve the problem with the voicing of some episodes. And director Michael Rymer asked Alia’s brother Rashad to help in this, as the voices of Alia and Rashad are very similar.

Blade

• IMDB Rating – 7.1
• Genre: Action, Horror, Fantasy
• Production: USA / 1998
• Budget: $45,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $131,183,530
• Director: Stephen Norrington
• Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N’Busch Wright, Donal Logue, Udo Kier, Arlie Jover, Traci Lords, Kevin Patrick Walls, Tim Guinee.

Blade is a half-human, half-vampire who was bitten by a vampire when his mother was pregnant. He has all the strengths of a vampire: super strength, super speed, agility and survivability. He is not afraid of the sun, garlic or silver.

He can overcome his bloodlust with a special serum that prevents his complete transformation into a vampire. Blade, along with his mentor Wiltair and Dr. Karen Johnson, fights against vampires to avenge his mother.

In one scene, N’Bush Wright, miscalculating her strength, knocked Donal Logue’s jaw out.

30 Days of Night

• IMDB Rating – 6.6
• Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller
• Production: USA, New Zealand / 2007
• Budget: $30,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $75,505,977
• Director: David Slade
• Starring: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone Junior, Mark Randall, Amber Sainsburry, Manu Bennett, Megan Franich, Joel Toback.

Polar Night is the time of year when the sun does not rise for a month in the northern hemisphere of the Earth. It is these 30 days that the vampires decide to use to attack the small town of Barrow in northern Alaska.

One day, a stranger comes to this town and starts causing havoc, destroying power plants, communications and transportation. The sheriff of this town, Eben, catches him and begins to interrogate him. In response, the stranger only replies that he did not come alone and that they will all die soon.

Eben, along with his wife, begins searching for these “friends” of the stranger while a series of murders take place in the town. It soon becomes clear that it is all the work of vampires who have come to town with the purpose of killing everyone. Now the Sheriff will try to protect himself and all the townspeople from the vampires for the next 30 days.

The predominant number of night scenes were shot during the day using special day-for-night techniques.

Ginger Snaps

• IMDB Rating – 6.8
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
• Production: Canada / 2000
• Budget: $5,000,000
• US box office receipts: $2,554
• Director: John Fawcett
• Starring: Emily Perkins, Kathryn Isabelle, Chris Lemke, Mimi Rogers, Jesse Moss, Danielle Hampton, John Bourgeois, Peter Keleghan, Christopher Redman, Jimmy McInnis.

Two twin sisters were always different from other people. They didn’t socialize with their peers, always wore black, loved the theme of death, were photographed in different poses of a corpse and even promised to commit suicide on their eighteenth birthday. But no one cared about it, as they did not touch the people around them, until one of the sisters was attacked by a certain creature.

After that she changed her views on life: she began to wear provocative clothes, attract the attention of guys, behave more aggressively. And her sister, who is now alone, has to decide whether to turn away from the closest person to her or not.

Katherine’s character Isabelle required three hours to makeup and the reverse process took another 45 minutes.

Dark Shadows

• IMDB Rating – 6.2
• Genre: Fantasy, Melodrama, Comedy
• Production: USA, Australia, UK / 2012
• Budget $150,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $245,527,149
• Director: Tim Burton
• Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloë Grace Moretz, Gulliver McGrath, Ray Shirley.

A rich 17th century nobleman named Barnabas Collins falls in love with a girl named Josette Dupre. He is going to marry her, but suddenly one of his servants, Angelique, confesses her love to him. But Collins is not interested in her and directly tells her about it. The servant is not going to give up and begins to threaten her master that she will turn his life into hell if he does not marry her. Barnabas’ response remains the same and then Angelica tells him that she is a hereditary witch

She kills his entire family and turns Barnabas himself into a vampire and buries him alive. A couple centuries later, he is accidentally found and released. But even now he cannot live peacefully, as he learns that his maid is still alive.

For the sake of looking more believable in his role, Johnny Depp lost weight to 63 kg.

Red Riding Hood

• IMDB Rating – 5.4
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Melodrama, Detective
• Production: USA, Canada / 2011
• Budget: $42,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $89,162,162
• Director: Catherine Hardwicke
• Starring: Amanda Saifred, Gary Oldman, Shilo Fernandez, Billy Burke, Max Irons, Virginia Madsen, Lucas Haas, Julie Christie, Shauna Kane, Michael Hogan.

The main character Valerie is a simple peasant girl who is in love with a local woodcutter and dreams of marrying him. But her plans are not destined to come true, as her father has already promised to give her in marriage for a debt to the son of a local businessman – Henry.

Valerie’s younger sister Lucy was in love with him, so she flees from grief and disappointment into the forest, where she becomes a victim of a werewolf. All her family and village decide to avenge her and kill the bloodthirsty creature. But they don’t know that the werewolf is among them.

In 1936, Sergei Prokofiev wrote the musical work “Peter and the Wolf”. It was from here that the name of one of the characters, Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), was borrowed.

Fright Night (dilogy)

• IMDB Rating – 6.4
• Genre: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
• Production: USA / 2011
• Budget: $30,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $41,002,607
• Director: Craig Gillespie
• Starring: Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette, David Tennant, Imogene Poots, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dave Franco, Reid Ewing, Will Denton. Sandra Vergara

Charlie Brewster, the quiet one at school and in life, suddenly becomes popular even for himself and makes a lot of friends. Now, the only thing that prevents him from enjoying life is his old botanist friend.

He begins to behave very frightened and declares to Charlie that a real vampire has settled in his neighborhood. Brewster tries to ignore his friend until he finds himself murdered under strange circumstances. Now Charlie wants to find out what happened to his best friend and whether “vampire” Jerry is involved.

Colin Farrell (Jerry the vampire) has positioned himself as an ardent fan of the movie “Fright Night”. He said that he has seen the movie at least 12 times.

Byzantium

• IMDB Rating – 6.5
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Drama
• Production: UK, Ireland / 2012
• Budget: £8,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $828,284
• Director: Neil Jordan
• Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Caleb Landry Jones, Daniel Mays, Jonny Lee Miller, Toure Lindhardt, Uri Gavriel, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Caroline Jones.

The story is about two vampire girls, outcasts. The highest council of vampires decides to kill them for some crime, and now they are obliged to live on the run, surviving as best they can.

After their next dinner party, where they killed several people, the girlfriends go to a seaside resort, where they settle in the house of an acquaintance. One of them, Clara, decides to set up a brothel in the house and thus start earning a living. But her past does not allow her to start again and so she will never be able to live in peace.

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

• IMDB Rating – 6.4
• Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
• Production: Canada / 2004
• Budget: $3,500,000
• US box office receipts: $80,372
• Director: Brett Sullivan
• Starring: Emily Perkins, Brendan Fletcher, Kathryn Isabelle, Tatiana Maslany, Susan Adam, Janet Kidder, Chris Fassbender, Pascal Hutton, Michelle Beaudoin, Eric Johnson.

A 2004 horror movie about the fate of two girls and a sequel to the movie “Werewolf”. After one of the sisters finally turns into a werewolf, the second one, Ginger, tries to resist the curse with the help of injections of a special serum she read in an ancient book.

But one day she is taken to a hospital for mentally ill people, where she is unable to give herself these injections. Her body begins to slowly transform and the only person who can help her is her roommate, Spirit.

The dilapidated hospital building in the shot is not a set. This is a real abandoned mental hospital.

Vampires vs. the Bronx

• IMDB Rating – 5.7
• Genre: Horror, Comedy
• Production: USA / 2020
• Director: Osmani Rodriguez
• Starring: Jaden Michael, Gerald Jones III, Gregory Diaz, Sarah Gadon, Method Man, Shay Wigham, Coco Jones, Chris Redd, Vladimir Caamano

Miguel Martinez is a teenager living and studying in the Bronx. He begins to suspect that local businessman Vivian, who is buying up all the land in the neighborhood, is connected to something evil. Miguel sneaks into his house and finds evidence that Vivian is a vampire.

He goes to the sheriff and tries to prove it all to him, but nobody listens to Miguel and only punishes him for trespassing. Vivian in turn learns that the boy suspects him and starts hunting him. Miguel and his friends fight against this businessman and the gang he runs.

Lobos de Arga

• IMDB Rating – 6.0
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Comedy
• Production: Spain / 2011
• Director: Juan Martinez Moreno
• Starring: Gorka Ochoa, Carlos Areses, Secun de la Rosa, Mabel Rivera, Manuel Manquinha, Luis Saera, Cote Soler, Marcos Ruiz, Roberto Sanchez “Luna”, Tomas Salvadores.

In the early 20th century, in the village of Arga, an old witch cursed the son of her abuser. The curse was that the boy would turn into a werewolf when he reached the age of 10.

One hundred years later, the famous writer Thomas Marino comes to this village in search of inspiration. But the locals don’t like him and so they lock Thomas in an underground labyrinth. There Thomas stumbles upon a werewolf who has been sleeping for decades and awakens him. Now the writer must find his way out of the labyrinth faster than the werewolf can find him.

Wir sind die Nacht

• IMDB Rating – 6.2
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama, Melodrama
• Production: Germany / 2010
• Budget: €6,500,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $2,385,730
• Director: Dennis Ganzel
• Starring: Caroline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer, Max Rimelt, Arved Birnbaum, Steffi Kühnert, Jochen Nickel, Ivan Shvedov, Nicholas Romm.

Lina, a girl from a poor family who earns her living by stealing, finds herself at a party organized by vampires. The main organizer of the party, Luisa, decides to take the poor girl under her wing and turns her into a vampire.

Lina plunges into a new world of previously unknown sensations and fun, spends nights killing people. But the good life can’t last forever, because the police are already following the vampires’ trail.

Dennis Ganzel, director: “I was twenty-three when I had the idea for this movie. When it was finally released, I was thirty-seven”

Stake Land

• IMDB Rating – 6.5
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
• Production: USA / 2010
• Budget: $650,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $405,380
• Director: Jim Mickle
• Starring: Connor Paolo, Gregory Jones, Tracy Hovel, Danielle Harris, Nick Damici, James Godwin, Tim House, Marianne Hagan, Stuart Rudin, Adam Scarimbolo.

The story of a world where a virus has spread, but not one that turns people into zombies, but one that turns people into vampires. In this crazy world, a teenager named Martin, who has lost his entire family, meets “Mister” – the toughest and most skillful killer of bloodsuckers. Together they embark on a journey to the north of the country, where it is rumored that humans have been able to build a safe city free of vampires.

Along the way, they rescue people, and take some with them. They stop by “safe” towns where people are still living normal lives. But they are hunted by a religious sect called the “Holy Brotherhood”, who consider vampires to be God’s punishment, and destroy all those who obstruct the Brotherhood.

The movie’s tagline goes something like: “The most dangerous thing is to be alive.”

The Wolfman

• IMDB Rating – 5.8
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Drama
• Production: USA / 2010
• Budget: $150,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $139,789,765
• Director: Joe Johnston
• Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Simon Merrells, Gemma Whelan, Mario Marin-Borges, Eisa Butterfield, Cristina Contes, Art Malick.

In a small community in America, a bloody murder of a woman occurs that has left her son, Lawrence, deeply traumatized. Twenty years later, when Lawrence has become a man, he returns home to his father’s house and learns that the murders in the neighborhood have not stopped. He tries to make sense of it and meets a girl named Gwen.

Together they go into the woods to look for the werewolf, but it gets ahead of them and bites Lawrence. They manage to escape, but they realize that the curse is now on Lawrence and he decides to distance himself from everyone. Lawrence ends up in a mental hospital, where his father finds him and confesses that he is the werewolf who killed his mother. Lawrence is overcome with rage and begins to transform to avenge his mother.

Daybreakers

• IMDB Rating – 6.4
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller
• Production: Australia, USA / 2009
• Budget: $20,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $51,416,464
• Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
• Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Defoe, Isabel Lucas, Sam Neill, Claudia Karwan, Michael Dorman, Harriet Minto-Day, Jay Lagaaja, Damien Garvey, Sahaj Dumpleton.

Ten years have passed since the beginning of the pandemic of a virus that turns people into vampires. There are only a couple percent of healthy humans left of the former population, which the vampires use as food. But they realize that their supply is not endless and soon there will be a shortage that will lead to the degradation of the bloodsuckers to common animals.

A vampire scientist named Edward Dalton meets a group of people, among whom is a man recovered from vampirism. The scientist manages to reproduce the experiment and cure himself. Now he intends to cure everyone by starting a reverse chain.

Twilight

• IMDB Rating – 5.3
• Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Melodrama
• Production: $37,000,000
• Budget: $37,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $392,616,625
• Director: Catherine Hardwicke
• Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Anna Kendrick, Taylor Lautner, Jackson Rathbone, Peter Facinelli, Rachelle Lefevre, Cam Gigandet.

One day Bella meets Edward, a vampire from her birth family, and they fall in love with each other. When he introduces her to his family, they try to kill her. Edward manages to protect his girlfriend and convince his birth family to accept her.

In later installments, Edward’s father, at his son’s request, helps turn Bella into a vampire and she becomes a full member of the Cullen family.

Robert Pattinson expressed his desire to drive the boat himself in the honeymoon scenes. He was trained to drive the boat, but ended up crashing two boats, one during the training and the other during filming.

Blood and Chocolate

• IMDB Rating – 5.4
• Genre: Fantasy, Melodrama, Horror
• Production: UK, Germany, Romania, USA / 2006
• Budget: $15,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $6,311,117
• Director: Katja von Garnier
• Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Katja Riemann, Brian Dick, Chris Geer, Tom Harper, John Kerr, Jack Wilson, Vitali Ursu

Vivien is a girl living in one of the cities of America and leading an ordinary life, except for the fact that she is a werewolf. The biggest mistake a wolf girl can make is to fall in love with a human.

Our heroine also couldn’t resist this power and started dating a mortal man, hiding her true nature from him. But a secret is a secret and its presence is not acceptable for the healthy existence of love relationships. So Vivienne has to decide: confess to her lover or leave him forever.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

• IMDB Rating – 5.9
• Genre: Horror, fantasy, action movie
• Production: USA, Russia / 2012
• Budget: $69,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $116,471,580
• Director: Timur Bekmambetov
• Starring: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, Marton Chokash, Jimmy Simpson, Joseph Mowle, Robin McLeavy, Erin Wasson.

An interesting version of the story of the origin of President Lincoln and the causes of the Civil War of 1861-1865 in the United States. Lincoln, being a little boy, insults a rich slave owner, for which the latter kills his mother.

Having grown up, the offended boy decides to take revenge on the murderer by shooting him in the eye. But his opponent turns out to be a vampire and almost kills Lincoln. He is saved by a passerby, named Sturges, who later tells him that in the United States almost all slave owners are vampires. Lincoln decides to become President to exterminate them all.

The first screening of the movie took place on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln.

Vampire Academy

• IMDB Rating – 5.5
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Detective
• Production: USA / 2014
• Budget: $30,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $15,642,346
• Director: Mark Waters
• Starring: Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Gabriel Byrne, Dominic Sherwood, Olga Kurylenko, Sarah Hyland, Cameron Monahan, Sami Gale, Ashley Charles

This is the first film adaptation of Rachel Mead’s novel of the same name, which tells the story of the war between two races of vampires: the Moroi and the Strigoi. A young vampire, a strigoi princess named Vasilisa, goes with her friend to the Vampire Academy to learn how to fight and finally end this war.

Like everywhere else, love affairs, betrayals, and chaos begin to happen here, leading to casualties. The princess needs to find a way to stop it without turning into pure evil.

The movie originally featured real dogs. But director Mark Waters did not approve of the four-legged actors. They had to be replaced by computer-generated ones.

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

• IMDB Rating – 5.1
• Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Thriller
• Production: USA / 2012
• Budget: $5,000,000
• Director: Louis Morneau
• Starring: Ed Quinn, Guy Wilson, Stephen Rea, Rachel DiPillo, Adam Crawsdell, Ana Ularu, Florin Piercic Jr., Steven Bauer, Nia Peeples, Radu Iacoban.

The plot revolves around a monster hunter named Charles, who became one because his mother was killed by a werewolf when he was six years old. He, along with his group, travels the world and exterminates evil creatures.

One day fate takes them to a town where a ferocious werewolf, unlike any other, has been rampaging for a long time. Daniel, a doctor’s apprentice, asks for help in exterminating the beast, but Charles refuses. The hunters go into the forest, but are unable to find the werewolf, which is actually one of the town’s inhabitants.

Bad Moon

• IMDB Rating – 5.8
• Genre: Horror
• Production: USA, Canada / 1996
• Budget: $7,000,000
• US box office receipts: $1,055,525
• Director: Eric Red
• Starring: Mariel Hemingway, Michael Pare, Mason Gamble, Ken Pogue, Hrothgar Matthews, Joanna Lebovitz, Gavin Boer, Julia Montgomery Brown, Primo

The movie is about a journalist named Ted who, during his expedition to Nepal, is attacked by an unknown beast. The locals tell him that it was a werewolf and that the man will now turn into one himself.

Ted, in order not to be a threat to those around him, decides to become a hermit far away in the mountains. But his loved ones, unaware of his fate, find him. Ted tries to dissuade his sister from taking her son and asks her to leave, but she doesn’t listen to him. Soon terrible things begin to happen. The former journalist begins to transform into a wolf and attack his loved ones.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

• IMDB Rating – 7.5
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Fantasy
• Production: USA / 1994
• Budget: $60,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $223,664,608
• Director: Neil Jordan
• Starring: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Stephen Rea, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, Kirsten Dunst, Domitiana Giordano, Thandiwe Newton, Roger Lloyd Peck, George Kelly.

A unique movie in its genre, telling the life of a vampire from the first-person point of view. The movie grossed a then-record $36,000,000 on its first day of release, and more than $223,000,000 for the entire run.

Louis is a young 17th century baron who loses his wife and unborn child. The whole meaning of his life disappears and he begins to wander in search of death. Fortunately or unfortunately, Louis meets a vampire who turns him and they begin to travel the world together. Louis tells his story to a reporter at a radio station in modern times.

For Brad Pitt filming was a real challenge, many moments greatly annoyed the actor, but the fine of $ 40 million acted sobering in refusing to star in the movie.

Wer

• IMDB Rating – 5.9
• Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller, Detective
• Production: South Africa, USA / 2013
• Worldwide Box Office: $860,940
• Director: William Brent Bell
• Starring: A.J. Cook, Brian Scott O’Connor, Sebastian Roche, Simon Quarterman, Vic Sahay, Stephanie Nicole Lemelin, Brian Johnson, Oakley Pendergast, Kamelia Maxim.

The plot tells about the fate of Talan Guinek, accused of a series of brutal murders. His lawyer is the still “green” Kate Moore, who considers her client innocent. But she soon changes her views after Talan turns into a werewolf at the trial.

The movie, released in 2013, is a reference to the 1913 horror film about werewolves. It is noteworthy that not a single copy of the first movie about wolf people has survived to this day.

Lifechanger

• IMDB Rating – 5.5
• Genre: Melodrama, Fantasy, Horror
• Production: Canada / 2018
• Director: Justin McConnell
• Starring: Laura Bourque, Jack Foley, Elitsa Bako, Sam White, Adam Buller, Peter Higginson, Daniel Faraldo

A little bit vampire, a little bit werewolf – Drew himself doesn’t realize what kind of creature he is. To keep himself alive, he needs to suck people’s energy. But along with that, he takes their memories and personalities that he keeps in his head.

All that would be fine, but love comes knocking on his life. A young girl fascinates him and he decides to use all the stolen personalities on her to find the best approach. But can he do it and if so, will she fall in love with him or just one of the personalities in his head?

Freaks of Nature

• IMDB Rating – 5.9
• Genre: Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
• Production: USA / 2015
• US box office receipts: $70,958
• Director: Robbie Pickering
• Starring: Nicholas Brown, Mackenzie Davis, Josh Fadem, Denis Leary, Ed Westwick, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Keegan-Michael Key, Bob Odenkirk, Joan Cusack, Chris Zylka

Doug is a high school student who dreams of getting a girlfriend and going to an institute. But he has to put his plans on hold as his school is attacked by zombies. Doug and his friends escape from the crowd of walking dead, only to meet the vampires.

But even here he finds a way out and hides in his home while the Earth is attacked by aliens. Doug, his friend Ned, who has turned into a zombie, and girlfriend Petra, who has turned into a vampire, band together to protect their planet.