Subgenre Sampler
Vampires: 140 Films to Buy & Rent
- Fiancée of Dracula (2002)
- Dir. Jean Rollin
Feat. Cyrille Gaudin, Jacques Orth, Thomas Smith
- A late addition in the filmography of cult fantasy director Jean Rollin, who once again turns his attention to vampire mythology in this tale of a…
- Hellsing (TV Series) (Herushingu) (2002)
- Adapated from his own manga comicbook by Kouta Hirano, this concerns the battle of survival of the Hellsing Organisation, a shadowy group which looks…
- Kung Fu Vampire Killers (2002)
- Dir. Phil Davison
Feat. Katherine Beresford
- Low–budget genre–bender from Dunedin, takes the vampiric corpse of a 19th century Chinese goldminer and transfuses it with Hong…
- Reign in Darkness (2002)
- Dir. Kel Dolen, David W Allen
Feat. Kel Dolen
- A scientist, infected with a new virus, is transformed into an elite vampire who battles with bounty hunters for the fate of the Earth.
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- Vampire Hunters (2002)
- Dir. Wellson Chin
Feat. Ken Chang
- Typically enjoyable and overblown Hong Kong mayhem, where five powerful warriors battle the Vampire King and his followers.
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- Blood - The Last Vampire (2001)
- Dir. Hiroyuki Kitakubo
- A half–length feature that packs twice the punch of the average Anime, its astounding combination of CGI and cell–characters raises the…
- Dracula 2000 (2001)
- Dir. Patrick Lussier
Feat. Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller, Omar Epps…
- Modern–day encounter with Drac, 'presented' by Wes Craven, occurs after the opening of high–security crypt inside Van Hesling’s…
- Queen of the Damned (2001)
- Dir. Michael Rymer
Feat. Stuart Townsend, Lena Olin, Vincent Perez…
- Anne Rice’s literary vampire Lestat, last seen as Tom Cruise in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, (here Stuart Townsend) shrugs off a 200 year sleep to…
- Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust (2001)
- Dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Feat. Hideyuki Tanaka, Ichiro Nagai, Koichi Yamadera
- Raising the stakes in both style and story, this reworking of the original 1985 film spins the lone Vampire hunter's adventures in a different…
- Versus (2001)
- Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Feat. Tak Sakaguchi, Kenji Matsuda
- The zombie genre is resurrected yet again, here spliced with Asian combat routines and punk–gangster gunplay, and set in the local woods on an…