Being years old, the Countess has collected a stable of young men and women who accompany her on her centuries-old journey through eternal night-and youth. While she is immortal, she is required to drink the blood of a young male virgin three times by Halloween each year to keep her immortality and youthful appearance - a task she finds increasingly and extremely hard, since attractive young male virgins are almost impossible to find in the s, particularly in hedonistic cities, in this case, Los Angeles. Meanwhile, high school student Mark Kendall wants to have sex, but is being put off by his girlfriend Robin Pierce. One night, Mark and his best friends Jamie and Russ go into a singles bar in Hollywood. Mark meets the Countess, he goes back to her mansion, and after she seduces him, he passes out when she bites his thigh. When he wakes up, she pretends they have had sex and tells him that he is now hers. Mark does not know what she means, and over the next few days, he begins showing strange behaviors: having strange dreams, avoiding direct sunlight, and even drinking blood from raw meat. After the Countess gets a second bite, Robin notices Mark's odd behavior and confronts the Countess during a dance-off at the high school's Halloween dance. While it appears that Robin has won back Mark, this is only temporary.
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24) Vampires (1998)
The first foray for the blaxploitation subgenre into the world of horror sees an African prince being transformed into a vampire by Count Dracula in He is locked into a coffin for almost two hundred years when a pair of interior decorators brings his coffin back to Los Angeles. There he escapes and begins to feed on innocent victims and ends up meeting a woman who bears a striking resemblance to his deceased wife, who he believes is a reincarnation of her. This is a well done take on the horror genre that focuses more on the horror aspects than turning it into a blaxploitation spoof of the genre. The special effects make up is nothing spectacular, but it is effective and there are also several big stunts including some vampires being set on fire. The popularity of this one resulted in a sequel and several other blaxploitation horror imitators such as Blackenstein, Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde, and Abby.
25) Fright Night (1985)
Intended as a spoof of the Will Smith flick I Am Legend, I am Virgin is an unabashedly campy, lighthearted, silly and immensely fun adventure with Robby Adam Davis , a lonely virgin surrounded by a world of sex-crazed vampires. If you don't like sex and you don't like vampires, then I Am Virgin is definitely not the film for you. If you do like sex and you DO like vampires, then I Am Virgin may very well be the perfect film for you.
Eternal life has been mortals' quest since, well, for eternity really. The concept of living to see every advancement of human society has splintered into literature and folklore in many different ways. To maintain eternal life they must pierce the neck and suck the blood of a living human. There have been some absolutely great vampire movies. There have also been a lot of duds. Each century of filmmaking has experienced more than one peak vampire moment, where the lore needed to be recycled into something fresh and new, before totally sucking. Just like many of the vampires on this list have to adapt to the times, so do the films themselves. We could list more than 25 films here, but we narrowed it down to a number low enough that you can tell us how much we suck for leaving off your favorite.
