Top 10 Unmissable Vampire Movies of the Past Decade!
Vampires. We love to hate them and yet love them on the big screen. Here are the top 10 vampire movies released in the past couple of years.Underworld Awakening is a 2012 3D action horror film and the fourth instalment in the Underworld series. It follows the battle between the vampires and lycans as humans get involved too. Daybreakers of 2009 goes back ten years but its a film thats worth a watch for both scifi and horror fans. In Daybreakers, a plague turns most of the human population into vampires as a researcher struggles to find a synthetic substitute for human blood.
Underworld is one film that truly managed to capture the battle between werewolves and vampires at its gory best. So, the fifth and till date final instalment of the series had to make it to this list. In Blood Wars Selene is in hiding from both the vampires and the lycans who are out to get and kill her. Fright Night 2011 remake of the original Fright Night released back in 1985 truly brought old school vampire lore to present times. Fright Night follows the story of a teenager who has to deal with the perils of living next door to a real life vampire.
Starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston in lead roles, Only Lovers Left Alive follows the tale of love and loathing between two vampires who have been married for centuries. This film has been a hit among critics and moviegoers and is one not to be missed for its sharp story writing and beautiful cinematography set mostly in the Middle East. Dracula Untold is a telling of the origins of Vlad the Impaler. Starring Luke Evans in the lead and Game of Thrones actor Charles Dance in a supporting role the dark setting and intense battle sequences are sure to give you the creeps.
Byzantium is a 2012 movie that deviates sharply from the set image of rich vampires as it shows the blood sucking creatures to be hungry and struggling for survival in conditions of poverty. Dark Shadows follows the story of a man who offended a powerful witch and was turned into a vampire as a result. He awakens in the modern world even as the witch is still alive and has to come to terms with what happened to him even as he seeks revenge. Dark Shadows is dark and funny and Burton at his gothic best.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was a 2012 horror film and a superb mix of history and fantasy as it portrayed former US president Abraham Lincoln as having a secret identity of a vampire hunter. Finally, Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn marked an end to the story of Bella , Edward and Jacob even as it left fans teary eyed at the finale. With the entire star cast facing off with the Vampire volturi in an epic battle with a surprise twist ending, Breaking Dawn Part 2 was a huge success among fans and critics. It also made for a relatively less aggressive viewing as compared to many other vampire movies.