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NOSFERATU



Thomas Hutter is an employee at a real estate firm in a fictitious German city called Wisborg, happily living with Ellen, his wife. One day, his employer, Knock, receives a mysterious letter, written in strange symbols. Knock decides to send him to visit Count Orlok in the Carpathian Mountains to finalize the sale of a house.

Close to his final destination, Hutter boards at an inn, where the locals become frightened at the mere mention of Orlok's name, and discourage him from traveling to his castle during the night. In his room at the inn, Hutter finds a book entitled "The Book of the Vampires", which he disregards before falling asleep.

Hutter is left to finish his journey on foot after his hired driver refuses to pass the bridge to the castle. However, he is soon picked up by Count Orlok's coach, which is driven by a strange specter that hides its face, and moves at an unnatural speed. At his arrival at the castle, whose doors open by themselves, he is welcomed by Count Orlok. His grotesque facial features hidden at this stage by his hat, Orlok initially appears to be a mere eccentric gentleman. Hutter has dinner at the castle; Orlok refuses to eat and silently reads a letter. A bell rings at midnight and a startled Hutter cuts his thumb. Count Orlok tries to suck the blood out of the wound, before being repelled by a cross hanging around Hutter's neck. Hutter falls asleep in the parlor after a conversation with Orlok.

Hutter wakes up to an empty castle with fresh wounds on his neck, which he attributes to mosquitoes. That night he is joined by Orlok and they sign the documents for the sale of the house facing Hutter's. Hutter finds The Book of the Vampires in his luggage and starts to suspect that Orlok is Nosferatu. He tries to hide in his bedroom as midnight approaches. However, the closed door opens by itself and Orlok comes in, his true nature revealed...

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DRACULA



Vlad the Impaler defeats an overwhelming Turkish invasion in 1462. Upon returning home, he finds his beloved wife Elisabeta dead, having committed suicide upon hearing the false reports of Vlad's death in battle. Enraged at his wife being eternally damned as a suicide, the former devout Christian Dracula desecrates his chapel and renounces God, declaring that he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness.

Four centuries later, Jonathan Harker, an assistant real estate agent, travels to Transylvania to arrange the transfer of Carfax Abbey in London, Count Dracula's newest real estate acquisition. At the castle, full of bizarre, unnatural features and shadows that move by themselves, Harker meets Dracula, a wrinkled, pale old man in brilliant red robes. During the final signing of the real estate papers, the Count notices a picture of Harker's fiancée Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray, who bears a striking resemblance to his dead wife, Elisabeta. Dracula promptly books passage on the ship Demeter to England, leaving Harker to be held captive by Dracula's insatiable, beautiful, and bloodthirsty Brides, who systematically drink his blood, leaving him weak and unable to escape...

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NEAR DARK



Caleb Colton is a young man in a small Oklahoma town who flirts one night with Mae, an attractive young drifter. Shortly before sunrise, while kissing, she bites him on the neck, then runs off. Caleb discovers that the rising sun causes his flesh to burn. As he suffers in the sunlight, Mae and her 'family' of itinerant vampires pick up Caleb and sweep him away from his family's home. Severen and Diamondback are inclined to kill him then and there, but Mae, who has developed a romantic interest in Caleb, points out that she has 'turned him' — made him a vampire. Reluctantly, Jesse Hooker, the leader of the gang, declares that Caleb will remain with them for a week, to see if he can learn to hunt efficiently and be trusted as one of the group. Caleb quickly learns that the vampires are doubly bloodthirsty: not only do they feed on humans, but they hide the evidence of their nature by acts of wanton destruction, particularly arson, lest the mortal population seek them out and destroy them.

Caleb is of two minds about how to proceed. On one hand, he is infatuated with Mae, and relishes the idea of spending eternity with her, free of responsibilities other than simple survival. On the other hand, Caleb is appalled at the brutal reality of a vampire's existence: the constant need to kill innocent people for food, and the gang's evident lack of remorse for this state of affairs...

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THE NIGHT STALKER



Kolchak is sitting on the bed of a sleazy hotel room talking about the story he has written about and how it has been withheld by the authorities. He describes a series of murders that had plagued the world-famous Las Vegas Strip. All of the victims had their blood drained, and Kolchak discovers the killer is a vampire...

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SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE



The main setting is an old castle in Czechoslovakia. Schreck is there waiting for his filming team, and his appearance and behavior are truly disquieting. The cameraman soon starts feeling terrorized and sick, and has to be taken away and replaced. The other main actor is frightened of Schreck but then convinces himself that he is simply a very good actor.

On one occasion, two members of the crew are sharing a drink under the stars, and Schreck approaches. They invite him to join them, and Schreck drinks with them. Jokingly they ask about his vampirism and Schreck reveals he is a real vampire, centuries old. When questioned, he tells the crew that he is so old, he cannot remember how he became a vampire, and cannot create more of his own kind. A bat flies by and Schreck catches it with a quick hand and bites it, ecstatically sucking blood from its body. The others are left impressed...

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DAY WATCH



It's New Year's Day of 2006, more than one year after the events of Night Watch. The protagonist of the first film, finds himself in the middle of an approaching conflict between the Light and Dark Others, who are still bound with an uneasy truce. Anton is still a Night Watch operative, now working with his trainee and romantic interest, Svetlana. As his son Yegor has now become a Dark Other, Anton is forced to secretly destroy evidence of Yegor's attacks on normal people, which violates the treaty, leaving the Night Watch unable to sentence Yegor.

To redeem for his previous mistake, an attempt to use a witch's service to kill the unborn Yegor, Anton seeks the legendary Chalk of Fate, a magical chalk that could rewrite history, which was once Tamerlane's property and one of the main reasons for his numerous military successes.

Meanwhile, Zavulon, the leader of the Dark Others and their Day Watch, is waiting for Yegor's birthday. At the birthday, Yegor would become a Great Other and acquire the power that would allow the Dark Others to break the treaty. Zavulon's gratitude to Anton for covering Yegor's violations of the treaty doesn't stop him and the Day Watch from attempting to frame Anton for murder and bring him in front of the Inquisition...

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NIGHT WATCH



In the prologue, which is set in medieval times, humans with extra powers are called Others. The Others are either proponents of light or dark and confront each other to do battle. Gessar, lord of light, realises that the two forces are evenly matched and both will be destroyed. In parley with Zavulon, general of dark, the two agree to a truce in which the light will form a Night Watch and the dark a Day Watch to maintain the balance before the coming of the Great One who will choose either Light or Dark and thereby bring one to prominence.

In modern Russia, when his wife leaves him for another man, Anton goes to see an old woman who he believes will be able to bring her back. This woman tells him that his wife is pregnant by the other man and the fetus must be aborted or she will return to the other man. Anton accepts responsibility for this. The old woman prepares a drink involving Anton's blood which he drinks. He has a vision of his wife telling the other man they have to split up. The old woman casts a spell to abort the fetus and Anton's wife on a distant boat collapses and clutches at her womb but just as the spell is about to be complete, three figures burst into the room, one of whom shapeshifts into a tiger, and restrains the old woman. They express surprise when Anton sees them and note that he must be a seer...

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RABID



A critically-injured woman victim of a motorcycle accident is taken to the plastic surgery clinic of Doctor Dan Keloid, where some of her intact tissue is treated to become "morphogenetically neutral" and grafted to fire-damaged areas of her body in the hope that they will differentiate and replace the damaged skin and organs.

Unfortunately, the woman's body unexpectedly accepts the transplants: she develops an anal orifice under an armpit, within it hides a phallic stinger. She uses it to feed on the blood of other people, and afterwards wiping their memories of their incidents with her.

It soon is apparent that her every victim transforms to a rabid zombie whose bite spreads the disease, eventually causing the city to fall into chaos before the outbreak can be contained...

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FROSTBITTEN



The film takes place in a small town in northern Sweden during midwinter, making the environment perfect for vampires because there are no sun hours during the dark and cold Nordic winter days. The vampiric infection is brought to the area by the sole survivor of a Scandinavian SS unit that was attacked by a female vampire in a peasant's hut, in Ukraine, during World War Two. The infection then lies dormant until, many years later, the theft of mysterious red capsules from a local hospital and the ingestion of them by a group of teenagers at a party leads to an outbreak of delirious mayhem and bloodshed as the young party-goers are transformed into vampires...

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THE HUNGER



Miriam Blaylock, is a beautiful yet dangerous immortal creature that preys on the lifeforce of humans, inviting a chosen few to be her human lovers, promising them eternal life... with a price. As the film begins, her current companion is John, a talented cellist she married in 18th century France. In the present day, they live together in an elegant New York townhouse posing as a Gothic punk couple.

Before long, John begins to experience the price of his eternal life... human companions of Miriam are doomed to suffer a living death. Where Miriam herself is truly ageless, her human lovers, however, only experienced prolonged youth for a century or two before they begin to age rapidly, eventually deteriorating into withered, corpse-like figures. The true horror of this situation is that these vampire/human hybrids age but cannot die. John begins to age rapidly and seeks out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, who specializes in the study of aging disorders, hoping she will be able to help restore his health...

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SUBSPECIES



Subspecies follows three college students, Mara, Michelle, and Lillian, as they begin a study on Romanian culture and superstition in the small town Prejnar. They are befriended by Stefan, a student studying nocturnal animals. It is revealed that the nearby Castle Vladislas has been caught in a power struggle between vampire brothers Stefan and Radu. Centuries prior, King Vladislas was seduced by a sorceress; that sorceress gave birth to Radu. After banishing Radu's mother, the king met a mortal woman. She gave birth to Stefan, who prefers to live in the open, and loathes his vampire heritage. Radu slays his own father to take control of the Bloodstone, a relic which is said to drip the blood of the saints. Radu discovers his brother's fondness for the girls and succeeds in turning two of the three into vampires. Stefan, having fallen in love with Michelle, helps try and free Mara and Lillian from Radu's control. Stefan drives a stake through Radu's heart and severs his head with a sword. Unfortunately, Michelle was bitten and infected during the fighting, and the only way to save her is if Stefan turns her with his own bite...

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LIFEFORCE



While investigating Halley's Comet, a space mission aboard the space shuttle Churchill finds a large spaceship hidden in the comet's nucleus. Upon entering the spacecraft, the shuttle crew finds three human bodies, two male and one female, in suspended animation in the spacecraft. The shuttle starts the return trip to Earth with the three beings. On Earth, Mission Control loses communication with the shuttle. As it nears Earth, a rescue mission is conducted. The rescuers find the Churchill gutted by fire, except for the three suspended animation cases bearing the aliens. The three are taken to earth where they eventually unleash havoc. They are actually members of a race of space vampires that consume the lifeforce from living beings and send it to their ship.

The three vampires escape from confinement and proportionally transform most of London's population into zombies. Once "zombified", the victims cycle into living-dead every two hours and seek out the 'lifeforce' of the living. These people also become zombies...

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THE ADDICTION



Kathleen Conklin, a young philosophy student at New York University, is attacked
by a woman, who tells her "order me to go away" and, when the frightened Kathleen
is unable to do so, bites her neck and drinks her blood. Kathleen develops several
of the traditional symptoms of vampirism, including aversion to daylight, but the
film's main focus is on her moral degradation. The film opens with a narrative of
the My Lai massacre, and the vampires repeatedly resort to the strategy of blaming
their victims for not being strong enough to resist them. As one of Kathleen's
victims weeps incredulously over the damage, Kathleen coldly informs her: "It's
not my actions but your incredulity that needs examination here." At her
graduation party, she says "I'd like to share a little bit of what I've learned"
and savages the neck of the nearest person, precipitating a bloody, chaotic
vampire rampage...

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FROM DUSK TILL DAWN



The fugitive Gecko brothers Seth and Richie are fleeing the F.B.I. and Texas police after Richie has broken Seth out of custody at court, in a bloody shootout.

Eventually the Geckos make it out of the state and into Mexico, where they continue on to a bar. First they encounter Chet Pussy, an obnoxious bouncer whom Seth and Richie pummel to gain entrance. Then Razor Charlie, the owner and main bartender, refuses to serve them, stating that he only serves bikers and truck drivers. Though Jacob manages to prove that he is a truck driver, stating that a truck license is required to drive an RV, Seth nevertheless gets angry when Big Emillio, a bouncer, puts his hand on him. Jacob defuses the situation by buying everyone a drink.

Exotic dancer Santanico Pandemonium appears. After her show is over, Chet the bouncer, having recovered from his beating, enters the bar with Razor Charlie and Big Emilio at his side. Once they attack the Geckos and stabbing Richie in his wounded hand, he and Seth shoot all three to death. Upon seeing Richie's blood soaked hand, Santanico morphs into a horrible creature, jumps on Richie's back and sinks her fangs into his neck, killing him. It soon becomes evident that everyone that works at the bar are vampires...