vi's (non-exhaustive) vampire media recs list
(i am making this prettier AND EXPANDING IT. bear with me) bolded - my favourites!
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BOOKS: CLASSICS
🦇 carmilla - j. sheridan le fanu 🦇 dracula - bram stoker
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BOOKS: MODERN
🦇 white is for witching - helen oyeyemi 🦇 the gilda stories - jewelle gomez 🦇 the vampire chronicles - anne rice 🦇 i am legend - richard matheson 🦇 let the right one in - john ajvide lindqvist
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MOVIES
🦇 nosferatu (1922) dir. f. w. murnau 🦇 dracula (1931) dir. tod browning 🦇 ganja & hess (1973) dir. bill gunn 🦇 the lost boys (1987) dir. joel schumacher 🦇 blade (1998) dir. stephen norrington 🦇 van helsing (2004) dir. stephen sommers 🦇 let the right one in (2008) dir. tomas alfredson 🦇 twilight (2008) dir. catherine hardwicke 🦇 only lovers left alive (2013) dir. jim harmusch 🦇 what we do in the shadows (2014) dir. jemaine clement & taika waititi 🦇 nosferatu (2024) dir. robert eggers 🦇 sinners (2025) dir. ryan coogler
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TV SHOWS
🦇 carmilla (webseries) (2014) 🦇 hemlock grove (2015) 🦇 what we do in the shadows (2019) 🦇 interview with the vampire (2022)
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OBLIGATORY 'THIS IS NOT GOOD BUT I STILL ENJOY IT' SECTION
🦇 queen of the damned (2002) dir. michael rymer note: watch this solely for aaliyah as akasha and the fun nu metal soundtrack. do not expect anything else in it to be good. it is not. 🦇 vamps (2012) dir. amy heckerling