Best Vampire Films

After discussion of Underworld and assorted other fang fests, we thought we'd try an experiment. What do people think are the best vampire movies? It seems a difficult medium to get right, but what are the ones that appeal most to you?

If we get enough votes, we'll tabulate them in up the top here.

Kyla wrote an article on Vampire Films 13 years ago now, which has some possibilities, but there are newer examples, and certainly ones we missed. The boundaries also get a bit confused (which is the way we like them!) [See IMDB listing]

I guess our list would have to include:

The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)
Brides of Dracula (Terence Fisher)
Cronos (Guillermo del Toro)
The Hunger (Tony Scott)
Interview with the Vampire (Neil Jordan)
Martin (George A Romero)
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau)
Vampire Circus (Robert Young)
Vampyr (Carl Dreyer)

And some more we like just for the hell of it:

Blade II (Guillermo del Toro)
Dracula 2000 (Patrick Lussier)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski)
Fright Night II (Tommy Lee Wallace)
Innocent Blood (John Landis)
Nadja (Michael Almereyda)
Nosferatu (Werner Herzog)
Queen of the Damned (Michael Rymer)
Thirst (Rod Hardy)
Vampire's Kiss (Robert Bierman)

Here's some added since this original list was written:

Daybreakers (Spierig Brothers)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Let Me In (Matt Reeves)
Thirst (Chan-wook Park)

Meanwhile, see our list of vampire songs.