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Vampire Vs Vampire is a 1989 Hong Kong comedy horror film directed by and starring Lam Ching-ying. The title references the interaction in the film between a jiangshi child, a creature from Chinese «hopping» corpse fiction, and a British vampire based on Western vampire fiction.

Horror 1989 1 hr 25 min iTunes
Starring Ching-Ying Lam, Chin Siu Ho, Lui Fong
Director Ching-Ying Lam

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Vampire Vs Vampire

PODOBNÉ ČLÁNKY

Obsazení a štáb

Ching-Ying Lam One Eyebrow Priest
Chin Siu Ho Ho
Lui Fong Fong
Sandra Kwan Yue Ng Captain’s cousin
Billy Lau Captain

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Vampire Vs Vampire is a 1989 Hong Kong comedy horror film directed by and starring Lam Ching-ying. The title references the interaction in the film between a jiangshi child, a creature from Chinese «hopping» corpse fiction, and a British vampire based on Western vampire fiction.

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Studio Diagonal Pictures Limited, Paragon Films Ltd. Released 1989 Run Time 1 hr 25 min Rated PG-13 Region of Origin Hong Kong

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Original Audio Cantonese, Chinese, Chinese (Hong Kong) Audio Cantonese (AAC), Mandarin (AAC) Subtitles Chinese, Simplified, Chinese, Traditional, English (United Kingdom)

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From F.W. Murnau’s silent classic Nosferatu to today, the cinematic bloodsucker has been a horror mainstay for over a century. Timelessly versatile in themes, style, and scares, vampire cinema has given film some of its most iconic villains, lushest productions, and entertaining thrills: Universal’s caped count, Čepel’s badass daywalker, Soumrak’s supernatural romance, and Od soumraku do úsvitu’s gonzo genre blending, among countless more. But for every classic and popular vampire tale, there are myriad more worthy of interest that go unknown.

Below is a list of lesser-known vampire hidden gems from outside the U.S.; fangs and gushes of crimson abound.

Krvavě červené nebe (2021)

Kde se dívat: Netflix

German action-horror film Krvavě rudá obloha boasts a premise that could have easily been an eye-rolling SyFy original: A 30 dní dlouhá noc-esque primal bloodsucker predator goes Osobní 57 on hijackers. Yet director Peter Thorwarth elevates that “Vampire McClane’’ conceit with slick direction and a relentless spiral of fanged carnage. Despite an overstretched pace and flashbacks occasionally muddling the execution, Krvavě rudá obloha continually builds its claustrophobic stakes and evolves its power dynamics in violently clever ways that maximize the airplane setting. The sympathetic and savage presence of Peri Baumeister grounds those high-altitude thrills in earnest humanity, thanks to a performance that excellently juggles mother and monster.

Chimères (2013)

Kde se dívat: Tubi; for rent on Amazon, Vudu, and YouTube

This low-budget French-Swiss co-production is a romance at its core, immersing us in the relationship between Alex (Yannick Rosset) and Livia (Jasna Kohoutova), which takes a turn after Alex is hit by a car and receives a fateful blond transfusion. Chiméra grounds its vampire slow burn in the strong performances and natural chemistry of Rosset and Kohoutova, their love tested by increasingly grim trials brought on by an unnatural bloodlust. An overuse of mirror-vision jump scares and a gradual realization of the vampire transformation threaten to diminish that effective core, yet director Olivier Beguin carries the film through dark turns that never betray the characters’ bond. A simmering first half gives way to an eruption of impressively gory consequences and an entertaining final act that pushes Chiméra’ moody horror drama into an entirely different genre.

From the Dark (2014)

Kde se dívat: Tubi and Peacock; for rent on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and YouTube

Conor McMahon’s low-budget Irish chiller thrives on simplicity. A couple, Sarah (Niamh Algar) and Mark (Stephen Cromwell), finds their playful banter cut short when they’re stranded on the roads around an isolated peat farm, only to soon become hunted by a creature of the night. What Z temnoty may lack in depth or nuance is more than compensated for by its cat-and-mouse momentum. Every avenue for suspense is wrung from the premise as all possible illumination sources become means for dwindling-light set-pieces: Matches, candles, fridge lights, phone screens, and more help the couple frantically keep darkness at bay. McMahon uses his vampire’s Nosferatu-esque silhouette and gnarled bog-body design to eerie effect, while a pre-Cenzurovat Algar emerges as a tenacious and resourceful protagonist whose survival we can’t help but root for.

The Lake Vampire (2018)

Kde se dívat: Tubi; for rent on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and YouTube

Carl Zitelmann’s deliberately paced and unnerving 2018 film is a decades-spanning Venezuelan mystery thriller in the vein of Zvěrokruh, Sedmnebo Ticho… only these investigators gradually realize their quarry might be an immortal bloodsucker. The Lake Vampire unfolds largely through nested flashbacks as an investigative novelist interviews a retired detective, giving the film an episodic structure driven more by plot than by character. Occult possibility and human evil fuel a grisly investigative procedural, allowing the extended hunt between killer and lawman to form a twisted relationship that takes the usual slayer-versus-evil dynamic into a more uncanny direction. It’s a direction that wouldn’t work without the wonderfully sinister performance from Eduardo Gulino, whose portrayal of the film’s killer acts as an ode to cinematic vampires from Lugosi’s Gothic elegance to Lee’s verminous malice to the haggard immortals of v blízkosti tmě. Despite an ending that may underwhelm with its abrupt choices, Zitelmann’s gruesomely unromanticized approach to vampire tropes and cliches lingers as a testament to this horror thriller’s disturbing edge.

Limbo (2014)

Kde se dívat: Tubi and free with a library card on Kanopy; for rent on iTunes

Also aptly known as Děti noci, Argentinian horror fairy tale Limbo směsi Neverland a prvky Vpusť toho správného to immerse us in the rites of a child vampire colony through the eyes of a curious journalist. Director Iván Noel weaves a surreal, playful, and dense narrative whose slight means and run time ambitiously explore a network of vampire sanctuaries and its matriarch, immortality locked at a young age, a vampire hunter feud, and Bram Stoker’s legacy, among other threads. Limbo’s micro budget doesn’t prevent Noel from delivering intriguing and unnerving moments throughout: giggling children sucking sheep dry, a blood spigot, whimsical ambushes upon ruthless vampire hunters. The campy, pulpy undertone fully blooms during Limbo’s ravenous bloodspattered finale; any movie with an intestine jump-rope clearly knows how to have fun with its premise.

Night of the Devils (1972)

Kde se dívat: free with a library card on Kanopy; for rent on Amazon

In 1963, Italian horror legend Mario Bava adapted the story of the vampiric wurdulak for his anthology Black Sabbath. Nine years and the influence of a little film named Noc oživlých mrtvých separate Giorgio Ferroni’s version from Bava’s ’60s Gothic folktale version. Noc ďáblů is a vampire folk horror story unmistakably crafted for the 1970s. A surrealistic splatter-filled opening leads into a mental-hospital-set flash-forward, already signaling this is a film where nihilistic madness awaits. The ensuing slow burn of a rural mystery follows a city outsider who finds himself among an odd village family insisting he stay the night, stay inside, and bolt the windows. Fears that their patriarch has become a cursed undead and will return to turn them all are, of course, realized amid an aura of oppressive enigmatic unease. A finale of cackling revenants, grisly gore effects, and grim late-film twists firmly cements Noc ďáblů as Italian horror for a grittier and more visceral decade.

Žízeň (2019)

Kde se dívat: Tubi; for rent on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and YouTube

While it may share a title with Park Chan-wook’s lush erotic vampire thriller, Gaukur Úlfarsson and Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson’s Žízeň couldn’t be more tonally or stylistically different. For one, this Icelandic horror-comedy splatterfest might have set a record for most torn-off, uh, members flopping on screen; it’s that kind of romp, following the gory collision between a drug addict in a bind, a millennium-old gay vampire, and a DIY doomsday cult. The delightful misadventure is one awash in dry-witted deadpan humor, midnight fog, buckets of aerial spray, and creative practical gore rending limbs, heads, throats, and guts with abandon.

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Like its undead subject, the vampire genre has remained remarkably resilient, spanning more than 200 years and multiple iterations dependent on the lusts and fears of the day. Sure, there have been ebbs and flows in popular interest, but like an entity of the night freshly sated on human vitals, it has always reliably renewed after a period of hibernation.

As with the zombie and the witch, vampires in popular culture are an amalgamation of centuries of folkloric tales. The originals of Eastern Europe were plump, ruddy-faced mischief-makers – miles away from the gaunt creatures of the last 100 years (we’ve Irish author Bram Stoker, who was influenced by writer and physician John Polidori, to thank for that). But to take the idea of a vampire-esque creature more broadly, it’s the seductive female succubus who predates Count Dracula by several centuries. Jennifer’s Body (2009) and Under the Skin (2013) offer two recent cinematic interpretations of this beautiful parasite.

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It was Sheridan Le Fanu’s sapphic short story ‘Carmilla’ (written 25 years before Dracula) that spawned the trend of decadent, female vampires. Notable additions to the genre include Black Sunday (1960), Blood and Roses (1960) and Alucarda (1977) – a faithful adaptation of Le Fanu’s tale that turns the blood, sex and melodrama up to 11. There’s also Daughters of Darkness (1971), which blends the Carmilla plot with the legend of 16th-century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory, a mass murderer who allegedly bathed in her virginal victims’ blood in a bid for eternal youth.

By the 2000s, the vampire had evolved into a decidedly multifaceted beast. Parasitic monster, suave seducer, serial killer, sapphic babe, drug addict, AIDS victim, camp icon, comedian – few mythical creatures have evolved with such variety.

Nosferatu (1922)

Director: F. W. Murnau

Of all the films on this list, Murnau’s silent 1922 film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror stays closest to Stoker’s source material – notable differences being a name change for German audiences (Dracula becomes Orlok) and the count’s bite having deadly, rather than undead-ly repercussions: Murnau’s vamp infiltrates the town to feed, not breed.

With his bald head, long fingers and rat-like incisors, Count Orlok provided an enduring visual language for cinematic vampires lasting right up until the late 1970s. Tobe Hooper’s two-part miniseries Salem’s Lot (1979) and Werner Herzog’s faithful and fleshed-out remake Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) offer notable examples – though prior entries to the genre had already shaken off his rodent-like aesthetic and bestowed him with hair, wide-set fangs and a certain sex appeal. That’s not to say the original is without carnality – he’s flesh and blood (give or take), after all. Elongated shadows cast by the count’s freakishly long digits transgress boundaries, creeping over parts of the body real fingers mustn’t touch.

Vampyr (1932)

Režie: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Loosely based on Le Fanu’s collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly – of which ‘Carmilla’ is one – Dreyer’s addition to the canon centres on occult-obsessed Allan Gray, who checks into an inn in a town reportedly haunted by a vampire. The film unfolds with uncanny dream logic. Shortly after checking in, Gray lives a disorienting waking nightmare with one foot in the material world, the other in the supernatural. Rooms and crumbling passageways lead to yet more rooms, while spectral figures uttering gnomic phrases appear then disappear like phantoms in the night.

In a radical move, Dreyer’s film largely dispenses with conventional narrative, instead creating a cryptic mélange of expressionist imagery that disintegrates into a series of disorienting sequences – including one of Gray experiencing a waking burial. Claustrophobes beware: this film features not one but two buried-alive moments.

Dracula (1958)

Režie: Terence Fisher

Twenty-seven years after Bela Lugosi’s iconic turn as Dracula in the 1931 Universal version of Stoker’s novel, Christopher Lee steps (or should that be swoops) into his inaugural appearance as the count. He appears alongside real-life pal Peter Cushing, who plays legendary vampire hunter Dr Van Helsing, in the first of Hammer’s hugely successful Dracula cycle.

Like the cloying scent of funeral flowers used to hide the smell of death, the oppressively lush mid-Victorian set hints at an underlying rot. Darkened walls, dead flowers and heavy velvets in blood red and arsenic green form a sombre backdrop to this tale of overreaching desire and sexuality. Lee brings trademark suaveness to the role, giving us an alluring count who, let’s face it, most would invite in for a bite. Of course, a sharpened stake puts an end to all the fun, but not before we’ve enjoyed his turn as a Byronic vampire oozing dangerous sex appeal.

Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Režisér: Harry Kümel

Danger is very clearly imminent when Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Delphine Seyrig) extends a gleaming boot from her parked car and the camera pans up to a fixed, red-lipped smile. While the plot loosely follows Le Fanu’s sapphic ‘Carmilla’ story, Seyrig’s character is based on a blend of Marlene Dietrich, Louise Brooks and the real-life Báthory. This wasn’t the first on-screen adaptation of the Báthory story (Hammer’s 1971 Countess Dracula beat it by a few months), but it’s certainly the most polished, with painterly scene compositions and decadent outfits galore.

Dramatic tension comes from the psychological battle between two bourgeois newlyweds and the countess, who infiltrates their twosome and, with exacting charm and cruelty, uses their own narcissism to drive a wedge between them. Where lesbian vampire films ranged from the pornographic to the flamboyantly aesthetic, Daughters of Darkness errs towards the artistic, with Seyrig exuding chilly poise in a series of fabulous costumes replete with sequins and maribou feather trim. Evil has never looked more ravishing.

Ganja & Hess (1973)

Director: Bill Gunn

When Bill Gunn was approached to make Ganja & Hess as a follow-up to the commercially successful blaxploitation horror Blacula (1972), his backers were unsurprisingly left baffled by the result. Gunn’s film broke multiple barriers on release, not merely because he made his vampires Black and featured full-frontal male nudity (both of which were rarely seen on screen at the time), but because – unlike in most of Hollywood’s output at the time, blaxploitation or otherwise – his Black characters were affluent and refined. Doctor Hess is a cultured man of means who lives in a lavish pile on the Hudson.

With a narrative that includes documentary-style scenes of gospel singers, back-and-forth personal reflections, experimental editing and flashbacks, Ganja & Hess stands apart as a cultural landmark and a particularly rebellious, sophisticated entry to the genre. In Gunn’s hands, vampirism is a tool for exploring Black assimilation and the hypocrisies of organised religion.

Martin (1976)

Režie: George A. Romero

While ‘Godfather of the Dead’ George A. Romero’s contribution to vampire lore contains all the expected gore, he opens a new vein with Martin, a surprisingly downbeat work of social realism about a serial killer who believes he’s a creature of the night.

Set in a suburban neighbourhood in decline, this is a story of alienation through the eyes of a second-generation immigrant and his religious father. Introducing ambiguity through a mentally unwell narrator was rare, though not new in the world of vampire films – six years prior, John D. Hancock’s 1971 film Let’s Scare Jessica to Death took this approach in its heartbreaking exploration of mental illness and gaslighting. But Romero was the first to remove any doubt as to where the real monsters lurked. Martin is at once a shrewd satire of literary vampires and an intelligent exploration of religious fundamentalism, loneliness and ignorance run amok.

Upír Nosferatu (1979)

Režisér: Werner Herzog

The prospect of eternal life in exchange for sunbathing privileges and a solid diet doesn’t sound too bad a deal, until we meet Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu (Klaus Kinski). Bringing Aristotelian tragedy to the proceedings, in Herzog’s remake of the 1922 classic eternal life is the count’s curse: watching centuries pass in the blink of an eye spawns nothing but aching dread.

Less a horror about a supernatural being and more a meditation on the horrors of infinite loneliness, Herzog brings pathos to this prince of darkness and makes him altogether more human in the process. Like an addict and their vice, the count craves blood at a primal level – and he despises himself for it. When our hero Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) cuts his thumb slicing bread, the nocturnal lord leaps forward and offers to suck the wound clean. “It’s the oldest remedy in the world”, he says in his sad, creaky voice. He, of all people, would know.

Near Dark (1987)

Režie: Kathryn Bigelow

Where vampires of the 19th and early 20th century embodied the fear of foreignness as the wellspring of corruption, Near Dark makes a different kind of intruder into its monster: the white cowboy. Well, cowboy-vampire. The arid fields and tumbledown dive bars of small-town Oklahoma make an appropriately hostile arena for these outlaws’ reign of terror, while razor-sharp teeth make a deadly stand-in for the fast draw.

Released just two months apart, horror-comedy The Lost Boys (1987) and Near Dark represent the highs of a flurry of high-octane vampire films filled with gangs of roaming bloodsuckers. These films took the vampire-as-addict element from earlier genre entries and transformed the aloof aristocrat into a working-class rebel in the process. Director Kathryn Bigelow takes full, unbridled pleasure in the era’s decadence-turned-decay, with a synth-heavy soundtrack and lashings of macho swagger. You can almost smell the sweat, blood and leather.

Co děláme ve stínu (2014)

Directors: Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement

Writers Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement treat the vampire myth with gleeful levity in their 2014 offering What We Do in the Shadows, which riffs on centuries of literary and cinematic iconography and turns it into the punchline.

The mockumentary-style comedy follows four vampire housemates – Viago, Vladislav ‘The Poker’, Deacon, and Petyr – who live together in Wellington. Like an ominous shadow which turns out to be something ridiculously benign in the light of day, these ancient entities and their mores become altogether less threatening when dealing with the trials of co-living arrangements. “Petyr is 8,000 years old. We’re not going to have Petyr at the meeting,” says the dandyish Viago (Taika Waititi) as he attempts to restore cleanliness and order to the foursome’s grim abode.

Dívka chodí sama v noci domů (2014)

Režie: Ana Lily Amirpour

Promoted as the ‘first Iranian vampire western’, Ana Lily Amirpour’s accomplished debut feature is an achingly cool black comedy centred around the undead.

It’s set in the fictional Bad City, a run down, eerily empty industrial suburb where a skateboarding bloodsucker (Sheila Vand) roams the streets at night looking for victims. Her sustenance pool consists predominantly of bad men. Vampirism here is neither glamorous nor monstrous, tormented nor pathetic; Amirpour’s creation is glum and untethered, with a vaguely misandric agenda. The Girl, as she’s credited, appears to float along, her black chador obscuring her feet but also her female figure, in contrast with prior female bloodsuckers whose danger largely lay in their ability to seduce using their bodies. Our vampire vigilante may not use overt sex appeal to lure libidinous men to their doom, but, make no mistake, she’s still the predator in these parts.

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Zrakové a zvukové dárky – Historie hororu 1. část: Upíři

Vampires, čerpající z rozsáhlého materiálu z archivů Sight and Sound a Monthly Film Bulletin, je první z velké nové série, která zkoumá historii hororu na plátně. Vampires nás zavede od prvního upírského filmu z roku 1922, Nosferatu od FW Murnaua: Symfonie hrůzy, k Vampyrovi Carla Dreyera v roce 1932 a dále nekonečnými verzemi Drákuly a dalších upírů, kterými se od té doby kinematografie jen hemží.

Originally published: 3 November 2022

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