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9	* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' has vampires who [[VegetarianVampire eat a variety of insects and other things while surviving on blood substitutes such as Near-Blood or Blood Beaters]] (human blood is too fatty/unsure of how sanitary) and can reproduce sexually and can interbreed with humans and possibly other monsters. Their powers seem to include mind control (though contacts can negate it), telekinesis, superspeed, superhuman sight, and transforming into a bat. Their weaknesses are mostly standard vampire weaknesses such as a stake through the heart (lampshaded with "who doesn't that kill?"), sunlight (though they can survive for a time while only being sunburned), and garlic (this is stated as an allergic reaction).
10	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'': They're nonthreatening, attractive teenage vampires who talk about being in love but also how they can't be in a relationship, with pale blue skin and hair so sparkly it's crystalline.
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14	* In the movie version of ''Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight'', the vampires, though still snappy dressers, have pale skin, completely black eyes, sharp fingernails, and shark-like teeth. They tear their victims' throats out to drink blood, and they behead them so they don't turn (they don't want the competition for food). The vampires are also vulnerable to UV rays (a UV lamp does considerable damage to one), and beheading is also an effective way to kill them. Though they can speak, most just hiss and shriek. These vampires are very clever and vicious, and are essentially walking sharks.
15	* ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': These are ravenous creatures who kill the whole time they're awake, and only speak in shrieks and growls. They're impervious to most harm, and can only be killed by a stake to the heart followed by decapitation.
16	* ''Film/Abigail2024'': Vampires have superhuman strength and agility such that even a [[UndeadChild child vampire]] like Abigail can overpower three grown human adults, and they can also [[PowerFloats hover in midair]]. They can only be killed with a stake through the heart, direct sunlight (including that which is reflected in a mirror), or [[spoiler:completely draining them of blood]]. [[VampiresHateGarlic Garlic]] and [[HolyBurnsEvil crosses]] have [[NoSell no effect]], as Frank, Sammy, and Peter learn the hard way the first time they try to fight her. ''Indirect'' sunlight will cause them to start to smoke. When they die, they explode into LudicrousGibs, though they do have a HealingFactor that lets them recover from non-fatal injuries up to and including [[AnArmAndALeg lost limbs]]. One is turned into a vampire by having their blood drunk, and then drinking the vampire's blood in turn. [[spoiler:A simple bite from a vampire can also turn the victim into [[PeoplePuppets the vampire's puppet]], who then gains all of their master's powers and weaknesses (including exploding in direct sunlight), though this is an ability they have to learn how to use.]]
17	* ''{{Film/Bit}}'': They look just like humans, sunlight doesn't kill them (it's only weakening), garlic, stakes and crosses do nothing. While they can be harmed with ordinary gunshots and fire, this won't kill them given they can heal. Ripping out their heart then burning it is (usually) the only way to do that. Any human bitten by a vampire will turn into one if they survive, thus the group in the film dictates killing victims unless this is desired. The more powerful ones can also mind control humans or other vampires into serving them. Vlad could also shapeshift to turn into animals or mist. They're even capable of flying through apparent telekinesis.
18	* ''Film/BladeTrilogy'':
19	** The title character is the son of a woman who was bitten by a vampire and went into labour. He's [[CursedWithAwesome inhumanly strong, fast, and tough; he can stand sunlight, silver, and garlic]]; and he craves blood (which he avoids by using a serum, though at least once per film he drank blood and got "supercharged"). The vampires fear him because he hunts them down; in the second film, they want him so they can figure out his immunities and create vampires with them.
20	** The vampires themselves are the result of a biological retrovirus that alters the body of someone who has been infected. They are incapable of producing hemoglobin on their own and therefore drink blood to obtain it as well as fueling their enhanced strength and reflexes. They have certain weaknesses, and are resistant to injury from anything that doesn't involve their weaknesses (i.e. gunfire at best causes pain but doesn't cause serious injury). On the other hand, they are extremely vulnerable to their weaknesses.
21	** To summarize their weaknesses: sunlight (UV light) burns them, silver burns them to the point that a nonlethal injury with silver can potentially kill them, garlic makes them go into anaphylactic shock, anticoagulant makes their blood explode, and being staked through the heart or beheaded will dust them. Blade himself is also strong enough that he can kill some of them with his bare hands.
22	** Also for most vampires a simple bite will transform the victim into another vampire, however it is also just as common for them to kill the victim and ''then'' drink the blood. If the victim is not allowed to feed for some time after completing the transformation they will degenerate into a ghoulish and zombie-like creature. Vampires will, on occasion, drink the blood of other vampires, but since it doesn't provide them with the hemoglobin they need it's more of a sexual act.
23	** Most vampires are people who have been turned, but there are "pure" vampires, i.e. those who were born that way. So yes, vampires can apparently have children the normal way [[ImmortalProcreationClause despite being immortal]]. Naturally, they're part of the elite class who tend to look down upon the rest of their ilk, although Nyssa Damaskinos from ''Blade II'' is a pretty empathetic exception to the rule.
24	** In ''Film/BladeII'', a new breed of vampire referred to as the "Reaper" strain appears, which is resistant to silver, anti-coagulants and garlic, have a bone layer that prevents staking in the heart directly (a stake has to go through the armpit to reach the heart), and is only vulnerable to UV light. However, they have an insatiable desire for blood, both for regular vampires and mortals. At the climax of the movie, [[spoiler: it is revealed the Reapers were created by the vampires in an effort to develop a new strain that had none of their traditional weaknesses, but got ''way'' out of hand.]]
25	** In ''Film/BladeTrinity'' we get the progenitor Drake who has no bones which gives him shapeshifting abilities but appears to be inspired by Bulgarian myths which had vampires able to squeeze into places Eugene Tooms-like (Tooms is a mutant from ''Series/TheXFiles'').
26	* ''Film/TheBleeding'': These are horrifying parasites that stalk the Earth, killing stragglers of humanity while they wait for a new king to arise and lead them as a dark army until he's slain. They can live in the sunlight, but are slightly weakened. They can be killed by garlic, silver or blessed weapons, and need to sleep in their coffins regularly to live.
27	* ''Film/BloodAndDonuts'': These ones aren't killed by stakes.
28	* ''Film/TheBloodBeastTerror'': These are blood-sucking weremoths created by mad science.
29	* In ''Film/BloodForDracula'', vampires need the blood of virgins to survive. If they drink the blood of non-virgins, they get violently ill and it is of no substance to them.
30	* In ''Film/BloodFreak'', Herschel not only [[BirdPeople has a turkey's head in place of his own]] but can only consume the blood of drug addicts.
31	* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'': They can walk in the sun with no problem, appear to be killed with very ordinary means (here, crossbow bolts), can feed on other vampires, and reproduce sexually with their own kind. Also, none appears to feed on humans at all (in fact, we never see humans period) or even animals. However, they still live for centuries. They appear to be stronger than humans, but don't have any special weaknesses. It's unclear exactly how they were all first made, or if the vampires can turn a human.
32	* ''Film/BloodsuckersFromOuterSpace'': Bloodsuckers are aliens who possess humans and get a craving for blood. They do not transfer vampirism with a bite. Draining blood just kills the victims. The Sun doesn't kill them.
33	* ''Film/{{Bloodwine}}'': These ones transfer their vampirism via a magical drink.
34	* ''Film/BloodyMallory'': These feed off of psychic energy, and can survive beheadings for centuries afterwards.
35	* ''Film/BloodRayne'': For one thing, plain, ordinary water acts like HollywoodAcid on them. And, according to at least one shot, it also acts like it on their SHOES. It appears they can be killed with ordinary damage from swords (e.g. having their throat cut or stabbed in the heart), plus sunlight and holy objects (like crosses) harm them. Crossing water is also apparently fatal. Kagan is seeking objects that can counter all the weaknesses vampires have, to act unimpeded. Unlike in other works, they also often fight with ordinary weapons such as swords.
36	* ''Film/BloodRedSky'': They [[LooksLikeOrlok look like Orlok]] and have a HealingFactor that allows them to survive getting shot, but are vulnerable to sunlight and direct wounds to the heart. Vampirism also seems to be portrayed scientifically as TheVirus, with [[VampireRefugee Nadja]] taking a medication to suppress it, vampires "burning up" in the sun portrayed as a severe sunburn caused by exposure to UV light, their reflections appearing in mirrors just fine (which allows Nadja to see how inhuman her infection has made her look), and bites spreading the infection.
37	* ''Boys from County Hell'' features a vampire who is unaffected by sunlight and can even reattach its head if decapitated; even staking it in the heart to the extent that the heart is forced out of the vampire's body won't stop it for good. The only way to stop these vampires is to stake them in the heart to incapacitate the opponent and then bury it under a mass of rocks that it cannot dig its way out of, and even then its presence will contaminate the rocks so that those scratched by them will become infected and transform into vampires themselves (one character states that biting doesn't cause the change, but he may have been mistaken).
38	* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' is mostly true to the tropes of the original novel. However it also gives Dracula the ability to transform into a werewolf like creature, as well as another one that resembles a humanoid bat.
39	* ''Film/TheBreed2001'' has vampires that are essentially a genetic offshoot of humans. They have kept hidden from humans by inventing a synthetic blood substitute. They can go out in the sun but wear glasses because it hurts their eyes. They're affected by silver and fire, but not holy objects or garlic. Not every human can be turned; a number are immune. They do have enhanced strength and senses.
40	* ''Film/TheBridesOfSodom'': These look almost entirely human and cannot go out into the sun. They can turn humans both into one of them or into an undead thrall. They never age, have SuperSenses and are cold to the touch.
41	* The film version of ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had vampires who're noticeably very pale, gain pointed ears and able to fly without turning to bats. They don't turn to dust when staked (this was years before the TV series, mind you). They also don't seem to have regeneration, as TheDragon vampire loses an arm and never regains it back.
42	* ''Film/{{Byzantium}}'': Clara and Eleanor avoid the V-word mostly, not even really referring to themselves with a specific term. In her stories, Eleanor uses the term "soucriant". They can walk in the sunlight, appear in photographs and mirrors, don't have visible fangs, and no mention is made of crucifixes and garlic. It is hinted when Eleanor goes to Frank's birthday dinner and when [[spoiler: Clara tries to kill Frank]] that they need to be invited in. When they feed, their nails, usually on the thumb, grows rapidly whereupon they slit an artery and drink from it. To be made into a "soucriant", you need to travel to a remote island, enter a creepy shrine and apparently make a deal with the "Nameless Saint". It is stated that only those who are willing or ready to die can be turned into a vampire.
43	* The movie ''Film/CaptainKronosVampireHunter'' introduced the idea of there being a variety of breeds of vampire, with each one having unique weaknesses. So the first step to ridding an area of an infestation is to capture a vampire and experiment on it until you discover how it dies. (Which, if viewed by a passing local, [[NotWhatItLooksLike might be misunderstood]] and get a [[TorchesAndPitchforks pitchfork-and-torch-carrying mob]] to convene ...) The vampires in question fed on youth instead of blood and were [[spoiler: only killable by steel made from a church's cross.]]
44	* ''Film/CaveOfTheLivingDead'': These are classical European vampires, except their victims can be prevented from turning by sprinkling wolfsbane on the bite and they burst into flames upon death.
45	* The vamps in ''Film/ChildrenOfTheNight'' are mostly of the ClassicalMovieVampire mould, except they sleep either submerged in water [[BodyHorror with their lungs out of their mouths]] or in cocoons.
46	* ''Film/CountYorga'': Vampires have the usual weaknesses: Sunlight is fatal as are stakes and crosses fend them off. However the fangs on them are more akin to an actual vampire bat i.e a row of fangs with two big ones at the forefront (though oddly Yorga's bites on females are the standard two pinpricks) to which they can kill very quickly if not looking to turn people. What's more while Yorga's brides flinch at crosses, Yorga seems to have a bit of resistance to them, showing only mild annoyance when they're thrusted at him likely from his years as an undead. The turning seems very rapid however if the prey isn't outright killed. Erica, who was bitten by Yorga, start exhibiting erratic behavior only a day after being bitten. Catching and tearing chunks out of her kitten then acting seductive for a bit when her boyfriend, Paul and friend Micheal come to check on her. In the sequel, ''Return of Count Yorga'', [[spoiler: Baldwin turns after Yorga is killed due to being bitten by his brides before then]]. Also the sequel shows that if a turned vampire is left in the ground too long before reviving, they'll still decay like a normal corpse. Some of Yorga's harem have discolored and disfigured skin as a result.
47	* In Creator/GuillermoDelToro's ''Film/{{Cronos}}'', the lead character is turned into a vampire of sorts after being 'stung' by a mechanical scarab housing an immortal insect inside.
48	* In ''Film/CurseOfTheUndead'', Drake Robey is a vampire not because he was the victim of another vampire, but because he committed the mortal sin of suicide. Because of this, none of Robey's victims will be returning from the dead. Also [[DaywalkingVampire Robey is not incinerated by exposure to the daylight]].
49	* ''Film/DaughtersOfDarkness1971'': These are vain people who drink blood to stay young and beautiful forever. They keep mortal thralls, whom they seduce into their control. They don;t have fangs, and have to cut throats before drinking.
50	* ''Film/{{Daybreakers}}'': Vampires are pale, have yellow eyes and fangs, no reflections, and a tendency to burst into flame in direct sunlight. They're also the dominant race on earth and have hunted down humans to the point that they're literally an endangered species. This is generally not a good thing, especially given that blood-deprived vampires gradually mutate into mindless bat-monsters, and vampire blood only serves to hasten the change. Unfortunately, the fact that anyone bitten and not killed will become a vampire no doubt made it hard to avoid before society's infrastructure was remodeled. [[spoiler: Vampires can be restored to humanity by controlled exposure to sunlight -- and by drinking the blood of a former vampire.]]
51	* ''Film/{{Deathdream}}'': These are resurrected by the intensity of their loved ones' desire for them to live and use injections to drink blood instead of biting. They're utterly detached from their emotions but get much more animated at night. If they go too long without eating, they rot away, but cannot be killed by normal means.
52	* ''Film/{{Deafula}}'' features a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin deaf version of Dracula]]. Seriously.
53	* ''Film/DraculaIIAscension'' not only features a rare on-screen portrayal of vampire OCD but a subversion. Specifically, the protagonist tries to slow down Dracula by bursting a bag of mustard seeds in his general direction. Unfortunately, this version of Dracula is a [[BulletTime bullet]]-[[SuperSpeed timer]] and counts them all in mid-air. He also tries to use a series of knots to slow him down. Dracula unties them all in a single motion.
54	* In ''Film/DraculaUntold'', silver and direct Sunlight burns all vampires. Vampires have reflections in this film. Crosses hurt vampires who have drunk human blood, except if their cause is noble. Humans become vampires by drinking vampire blood. If a vampire does not drink human blood for the first three nights he becomes human again.
55	* ''Film/EmbraceOfTheVampire2013'': The film's vampire shows the usual [[WeakenedByTheLight lethal vulnerability to the sun]]. Vampires lack other common weaknesses however, with a superhuman [[SuperSpeed speed]] and [[SuperStrength strength]]. Drinking blood from a virgin of the bloodline which created them will also restore a vampire's original human form.
56	* Santi, the teenaged protagonist of ''Escalofrio'' (Spanish for ''Shiver''), has elongated canine teeth, a severe allergic reaction to sunlight and a tendency to view himself as a monster, [[NotUsingTheZWord though he never actually claims to be a vampire]]. He has no supernatural powers, and his condition causes him no small amount of trouble when he moves to a small town in the countryside and people start turning up with their throats ripped out and their blood drained.
57	* The {{wuxia}} movie ''Film/FingerOfDoom'' has a villainess who is a {{Necromancer}}, who lose her powers in the presence of sunlight and must spend her days hiding in her casket, besides having UndeathlyPallor associated with vampires and having her slain victims converted to zombie serfs. She's pretty much a vampire without being referred to by name, and dies in the exact same way via sword (instead of stake) through the heart.
58	* ''Film/FrankensteinsBloodyTerror'': These have the ability to seduce people with a look, keeping them in a trance until they're let free or their master is destroyed. When they're killed, their flesh dissolves into mist until only bones are left.
59	* The movie ''Film/FrightNight1985'' also played with this trope, as does the [[Film/FrightNight2011 remake]]. Vampires can definitely be killed by sunlight and a stake to the heart. Fire hurts like hell, and presumably will kill them. Beheading might work, but unlike most vampires, cutting off their head is just as difficult as it would a normal person (i.e., bone is hard to cut through). Vampires are hurt by holy water, but not silver. Crosses hurt, but appear to be overcome easily. They can't shapeshift, which is different from the original. Plus [[spoiler:there is a special stake blessed by St. Michael that cures all the vampires created by a vampire killed by it]]. They have to obey the [[MustBeInvited invitation rule]], but they can use [[LoopholeAbuse technicalities to cheat it]], such as [[spoiler:pretending to be a deliveryman and having the door open for them, using abandoned buildings (you can't "invite" someone into a place that doesn't belong to anyone, after all), and just plain [[DungeonBypass blowing up the home in question]]]].
60	* ''Film/FrightNight2NewBlood'': Vampires here are harmed by crosses or holy water and can't go into holy ground. They [[MissingReflection don't show up on cameras]] either, and also [[VampiresSleepInCoffins sleep in coffins]]. {{Wooden stake}}s can kill them, but it has to pierce the heart. They can turn into a [[OneWingedAngel monstrous form]]. They also have {{telepathy}} and {{telekinesis}}, using them with victims. Also, they are normally [[WeakenedByTheLight harmed by sunlight]] but can [[DaywalkingVampire become immune]] through draining a virgin born at midnight under the blood moon. They can also [[HealingFactor quickly heal from most injuries]] and [[SuperSenses use echolocation]] like a bat. Here, anyone bitten becomes a vampire automatically themselves too.
61	* ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'': Vampires here are an interesting case. They are vulnerable against sunlight and wooden stakes. Religious symbols are also effective (any thing that even remotely looks like a cross will do); a bullet with a cross etched onto the point is lethal. They often explode in a mass of green goo when killed. Vampires can disguise themselves to look human, but they really are monstrous. Appearance-wise, there really isn't a set rule. Some look more human, some look more animal, some are demonic in appearance, and some look like grotesque caricatures of their human forms. They can also turn into bats. They're also explain as being more fragile however, one can literally punch a hole in their chests' and rip their hearts out or decapitate them. Similarly, being turned shares more elements with zombie movies; the biker character slowly changes but tries to hide his condition, while [[spoiler: the preacher]] pretty much tells everyone else he's already dead, but he will help them until he changes completely, at which point they should just kill him.
62	* ''Film/GanjaAndHess'' involves an archaeologist who develops vampirism after getting stabbed with an ancient sacrificial knife at a dig.
63	* In the Japanese film ''Film/GokeBodySnatcherFromHell'', people are turned into vampires by alien possession.
64	* ''Film/GraveOfTheVampire'': These ones can't make wounds with their fangs, and need a weapon. They also feed off of life force and youth with the blood.
65	* ''Film/HorrorOfDracula'': Getting bitten, even if you're not completely drained of blood, is an instant threat to the victim and they'll turn unless treated properly or the vampire who bit them is killed.
66	* In ''Film/HumanistVampireSeekingConsentingSuicidalPerson'', vampires do age, but very slowly. Sasha looks like a high schooler but is sixty eight years old. 300 years is frequently stated as an average life span, with Sasha's aunt being considered old at 341. The vampires starve presumably to death if not feeding on blood and die if they consume human food. They are also implied to be stronger than humans. Sasha says that sun light will kill her and is shown taking care to cover windows. The vampires are also said to have allergic reactions to religious objects, but this is not shown.
67	* 1983's ''Film/TheHunger'' avoids the V-word, as did the source novel by Whitley Strieber. Miriam is a creature whose memories stretch back to ancient Egypt via {{Flashback}} in the film, and even further back in the novel, which establishes that her race existed before humans did but has dwindled to only a few (at most) in ThePresentDay. She slashes her victims' throats (with a blade hidden in an ankh pendant in the movie) to feed once a week. A human turned by her via an exchange of blood -- in essence, an infection in which her blood strain overtakes theirs -- will become her immortal lover and feed the same way. No traditional weaknesses are brought into play; they need to go into a deep sleep for several hours each day to maintain their loveliness, but that's it. The catch is that while ''she'' has eternal youth and beauty, her once-human lovers are doomed to decay after about 300 years. As the film opens this fate is besetting her current lover John. In just a few hours he horribly ages, and [[spoiler: she places him in a coffin that she sets alongside those of her past lovers, ''all of whom are still alive'']]. Miriam proceeds to move in on a ([[LesbianVampire female]]) doctor researching the connection between sleep and aging who is curious about what was happening to John when he came to her for help...
68	* In ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', vampires have super strength and speed (so fast that humans cannot even see them move) which increases as they age with no defined limit. They also have other powers like mind-reading and walking on walls, but such abilities vary from vampire to vampire. They can't transform into animals like bats or wolves, but one of them is shown to be able to fly (or at least [[PowerFloats levitate]]). They don't spread "the dark gift" purely by biting; they have to mix their blood with the victim, a la Dracula. They stop aging when they are turned, making [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld ancient child]] vampires possible, and forbidden to create. Their unchanging nature is exemplified when their hair is cut: it immediately grows back to the way it was at the time they were turned. Interestingly, they do cast reflections. All the "traditional" methods of dealing with vampires like wooden stakes through the heart, holy symbols, crosses, holy water, garlic, silver, etc are dismissed by one vampire as "nonsense", implying that they have no vulnerability to them. Sunlight still burns them to a crisp and it is shown that decapitation or [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisection]] will kill them, but it seems that only another vampire has the strength and speed to kill one. Fire will also (eventually) kill them but not always, depending on how quickly they act to put out the flames. They require copious amounts of blood every night to survive, with humans as their largest supply. They can [[VegetarianVampire survive on animals]], but that diet only keeps them just above starvation. They can only consume "live" blood, coming from victims whose hearts are still beating. Consuming "dead" blood from a corpse will weaken them considerably, if not outright kill them (older vampires like Lestat appear to be strong enough to survive the consumption of dead blood). Vampires in the film are extremely rare and seem to be unable to psychologically endure immortality for long (or adapt quickly enough to the changing world), the oldest one being merely 400 years old.[[note]]In the [[Literature/TheVampireChronicles source material]], vampires are found that are up to 6000 years old; the 400 year old vampire in question was either lying (he actually had good reason to) or really did think that he was the oldest in the world at that juncture in the storyline.[[/note]]
69	* ''Film/TheInvitation2022'': They are [[DaywalkingVampire unaffected by the sunlight]], don't age but look the same as when they turned, while they're killed with beheading, fire or a stake in the heart. Being gravely wounded can make them undergo RapidAging but won't kill them. They can sprout sharp talons and fangs on command. Also, they don't actually live forever, unless a suitable group is formed from the proper bloodlines, hence everyone's extreme desire to see Evie become Walt's new bride. They've been missing an Alexander for too long
70	* In ''Film/JesusChristVampireHunter'', vampires can go out into the sunlight if they receive skin grafts from lesbians who never had penetrative sex and are thus, still virgins. No, really.
71	* In ''Film/JohnCarpentersVampires'', vampires have most of the usual weaknesses, except for cross, however the original vampire, Jan Valek, is immune to silver bullets and garlic. In fact, the only thing that can harm him is the original cross from which he was crucified. His vampire minions can see through his eyes, and he's strong enough to decapitate a man with his bare hands. He is also still vulnerable to sunlight. Indeed, the plot of the movie revolves around him attempting to retrieve his cross in order to gain that immunity. The third movie ''The Turning'' introduces oriental vampires with drastically different backstories (there are two types: the benevolent ''song neng'' and the completely evil ''jai tham'' and a eclipse that happens every few centuries can turn them back to mortals), but they are still dealt with it like any other vampire by the hunters.
72	* ''Film/KissOfTheDamned'': They are fairly standard to modern depictions: live forever unless killed, heal instantly from most injuries, drink blood, killed by fire, decapitation and sunlight. However, they don't need to do anything special in turning humans, simply biting them is enough if the person isn't killed.
73	* ''Film/{{Kwaidan}}'': {{Yukionna}} are shown to be vampiric {{Youkai}} as opposed to the ghosts of the rest of the film. They resemble beautiful pale women that absorb people's blood, causing them to freeze to death. They can call upon blizzards, but resemble humans when not doing so. They can even reproduce with humans.
74	* ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'' has vampires as SnakePeople. The usual weakness toward Christian crosses is also averted. Oh, and they [[DaywalkingVampire function in daylight]]. The book of which it is based might present the same ideas.
75	* ''Film/TheLastManOnEarth'': These are made by an airborne virus, which kills and resurrects humans. They are overall mindless and sleep during the daytime, alongside being repulsed by garlic and mirrors. [[spoiler:However, they can regain their sentience via a vaccine, and be cured with an immune person's blood.]]
76	* ''Les Avaleuses/Female Vampire'': Countess Irina sucks her victims' lifeforce out through their sexual organs at the moment of ecstasy. It's not a porn film per se, though there is at least one hardcore version of it extant. And it really [[{{Pun}} sucks to be her]], because she has trouble maintaining a relationship.
77	* ''Film/LesbianVampireKillers'': These are turned by either the standard bite or a mystical curse. They have all the standard weaknesses, though water also destroys them, and can also be killed by conventional means. Their blood is white, and they explode when killed. Also they're all lesbians.
78	* In the Swedish film ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'', the vampire girl Eli [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld appears 12 but is quite old]]. She is very light and waifish, but has [[WaifFu incredible strength, speed, and agility]]. She is immune to extremely cold temperatures and can walk barefoot in the snow without discomfort. Victims she bites begin to turn into vampires within about a day unless she kills them. Cats are [[EvilDetectingDog particularly hostile to her kind]]. Sunlight will burn her, and she must receive spoken permission to enter someone else's home or else she will begin to rapidly hemorrhage. She also seems to suffer ill-effects from eating normal food, a trait also featured in ''Film/NearDark''.
79	* In the American remake of the above, ''Film/LetMeIn'', Abby has many of the same qualities as Eli, including the need to be invited in and issues eating normal food. She also has a feral GameFace that comes out when she's hungry or needs blood.
80	* In ''Film/LifeBlood'', vampires are avenging angels created by God to punish the wicked. They are vulnerable to sunlight to remind them that their work must be done in darkness. Those killed by vampires do not rise as vampires themselves. They still feed on blood.
81	* In ''Film/Lifeforce1985'', a.k.a. The Naked Space Vampire Movie, there is a naked vampire from outer space who sucks out people's [[LifeEnergy lifeforce]] (duh). Humans killed in that way rise as lifeforce-sucking vampires themselves, but they're still not from outer space if they weren't before, and they're only naked underneath their clothes. Also, while the space vampires are implied to be immortal, any humans who are turned into quasi-vamps need to regularly keep devouring more lifeforce lest their bodies turns to dust. Plus they can be killed by a leaded iron spike through the "energy centre" two inches ''below'' the heart.
82	* ''The Little Vampire'' based on a children's story has vampires that drink the blood of cattle like vampire bats do in real life.
83	* ''Film/LondonAfterMidnight'': The vampires aren't real, but actors trying to unsettle the murderer. The two main personas, the Man in the Beaver Hat and the Bat Girl, represent two different takes on vampirism. The Man in the Beaver Hat is a hunched figure with a permanent slasher smile, sharp teeth, unkempt shoulder-length hair, crazed eyes, and his bat-like wings are set in the form of the wings of a flying squirrel. He is impishly energetic, which contrasts the Bat Girl's eerily stoic presence. She's got a short cut with not a hair out of place, piercing eyes, normal teeth, a near-permanent stoic face, and her combination of a bodysuit with a transparent dress with wing-like sleeves evokes the image of a bat's opaque body amidst the transparency of its patagia. Both the Man in the Beaver Hat and the Bat Girl demonstrate the ability to fly. According to a book Smithson gives to Arthur, vampires are living, bloodsucking corpses that turn into bats by day to sleep. To prevent one from entering a home, a drawn sword of the sharpest steel and a wreath of tube roses are to be placed over the lock of a door or window. This barrier doesn't work because the vampire actors need to get things done.
84	* ''Film/TheLostBoys'': Vampires are vulnerable to holy water, and have a variable amount of vulnerability to sunlight. Some of them venture into the daylight wearing sunglasses, but sunlight causes Kiefer Sutherland's hand to burst into flames. Humans turned into vampires by drinking the blood of another vampire don't become fully vampiric until after feeding on a human. The curse can be reversed before this happens if the head vampire is killed. Anything that can be used to destroy the heart of a vampire will kill it, and leave a mess. Vamps don't need an invitation to enter a home, but if you do invite one it, you'll be unable to exploit any of its weaknesses to expose its true nature. In addition to such superpowers as strength and flight, vampires can [[FlightStrengthHeart make people perceive Chinese food as being made of worms and maggots.]]
85	* ''Film/LoveBites'': These look and act like normal humans, but are inert corpses during the day. They have a CompellingVoice and can turn into mist, but are susceptible to bloodborne illnesses. If exposed to sunlight, they experience RapidAging before rotting away. [[spoiler:Additionally, true love can make them human again.]]
86	* ''Film/{{Martin\|1977}}'' features a main character who so grossly avoids every major vampire-related trope, that there is some debate whether he actually is a vampire, or just a very disturbed boy. Specifically: he occasionally drinks blood but he admits that it's not necessary in order to keep him alive, he can go outside during the day with no ill consequences, and he has no apparent supernatural abilities (except that he claims to be [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld several hundred years old]]).
87	* In ''Film/ModernVampires'', humans are turned into vampires via STD rather than biting. Also done metaphorically in ''Habit''.
88	* ''Film/MonsterBrawl'': These are pale immortals with monstrous faces and superhuman strength, who can only be killed by stakes through the heart.
89	* In ''Film/MyBestFriendIsAVampire'', "living" vampires, such as protagonist Jeremy and mentor Modoc, are at most irritated by sunlight ("dead" vampires apparently have more trouble with it). They age at 1/10th human rate, and for the most part are FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire types who live on animal blood from butcher shops. They do have the classic weakness to garlic, and like anyone else don't have much of a tolerance for a wooden stake through the chest. Crosses don't bother them (Jeremy at one point walks into a church with no trouble), they have minor mind-control abilities, and they can morph into wolves. Shooting them doesn't even damage clothing, as Modoc demonstrates to the bumbling "vampire hunters" (he also seems a bit amused by their belief that silver bullets would do any good against a vampire).
90	* ''Film/MysticsInBali'' uses the penanggalan, who are flying heads with their organs trailing behind them. Here they are slaves of powerful mages, tasked with bringing their victims' life force so the mages can absorb it for themselves. However, if the mage dies they die too.
91	* ''Film/NearDark'' featured Adrian Pasdar as one of a band of vampires who feed on blood, catch fire in direct sunlight, and can be cured with a blood transfusion.
92	* ''Film/NightHunter1996'': These can survive the Sun, but hunt at night due to sensitive eyes. While they can be wounded, their blood is so powerful that it heals in seconds and can grant immortality, and you have to break their backs to kill them. Their bite does turn people, but the curse remains dormant until the next total eclipse.
93	* In ''Nightlife'', a made for television movie from 1989, vampires are allergic to UV light rather than sunlight per se, and feed on adrenaline rather than blood. The last is played up in the plot. The lead female vampire wants to leave the killing behind and takes up with a doctor so she can have access to donated blood, but blood isn't (normally) donated fearfully, so it lacked the adrenaline she needed, causing her to starve on a full stomach. Only when an older vampire starts to gleefully rant about hunting and how blood tastes better when it is "full of fear", does the doctor realize the missing ingredient. Vampires are created by drinking from a victim without killing him, which causes him to slowly transform into a vampire. Vampires in this world are explicitly not undead, just people suffering from [[TheVirus a virus]].
94	* In ''Film/NightWatch'' the protagonist is tracking down a Dark Other who is like a vampire and corners him in a dilapidated hair salon. The Vampire turns invisible at will but in an inversion it is mirrors that reveal him, apparently the spell only works on those looking directly at him but does not mask his reflection. The protagonist still has a hard time fighting him and comes close to death in the process of defeating him.
95	* In ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', Schreck's vampire is rather uniquely portrayed as [[LooksLikeOrlok a rat-like monster]] and the personification of pestilence, as well as having a considerable semblance to some kind of ghost, because of the numerous scenes where Orlok seems to materialise or dematerialise at will (such as when carrying his coffin into his new lair,) as well as the famous sequence where Orlok seems to sneak into Hutter's home as a disembodied shadow.
96	** According to an easy-to-miss card in the opening narration, however, Count Orlok is ''not'' a "vampire" but a "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin nosferatu]]", which is... [[CallAPegasusAHippogriff basically a vampire]]. This is because the filmmakers erroneously believed that the word "vampire" was a copyright owned by the estate of Bram Stoker. The word "nosferatu" never appears again in any context for the entire remainder of the film.
97	* In contrast to the [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} original classic]], Werner Herzog's ''Film/NosferatuTheVampyre'' features a [[spoiler:vampirized Jonathan Harker]] at the end of the film, who had earlier been subject to the predations of Count Dracula. Interestingly, this fate befalls no one else in the film, all of whom just die if they were drained by Dracula (or otherwise expire from ThePlague he brought along with him). Likewise, [[spoiler:Harker]] can apparently survive openly in broad daylight, whereas the sunlight was shown to kill Dracula outright (though possibly not permanently, as speculated by Van Helsing), even as [[spoiler:Harker]] shares Dracula's aversions to religious items.
98	* ''Film/OnceBitten'' has a female vampire that requires the blood of a virgin to look beautiful/stay young. This one bites her victims on the inner thigh, not the neck.
99	* In ''Film/PerfectCreature'', they are mutants created by a plague that [[OneGenderRace only affects males]], they can't turn other people into vampires, you have to be born one. They are much stronger and durable than humans, are long-lived rather than immortal (none of them died of natural causes, but their oldest members look quite aged) and are unaffected by the typical weaknesses, most notably holy items. In fact, the vampires form a ''[[ReligiousVampire Christian order]]'' in charge of guiding and protecting mankind and are referred to as "Brothers". They are also never called [[NotUsingTheZWord vampires]] during the movie, except for the opening narration, which mentions they used to be called like that before they formed the Brotherhood. They are taken from their mothers while they are still babies and indoctrinated into believing they are superior to humans, but in spite of all this, they managed to live in harmony with the humans as FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires who drink from their willingly donated blood.
100	* In the film version of ''Film/{{Priest 2011}}'', vampires are a separate species from humanity, eyeless bat-like creatures that also have insect attributes (in that they have hives and [[HiveQueen queens]]). They also have Familiars, humans who have been infected with vampire blood and end up [[LooksLikeOrlok looking a bit like Orlok]], and are still able to go out in the sunlight, but aren't otherwise any different from regular humans. That's the closest humans ever come to being vampires themselves [[spoiler: until [[TheDragon Black Hat]] is turned by the blood of the Vampire Queen herself. He remains immune to sunlight, but gains the vampires' immense strength.]]
101	* ''Film/{{Prowl}}'' (originally titled ''Strays'') has vampires that are born, which kills the mother, or the child dies before it's born. They pass for human for the most part until a moment of great stress or danger makes their abilities awaken. Also, the special features indicate they are evolved from some type of nocturnal predatory bird.
102	* Lampshaded in ''Film/Renfield2023'': [[spoiler:There's so much conflicting vampire lore out there that even Renfield isn't actually sure what can really kill Dracula, so he and Rebecca just try ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill everything]]'' and hope it'll stick. Even when they've chopped up his body and mixed it into cement cubes they pour into the sewer, Renfield thinks he'll probably come back from ''that'' eventually, just not for a long time.]]
103	* Vampires in the Creator/LucyLiu film ''Film/RiseBloodHunter'' are almost indistinguishable from humans physically--they don't even have fangs, which makes feeding very messy. (They tend to slash throats with a blade if possible, but at one point Sadie [Liu's character] has to chew through a victim's skin.) Their biological functions are less than clear -- one minion of a vampire tries to suffocate Sadie with a plastic bag, and seems to be succeeding. (Also you'd think he'd know better if it didn't work.) However, getting shot has little effect except pain, and Sadie survives a fall from a bridge into traffic, though she's beaten up very badly. Vampires have a powerful sense of smell, and seem to be a little stronger and faster than humans, but not very much so; they can't break handcuffs, and it takes several blows to break a locked door. They die from crossbow bolts (presumably wooden) to the heart [[spoiler: except Sadie, who survives one]].
104	* In ''Film/{{Rockula}}'', vampires are immune to crosses and garlic (much to the consternation of Stanley, who's trying to prove his romantic rival Ralph is one). If Ralph and his mom are typical appearance-wise, they're indistinguishable from humans aside from tell-tale fangs (which no one seems to notice). Daylight is a problem, but due to RuleOfFunny it turns out it's easily circumvented with sun block. Not only does Ralph have a reflection, but it talks back to him, although it's unclear if that's supposed to be true of all vampires. Also, when he tries to turn into a bat [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he becomes a chubby, toddler-sized bat/human hybrid]], but the implication seems to be that he's ''supposed'' to be able to fully turn into a bat and he's just not very good at it.
105	* ''Film/ScaryOrDie'': These are the beautiful seductress variety. And also Korean.
106	* ''Film/TheSeventhCurse'': These are flying beasts that look like babies and are made of the blood of 100 children, which must be renewed every three years.
107	* ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire'' has an interesting take on the shadow-film-reflection triad. Vampires don't reflect, but they ''do'' cast shadows (as per the original ''{{Film/Nosferatu}}'') -- and, of course, they ''can'' be caught on camera. The title may (as well as being a quote from ''Nosferatu'') constitute LampshadeHanging. Also, vampires are shown to be twisted disgusting creatures, taking on [[LooksLikeOrlok ratlike]] features. Despite their shrivelled withered appearance, they are still much stronger than humans. They may even age (albeit slowly) and one shows signs of senility, or at least a general loss of memory of events in his distant past. The one we see also needs to feed constantly and enormously, and is unable to create more vampires.
108	* The vampires in ''Tale of a Vampire'' don't have fangs, keep normal hours, mope endlessly over lost loves, and are ''completely'' indestructible.
109	* ''Film/TheresaAndAllison'': They can be killed through [[OffWithHisHead beheading]], [[WeakenedbyTheLight sunlight]], [[KillItWithFire fire]] and [[WoodenStake stakes]]. However, garlic and holy water don't harm them. They can appear in mirrors though, and also don't [[VampireInvitation need an invitation]] to go inside of someone's home. Also, they can't [[{{Flight}} fly]] or [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transform]]. They can grow "drunk" on blood too. Eating normal food makes them violently ill. Animal blood doesn't suffice-it makes them sick. They have [[SuperSenses enhanced hearing and smell]], being able to discern people at a great distance this way, including with details such as their blood type, if they're drunk etc. Vampires themselves have no scent, and they can detect others due to it. Once turned, as usual, they [[TheAgeless don't age]] or get sick from any ordinary disease. They can go a few days usually before have to feed again.
110	* In ''Film/Thirst2009'', vampire blood can heal your infirmities and illnesses, but only so long as you're full of it. Vampires don't grow fangs, but they can still suck blood from bite wounds. They're super-strong and almost totally immune to damage, but do have the typical weakness to sunlight. Sang-hyun also briefly flies.
111	* ''Film/TheTortureChamberOfDrSadism'': These are undead people created by an elixir made of virgin blood. They have BlackBlood and a HealingFactor so strong that bullet holes disappear in seconds.
112	* In the ''Film/Underworld2003'' series, vampires are the result of one of the sons of the first immortal having been bitten by a bat, which somehow caused the immortality virus in him to mutate into a vampiric one. Vampires have great strength and speed, as well as heightened senses. They need blood to survive and will actually get sick if they ingest normal food. It is interesting to note that one of the vampire's leaders, the Elder Viktor, promulgated a law that vampires are forbidden from drinking human blood (a rule which he himself routinely violated) to avoid antagonizing mortals. The vampires' only weakness is sunlight (specifically, UV rays), which have been weaponized by their enemies, the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lycans]] ([[spoiler:it is revealed in the second film that the UV rounds were designed by an exiled vampire historian in exchange for a comfortable life and protection]]). All immortals have an interesting trait that allows them to [[GeneticMemory experience memories transferred by blood]]. A vampire's (or lycan's) bite transfers the virus into the victim's bloodstream. Best-case scenario is the human turning into a vampire. Worst-case (happens most of the time) is the human dies an agonizing death within minutes of being bitten (the virus did evolve from a deadly plague). Vampires are not considered to be undead, as they are able to have children, even with lycans (although this is expressly forbidden by vampire law, so just guess what happens...)
113	* ''Film/TheVampire'': This one is a lot like a werewolf—being hairier than its human form—and is made by taking pills made from a vampire bat's blood. Its bite destroys tissue, melting a victim's flesh within days.
114	* ''Film/TheVampireDoll'': These are created by hypnosis, which keeps them from dying but twists them into insanity that leaves them begging for death during brief moments of lucidity. They have an UndeathlyPallor except for the wounds that would have killed them, which are constantly bleeding. They're deathly cold, have SupernaturalGoldEyes, and can drink from both animals and humans. Releasing the hypnosis kills them within seconds, but it can only be done by the hypnotist willingly releasing them or the hypnotist dying.
115	* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': They don't appear in mirrors, can be destroyed by sunlight, have to sleep inside of coffins with soil from their homeland, aren't harmed by garlic or holy objects and can get pregnant although they miscarry soon after as pregnancy can't be sustained very long. Only certain vampires can make others, called "stems", and if they're killed then vampires they made will become human again at the age they were while turned. Turning someone requires them being bitten by the vampire, then drinking the vampire's blood. Also, their saliva has a natural blood-thinner and this can stop a heart attack. It appears vampires are only killed by beheading. If a pregnant vampire is turned back into a human, their child will apparently be a {{dhampyr}}. They also appear able to teleport over a short distance.
116	* ''Film/VanHelsing'' has Dracula and his brides able to go OneWingedAngel and turn into [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy-like creatures]]. They're able to mate and reproduce, but their children are born dead, and Dracula's main goal is to find a way to bring them to life. His brides and other creations are vulnerable to the usual - holy water, crucifixes etc. However Dracula can only be killed with [[spoiler: a bite from a werewolf]].
117	* In the ''[[Film/VHS94 V/H/S/94]]'' segment "Terror", a [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic militia group]] acquires a "superweapon" that they refer to as a vampire. While it is unclear exactly what it is, it is a seemingly immortal man who grows a FlowerMouth that is [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily brimming with jagged fangs]] after sundown if he is not shot in the head and rendered inanimate for the night before then (coming back the next day). His blood also violently explodes when exposed to sunlight, which is why the militia group is regularly draining his blood in order to [[PostModernMagik create a light-activated bomb to destroy a federal building with]].
118	* ''Film/WeAreTheNight'': They're standard to modern portrayals overall-feeding on blood, living forever if not killed and destroyed by direct sunlight. However, they also differ in some ways, for instance being able to walk on walls, and solely being female (though not naturally, rather as a result of the males all being killed off).
119	* ''Film/TheWildWorldOfBatwoman'', in the dubiously tacked-on prologue ostensibly justifying the movie's alternate title of ''She Was a Hippy Vampire'', gives the ridiculous explanation that the Bat Girls are "vampires, all right, but only in the synthetic sense."
120	* ''Film/TheWitchesHammer'': These have heightened speed and reflexes and are killed by any severing of the head or piercing of the heart, regardless of material. Aside from the traditional bite transfer, the curse can also be transferred via eating vamp meat. If they go too long without blood, they become ravenous beasts that can even be burned by moonlight.
121	* ''Film/WithAKissIDie'': They don't live forever, though age very slowly such that Juliet (who was born in the 1200s) looks about thirty in the modern age at most. Sunlight doesn't affect them at all. They're colorblind, and lose their ordinary sense of taste. They can be killed through decapitation, fire and drinking dead blood.

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