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486 entries, from the 1931 Universal cycle to last year. Curated, not exhaustive: a short shelf of things worth knowing about beats a long one nobody can navigate.

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Renfield

2023 · USA · 93m

Nicolas Cage plays Dracula as a toxic boss, and his familiar wants to leave the relationship. A horror comedy about codependency.

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Eyes Without a Face

1960 · France/Italy · 90m

A surgeon steals faces for his disfigured daughter. Filmed with a tenderness that makes it far worse.

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Fright Night

1985 · USA · 103m

A teenager works out his new neighbour is a vampire and no adult will believe him, so he hires a washed-up TV host.

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The Orphanage

2007 · Spain/Mexico · 101m

Produced by del Toro, and it is a film about a mother rather than a house.

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Horror of Dracula

1958 · UK · 85m

Christopher Lee plays Dracula as a physical threat rather than a foreign gentleman, and it is over in 82 minutes.

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The Wolf Man

1941 · USA · 70m

Most werewolf folklore you think is ancient was invented for this script in 1941.

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Freaks

1932 · USA · 64m

Tod Browning cast real sideshow performers, MGM cut a third of it, and it ended his career.

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The Lost Boys

1987 · USA · 97m

Joel Schumacher's MTV vampires in a California beach town, and it made the genre cool for a decade.

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The Lighthouse

2019 · USA/Canada · 109m

Shot on black and white 35mm in a 1.19:1 box. Two men, a rock, and a great deal of drinking.

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Bride of Frankenstein

1935 · USA · 78m

The Universal cycle's best film. Whale is openly funny and openly on the monster's side.

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Crimson Peak

2015 · USA/Canada · 119m

Del Toro doing full gothic romance. The house is the best thing in it and it is sinking.

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Don't Look Now

1973 · UK/Italy · 110m

Grief, Venice, and an edit that keeps showing you the ending before you can read it.

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Nosferatu

2024 · USA · 143m

Eggers going back to Murnau rather than to Stoker. Filthy, plague-ridden, and Orlok has a moustache.

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Dracula

1931 · USA · 75m

Stagey, slow, and it has no score at all. Lugosi's face is the entire reason it survives.

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The Others

2001 · USA/Spain · 101m

A twist that survives a second viewing, which is rarer than it sounds.

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Frankenstein

1931 · USA · 71m

Karloff in Jack Pierce's makeup, and the flat head is a copyrighted design rather than anything from the novel.

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Nosferatu

1922 · Germany · 94m

An illegal Dracula that survived a court order to burn it. Still the best-looking vampire film.