10 Best Vampire Movies on Netflix to Sink Your Teeth Into

It’s normal for film subgenres to come and go out of fashion, yet vampire movies have remained consistently popular over the decades. Recently, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has proved that the demand for stories about human-like creatures with fangs is still high, with the movie grossing $352 million at the box office. These are impressive for a horror movie. In 2024, Nosferatu also proved that the audience’s appetite for blood hadn’t waned. The movie grossed $181 million.

Genre fans who don’t intend to drag themselves to theaters need not worry. Netflix has several great vampire movies for its American subscribers. Even though all these films share similar skeletons, they tackle the subject from different, creative perspectives. You’ll get to see a vampire who is a military dictator and another who runs a high-end resort.

Make time for these great vampire movies on Netflix if you can. Just make sure to protect your neck.

10

‘Night Teeth’ (2021)

Night Teeth

Release Date

October 20, 2021

Runtime

107 minutes

Director

Adam Randall

Writers

Brent Dillon

In Night Teeth, college student Benny (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.) works as a chauffeur in Los Angeles, filling in for his brother. One night, he picks up two women, Blaire (Debby Ryan) and Zoe (Lucy Fry), for a club-hopping spree around the city. Unknown to him, they are vampires. How will the night unfold?

These Passengers ‘Suck’

The Adam Randall film is a masterpiece of tone, blending satire, horror, thrills, and social commentary. Beyond that, the uniformly excellent cast, featuring Sydney Sweeney and Megan Fox, masters a tightrope of changing moods, fun dialogue, and sub-genre subversions. And, apart from the main twist, the movie has a few little ones that will leave you slapping your forehead for never seeing it coming.

9

‘Dracula Untold’ (2014)

Dracula Untold

Release Date

October 1, 2014

Runtime

92

Director

Gary Shore

Writers

Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Bram Stoker

Dracula Untold expertly melds elements of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with real-world history. Here, Prince Vlad III of Transylvania (Luke Evans) is eager to protect his family and kingdom from the Ottoman Empire’s unreasonable demand for 1,000 boys, including his son. He thus makes a deal with the feared Master Vampire (Charles Dance), who helps him gain powers for three days. But there will be consequences.

Vlad the Biter

Fans of period horror movies should line up in numbers for this scabrous flick. Its wealth and intelligence demand repeat viewings. Luke Evans excels in a familiar tough guy role, while Charles Dance has it easy in an authority-type role that he has played several times in his career. The real Vlad III’s patronymic inspired the name of Bram Stoker’s literary vampire, Count Dracula, so director Gary Shore and his team do well by making him an actual vampire.

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8

‘Vampires’ (1998)

Vampires

Release Date

October 30, 1998

Runtime

108 minutes

Writers

John Steakley, Don Jakoby

Jack Crow (James Woods) from Vampires has been on a revenge mission ever since blood suckers killed his parents. He has a crew and the help of the Catholic Church, but he soon meets his match at a roadside motel. How will Jack the Vampire Slayer deal with his new powerful enemies?

Carpenter Shapes ‘Vampires’ to Near Perfection

Smart, gory and fast-paced, Vampires will suck you in. Admittedly, John Carpenter has made better movies than this. However, the ’90s movie thoroughly entertains, thanks to its incredible action sequences. Beyond the fighting, the director and his dedicated cast make us care about these tough characters. Woods won Best Actor at the Saturn Awards, while the movie, as a whole, received several other nominations.

7

‘Day Shift’ (2022)

Day Shift

Release Date

August 12, 2022

Runtime

114minutes

Director

J.J. Perry

Writers

Shay Hatten, Tyler Tice

Day Shift’s Bud Jablonski (Jamie Foxx) spends his days masquerading as a pool cleaner while secretly working as a vampire hunter to support his family. Soon, he uncovers a sinister plot to enable vampires to walk in daylight and annihilate humanity. What will he do about it?

Just Trying to Make a Living

This entrancing feature feels very of the moment, delving into experiences many people are likely to relate to. Even though he is a vampire hunter, Bud faces normal problems such as financial struggles and the threat of losing his family because of his failure to properly provide for them. Such is the bewildering urban landscape where contentment is always elusive. And when it’s time for action, Day Shift truly delivers.

6

‘Blood Red Sky’ (2021)

Blood Red Sky

Release Date

July 23, 2021

Runtime

121 minutes

Director

Peter Thorwarth

Writers

Stefan Holtz, Peter Thorwarth

It seems like in for another standard hijacking when terrorists take over a transatlantic flight to New York in Blood Red Sky. Unknown to the villains and the audience, one of the passengers is a vampire traveling to get treatment for her son’s illness. Soon, she is forced to use her fangs in self-defense, but more complications arise when one of the terrorists injects himself with her blood.

Terror in the Skies

Warning: Blood Red Sky should only be watched by hardcore genre fans. The terror grows to disturbing levels several times in the film, but there’s probably nothing you haven’t seen before if you like this kind of treat. Still, the choreography is neat enough to make you care. And the leukemia plot makes the film even more emotional. The good news is that a sequel is on the way.

5

‘Hotel Transylvania’ (2012)

Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) runs a lavish resort in Hotel Transylvania, where monsters go to unwind, far away from “those pesky humans.” The latest party becomes a lot more interesting when a human gate-crashes and then falls in love with Dracula’s daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez).

Biting Food, not Necks

You’ve got to love an animated film that packs in world-class actors as varied as Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi, and David Spade, and gives them each a little fascinating character to work their magic on in the most colorful of canvases. With all these talents on board, a few inevitably come off better than others, but the cumulative effort still makes you want to watch again and again. No scares here. Just laughter and good times. No complaints when Hotel Transylvania was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

4

‘He Never Died’ (2015)

He Never Died

Release Date

December 18, 2015

Runtime

99 minutes

Director

Jason Krawczyk

Producers

Adrienne Stern

In He Never Died, vampire Jack (Henry Rollins) lives in isolation to suppress his barbaric instincts. His peace is disrupted when mobsters come for a hospital intern who supplies him with blood. Even worse, his daughter gets kidnapped by criminals looking to get at him for old sins. Left with no choice, Jack springs into action.

Interesting Biblical Connections

This impressive debut feature from director Jason Krawczyk serves up an affecting meditation on parental love, survival, and fate, elevated by winning performances from the leads: Rollins, Booboo Stewart, and Steven Ogg. Even wilder are the twists. For example, it’s eventually revealed that Jack is actually the biblical figure Cain, cursed with eternal life and a thirst for blood for murdering his brother Abel. You have to see it to believe it.

3

‘Twilight’ (2008)

Twilight

Release Date

November 21, 2008

Runtime

121 minutes

In Twilight, seventeen-year-old Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) moves from Phoenix to Forks to live with her father, who happens to be the town’s police chief. There, she falls for the handsome Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), whose teen appearance masks the fact that he is a 108-year-old vampire. Will love really blossom?

No French Kissing

Twilight maintains the thrills that author Stephenie Meyer established in her books. But franchise fans will admit that following the story on the screen is way more fun, partly because they got some of the most beautiful actors to play these amazing characters. Pattinson became a proper star after this, with his costars also getting significant career boosts.

2

‘Vampires vs. the Bronx’ (2020)

Vampires vs. The Bronx

Release Date

October 2, 2020

Runtime

86 minutes

Director

Osmany Rodriguez

Writers

Blaise Hemingway, Osmany Rodriguez

Producers

Bert Hamelinck, Lorne Michaels, Erin David, Michael Sagol

A trio of Bronx teens from Vampires vs. the Bronx feels that something is off with the real estate developers spearheading the gentrification process of their neighborhood. Their instincts are right. The businessmen are actually vampires buying up more houses so that they’ll have plenty of room to feed without getting noticed. Somebody stop them.

Sucking the Life Out of a Neighborhood

Looking for vampire movies with an element of gangsterism? Vampires vs. the Bronx comes highly recommended. Unsurprisingly, some greedy criminals choose to work with the gangsters, but worry not, the protagonists will take care of anything. The dialogue is golden, and so is the social commentary. You’ll be left smiling, rather than scared.

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1

‘El Conde’ (2023)

Augusto Pinochet will forever be remembered as one of history’s nastiest dictators. El Conde is his semi-biopic, sort of… except the infamous Chilean ruler is a vampire. After living for 250 years, he grows tired of constantly being haunted by memories of his bad deeds. He seeks death by abstaining from blood, but he won’t get out of this as easily as he thinks he will.

Bad Men Live Long… And Vampires, Too

Pablo Larraín and Guillermo Calderón’s creative screenplay unravels like a poem, with unhurried pacing and intentional allegories. In the lead role, Jaime Vadell is understated and brooding, his performance balanced by an almost mystical force of energy. And everything looks stunning. No wonder the Oscars recognized El Conde for Best Cinematography.

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