Artist Jeff Victor’s chart has a couple of famous vampires lined up in chronological order. It has some interesting choices (and some might miss the young Christopher Lee) but that’s why it’s a great piece. And I guess this makes it clear that no one can beat the creepy, silent Nosferatu from 1922.
I hope I got them all correctly:
1922 – Nosferatu
1931 – Bela Lugosi
1972 – William Marshall aka. Blacula
1987 – Kiefer Sutherland from The Lost Boys
1992 – Lucy from Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1996 – Salma Hayek from Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn
2002 – A reaper from Blade II
2008 – Eli from Let The Right One In
2008 – Twilight
2014 – Superhero-looking Dracula from Dracula Untold
The Evolution of the Movie Vampire by Jeff Victor [Blogspot, via GeekTyrant]
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6 responses to “Cartoony Evolution Of Famous Vampires”
Serious fail….no Gary Oldman.
Yep. Granted Lucy looks awesome, and she was iconic too, it’s just, well, Gary Oldman!
It’s still my absolute favourite adaption of Dracula. I’ve read the novel a million times by now, and no other film comes as close as Francis Ford Coppola’s take. It hasn’t aged a day, in my opinion, and the effects still look amazing. The score is still one of the greats too!
Pedant’s note. The word “couple” refers to two things only.
There seems to be some gaps here. No Richard Roxburgh from Van Helsing, nor is there Leslie Nielson from Dracula: Dead and Loving it. I don’t know if it’s just movies because Alucard from Castlevania SOTN isn’t there (Or Hellsing either). Rutger Hauer from the original Buffy movie isn’t there either.
Wouldn’t have been Blade himself more iconic than a reaper?
After visiting the artist site, it seems like he was more trying to represent the different kinds of vampires that have appeared in film as opposed to just “iconic” ones. Though blade being a daywalker is admittedly different…
Blacula. Yay!