![]() Nicole Maines stars as a transgender teenage girl who moves to Los Angeles and falls in with a badass crew of vampires (run by cooler-than-everyone Diana Hopper as Duke) who do not allow men in their undead club. The “Vibe Check” on Brad Michael Elmore’s Bit passes with flying (neon) colors. Starring: Nicole Maines, Diana Hopper, Zolee Griggs, Friday Chamberlain, Char Diaz, James Paxton, Greg Hill.You can never stifle ambition, which will always find a way. It’s no Nosferatu, but it exemplifies how vampire flicks can differentiate themselves through translucent visual effects and more ghostly disorientation even in days when techniques were limited. Most notably, Vampyr heavily uses shadows that maneuver with free will, giving a dreamlike state to supernatural influences. Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer implements what little technological advancements benefitted cinema at the time to create a black-and-white vampire mystery that operates in absurdist brush strokes. Starring: Julian West, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan HieronimkoĬriterion has dubbed 1932’s Vampyr a horror classic with good reason.Horror’s not only for the boys anymore, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a big step in the right direction as far as the '90s were concerned. ![]() What it represents for young girls seeing themselves as horror heroes is iconic, and its class-clown act holds up whether Luke Perry tells a levitating David Arquette to go home or Paul Reubens sells the hammiest vampire death ever. ![]() Swanson’s vibing off the bubblegum-popping cheerleader stereotypes of '90s high school comedies that never let cheer squad captains be more than ditzy love interests, let alone vampire slayers. Before Sarah Michelle Gellar started staking vamps on television, Swanson starred in a '90s horror comedy that favored pep rally humor over sharpened weapons. We’re talking about the 1992 feature starring Kristy Swanson, not the worshiped television show.
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