Classic vampires in TV, movies
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Vampire movies, including "The Twilight Saga," are no doubt hot in popular culture right now. Take a look at some different fanged flicks throughout movie and television history.
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1922: Max Schreck in "Nosferatu"
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1931: Bela Lugosi in "Dracula"
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1958: Christopher Lee in "Dracula"
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1966: Jonathan Frid in "Dark Shadows"
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1985: When a teenager learns that his next door neighbor (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire, no one will believe him.
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1987: Kiefer Sutherland in "The Lost Boys."
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1992: Winona Ryder and Gary Oldman in "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
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1994: Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in "Interview With the Vampire"
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1994: Even though it wasn't technically a vampire flick, "Ed Wood," starring Johnny Depp in the title role, featured the sad conclusion to the life of "Dracula" star Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau)
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1995: Leslie Nielsen in "Dracula: Dead and Loving It"
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1998: In the first of three "Blade" movies based off a graphic novel series, Wesley Snipes plays a half-vampire, half-mortal man charged with protecting the mortal race by slaying evil vampires.
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2000: Gerard Butler in "Wes Craven's Dracula 2000"
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2000: Willem Dafoe in "Shadow of the Vampire"
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2004: Richard Roxburgh in "Van Helsing"
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2007: After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, its residents, led by Josh Hartnett and Melissa George, have to fight off a bloodthirsty gang of vampires in "30 Days of Night."
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2008: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart star in the hit vampire romance "Twilight."
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2008: Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyers in "True Blood"
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2009: In "Daybreakers," a plague has turned most of the planet's human population into vampires. A vampiric corporation, led in part by a vampire hematologist played by Ethan Hawke, sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans.
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2009: Nina Dobrev in "The Vampire Diaries"
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2009: Chris Missoglia and John C. Reilly star in "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant."
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2009: Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart in "The Twilight Saga: New Moon."
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2010: In "Let Me In," an American remake of the Swedish vampire flick "Let the Right One In," a bullied young boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) befriends a young female vampire (Chloë Grace Moretz) who lives in secrecy with her guardian.
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2010: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse."
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2011: Paul Bettany plays the title character in "Priest, disobeying church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece.
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2011: Colin Farrell plays the charming-but-deadly vampire next door in a remake of 1985's "Fright Night."
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2011: In "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1," Edward and Bella (Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart) get married and are expecting a baby, but neither the vamps or werewolves seem very excited about it.
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2012: In a revisionist twist on history, President Abraham Lincoln (played by Benjamin Walker) takes on vampires with his legendary ax in the movie adaptation of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."
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2012: In a remake of the 1966 original, Johnny Depp portrays vampire Barnabas Collins, who returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection
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2012: In "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2," Bella gives birth to her daughter, Renesmee, and the Cullens must gather other vampire clams in order to protect the child from a false allegation.
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