VAMPIRES IN MOVIES

There are lots of different genres in the history of filmmaking. One of those genres are monster movies, which offer a sense of suspense and fear to the audience who is deeply mesmerised by what is happening on the giant screen. Will someone die? What will happen to the protagonist? How can that monster be so awful? This research paper will focus on only one kind of monster who invaded the many movie screens around the world for ages; the mysterious vampires. I will mostly talk about three films in particular : « Nosferatu » made by F.W Murnau, « Dracula » made by Tod Browning and « Bram Stoker’s Dracula » made by Francis Ford Coppola, which I think are great vampire movies, but I will also briefly talk about what has been made lately in Hollywood on vampires.

But before giving a description of those movies, one has to know what defines a vampire persona. Though each vampire movies have a different portrayal of their main character, because each filmmaker has a different ver...