ROTTEN TOMATOES: Total Recall: Sexy Vampires

Total Recall: Sexy Vampires

In honor of Twilight, we pay tribute to some of cinema's hottest bloodsuckers.

by Tim Ryan and Jen Yamato | November 19, 2008

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This week, the hotly-anticipated Twilight hits theaters. The film, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in the tale of young vampires in love, got us thinking: blood suckers are sexy. Thus, we thought we'd present a compendium of some of the hottest vampires in big-screen history!

more info...	Aaliyah *Appears in: Queen of the Damned* (2002) Tomatometer: 14%** Six years after Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt surprised Anne Rice fans with a commercially-successful adaptation of the author's novel Interview with the Vampire, Warner Bros. rushed into production on a follow-up, skipping Interview's direct sequel The Vampire Lestat in favor of shooting a revamped version of Rice's sexier third book; the result was 2002's Queen of the Damned, a critical and commercial failure that drew comparisons to the Goth-pop music videos streamed on MTV. Despite all this, Queen of the Damned featured a central performance by the late R&B star Aaliyah (the victim of a tragic airplane crash six months before the film's release) that remains one of the sexiest, if utterly camp-tastic, vampire portrayals put to celluloid. Scantily clad and golden-eyed as the Egyptian vampire queen Akasha -- the oldest and most powerful of all vampires on earth -- Aaliyah slithered her way through Queen with the lithe poise of a dancer, and memorably joined Stuart Townsend's Lestat in a rose petal-strewn bath that still has us steamed. Damned to the ranks of rotten on the Tomatometer? Yes. Queen of the sexiest vampire movies in history? Undoubtedly.

more info...	Kate Beckinsale *Appears in: Underworld* (2003), Underworld: Evolution (2006) Tomatometer: 27%, 14%** As if Kate Beckinsale needed to do anything more than slink into a black leather bodysuit, her Selene in 2003's Underworld possesses superhuman strength, packs major firepower, and has a taste for blood -- the ultimate lethal, sexy succubus. The only thing that could make this vampire sexier? Her steamy forbidden romance with one Michael Corvinus (Scott Speedman), the human-turned-werewolf who happens to be the newfound enemy of her people. That the camera in both Underworld and its 2006 sequel, Underworld: Evolution, near-fetishizes Selene's every move doesn't hurt (director Len Wiseman begun dating his star halfway through filming on Underworld and married her in 2004). While the next Underworld installment, Rise of the Lycans, will go Beckinsale-less -- it's a prequel story starring Rhona Mitra and Michael Sheen, Beckinsale's real-life ex -- look for her hugely anticipated return to the vampire lady assassin role in a rumored fourth Underworld film.

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RT-Ryan writes:
on Nov 19 2008 06:23 PM

It's too bad you couldn't include the actual Monica Bellucci clip. Mmmmm.... I guess we could have run into some complaints if we had, though.

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Rash Hunt writes:
on Nov 19 2008 06:44 PM

Let the right one in!

Mmmmm.

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Nov 19 2008 07:06 PM

LOL, is anyone watching South Park right now?!?! Its awesome, there making funny of TWILIGHT! Its so ****ing funny, there trying to get Butters!

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ZiGyStRdUsT writes:
on Nov 19 2008 07:37 PM

South Park has once again explained one of the most important ills plaguing our country today: Vampire douches.

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collex writes:
on Nov 19 2008 07:47 PM

I didn't like Bram Sotker's Dracula. Really too slow, and when I was comparing it to what I remembered fro the novel, it didn't really make sense.

I agree Monica Belluci is hot tough.

But I must say that the most sexiest vampire I've ever seen is Vampire Willow from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.

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jokerboy1991 writes:
on Nov 19 2008 08:05 PM

In reply to this comment (#2138151)
I liked Francis Fords version. Yes it was flawed especially with Neo's performance, but it had greatness to it I thought. Oldman kicked *** as Count,Anthony Hopkins was a cool Vanhelsing, the movie was great visually, and had super hot vamps instead of stupid ones like in Vanhelsing.

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nblarson writes:
on Nov 19 2008 08:32 PM

The South Park episode was priceless...

*looks forward to goths burning down Hot Topics the world over*

"The Hunger," while a bit vacuous, was, simply put, hot. Catherine Deneuve and a young Susan Sarandon having a sexy party? Count me in.

Monica Belluci could play a decaying zombie and she'd still be smoking.

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blattman writes:
on Nov 19 2008 09:11 PM

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It is only 9:10 in this part of the world. I am trying to stay awake long enough to watch it. Especially since this is the season ending.

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rachel_renegade writes:
on Nov 19 2008 09:34 PM

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OMFG. i loved the new episode. I texted a friend (male Twilight fan) and i told him and he said "thats not funny. People can like a book Rachel. just like you are allowed to dislike it. I dont want to hear it, im trying to stop being so negative." which made the episode 10,000x more funny.

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tomwaitsjr writes:
on Nov 19 2008 09:48 PM

South Park is WIN!

I can't believe Innocent Blood only got 42%. That was a great movie. . .

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Jen Yamato writes:
on Nov 19 2008 10:30 PM

Hot Topic burned down and the vampire kids went back to normal! Oh, South Park...

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Bulletproof_Animal writes:
on Nov 20 2008 12:03 AM

Can you believe Angelina Jolie has never played a vampire? That's, like, the one thing she was born to do. Her and Kat Dennings. Together. Doing stuff.

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fullmetalnek writes:
on Nov 20 2008 05:32 AM

Glad to see Soledad Miranda on the list. She is one of the most beautiful women in the history of cinema.

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Confounded writes:
on Nov 20 2008 05:36 AM

Lauren Hutton in Once Bitten? Maybe I'm just showing my weakness for 80s women.

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Confounded writes:
on Nov 20 2008 05:41 AM

Or Geena Davis in Transylvania 6-5000. There I go again.

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crystalwhiteeyes writes:
on Nov 20 2008 06:10 AM

"Let The Right One In" looks FAR more enticing than this Twilight crap. Appears to be the true gothic love story that it needs to be.

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Confounded writes:
on Nov 20 2008 06:15 AM

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True, but I don't think we're quite ready to place 12-year olds into the "sexy vampire" category.

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Hamboner writes:
on Nov 20 2008 06:41 AM

-Keanu Reeve's British accent was priceless. Did anyone notice that they completely omitted him from the trailer?

-Monica Bellucci was at one point my ideal woman. But then I saw her in Shoot 'Em Up and something, I don't know, broke, about her appeal to me.

-The final fight between Dracula and the hunters was short, but genuinely awesome action for the time.

-Watching Winona Ryder getting hot and bothered by green mist is to this day one of the most sexually arousing things I have ever seen. I think I was so young when I saw it that it really stuck with my. I should tell my therapist. Hah.

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'Stache-Attack writes:
on Nov 20 2008 06:59 AM

Confounded, you're dead right. The second I went to this article, those were the two names I was looking to see if they forgot (Hutton, Davis). I watched those both religiously in the '80s, and to this day, still get the Transylvania song stuck in my head at inappropriate times.

I while I was hoping to not mention any guy-vamps you forgot, I liked how Gerald Butler's Dracula had a certain sexiness about him in Dracula 2000. Although that could just be some sort of sexy interference that I was feeling from Jennifer Exposito, Jerry Ryan & Vitamin C. Yeah, for the sake of me not disturbing myself, lets just include the women.

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EIKOH writes:
on Nov 20 2008 08:02 AM

BSD was visually appealing, but it ran away from the storyline of the book in certain places making my dislike it.

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