Boasting a grab bag of a cast that includes Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer, Luke Perry, David Arquette, and Hilary Swank, the movie introduced the now iconic ditzy teenage vampire hunter with a mix of “Heathers” darkness and a pre-“Clueless” Cher Horowitz. With a script by Joss Whedon himself, the movie hewed closer to comedy than Whedon initially intended, which inspired him to eventually pitch the darker TV series. After all, you don’t reach the darker WB version’s cult status without a little divine - or shall we say demonic - inspiration. Though it has been eclipsed by its hornier smash hit television counterpart, the original “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 1992 movie remains an undisputed classic in its own right. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (Fran Rubel Kuzui, 1992) Right in time for Halloween, check out IndieWire’s picks for the top 15 vampire movies below. While the genre has generated many a bloody classic - too many to count, in fact - IndieWire has rounded up staff favorites that also happen to represent an exhaustive cross-section of vampire homages, including Francis Ford Coppola’s controversial, romantic ode “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” in 1992, Park Chan-wook’s erotic South Korean take “Thirst,” Europe’s 1971 lesbian imagining “Daughters of Darkness,” the 2014 mockumentary “What We Do in the Shadows,” and more. Every era and every filmmaking country has since taken up its own spins on the myth of the vampire, from Universal Studios’ “Dracula” series beginning with Tod Browning’s Bram Stoker adaptation in 1931, all the way up to Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour’s indie feminist twist “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” in 2014. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” scaring up audiences in 1922, followed by the countless iterations that came in its shadow. The vampire genre is nearly as old as cinema itself, with F.W.
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