10 Best Indie Vampire Movies You've Probably Never Seen

10. The Transfiguration (2016)

Can you have a vampire movie without a vampire? Common sense would say no, but Michael O'Shea's take on the legend proves that it isn't quite that simple.

The Transfiguration focuses on Milo, a troubled teenager who believes himself to be a vampire - so much so that he drinks human blood. After an encounter with a gang of bullies, he befriends the equally alienated Sophie, and the pair spend the rest of the film trying to avoid the myriad of threats that they both face.

The Transfiguration is an unforgiving, disturbing film. It is also a compelling and eerily fixating 'pseudo-vampire' story. Compared to some of the classic bloodsucking gore fests that vampires are known for, O'Shea is content with a much slower, deliberately paced story that rewards patience with startling new ideas. It is a bold confrontation of loss and belonging in a world seemingly hell-bent against you.

The Transfiguration consistently pulls new tricks and upends expectations in a genre saturated with classic tropes, even managing to include touches of humour (Sophie insisting that Twilight is better than Nosferatu, for instance).

It is a quietly extraordinary reinvention of a story that could have been loaded with cliches and predictability.