10 Best Vampire Movies Of The 2020s So Far

Character-type subgenres like the pirate, cowboy and vampire movie have had a rough time of it since the dawn of the moving picture, enjoying contrasting periods of high and lows. When they're in, you can't seem to escape them; when they're out, it can be a decades-long struggle to get even the best script put into production. 

Vampire films saw their last peak during the late noughties and earl tens, when Twilight swept across the globe, hoovering up tweens, teens and adults alike with a fangless brand of bloodsucker that focused on romance over horror. While other properties like New Blood helped to compound and propel this trend, it had all come crashing down by the mid-tens, and these creatures of the night went into hibernation. 

While some of us thought this would keep vampires out of the zeitgeist for decades, the twenties have shown a renewed appreciation for the darkness. Castlevania: Nocturne is on Netflix, What We Do in the Shadows on FX, and Interview with the Vampire on AMC/BBC. And the films have returned in force, offering up a hundred new ways to enjoy Dracula and company without needing to exhume Bella and Edward. 

Here we bring you the 10 best of the decade so far. Sink your fangs in, drink up, and pray for more to come.

Although it has largely flown under the radar so far, Conor McMahon's comedy-horror Let the Wrong One In is an exciting new breed of vampire movie, taking a cast of relative unknowns (plus one big name), a shoestring budget and a thoroughly everyday setting and spitting out a future cult classic.

Set in the suburbs of Dublin and charting the tale of two rough 'n' ready brothers who come face to face with the evils of the night, Let the Wrong One In is The Lost Boys meets The Young Offenders. Deco (Eoin Duffy) returns to the family home after some time away (and an especially heavy night), with bite marks on his neck and an aversion to sunlight. Aided by a cab-driving vampire hunter (Anthony Stewart Head(!)), Deco and his brother Matt (Karl Rice) have to find a way to prevent the whole city being taken over by the undead. 

With a title that harks back to Tomas Alfredson's contemporary vampire masterpiece Let the Right One In, McMahon's little-Irelander movie makes no bones about either its subject matter or its sense of reverence for the horror genre as a whole, boldly splattering references - Buffy, The Shining, Evil Dead; you name it - across every other frame. And when the villains are a bloodsucking hen party, you know you're in for a hell of a time.