If you're looking for more newfangled fangs, Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987, R) is one of the best of the modern vampire flicks. Smarter but less flashy than The Lost Boys, it's about a clan of bloodsuckers led by the perfectly cast Lance Henriksen. They travel the country in a van, picking off victims and moving on. Darkly funny and almost poignant, it's an undead family drama (family as in vampire family, not family as in kid's movie—it's violent and pretty scary).
--Jesse Fox Mayshark
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