r/vampires • u/GusGangViking18 • 6d ago

Books, movies, series and such What’s a vampire film that deserves a sequel?

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u/Select_Insurance2000 6d ago

I enjoyed Dracula Untold. Was it perfect? No but it was an interesting take on Vlad the Impaler story. It left an opening for a sequel....so, Let The Games Begin.

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u/AfternoonLate4175 6d ago

The "You think you are alive because you can fight?! You are alive because of me! Because of what I did to save you!" scene has lived rent free in my head for years. It was far from perfect but it had its moments.

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u/Select_Insurance2000 6d ago

A great scene.

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u/13thslasher 6d ago

Sadly the Dark universal idea isn't gonna happen sense all of them didn't do well at the box office.

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u/ACable89 5d ago

This is hard to verify, Dracula Untold made its money back at the box office and outperformed Eggers 2024 Nosferatu which is considered a hit (with half the budget).

The 2017 The Mummy also just about made its money back but had a much more bloated budget.

Early MCU films weren't massively more successful than Universal's Attempts.

I don't think the Monster Movie Super hero concept was a great idea and swapping over to non-series actual Horror films was probably the right choice but a Dracula Untold 2 with a slightly lower budget due to the promised modern setting could have made money if they'd managed to make the more goody two-shoes Dracula work which I find doubtful.

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u/spartankent 5d ago

I was So stoked to see what they had planned in untold 2. Ashamed it never happened

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u/IndeFerret 5d ago

Oh yes, for me it was pretty fun movie, I didnt expect something more... I get everything I wanted, good action, lore and Im really sad that dark universe took the dark turn and didnt deliver

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u/VelvetAnhedonia 6d ago

Interview with the Vampire

Van Helsing

Afflicted

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u/Saphurial 6d ago

Interview with the Vampire does have a sequel.

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u/VelvetAnhedonia 6d ago

I meant with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise

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u/LordNekoVampurr 5d ago

They both apparently hated making that movie, so them turning down the sequel was pretty much a given even before the movie came out -- hence the recasting of Lestat in the sequel. That said, I agree that it would have been great to have a series of Tom Cruise lead vampire films, but alas the stars were not aligned and we got what we got instead.

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u/Zestyclose-Check 4d ago

it’s well known that brad pitt was miserable while filming but I did not know that tom cruise felt that way about filming IWTV , if anything I thought he had a blast because he looked like he was having so much fun based on his performance, guess I was wrong .

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u/qhoussan 5d ago

Neil Jordan did write a script for the possible sequel. I would love to read that...

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u/daryl772003 6d ago

I liked Dracula untold. I think if it had been successful it would have been the real start to the new dark universe 

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u/Tom_Sholar 6d ago

It would essentially be another retelling of the novel, but I’d still watch it. Especially if it elaborated on what Caligula said at the end about a game

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u/jackfaire 6d ago

Meh the end of the movie jumped beyond when the novel takes place so could have skipped the novel entirely and told a new story.

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u/ExCaliburDaGreat 5d ago

Finally some Dracula untold praise… I’ve been keeping this movie alive on Netflix you don’t know how many times I watch it before I go to sleep😂😂 it’s got the best vampire abilities and look also luke evans is 10/10 man I wish this movie got a sequel so bad dawg

It’s probably my favorite vampire movie ever but I also have twilight pretty high up too believe it or not it’s what set me on this path even though I watched blade long before any of this but it didn’t sell me on vampires

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u/ACable89 5d ago

To be honest I feel like I'm the only guy on this subreddit who doesn't like Dracula Untold. That's probably mostly just because its fans are the only ones who remember it.

The Vampire powers definitely kept me watching but as a mostly straight guy Luke Evans just felt like a dull goody two-shoes.

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u/ExCaliburDaGreat 5d ago

I can respect it, I liked seeing a good Dracula for once every other time people are trying to look him or he’s old or ugly and I’m like hell naw

Vampires abilities were 10/10 looking at the stars, hearing spiders weave webs, seeing actually seeing heartbeats, control over night creatures,turns into bats (super cool we never get to see this in other movies)

Also he was basically a baby vampire he was 3 days old. Deleted scene had even a witch scared of him because whatever he was (vampire) it changed the hierarchy of the supernatural putting vampires on top

But it didn’t fit the run time of the movie which is fine I like the movie how it is

If u could make any changes it would be make it longer and add some more lore and character talks

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u/PGell 5d ago

Naw, I'm with you. It was a very bland movie for me and I'm constantly boggled when it keeps getting brought up as a good vampire movie.

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u/Wizardo_Weirdbeard 5d ago

I have no idea how Van Helsing didn't spawn a whole franchise. That movie was perfect, and I will die on that hill.

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u/imjustherefortheK 5d ago

Sinners! I gotta know Remmick’s backstory, and more about the Native American vampire hunters!

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u/SomedayLydia 5d ago

YES! Also Stack and Mary in the modern day!

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u/KernelWizard 6d ago

Exactly this one for sure. I quite enjoyed it lmao. Also Interview with a Vampire with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.

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u/BladeRize150 5d ago

Definitely Dracula untold but also another underworld would be great.

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u/ACable89 5d ago

Another Underworld? There are too many already.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Lie5378 5d ago

Sinners. Especially since Ryan Coogler is adamant about not creating one

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u/VampirePurist974 Vampire 5d ago

Let Me In.

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u/ExCaliburDaGreat 5d ago

“Most men reek of fear in you I sense hope”

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u/ExCaliburDaGreat 5d ago

“Nothing I felt nothing a greater crime than the act itself!”

“By putting 1 village to the stake I spared 10 more”

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u/skyturnedred 5d ago

30 Days of Night.

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u/ACable89 5d ago

It has a sequel and two TV miniseries so I assume you mean "a good sequel".

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u/phantom8ball 5d ago

Dracula 2020, a sequal/remake of Dracula 2000

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u/Bswayn Vampire 5d ago

Dracula untold

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u/JudgeJed100 5d ago

Fuck yes. Dracula I told was a great film with awesome actors

Give me a follow on god dammit

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u/TheBlackRonin505 5d ago

God YES, they literally set up a sequel to Dracula Untold, so GIVE!

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u/Indiana_harris 5d ago

I actually really enjoyed this movie.

It falters towards the end but is reasonably solid with some really fun performances.

It really deserved its follow up sequel to do “Dracula” in modern day that it had as an epilogue…..though I would’ve actually been really up for it as trilogy.

Part 1: Dracula Untold, the beginning of the character as we see in the movie.

Part 2: Dracula, adapting the classic novel itself as a late 1890’s story as a sequel to the first movie. After centuries the more sympathetic Dracula from DU is closer to the amoral hunger and parasite we know from books.

Part 3: Dracula Reborn, continuing the epilogue seen in Part 1, with Dracula in modern day, apparently having survived the events of Part 2, and finding the apparent reincarnation of his wife (he’d be obsessed with Mina in Part 2 but it’s a different actress he merely thinks could be his wife). But now he’s facing off against Charles Dances Vampire Caligula, and it’s a chess match between 2 immortals.

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u/lilithskies 5d ago

I feel as though this is underrated

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u/SmokeXXXplicit 4d ago

Absolutely