As a special treat for Halloween, I put together a list of 13, that’s right 13, of my favorite scary and seductive female vamps that horror fans love to be afraid of.
#13) Selene (Kate Beckinsale) from Underworld: She’s a kick butt death dealer vampire. Unlike many of the others listed here, Selene is on the side of good. She’s not really seductive because her main focus is to take out lycons. You’ve got to admit though. Selene is a hottie.
#12) Rachael (Jennifer Beals) from Vampire’s Kiss: Her kisses are addictive, even if it does include biting. Not only that, but they cause her victims to go totally mad. I wonder if she’s part siren.
#11) The Countess (Lauren Hutton) from Once Bitten: Like the famous Count Dracula, the Countess seduces her victims before biting them. But she prefers virgin males and instead of aiming for the neck, she goes for the thigh. Doesn’t thinking about that just make you want to cringe?
#10) Queen Akasha (Aaliyah) from Queen of the Damned: After the vampire Lestat awakens her, Akasha only cares about destroying all life and ruling the world. She sounds like a pretty standard warlord, but the character was nominated for Best Villain on the 2002 MTV Movie Awards, even after Aaliyah’s death. So that has to account for something, right.
#9) Rayne (Kristanna Loken) from BloodRayne: Well, Rayne isn’t exactly a vampire. She’s a dhampir, which means a half-breed. Kind of like Blade. Rayne is also on the side of good, but still needs to feed. Not to mention that she can kick butt while doing it.
#8) Lorena (Mariana Klaveno) from True Blood: This gorgeous vamp is strong, fast, and obsessive like a femme fatale. She will do anything, and I mean anything, for love. And she loves Bill Compton, which was why she sired him. Boy, does she love Bill Compton.
#7) Allera (Elena Anaya), Verona (Silvia Colloca), and Marishka (Josie Maran) from Van Helsing: They all have a very distinctive demon-like presence. Yet they can also take human form and stand on the ceiling. Heck with seduction, these women want blood.
#6) Darla (Julie Benz) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Don’t let her innocence fool you. This vampire is highly fearsome and most effective. She was The Master’s favorite and the one who sired Angel. Darla has been slayed, but keeps coming back. Maybe she knows Dracula’s secret?
#5) Drusilla (Juliet Landau) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Other than the fact that she is a bit loony, Drusilla really stands out as a tough vampire. Not only was she the one who sired Spike, but she was one of few vampires to ever kill a slayer.
#4) Lucy Westernra (Lysette Anthony) from Dracula: Dead and Loving it: That’s right, the Mel Brooks version. After being sired by Count Dracula, Lucy becomes a sexy and seductive vampire. When she gets slayed, it becomes one of the funniest bloodbaths I’ve ever seen.
#3) Santanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek) from From Dusk Till Dawn: She was a seductive dancer at a private bar meant for bikers and truck drivers only. Only to find out that she is the primary queen vampire of the place. In this movie, the female vampires are much more gruesome than the males.
#2) Lillith (Angie Everhart) from Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood: This shape shifting whorehouse hottie has a huge tongue that literally goes down a victim’s throat and brings his heart out of his chest. Then eats it. And I thought Sil from Species had a monster tongue. Oddly, Lillith doesn’t like vegetarian hearts. They probably taste like veggie burgers.
#1) Regine Dandridge (Julie Carmen) from Fright Night Part 2: I haven’t seen this movie in years. What I remember most is when this vampire makes out with a guy, then reveals the largest set of fangs I’ve ever seen. It used to scare the heck out of me. Obviously she doesn’t scare me now, but I can still remember that horrifying image in the back of my mind from back in the day. That’s why I rank Regine as number one.
You know how every year when stores have their Halloween merchandise out, and among them are Halloween CDs, which either have old songs or just a bunch of sound effects to set the mood? Well, here are two Halloween tale albums that really stick out from the rest, narrated by Jack Dorsey. No, I haven’t heard of him before either.
. I’m not certain if it is available new, but as of this post it is only available from private sellers on Amazon. Each track is narrated as if you were actually there exploring the area… alone. It starts at the graveyard. There are all sorts of perils from bad weather to a witches’ coven. And I don’t mean the witches from Charmed or The Craft. After crossing the dangerous bridge that somebody keeps telling you not to cross, you find a haunted house. It’s not like Disney’s Haunted Mansion. The way it’s described was like poetry. “There’s a big dark house near here. A very large and derelict house. …It’s built on a hill. A strange and baron hill. A place where birds don’t sing and animals won’t go. Horses shy, and dogs run with hackles raised in freight.” Beautiful, but scary.
. These were told more like actual Halloween tales, but it sets the same type of mood with the sound effects and narration. The narrator calls himself the man in black, or the voice of darkness. He didn’t have a name or any credits on the other album, but I could tell it was the same guy.
Rob Zombie wrote and directed this well-made remake about the classic horror movie character, Michael Myers. The main reason I think 
is well made is because unlike the other Halloween films, this one actually has a back-story on how Michael became such a monstrous killer. Not to mention that I’ve been a Rob Zombie fan since his first solo album “Hellbilly Deluxe”.
When I was a teenager, I was thrilled when “Windows 95″ was new. Among the CD-ROM games from back then was Shivers. It has an interesting story line and movie clips throughout the game. I admit that I still have to use a cheat sheet, or in this case a cheat packet, to get past most of the puzzles. But it’s worth it to see all of the good parts.
which spoofs Vincent Price movies. I remember seeing some of those old films based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. They were very well made horror films.
