No sooner had I declared that I would go AK-47 crazy on Hollywood if they made yet another vampire film, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp made me eat my hat and admit that I’m actually quite looking forward to their addition to the vampire epidemic.
The pair are embarking on their eighth collaboration, an adaptation of the 1960s gothic TV soap opera Dark Shadows. Depp, currently the world’s highest earning actor and hardest working (seriously, does he ever not have a film out?) will take on the role of vampire Barnabas Collins, a character he has reportedly been obsessed with since he was a child.
Originally played by actor Jonathan Frid, Collins was a 175-year-old vampire who was released from his coffin in the shows 211th episode and was credited with reviving the fortunes of the original TV show.
The mooted adaptation has been around for a considerable period, with Depp attached for the past three years, according to Variety. And with Burton now on board to direct and mash-up author Seth Grahame-Smith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) writing the script, Warner Bros are hoping that audiences thirst for vampire films is not going to be staked any time soon and has set production to begin early this year.
Alice In Wonderland might have received a bit of a slating last year (personally, I liked it), but Burton and Depp are still one of the greatest partnerships in modern cinema: beginning with Edward Scissorhands in 1990, moving on to Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd, and then, despite the previously mentioned slating, hit the jackpot with Alice In Wonderland, one of only 7 films to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
So in celebration of this future feature, here is my list of my top ten vampire films of all time:
10) From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
8) Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992)
6) Blade II (2002)
3) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
2) The Lost Boys (1987)
1) Let The Right One In (2008)
What vampire films would you suggest?
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