I completely agree. Probably the best "recent" vampire movie of memory.

As for crap I hate, pretty much anything with CGI can be added to the list.

Id have to say the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I heard so much hype about it, how scary and disturbing it was, went to see it and there wasnt anything to it. Wasnt a bit scary, kind of boring in fact. The Friday the 13th movies were better and they wernt all that great.

i dint find texas scary, and the first time i watched it i hated it as well, but it grew on me the second time and now i like the movie so much more.

'The Howling' has gotten alot of love and has achieved classic status, but it's never done it for me. I've always thought 'Hellraiser' was overrated too. Those are the two most popular movies that jump out at me.

I never cared for The Howling either. Although it does have some impressive looking werewolves. I do quite like Hellraiser.

Yeah I think I need to read the book and maybe that will flesh things out a little for me in regards to 'Hellraiser'. Have you ever read the book?

I must note- I'm not knocking Pinhead. He's a genuine badass.

No. I have not read the book.

And just when I thought that I was the only one who didn't like it. I will say, though, that I love the very end when the guy buys her a burger, and he asks her how she likes her meat, and she smiles and says, "Rare." Awesome!

Never liked it so never bothered with any of the sequels-does anyone actually like any of them?

Most Hollywood remakes of foreign horror films. Usually Asian horror, but more recently they have been branching out. The remake of "let the right one in" was mentioned earlier in this thread. The original was astounding, and the remake was just, bland. It sucked all of the soul out of the film, and made really unnecessary changes to the relationship of the two kids. The recent reboots of classics have been pretty terrible too, especially NOES. Then there's The Ring and The Grudge etc etc etc ad infinitum. I'm really glad Steven Spielberg and Will Smith decided against remaking Oldboy.

But to save this being a rant about remakes, I'm not liking a lot of the possession movies that have been made recently. The most recent being Insidious. That film was f*cking awful. It started out really promising, and then just fell inside its own ass hole. <spoiler alert> The bit where they go inside the darkness, or the kids head, or whatever it was supposed to be. And they find that demon that looks like the produce of Darth Maul hooking up with Captain Spaulding.... why? Just, why?

The last exorcism was also pretty poor after starting out quite well. It did combine two genres I consider to be overdone though. Possession movies and found footage movies. Then end of that film just gave me the rage though. <Spoiler alert> why did they have to make it cult related? Why couldn't they just keep it as an unknown evil which is massively more terrifying than something a cult could have conjured up?