I like the sequence beneath the coffin of the dead girl, who makes an ugly appearance in the catacomb calling out 'Papa!' with those ghastly eyes and outstretched hands.

Kurt Barlow in Salem's Lot is one of the most memorable head vampires, and is expertly delivered by Tobe Hooper in the film to provide maximum jolts every time he appears - all growling and hissing and terrible rat-teeth. When he is allowed more screen-time in the Petries' kitchen he doesn't seem quite so scary (bit of an odd blue head in my copy), but what about those jail and cellar sequences, and even the violently-smashed-open crate where we don't even need to see this monster to know he means serious business. When Barlow appears, he certainly does not disappoint.

Also, I like Zoltan: Hound of Dracula.

it'll be a bitch to find .. its on a beta tape with a couple of other horror docs a guy gave me years ago ..
(its buried among about 1000 beta tapes)

if i come across it i'll copy it to DVD ... i do remember the quality being pretty bad but still watchable ...

Aren't they always? I can always count on you to have obscure and hard-to-find items! :p

i like fright night

Count Yorga, Vampire; and the Return of Count Yorga were also enjoyable vampire movies. The second was played a little more for laughs than the first but still a good film. Very 70's in their presentation.

Jeepers Creepers and The Bone Snatcher come to mind as some recent atempts at new monsters. Both were very well done IMO.

Yeah you guys are right Dracula has been done to many times and when I think about all the battles hes had with numerous mosters even going back to the days of the 40's with house dracula and house of frankenstein, even the worst piece of dog crap frankenstein vs. Dracula, He has faced pretty much every monster in a battle on screen. Thrown into dumb movie plots and killed billions of times. Ya know what would be cool to go off of subject a bit would be to have hammer films to come out with something new that would be pretty cool and nostalgic.