Fangs and the sisterhood

BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960)

While David Peel takes the place of Christopher Lee as Count Dracula (“monarch of all vampires”), Peter Cushing returns as Dr Van Helsing in this follow up to 1958’s Dracula.

COUNTESS DRACULA (1971)

Behind every great man with preternaturally large incisors stands.... in this case Ingrid Pitt as Countess Elisabeth Nadasdy, who takes on vampirism as an extreme anti-ageing measure. As the trailer says: “Blood.

THE HUNGER (1983)

Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie, pictured, don the black leather as vampires who bring doctor Susan Sarandon into their ghoulish orbit.

TWILIGHT (2008-2012)

Stephanie Meyer’s mega-sellers turn into box office smashes with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart playing vampire/human sweethearts Edward Cullen and Bella Swan.

VAMPIRE’S KISS (1988)

Jennifer Beals (Flashdance) sinks her teeth into the neck of Nicholas Cage, a publishing executive. The critics did likewise with Robert Bierman’s flop.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN 2008)

( Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish chiller, which was remade by Hollywood two years later, gives the vampire duties to Lina Leandersson as the strangely pale little girl who makes friends with the lonely Oskar.