The Dead Travel Fast: The Explosive Evolution of the International Film Vampire

Preface
Acknowledgments
Forward

1. Why Vampires?

2. The Folkloric Vampire
The Vampire Moves into Popular Culture

3. “The Film Vampire’s Ancestor: Bram Stoker’s Novel Dracula”

4. “Before Stoker: Literary Sources for Bram Stoker’s Dracula”

5. “Rules of the Vampire”
Vampire At the Window/Vampiric Invitation

6. A Introduction to Film Studies Terminology
B Film Terms

7. “Introduction: Is Film Itself Vampiric?”

8. A “Vampire Films Themselves: Summaries and Context”
B  Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Context and Background
The Story
Cinematographic and Thematic Contributions

9. Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931)

10. “The Lost Vampire Film: London After Midnight ”

11. Vampyr

12. “Vampiric Adaptability: I Am Legend and Its Adaptations as a Case Study”

13. The Velvet Vampire
Leptirica (She-Butterfly) (Yugoslavia, 1973, directed by Dorde Kadijevic)
Lifeforce (U.K./U.S., 1985, directed by Tobe Hooper)
Near Dark (U.S., 1987, directed by Katherine Bigelow)
Cronos (Mexico, 1992, directed by Guillermo del Toro)
Afflicted (Canada, 2013, directed by Derek Lee and Clif Prowse)
Let the Right One In (Låt Den Rätte Komma In) (Sweden, 2008, directed by Tomas Alfredson)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Iran/U.S., 2013, directed by Ana Lily Amirpour)

14. Other Vampire Films to Consider
Black Sunday (La Maschera del Demonio) (Italy, 1960, directed by Mario Bava)
Planet of the Vampires (Italy/Spain, 1965, directed by Mario Bava)
Blacula (U.S., 1972, directed by William Crain)
Ganja and Hess (U.S., 1973, directed by Bill Gunn and Lawrence Jordan)
Rabid (Canada, 1977, directed by David Cronenberg)
Nosferatu: The Vampyre (Germany, 1979, directed by Werner Herzog)
Mystics in Bali (Indonesia, 1981, directed by H. Tjutt Djalli)
Lost Boys (U.S., 1987, directed by Joel Schumacher)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (U.S., 1992, directed by Francis Ford Coppola)
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (U.S. 1994, directed by Neil Jordan)
Twilight (U.S., 2008, directed by Catherine Hardwicke)
Thirst (Bakjwi) (South Korea, 2009, directed by Chan-wook Park)
Byzantium (U.K., 2012, directed by Neil Jordan)
Only Lovers Left Alive (U.K./Germany/France, 2013, directed by Jim Jarmusch)
What We Do in the Shadows (New Zealand, 2014, directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi)
Carmilla the Movie (Canada, 2017, directed by Spenser Maybee)

15. The Future of Vampire Films

Sources

Filmography