The vampire genre of films is immortal in regard to moviemaking history, having begun with the Silent Era in 1896. From the 1930s through the 1960s, the genre grew stronger, in part as a result of both international and domestic filmmakers casting a wide net over Bram Stoker's historical character and also with the emergence of Hammer Films and their churning out one horror flick after another.

Beginning in the seventies, despite the fact that Hammer productions began to slide, that trend continued and moved on throughout the following decades in a natural progression that would see vampires and vampirism brought to new levels of intrigue, violence, comedy, and otherworldly proportions.