However obvious they might be, they have to be included for present purposes.

Said vampire is being interviewed, after all (what a surprise!

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Ellen laying while being caressed by a large hand in Nosferatu

Image via Focus Features

Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire

Image Via Lions Gate Films

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brad pitt with long hair and a white blouse looks afraid of a very pale tom cruise in a satin jacket

Image via Warner Bros. Pictures

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Max Schreck as Count Orlock standing in a doorway in FW Murnau’s 1922 silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror featured at the end of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode “Graveyard Shift”

Image via Film Arts Guild

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Nosferatu the Vampyre stalking a woman laying down in Nosferatu the Vampyre

Image via 20th Century Studios

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Lina Leandersson as Eli covered in blood in front of a shadowy figure in Let the Right One In

Image via Sandrew Metronome

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Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula peering out behind a wall in Dracula

Image via Universal Pictures

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Near Dark - 1987 (1)

Image via De Laurentiis Entertainment Group

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Amanda Bearse with large vampire teeth sitting on a blanket in Fright Night (1985)

Image via Columbia Pictures

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Catherine Deneuve as Miriam Blaylock and David Bowie as John Blaylock in ‘The Hunger’ (1983)

Image via MGM

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Let the Right One In

Interview with the Vampire