Vampires

Fear of what the dead might do to us didn’t start with Dracula, and it didn’t end with him, either.

The myth of the vampire has been with us for centuries—and undergone some dramatic transformations along the way. What does its latest incarnation have to say?

The director talks with the staff writer Jelani Cobb about his influences and mentors, and how he made a vampire story “uniquely personal.”

Robert Eggers’s take expands significantly on the 1922 classic—and makes a pivotal change, with sickening implications.

The actor talks with Adam Howard about playing a vampire hunter in Robert Eggers’s remake of “Nosferatu.” After hundreds of vampire movies, Eggers “wanted him to be scary again.”

The vampire comedy is bouncy, clever, fun, and extremely bloody, but dramatically inert.

The “Interview with the Vampire” star ruminates on death and immortality while visiting the crypts under St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral.

The vampire diaries of the senator from Texas.

“How do you explain this employment gap of a century and a half?”

The 2009 film, newly available on Amazon Prime, anticipated both the immense power and the aesthetic blind spots of later films such as “Promising Young Woman.”

In “The Lord of Cries,” the composer has boldly returned to a form that he set aside in the early nineties.

Vampires, giants, and demonic clowns may be our best hope.

“Vlad! Did you hear that it’s safe to go out now?”

E. Elias Merhige directs a made-up making-of story, a wickedly fabricated behind-the-scenes yarn about the production, in 1921, of the real-life seminal vampire movie “Nosferatu.”

With its mockumentary conceit and its steady airing of petty grievances, it’s a bit like a sitcom collaboration between Larry David and Charles Addams.

Perhaps overexposure killed them.