Dracula's Daughter (1936)

La Maschera del demonio (aka Black Sunday) (1960)

One of director Tim Burton's favourite flicks, a Bavarian princess (Barbara Steele) is burned at the stake for being a witch, hurling curses as she's torched to the bone.  Like the truly pissed off blue blood she is, the princess comes back to life 300 years later and inflicts her curse upon the remaining members of her family.

It's Steele's most memorable horror role and, thanks to director Mario Bava, is filled without enough atmospheric blood lust to impress even Martin Scorsese - another one of this film's fans.

The Vampire Lovers (1970)

Filled with oceans of mists hanging above graveyards and ruined castles housing unspeakable evil, Ingrid Pitt gives anything but a bimbo rendition of a doomed lesbian vampire. Why she racks up victims faster than a girl buys shoes! Marcilla Karnstein (Pitt) is eventually hunted by vampire slayer Baron Hartog. But before he stakes out her crypt, this tigerish, tender and tragic vampire vixen rips everyone's heart out.

The Hunger (1983)

Imagine a vampire looking like Catherine Deneuve having love troubles?  A little hard, I know, but Deneuve sells it with her signature sex appeal. Starring as the ancient Egyptian vampire Miriam, she lives off the blood of her lovers - David Bowie among them - until they no longer bear the gift that keeps on giving.

Yet instead of giving audiences a heartless fiend, the icy Deneuve steals your heart with her sorrow over each death.  Its sumptuous, moody feel and MTV soundtrack make this haunting flick a '80s classic.

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Thanks to director Francis Ford Coppola, a trio of terrorizing temptresses turns up the steam in this remake of the Bram Stoker classic. Keanu Reeves was envied by legions of men for being toyed with Monica Bellucci, model Michaela Bercu and actress Florina Kendrick. But we'll give Winona Ryder a few props here, too.

Thanks to a bite with Count Dracula, the ravishing Ryder turned vampire vixen just long enough to plant an unholy kiss on Sir Anthony Hopkins (aka Professor Van Helsing).

Madder than hell, Annabella Sciorra sinks her teeth into a luscious young philosophy student (Lili Taylor). Once bitten, the fledgling bloodsucker targets classmates, friends and teachers until she meets a reformed vampire (Christopher Walken) who's kicked his nasty habbit through fasting and meditation.

Works for him, so why not her? Taylor curbs her bloody addiction and completes her graduate thesis. A bloody marvel indeed!  "The Addiction" may not be  the most convincing vampire flick of all time, but its femme fatales will feed horror fans' imaginations.

Queen of the Damned (2002)

Queen of the Damned (2002)
Aaliyah will always remain one of the sexiest vampires to sink her teeth into the big screen. With her Vegas girl headdresses and barely-there attire, the ancient Queen Akasha (Aaliyah) is reawakened by the music of the vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend), who has now become a rock star.

Like any girl with a rocker crush, she sets out to make this undead crooner her king. With Townsend up for the job of blood-lusting lover, who can blame her?

Underworld (2003)

Kate Beckinsale may use silver bullets, rather than eons of well-honed blood-sucking skills, to banish pesky werewolves into eternity. In fact, she, like the other vampires in this moody flick, never even morph into bats or go for the jugular as most vampires would. No matter.  Beckinsale looks good in leather, and as vampire vixens go "Underworld's" undead diva is the bomb.

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Parker Posey pretties up Wesley Snipe's MTV-ish sequel about the kick-ass vampire slayer out to bring the undead down. With plenty of vampire badness to go around, Snipes wields his weapons of destruction in overtime. But Posey's got the right bite.