The Definitive Ranking of Vampires in Pop Culture

We’re at the tail end of the holiday season: a time to reflect on the year that was, catch up with loved ones, and, for many households, sneak away to the nearest multiplex. And what says “fun for the whole family” like going to see the R-rated remake of a 1922 silent film about a vampire? Directed by Robert Eggers—a man apparently incapable of making a movie set in the present-day—Nosferatu has become cinema’s proverbial lump of coal on Christmas Day: a horror film in which the menacing Court Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) wreaks havoc on a German town, bringing the plague along with him. For most folks, Nosferatu might be the last thing they’d want to experience during the holiday season; for myself and Megan Schuster, well, we look forward to seeing our fellow sickos at the movies.