Movies Like Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

Updated: September 14, 2024

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Shadow of the Vampire Movie Information:

Directors:

E. Elias Merhige

Stars:

John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes, Catherine McCormack … (full cast)

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1. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

   Synopsis/Plot: This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel.
   
   Young barrister Jonathan Harker is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe.
   
   He is captured and imprisoned by the…
   
   Tagline: Beware
   Genres: Horror, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
   
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2. Nosferatu (1922)

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3. The Cell (2000)

   Synopsis/Plot: Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients.
   
   Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when…
   
   Tagline: In order to save a life, she'll have to risk her own
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4. Candyman (1992)

   Synopsis/Plot: Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths.
   
   She visits a part of the town, where she learns about the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed man…
   
   Tagline: We dare you to say his name five times!
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5. Dracula (1931)

   Synopsis/Plot: After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire.
   
   Renfield is…
   
   Tagline: Carl Laemmle Presents The VAMPIRE THRILLER! (original posters)
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6. Ginger Snaps (2000)

   Synopsis/Plot: Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death.
   
   They've made a pact…
   
   Tagline: She's got the curse
   Genres: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
   
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7. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

   Synopsis/Plot: Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives.
   
   But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood.
   
   Inspired by…
   
   Tagline: Nosferatu...he who is doomed to wander alone in darkness. Nosferatu...he who is condemned to destroy even those whom he loves. Nosferatu...a tale of seduction in the dark night of the soul.
   Genres: Horror, Drama, Fantasy
   
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8. Ravenous (1999)

   Synopsis/Plot: Captain John Boyd receives a promotion after defeating the enemy command in a battle of the Mexican-American War, but because the general realizes it was an act of cowardice that got him there, he is…
   
   Tagline: Survival is the only option.
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9. The Exorcist III (1990)

   Synopsis/Plot: A seemingly endless series of grisly killings that bear the trademark of the mass murderer, the Gemini Killer, terrorise the district of Georgetown.
   
   To further complicate matters, even though it's been seventeen long years since…
   
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   Genres: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
   
   

10. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

    Synopsis/Plot: In 1985, after a successful research in Amazonas, Dr.
    
    Dennis Alan from Harvard is invited by the president of a Boston pharmaceutics industry, Andrew Cassedy, to travel to Haiti to investigate the case of a…
    
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11. Suspect Zero (2004)

    Synopsis/Plot: When Dallas FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway violates serial killer Raymond Starkey's civil rights during an unorthodox arrest, Starkey goes free and Mackelway is demoted to a remote branch of the agency in Albuquerque.
    
    His first…
    
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12. Begotten (1989)

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    The spirit-like Mother Earth emerges, venturing into a bleak, barren landscape.
    
    Twitching and cowering, the Son Of Earth is set upon by faceless cannibals.
    
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Movies like Shadow of the Vampire include Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Nosferatu (1922), The Cell (2000), Candyman (1992), Dracula (1931), Ginger Snaps (2000), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Ravenous (1999), The Exorcist III (1990), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Suspect Zero (2004), and Begotten (1989).

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