The Most Underrated Vampire Movies Ever Made

Ask a film nerd about vampire movies, and they will inevitably mention how, of the two vampire movies released in 1987, Kathryne Bigelow’s Near Dark is the superior film.

And while it’s hard to consider the other movie, The Lost Boys, anything other than a stone-cold classic, there is some merit to the argument that it unfairly overshadows its lesser-known sibling.

Acting as a kind of pseudo-western, Near Dark follows a young man named Caleb (Adrian Pasdar) as he falls in with a group of vampire nomads traveling through the desert led by Lance Henriksen’s Jesse.

While the film might not be as flashy and fun as Lost Boys, its gritty depiction of wandering vampires who travel in an RV wreaking havoc wherever they go deserves to be held in the same regard.