Load up on garlic, shine your crucifix, and sharpen your wooden stakes. We’re embarking on a dark journey into the heart of vampire territory with a look at 100 films produced since the landmark Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror. This is the genre fan’s answer to AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies.

Bela Lugosi might be turning over in his grave, but it’s official: Gary Oldman’s portrayal wins the final elimination round for our favorite movie Dracula.

The vampire, Carmilla, doesn’t take kindly to church music, and can you really blame her? This was years before Whoopi Goldberg brought Motown to the convent. Bus in the nun choir and let’s get to singing about the debilitating effects of church hymns on vampires.

The X-Files had several vampire and vampire-adjacent episodes, the sum total of which impart much useful knowledge about the show’s Kolchak: The Night Stalker inspirations, how to distract bloodsuckers with sunflower seeds, and the indispensability of Dana Scully’s skeptical perspective.

There may be a bloodsucker in your neighborhood, or just a neighbor stigmatized as “Other.” Tonight, we’ll turn our binoculars on a film where a vampire named Jerry stirs up desire on the dance floor … and AIDS crisis subtext.

30 years ago today, Buffy Summers was born … as a movie first. Let’s talk about her original incarnation, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film, starring Kristy Swanson, which sashayed into theaters with pom-poms and a pig mascot half a decade before the TV series.

Stop trying to pronounce those Gaelic vampire names, and just come right this way for a pint of blood in the Stoker pub, where we’ll be discussing the films Byzantium and Boys from County Hell.

It’s no secret that the movie Underworld is basically The Matrix with vampires. It was part of a post-Blade wave of action films that made a fashion statement with trench coats and black leather. But who remembers that part with vampires in The Matrix Reloaded?

If you’ve got five minutes to spare, then pop in here as we journal about Tony Scott’s contribution to vampire movie lore, in which Catherine Deneuve emerges as the true queen bloodsucker opposite David Bowie.