Early Vampire Films:
- Le Gualt

- Dec 29, 2025
- 1 min read
Some early literature to remember:
The Vampyre (1818) by John Polidori
Varney the Vampire (1845)
Carmilla (1872) by Sheridan Le Fanu
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
Movies: List of Vampire films: Wiki. Letterboxd.
1896: Le Manoir du diable by Georges Méliès
1910: “An earlier film, The Vampire, starring Margarita Fischer and produced by William Nicholas Selig is considered lost.” - wiki
1912: The Vampire Dancer (Vampyrdanserinden, IMDb)
1913: The Vampire. Wiki. dir by Robert G. Vignola with ‘vamp’ character
1914: Vampire of the Night. IMDb. A lost Italian film? idk.
1915: The Devil’ s Daughter. Wiki. A ‘vamp’ character… lost film.
1915: The Afterlife Wanderer. Letterboxd. lost Russian horror film? Possibly first feature length vampire film.
1916: A Night of Horror. Wiki. “It is the earliest known feature-length film to portray vampires, with vampire-like people appearing in the film.” - wiki. It’s lost.
1919: Lilith and Ly. Wiki. Lost film written by Fritz Lang?
1920: might have been Russian adaptation of Dracula, it’s a loft film.
1921: Drakula halála (Dracula’s Death). Wiki. A lost Hungarian film like Vampire’s Kiss or Martin.
1922: Nosferatu
1931: Dracula

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