I must salute MSNBC’s movie editor, Paige Newman, for her bravery – or foolishness. Late last week, she wrote a column on 6 non-traditional-should-see vampire movies; that had to have been a daunting task, knowing that it would bring out the partisan in vampire and horror buffs. Still, it’s not a bad point of departure (even if she seems to miss some of the deliberate Southern Gothic-ness of Near Dark). Her list?

Of the list, I haven’t seen either of the last two – Ultraviolet sounds like a lot of fun, a BBC Channel 4 miniseries she describes as “X-Files meets Dracula”.

So – there’s the list. Anyone got anything they’d like to add? Remove? Second? Terminate with extreme prejudice?

[updated 1 Nov 2005 1:21PM PST to correct the producers of Ultraviolet - thanks, Cav, for reminding us how willfully dense Yanks are ]

One of my favourites—Mr. Vampire!

That sounds fun – strange, but fun (and I’ve always wondered how traditional Chinese spooks like the hopping ghost would be portrayed…).

Me, I’d've added Cronos for my non-traditional-but-must-see vampire movie…

Actually, Ultravoilet was on Channel 4 not BBC…

Which I might’ve known if I’d scrolled down to the bottom of the IMDb page where it says “Channel 4 Television Corporation” under ‘Distributors’…

To be perfectly honest, I think I (as well as most American readers) would have missed the significance of that as well. Mea culpa, won’t happen aga… Ah, who am I trying to kid – it’ll happen again.