A series of vampire films produced by Hammer Films featuring the Karnstein family, beginning with The Vampire Lovers in 1970 and its sequels.

Siblings discover that their father has their vampire mother chained up in the cellar. The mother bites her son and soon everyone in the community is either dead or a vampire.

Throughout the decades, we’ve dealt with a range of vampires in horror films. And some vampires are too monstrous for certain fans (meanwhile some of us aren’t scared away by that) to consider ...