1 Nosferatu With his foreboding gaze, talon-like nails and sharp pointy teeth, the hunchback Count Orlok was fuel for nightmares when he appeared in the 1922 silent German Expressionist Horror picture Nosferatu, bringing darkness and mayhem to the fictional town of Wisborg.
Out of all the depictions of vampires in popular culture, Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula (1897), remains the most famous, even though the novel was but a moderate success in its own day.
1 Christopher Lee – Various
Most actors target one area of Dracula's character and use that to build fear. After playing the vampire for years, though, Christopher Lee nailed every scary variation conceivable for the Count.
Dracula may be the most famous vampire in popular culture but there are other great vapire characters. Here are the 10 best who aren't Dracula. When most people think of vampires, Dracula is likely the first one that comes to mind.
Jure Grando Alilović or Giure Grando (1579–1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (in modern-day Croatia) who may have been the first real person described as a vampire in historical records. He was referred to as a štrigon, a local word for something resembling a vampire and a warlock.
Type One vampires are the rarest and most powerful type of vampires. They are human-like in appearance but have two fangs and sometimes, their eyes glow. They possess great strength and speed, an incredibly long lifespan and the ability to hypnotize their victims with their eyes.
Superhuman Strength - Mr. Snow, being the oldest vampire to appear on Being Human, is also the physically strongest, and most powerful vampire seen throughout the shows run.
In Balkan folklore, a dhampir (Albanian pronunciation: [ðamˈpir]) is a mythical creature that is the result of a union between a vampire and a human. This union was usually between male vampires and female humans, with stories of female vampires mating with male humans being rare.
Moffat and Gatiss settle on this answer: Dracula is frightened of death and the Cross confronts him with a man, Jesus, who was willing to die. They reject superstition and tradition in favour of something far neater, more relatable and very in fashion. Draccy has a psychological hang-up.
In 1924 play Dracula by Hamilton Deane Van Helsing is portrayed as the main nemesis of Dracula.
2 Soma Cruz
He's significantly stronger than the Dark Lord, capable both holding dominion over Dracula's minions and defeating them alike. Soma is capable of defeating three different candidates for Dracula's power, asserting his dominance over Dominance.
Count Dracula, called the Vampire King in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker as well as the Vampire Hunter D series. Alucard (Hellsing), depicted as Count Dracula in the Hellsing series. Playboi Carti, a rapper who uses the moniker King Vamp and has a song of the same name.
The Vampire Elders, also known as Grand Elders and Great Elders, are the three leaders and rulers of the entire vampire population and the most powerful of their kind. The original Elders are the three oldest known Vampires. These three Vampires are Marcus Corvinus, Viktor, and Amelia.
With all of this in mind, it is important to note that Rebekah is the weakest Original Vampire, I wouldn't necessarily say because she's female, but for the sake of this argument, it's worth noting this, but at the end of the day she might have simply been the weakest child of Esther (strength-wise), and not because ...
Purebloods (純血種, Junketsushu) are the highest rank among vampires classed as Level A (Aクラス, A Kurasu, lit. "A Class"). They are "pure" vampires without any human ancestry and they can trace their lineage back to the original vampire progenitors.
We all know vampires are extremely strong and fast, but werewolves are faster and stronger and they have the advantage of being pack hunters - so rarely hunt alone.
Older vampires are generally more supernaturally powerful than younger vampires, since they've had more time to develop their blood-borne gifts, though this isn't an absolute rule: every vampire's Requiem is different. ... statistic Blood Potency, is how strong a vampire's vitae is.
Dracula from 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Gary Oldman as Dracula is the icing on the vampire cake. This sexy Dracula oozes charm. Once we get passed the older version of him at the beginning of the film, it's smooth sailing. Oldman's Dracula was THE Dracula when the film came out in 1992.
Klaus. Klaus was quickly established as the most fearsome vampire when he was introduced in TVD. He wasn't just an Original vampire but also a hybrid. From his strength to senses to healing powers and even telepathic abilities, Klaus was more superior to his siblings since he had both vampire and werewolf genes in him.
How to prevent a vampire attack. People who are most at risk of being a vampire's victim are the innocent, mentally-ill, women, and children.
Lucien, who was a vampire of a 1,000 years before becoming an Upgraded Original vampire, demonstrated the greatest speed thus far of an any supernatural creature as he effortlessly evaded and dodged attacks thrown at him by Klaus. Currently there is only one left in existence - Marcel Gerard.
Alpha Vampire: The most powerful form of vampire. Unlike lesser vampires, the vampire lord possesses inherent skill in dark. magic and may command legions of undead minions/vampires.
There are three types of real vampires: sanguinarian, psychic, and hybrids. Sanguinarians feed on very small amounts of human blood, generally just a few drops.