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Robert Pattinson and Bella Swan's return to the big screen in the latest installment of the Twilight franchise is set to make a fortune. From The Lost Boys to Dracula, here is the list of vampire movies that made the most money at the worldwide box office...<\/p>","url":"2009/11/2/The-Twilight-Saga-New-Moon-11-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"The Twilight Saga New Moon 11"},{"captionHeading":"20. Vampire In Brooklyn<\/a> - $19.7m","caption":"

Eddie Murphy plays Maximillian, the only survivor of a race of Caribbean vampires. Faced with the end of his bloodline, he must track down a mate in New York's urban jungle. Angela Bassett plays the love interest - Detective Rita Veder. Murphy largely leaves behind the comedy to deliver a straight-down-the-line horror movie.<\/p>","url":"2009/5/12/Vampire-In-Brooklyn-09-3.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Vampire In Brooklyn 09"},{"captionHeading":"19. Dracula<\/a> (1979) - $20.1m","caption":"

Frank Langella is a perfect Count Dracula in this stylish re-telling of the Bram Stoker original that's a stunning film to look at. Langella is more than a match for Trevor (Shoestring) Eve's sheepish Jonathan Harker, Laurence Olivier's ripely sliced Van Helsing and Donald Pleasence's familiar wild-eyed doctor. Director John Badham seems more concerned with achieving striking visuals than with getting his details right: a victim's bitemarks appear on the opposite side to the bite, and a vampire doesn't reflect in a mirror but does in water.<\/p>","url":"2009/10/14/Dracula-1979.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Dracula (1979)"},{"captionHeading":"18. John Carpenter's Vampires<\/a> - $20.3m","caption":"

Although relatively cheaply made, this horror flick, which owes something of its style and attitude to From Dusk Til Dawn, has action and suspense a-plenty.<\/p>

James Woods stars as Jack Crow a professional vampire-hunter working for the Vatican who's assigned to hunt down Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith) a kind of supervampire.<\/p>

A vampire pic in the modern idiom, this has all the violence, gore and sex fans of the genre would expect, plus a story that makes sense.<\/p>

It may not have the style and tension of Near Dark, or the humour and script of The Lost Boys, but if vampires killing people is what you're after, this does exactly what it says on the tin.<\/p>","url":"2009/10/14/John-Carpenters-Vampires.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"John Carpenter's Vampires"},{"captionHeading":"17. Fright Night<\/a> - $24.9m","caption":"

Darkly comic vampire jaunt that paved the way for The Lost Boys. When teenager Charley becomes convinced that his suave new neighbour not only wants his blood but also his girlfriend, he enlists the help of a TV horror host (Roddy McDowall). A pointy-toothed treat with smashing special effects and fun in its veins.<\/p>","url":"2009/1/15/Fright-Night-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Fright Night"},{"captionHeading":"16. From Dusk Till Dawn<\/a> - $25.8m","caption":"

An exciting crime-and-vampire thriller taken at a breakneck pace and not taking itself seriously for a moment.<\/p>

Quentin Tarantino, who wrote the demented script, and George Clooney star as the notorious Gecko brothers. Fleeing from the law in a mobile home with a hostage family (clergyman Harvey Keitel, daughter Juliette Lewis and adopted son Ernest Liu), they rendezvous in Mexico at a nightclub that houses a nest of vampires, headed by sultry Salma Hayek.<\/p>

Mass battle is soon joined in a film that gets bloodier and more outrageous by the minute. Blood-hounds will love it.<\/p>","url":"2009/8/24/From-Dusk-Till-Dawn-4.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"From Dusk Till Dawn"},{"captionHeading":"15. Queen Of The Damned<\/a> - $30.3m","caption":"

The first glimpse we get of the damned queen is her wreathed in swirling dry ice - not so much the Gates of Hell as the door of opportunity in Stars In Their Eyes.<\/p>

\"Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be a blood-sucking, power-crazed Egyptian princess,\" were the words you could almost hear the late Aaliyah say. However, one plane crash later and the movie was number one at the American box office.<\/p>","url":"2009/10/12/Queen-Of-The-Damned-4.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Queen Of The Damned"},{"captionHeading":"14. The Lost Boys<\/a> - $32.2m","caption":"