Vampire Movies
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50 free Vampire Movies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Vampires have stalked cinema screens for over a century, and each generation has remade them to suit itself: the rat-like shadow of the silent era, the caped aristocrat, the leather-jacketed teenage gang, the brooding romantic and the hapless flatmate who cannot get into a nightclub uninvited. This quiz follows that whole family tree. Expect questions on Nosferatu and the Universal and Hammer classics, eighties favourites such as The Lost Boys and Fright Night, the Twilight and Underworld sagas, Blade, Interview with the Vampire, and newer hits including Sinners. They cover who played whom, who was behind the camera, key plot turns and the odd stories from the set. It is written for film fans of every stripe, from horror devotees to anyone who has seen a couple of the big titles. The opening questions are gentle and the later ones dig into cult corners, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01After Bram Stoker's widow sued over the silent vampire film Nosferatu, what did a court order for every copy?
To be destroyed
Every print was ordered to be destroyed, but several copies had already slipped out of reach, which is the only reason the film can be watched now.
Q 02The title of the teen vampire film The Lost Boys borrows from which classic children's story?
Peter Pan
Peter Pan leads a band of Lost Boys who never grow up, and neither do vampires, which is the joke behind the title. The film was shot mostly in Santa Cruz, California.
Q 03Which actor ate a live cockroach on camera while playing a man who believes he is a vampire in Vampire's Kiss?
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage swapped the raw egg called for in the script for a real cockroach, the one big unscripted moment in the film.
Q 04Which actress, later Mary Jane in Spider-Man, played the child vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire?
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst was the first girl tested for Claudia, and the role brought her a Golden Globe nomination.
Q 05Which actor starred as the half-vampire 'daywalker' who hunts his own kind in the Blade film trilogy?
Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes played Blade three times, then surprised audiences by returning to the role in Deadpool & Wolverine more than 25 years after the first film.
Q 06Which comedian voiced Count Dracula in the first three Hotel Transylvania animated films?
Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler gave Drac his voice for three films but missed the fourth, Transformania, because of scheduling conflicts, so Brian Hull took over.
Q 07Who wrote the screenplay for From Dusk till Dawn and also played the unstable bank robber Richie Gecko?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino wrote the script in 1990 for $1,500, his first paid writing job, years before Robert Rodriguez directed it.
Q 08Which actor played the Count opposite Winona Ryder in Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman's Count was dressed by Eiko Ishioka, whose costumes earned one of the film's three Academy Awards.
Q 09The vampire film 30 Days of Night is set in the snowbound town of Barrow in which US state?
Alaska
Alaska's far-northern town of Barrow really does go weeks without a sunrise each winter, the polar night that the film's vampires exploit.
Q 10Which actor played vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight films before taking the lead in The Batman?
Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson was one of four finalists for Edward and won the part after an audition held at the director's house.
Q 11Which British actor played Count Dracula in seven Hammer horror films before becoming Saruman and Count Dooku?
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee first wore the cape in 1958 opposite Peter Cushing's Van Helsing, and his fanged Count fixed the popular image of the vampire.
Q 12In Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the future president is trained to slay the undead with which weapon?
An axe
An axe is the weapon his mentor Henry Sturges favours, a nod to the real Lincoln's reputation as a rail-splitter.
Q 13Which Australian actor played the monster hunter in the film Van Helsing during his years as Wolverine?
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman's hunter takes on Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and werewolves in one film, a homage to Universal's monster mash-ups of the 1940s.
Q 21Which star of the Bill & Ted comedies played English solicitor Jonathan Harker in the film Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves was cast because the director wanted a matinée idol for Jonathan, a part he admitted was not a great one.
Q 22Which actress played the vampire dancer Santanico Pandemonium in the saloon of From Dusk till Dawn?
Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek's character borrows her name from Satánico pandemonium, a 1975 nunsploitation film.
Q 23Which rock star played a rapidly ageing vampire opposite Catherine Deneuve in Tony Scott's film The Hunger?
David Bowie
David Bowie took the role in what was the first feature directed by Tony Scott, who went on to make Top Gun.
Q 14Which star of The Naked Gun played the Count in Mel Brooks's spoof Dracula: Dead and Loving It?
Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen faced Mel Brooks himself as Van Helsing, in what remains the final film Brooks directed.
Q 15Which author's novel about a Maine town overrun by vampires was adapted for the screen as Salem's Lot?
Stephen King
Stephen King's second published novel reached the screen more than once, first as a 1979 miniseries from Texas Chain Saw Massacre director Tobe Hooper.
Q 16Which actor played David, leader of the motorcycle-riding vampire gang, in The Lost Boys?
Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland broke his wrist doing a wheelie during the shoot, which is why David wears gloves: they hid the cast.
Q 17Which singer and former Disney Channel star voices Dracula's daughter Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania films?
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez stepped in as Mavis after Miley Cyrus, who had been announced for the part, was removed from the film.
Q 18Which Oscar-winning actor played Dr Michael Morbius, a scientist turned 'living vampire', in the film Morbius?
Jared Leto
Jared Leto won the Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor for the role, one of five Razzie nominations the film collected.
Q 19In Ryan Coogler's vampire film Sinners, twin brothers Smoke and Stack return to Mississippi to open what?
A juke joint
A juke joint in an old sawmill is the twins' dream, and Michael B. Jordan, who plays both brothers, won the Best Actor Oscar for the double role.
Q 20Which British actress played Selene, a vampire who hunts werewolves, in the Underworld action films?
Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale's Selene is a Death Dealer, one of an elite squad of vampire assassins, and a year later she fought Dracula himself in Van Helsing.
Q 24Which R&B singer played the vampire queen Akasha in Queen of the Damned shortly before a fatal plane crash?
Aaliyah
Aaliyah died in August 2001 after completing her scenes, and the film, her final screen role, is dedicated to her.
Q 25Which New Zealand filmmaker co-directed What We Do in the Shadows and played the dandy vampire Viago?
Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi shared the writing and directing with Jemaine Clement, and their flat-share mockumentary grew into a whole screen franchise.
Q 26Universal's Dracula starring Bela Lugosi had a second version shot at night on the same sets in which language?
Spanish
Spanish-speaking actors took over the sets after dark, once the English-language crew had finished shooting for the day.
Q 27Which actor took over the interviewer role in Interview with the Vampire after River Phoenix died?
Christian Slater
Christian Slater gave his entire salary from the film to River Phoenix's favourite charities.
Q 28Which British rock band's song Supermassive Black Hole plays over the vampire baseball game in Twilight?
Muse
Muse was a favourite of author Stephenie Meyer, who listened to the band while writing the novels and was consulted on the soundtrack.
Q 29In Let the Right One In, bullied schoolboy Oskar befriends the vampire Eli in a snowy suburb of which capital?
Stockholm
Stockholm's suburb of Blackeberg is the setting, but most of the film was shot far to the north in Luleå to be sure of enough snow and cold.
Q 30Which future director of The Hurt Locker made her solo directing debut with the vampire western Near Dark?
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow wanted to make a western but could not find the money for one, so she mixed in vampires, the more popular genre at the time.