Gay vampire adult film reviews and official ranking

Gay vampire adult films have improved tremendously over the last 20 or more years. There are some classics, Night Boys and Sons of Satan from the very early days, plenty from the eighties and nineties from the video tape era to the latest crop of higher-quality digital films. There are reviews throughout this site for most of these films with greater detail and a breakdown of the individual rating categories, but here is a near-complete list ranked in order of best to worst. Read more

Gay vampire fetish

I think it should be obvious but I have a thing for vampires. The sight of a hot guy with fangs is a major turn on for me. It is my fetish. And possibly it's your fetish too, or you just have an interest in vampires. So why don't I feel comfortable in a regular fetish club. Have vampires become so popular that sporting fangs would now seem too mainstream? Straight goth clubs are, well, straight and then there's the music. Gay fetish clubs are great and while I'll admit to enjoying a bit of leather with my fangs, I don't see guys walking around in leather or rubber (or nothing) also wearing fangs. I am lucky to have a boyfriend equally into vampires as I am, but is being a gay vampire only for the bedroom? Why must those with the vampire fetish only come out at halloween! A recent post on Queerty about the Twinklight trailer openly requested readers mock the film. I think most of the commenters were missing the point. Aside from my own very biased opinion towards gay vampire porn, as Twinklight is not geared to but a handful of the commenters, the commenters are tearing apart a film they haven't seen or would even care to see. I don't care to watch the majority of porn available because it's not what turns me on for the same reason. Those readers were forgetting something important about adult films—it's about the fantasy. So as the industry continues to pump out the exact same films with different actors and various double-entendre or spoof titles, it is refreshing to see a film that actually does make an effort to be different. I know I am getting serious and also taking Twinklight too seriously, but from what I've seen so far we can expect to see a gay film that actually includes a story, acting, and emotion, as well as sex. Twinklight is also fighting back against the sexless mormon too-cute teenage love story that is Twilight. Here instead are a group of humans and vampires who fall in love, have sex and actually bite their victims with their fangs. Sure some have commented that the feeding scenes are violent, and yes that's true, but they are extremely hot too. Being turned on by vampires is certainly not new and sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists have all made observations as to why this is so. When it comes to gay vampires we associate coming out of the closet with coming out of the coffin. And yes as vampires have become popular lately, which is part their natural rise and fall, but more importantly vampires have evolved. The vampires created by Eastern-European folklore have been dissected by modern science as well as being disregarded for being the result of the uneducated. A corpse became a vampire if it wasn't laid to rest properly or if the person had done something wrong in their life. Digging up that corpse the villagers often found a body not yet decomposed, possibly with fluids (including blood) leaking from the mouths so as to give the effect that the corpse had been feeding on blood. Bram Stoker, constantly ridiculed by the vampire characters in modern stories for getting so much wrong, introduced the vampire in a very sexual way but cloaked for the prude Victorian-era audience. Since then, vampire stories have gone from the vampire being a monster to one of sexual desire. Thanks to Anne Rice, the vampire was able to evolve further, including breaking down more sexuality barriers. Vampires are now more than the walking corpses they were first thought to be, at least in fiction, in reality I still sadly haven't met one. There are many terrible vampire films on the market, and a ton of pulp fiction mostly for women. Maybe there is something in Stephen Marches Esquire piece "Vampires as gay men", after all there is a lot of gay vampire novels written for and by women. (The most obvious sign is that their vampire characters have long hair). Twilight could be a result of this, but Twilight is not gay, just sexually repressive, and a step backward for vampire evolution. I wrote this before for an interview with Unzipped. Over time vampires in film have gone from being portrayed monsters to sensual beings, but few films have tackled this for gay men. The deluge has come in the written word, allowing gay’s to imagine this perfect man who is nearly always exceptionally good-looking, dangerous and predatory yet sensual. Gay men want to submit to the vampire because he is stronger and more powerful then us, and we want to be vampires for those same feelings of strength and control over whoever we choose as our prey. We should feel liberated, free to explore our fetish and desires. We should be able to relate to vampires—the outcasts, deviants in society. While being gay is safe in some places, being a vampire, or rather being into a vampire, is still something to hide it seems. Returning to other fetishes such as leather, there are the fetish clubs which allow men to explore their fetish, but it is unlikely any of them would be seen walking down the street wearing leather pants, sadly. Such a thing labels the person gay (ironically) or European, not that I see main European men walking down the street in leather either. But leather—and rubber, etc—have their safe places unlike vampires. If I go to a fetish party this summer, such as one in London mid-July, would I be able to get away wearing fangs and leather or would I appear as a freak. London's fetish week shows pictures of guys in leather, rubber, skinheads, but at the "Full-fetish" party, what is truly acceptable. Of course if any of you immortal readers are not into leather, rubber or neoprene, you'd feel even less welcome (if not totally barred at the door). Then again, fangs can easily be added to whatever you are into... punk, uniform & military, sports wear, swimwear, even your everyday look, and doesn't have to be the lace-silk-ruffles of goth. The vampire fetish is universal and yet is it accepted. I wish I could say yes. Note: I feel like including a special side rant about leather, especially finding good leather. By no means is this an endorsement, but after browsing and purchasing leather from various retailers in Europe (and London), by far the best two leather retailers are Northbound and Priape (neither in Europe). Northbound especially has really high-quality leather (and I've bought the cheap stuff so I know), but unlike RoB they have more than one style of pants and shirts that don't look like police uniforms. To create that perfect vampire image, a little leather helps, and it's nice not to wear standard leather jeans like everyone else, after all a vampire needs to look good and not conform. Image from Twinklight (Afton Nills Pictures)

Vampires are gay

Another Halloween has come and gone and after a bit of a withdrawal, things are picking up again. This October was actually an amazing month for vampires, and gay vampires, but things have tapered off since. Several tv programmes are continuing, such as The Lair and The Vampire Diaries, and there are still a few movie releases to look forward to. Obviously the next movie release is a big one, especially for teenage girls. The second Twilight installment, New Moon will hit screens next week, and might even be worth seeing even if those vampires are fangless and sexless. Twilight has been causing some problems though. Hollywood, or at least a few bloggers, has decided that vampires are passe and are trying to get us to move on to the next big thing. Apparently that's zombies. Gross. I have been thinking about Stephen Marche's Esquire article on how straight women are into vampires because they want to sleep with gay men a bit over the last few weeks. Thanks again to the rise of Twilight, Marche has noticed something that has been going on for some time. I don't know whether to agree or disagree, but I can certainly see Marche's point, especially given the rise in m/m slash/romance written by women. But even before the latest rise, yaoi manga and fiction by women had already carved a niche in the m/m genre as a whole. Over the years I've purchased numerous ebooks from Fictionwise written by authors with non-gender specific names or merely initials. These vampire stories probably owe their creation to the works of Anne Rice. Romantic, long-haired, effeminate and gentle vampires fall in love and keep their lovers for centuries. Compare these to stories in printed anthologies such as the Midnight series (Masters of Midnight, Midnight Thirsts and Midnight Hunger) or Blood Lust where the vampires are often looking for one night stands, quick hookups to feed their sexual and blood needs. For the most part I was quite unhappy with the endings of most of these stories, though the new Midnight Hunger had at least two stories that ended well. Lovers Who Stay With You and Late Night Boyfriends are two anthologies where vampire-human relationships are more long term but they are for the most part clearly written by men. How many gay guys are currently sporting long hair? I knew personally that every writer who contributed to Late Night Boyfriends is a gay male. And Ethan is not unapologetic that the book was created by and for gay men you love gay vampires. Am I making a big deal out of the amount of gay vampire fiction created by women? Few of these books are being printed traditionally and the quality of the fiction is passable at best. More frustratingly I spend money on a book about gay vampires and discover the author is not male I feel deceived. At the very least don't hide behind initials or gender-confusing names, be honest about your gender and allow readers to accept you rather than be deceived by you. That said, are gay men buying the literature written by gay authors? Gay authors are at least creating vampire fiction and can only continue to produce these works if there's a market. The hundreds of visitors hitting this site each day is proof that gay men are into vampires, but I know from my conversation with Ethan that while sales numbers for Late Nigh Boyfriends have been good, copies sold certainly don't match the number of visitors to this site. Another medium's continuation that surprises me is with The Lair. Now two-thirds through it's third season, The Lair has deviated from it's original purpose and seems incredibly off track. The second season introduced several unrelated plot lines that muddied the essential story and key characters have been killed off for no good reason. The show is barely a gay vampire drama anymore. A recent episode featured two guys going at it then suddenly both revealed his fangs and the tryst came to an abrupt end; obviously each was looking for hot-fuck-suck-neck action, but not with another vampire. The scene illustrates one of the few times vampires have featured in this vampire series, yet the scene was soft-core porn and had little to do with the story. Are vampires essentially about getting off for gay men? In future episodes, Damian becomes mortal which allows him to be with Tom again. There's a great lesson, you will be accepted as long as you are normal. This reverse prejudice towards vampires existed in the previous seasons and has been asserted by the writers. Instead of accepting Jonathan, Tom distanced himself from his boyfriend (and Jonathan was pushing Tom away too). Yet at the end of the series, Tom was willing to accept Damian. Of course had I been in Tom's shoes (or the series writer), I would have had Tom jump Jonathan's bones in each episode, begging to be turned as well. I am conflicted about The Lair's future. I keep supporting the series (buying the DVD because I can't get HereTV and it was a waste when I could), but the story has been getting worse. Now it seems no one will want to make a gay vampire drama series probably because it's been done. I don't want The Lair to be cancelled but there's so little vampire action I don't see why it should continue. If I wanted weird paranormal gay drama, I'd watch Dante's Cove. What is it about the vampire for gay men? Why do we find them so incredibly sexy? Do we relate to the outcasts, or are we obsessed with youth and beauty? Over the past 30 years there has been less than 20 gay vampire adult films. Suddenly there has been a slight surge. Twinkblood was just released and Twinklight is on the way. I am quite excited about both for a number of reasons. There's been such a drought that at this point anything would satisfy me, but both films also appeal to what I want in an adult film which has been missing from previous films. Sure it would be great if there was a vampire porn for each fetish and body type, but the studios are simply not producing these films. It may seem that I'm complaining and not happy with what exists. A few months ago I wrote about the drought affecting gay vampires and as if my words were heard, the drought ended in the form of a sudden flash flood. And I am grateful. Hopefully the drought is over, and hopefully there's more to come in the coming months. I am still looking forward to receiving my copy of Twinkblood and giving you all a review. I'm happy there's at least one more film to come, and with any luck many more. In the meantime, if you are in your 20s or early 30s, into vampires and live in London, email me, I know of at least one guy new to town looking for someone with the same interests.

Full unzipped interview

Update: check out our original news article announcing the Unzipped vampire issue, and some outtakes. The questions and my unedited answers from the interview fro Unzipped magazine, summer 2009. Read more