Anne Rice set the stage for aristocratic
vampires when Lestat de Lioncourt leapt from the pages of her novel
and onto the big screen. Lestats nature is to be defiant and bold.
This makes him the brat prince of the undead.
John Badham’s 1979 remake of the classic Dracula brings to the
screen the arrogant aristocrat Langella. He is as handsome as he is
deadly.
In Vampire Circus a vampire aristocrat uses his power of seduction
to skillfully lure women to him to be his brides. After the vampire
is put to his final death he leaves a curse on the townspeople that
wrecks havoc on their lives.
Lady Sylvia Marsh from the movie Lair of the White Worm is a very
sexy, powerful and wealthy vampire aristocrat. In her life before
vampirism she was an immortal priestess to the snake God
Dionin.
New Moon, the second movie in the Twilight series, hosts its own
type of vampire aristocrats. The Vultari are the rulers of the
vampire world and they are oldest vampires in existence. When bored
these aristocrats try to play match makers in the vampire
world.
Frederick Sackville-Bagg declares himself an aristocrat in the
movie The Little Vampire. Sabina, Frederick’s wife, keeps their
family chronicles hidden in her coffin. The chronicles are written
in a secret handwriting for vampires only. Their son Gregory is in
forever torment as he was made a vampire during his puberty years.
He will always be ill tempered as any teen would be if they had to
live forever with puberty.
In the 1979 movie Thirst poor Kate wakes to find herself a vampire.
She is not just any vampire though. Kate is an heiress and fights
the Brotherhood when they attempt to bring her to her true legacy
of one of the undead.