Vampire Slayers

Buffy from the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer is taught her slaying skills by Merrick Jamison-Smythe. He is a Watcher and his main job is making sure that Buffy is trained and ready to battle with the vampire king himself. Lothos, vampire king, brings the battle face to face with the slayer during the senior dance at Buffy's school.

Blade played by Wesley Snipes in the movie Blade is a a vampire hunter of a different kind. He is himself part vampire. Blades long time friend Whistler created a serum for Blade that makes it possible for him to not drink blood. The other vampires refer to Blade as a day walker as he can walk without harm in the day light. Whistler spends his time creating weapons that Blade uses to take out the rogue vampires.

Van Helsing is a popular name in many vampire movies. He originated from the book Dracula written by Bram Stoker in 1897 as a vampire hunter. In the movie Dracula's Daughter Van Helsing is introduced where Dracula left off. Van Helsing is going on trial for the murder of the Count. Instead of a regular lawyer Van Helsing asks a psychiatrist, which is actually an old pupil of his, to help. In the 1992 movie Dracula actor Anthony Hopkins plays the character of Professor Abraham Van Helsing. In this rendition of Dracula Van Helsing is not the one to give Dracula his final blow it is Mina. The moment that Dracula is no more Mina is cured of the vampire curse.

Reporter Carl Kolchak in The Night Stalker becomes an unwilling vampire slayer when he gets sucked into a story that the police don't believe. Carl ends up slaying the vampire but loses his story in the process as well as his girl.