[IMG:L]Vampires are sexy, no question about it. Just look at Twilight’s Robert Pattinson, who’s had the book’s rabid fan base salivating for months. Here’s 10 more who get our hearts racing — out of lust and fear:
10. Olga Kurylenko
Film: Paris Je T’aime
The new Bond girl first played a fetching bloodsucker in this indie, sinking her fangs into Elijah Wood. As if being an exotic European model isn’t hot enough, she went dark and Goth to make herself irresistibly sultry. At least her bit was only five minutes long –otherwise she’d have all the men in the theater lining up to donate blood.
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9. Stephen Moyer
TV Show: True Blood
The newest addition to the undead gang certainly makes an impression. As an HBO show, there’s always the promise of unrated full frontal nudity, but it’s enough for Moyer to tease swooning fans with his Southern drawl. Or maybe that’s just his way of “glamouring” us.
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8. Alex O’Loughlin
TV Show: Moonlight
Although the show only lasted one season last year, this hottie vampire, who moonlights (get it?) as a private investigator, gathered quite the cult following with the ladies. It’s easy to see why.
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7. Anne Parillaud
Film: Innocent Blood
The original Femme Nikita might be the most, um, exposed vampire ever — meaning she’s naked a lot. Which isn’t a bad thing. In John Landis‘ toothy companion to his American Werewolf in London, Parillaud only feeds on bad guys — and she has no trouble baring all to get them vulnerable in the sack.
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6. Kiefer Sutherland
Film: The Lost Boys
In this ’80s classic, the guy we all know as 24’s Jack Bauer, is the charismatic leader of the vamp boy band, getting all the cool kids to follow him into a life of immortal beach bummery. If only he could work on that tan.
KEEP READING: See No. 5
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5. Kate Beckinsale
Film: Underworld
Wait, she is a vampire in the movie? Most people stop paying attention after the tight spandex outfits. But yes, that’s how she can do all those nifty Matrix-y tricks and kick so much butt. Kate would be the sexiest barnacle scrubber if she chose to play one, so making her a dark brooding bloodsucker is a no brainer.
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4. David Boreanaz
TV Show: Angel
Boreanaz may be (un)naturally blessed in the forehead area, giving him an unfair advantage in the sexy brooding category. But everyone loves the bad boy, so when he turns into Angelus, dumps Buffy and stops being all sensitive, it just makes him more irresistible.
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3. Gary Oldman
Film: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Here’s how sexy Oldman is in Francis Ford Coppola‘s opus: Even disguised as a creepy mist, he turns women on. Showing up as the suave aristocrat just seals the deal.
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2. Stuart Townsend
Film: Queen of the Damned
Sure, Tom Cruise first played the Vampire Lestat in Interview with the Vampire (lcheck out Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas as the sexy ones in that flick), but it’s Townsend’s modern-day rock star who makes us swoon. That’s one fine lookin’ vamp.
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1. Salma Hayek
Film: From Dusk Til Dawn
Hayek guest appearance in Dawn is the sexiest, hip-shaking, smooth slithering strip tease in the history of cinema. Even when she turns into the dangerous vampire, you still just see the snake babe. Honestly, did they have to stake her? Oh well, we’ll always have the DVD.
