 The pilot for the Dan Curtis 1972 television series Kolchak : The Night Stalker revolved around reporter Carl Kolchak hunting a vampire on the Las Vegas strip . Later films showed more diversity in plotline , with some focusing on the vampire @-@ hunter , such as Blade in the Marvel Comics ' Blade films and the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Buffy , released in 1992 , foreshadowed a vampiric presence on television , with adaptation to a long @-@ running hit TV series of the same name and its spin @-@ off Angel . Still others showed the vampire as protagonist , such as 1983 's The Hunger , 1994 's Interview with the Vampire : The Vampire Chronicles and its indirect sequel of sorts Queen of the Damned , and the 2007 series Moonlight . Bram Stoker 's Dracula was a noteworthy 1992 film which became the then @-@ highest grossing vampire film ever . 
