We know you love vampire movies (so do we!), but have you considered vampire movies for kids? The vampire craze has blown past teen angst and is now singing and dancing for our children!
With animated films like the Hotel Transylvania movie grossing over $1.3 billion worldwide (and a fourth movie Hotel Transylvania: Transformania), parents everywhere are looking for more.
We’ve rated our top favorites for you! Here’s our must-watch 25 Vampire Movies For Kids! In addition, to live-action movies in the vampire genre, we have also been sure to include the best vampire cartoon movie options kids will bite right into.
Animated Vampire Movies For Kids
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#1. Scooby-Doo! Music Of The Vampire (2012)When Daphne becomes the star of a vampire film, the production is thrown into chaos by a real vampire, forcing the Scooby-Doo team to investigate who’s behind this monstrous mayhem. |
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#2. Scooby-Doo! And the Legend of the Vampire (2003)The gang go to Australia to investigate the recent disappearances of the performances at the music festivals by the so-called Yowie Yahoo. |
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#3. Monster High: Fright On! (2011)The first of many beloved Monster High movies! See what happens when the student bodies of an all-vampire school and an all-werewolf school integrate with Monster High. |
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#4. Dear Dracula (2012)Dracula has a great opportunity to try his brand new skills at the neighborhood Halloween party, where he realizes that self-confidence is enough to make him as scary as he ever was. |
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#5. Super Monsters Save Halloween (2018)The first of many full-length movie spin-offs from the animated Netflix Original series, Super Monsters. The Super Monsters use their powers to get their neighbors in the Halloween spirit, then help a nervous friend see there’s nothing to be afraid of. |
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#6. Monster Family (2017)The Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, Mum and Emma plan a fun night out. However, her plan backfires when an evil witch curses them and they’re all turned into Monsters. |
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#7. Vampirina (2017- )Although Vampirina isn’t a movie, we’re positive your little vampire will love this Disney animated series original. Vampirina tells the story of a young vampire girl who faces the joys and trials of being the new kid in town when her family moves from Transylvania to Pennsylvania. |
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#8. The Addams Family (2019)Mom and Dad can get on board with this animated film based on the original Addams Family franchise! The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams’ friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families. |
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#9. Hotel Transylvania (2012)Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count’s teenaged daughter. |
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#10. Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)Dracula and his friends try to bring out the monster in his half human, half vampire grandson in order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel. |
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#11. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)Count Dracula and company participate in a cruise for sea-loving monsters, unaware that their boat is being commandeered by the monster-hating Van Helsing family. |
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#12. Hotel Transylvania: Transformia (2022) (PG)The fourth vampire movie in the Hotel Transylvania movie series, Transformia brings everyone back. After just one experiment, Johnny turns into a monster while everyone else becomes human. Can they reverse the experiment?Where to watch: Amazon Prime |
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#13. The Little Vampire 3D (2017)Rudolph, a 13-year-old vampire, meets Tony, a mortal boy his age who loves old castles, graveyards and vampires. Tony helps Rudolph to fight against a notorious vampire hunter, and together they save Rudolph’s family and become friends. |
Live Action Vampire Movies For Kids
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#14. Halloween Town (1998)When a young girl living with her good-witch grandmother learns she too is a witch, she must help her grandmother save Halloweentown from evil forces. |
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#15. Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge (2001)A young witch and her grandmother work together to foil the plans of a wicked warlock’s son before he can use powerful spells to create chaos in the world. |
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#16. Halloweentown High (2004)A girl in a magical world bets her family’s magic that nothing bad will happen when kids from Halloweentown attend high school in the mortal realm. |
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#17. Return to Halloweentown (2004)Marnie and Dylan are going to follow their dreams to go to college, at Halloweentown University, which is also known as Witch University. |
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#18. Mom’s Got A Date With A Vampire (2000)Chelsea and Adam will do whatever it takes to get their mom Lynette out of the house, even if it includes a chance meeting with a very mysterious man. Everything seems to go according to plan until their little brother Taylor realizes that this stranger might be a vampire. |
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#19. Vampire Dog (2012)A boy unwittingly adopts a 600 year old talking vampire dog and soon discovers that when they face their fears they can do anything. |
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#20. My Babysitter’s a Vampire (2010)A teenager discovers the girl hired to look after his little sister is a vampire. |
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#21. The Little Vampire (2000)A lonely American boy living in Scotland makes a new best friend, a fellow nine year-old who happens to be a vampire. |
Vampire Movies For Tweens & Teens
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#22. Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992) (PG-13)Parents will enjoy the nostalgia of the movie that later inspired the hit TV series. Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers learns that she is her generation’s destined battler of vampires. |
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#23. The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones (2013) (PG-13)When her mother disappears, Clary Fray learns that she descends from a line of warriors who protect our world from demons. She joins forces with others like her and heads into a dangerous alternate New York called the Shadow World. |
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#24. Vampire Academy (2014) (PG-13)Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discreetly within our world. Her calling is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, immortal Vampires, the Strigoi. |
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#25. Vampires vs. The Bronx (2020) (PG-13)A group of young friends from the Bronx fight to save their neighborhood from gentrification…and vampires. |
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#26. Twilight (2008) (PG-13)When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. |
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#27. Vampire Hunter D (1985) (Not Rated)Vampire Hunter D is a Japanese horror film produced by Ashi Productions. The anime is based on a series of novels written by Japanese author Hideyuki Kikuchi. In this animated feature, Doris Lang is chosen as the next bride for the vampire Count Magnus Lee. She hires a vampire hunter known as D to escape her fate. Where to watch: Amazon |
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Are There Any Other Vampire Movies Coming Out?
Sony has recently released Morbius, starring Jared Leto. He is a comic book hero with a form of vampirism. The vampire movie was delayed two times due to the pandemic. It was originally set for release in July 2020 but finally came out in April 2022.
Dr. Morbius is dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and is determined to save others from suffering the same fate. While his experiments appear to be a success, it isn’t long before the darkness inside him is unleashed.
Where to watch: Thanks to an exclusive first pay window licensing deal, Morbius will be available for streaming on Netflix after the home entertainment window. It will also be available on Disney+ as part of the deal between Sony and Disney.
Whether you have a small child that would love Dear Dracula or a Hotel Transylvania movie to an older teen who may be more into vampire anime, our list has something in the vampire genre for every family member to enjoy.
Are there any Vampire Movies For Kids that we missed? Let us know below in the comments! Which vampire cartoon movie for kids is your favorite?
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