Ian Somerhalder in 'Vampire Diaries' Best Bloodsuckers | GetBack Retro Images, Video, Games and Trivia

Best Bloodsuckers | 2 of 12

« previous next »

previous next

PULSE, Ian Somerhalder, 2006

Think you can do better? Respond with your own gallery now!

Join GetBack

Comment Now

Comments

Letty

August 13, 2009 - 01:45 AM GMT

Jonathan Frid's magnetic portrayal of the romantic, yet tragically flawed Barnabas Collins will forever linger in the mind. An old school vampire imbued with the qualities of a gentleman, the "cousin from England" was the one to watch. When Frid was on the screen, you were riveted to him; quietly edgy, and with the nerve-wracking essence of a man from another time, he drew you in. A haunted performance if ever there was one. Tall and majestic in bearing, Frid had poise, charm, and a leonine grace--the necessities for a dark lord of the manse. In addition, his were the most expressively beautiful eyes: saying in silence, the unutterable grief of a heart shattered beyond repair. Possessed of a deep, commanding baritone, which he used masterfully, Frid's voice mirrored the Gothic gloom that swirled about Barnabas' every step, whether he trod the dark corridors of Collinwood, the shadowed portico of The Old House, his beloved home, or the musty interior of his family's mausoleum. An imposing man whose large but well-manicured hands were never without the comfortable silver wolf's head cane or the stunning black onyx stone worn royally on the index finger, Barnabas Collins was a man to be noticed. Always elegantly dressed--depending on the time period frequented, either in an Inverness cape or the more ancient Coachman cloak of his 18th century youth--he swept the night with his mysterious presence. An exotic and exquisitely attractive vampire. Those fascinating eyes watched and scrutinized any and all beneath bangs alternately exaggerated with plastered points or feathered in the Augustan style of, again, his fabled youth. A lonely, sad, and terrified man from another time who sought a lost and forever denied love. Someone for whom redemption was sought by himself at the behest of a few souls who loved him almost as much as we, the viewers did... A portrait come to life. This, was our Barnabas Collins.

Flag

CharlotteWeb

June 14, 2009 - 12:41 PM GMT

Barnabas Collins, folks. On the old Dark Shadows soap opera. Now there was a vampire!

Flag

celi1020

June 12, 2009 - 03:35 PM GMT

Whare is gary oldman in Dracula? Williem Dafoe in Shadow of a vampire? Leslie Nielsen in Dracula - Dead and loving it? This list is crap, dont get me wrong i love mr pattinson but he is nowhere near Gary oldman or williem dafoe, perhaps leslie nielsen, because Dead and loving it was meant to be a comedy, just like pattinson's acting.

Flag

jeanx

April 22, 2009 - 03:29 PM GMT

This list is crap without Gary Oldman as Dracula. Where the HELL is he?
Who made this list? Fire them.

Flag

bonzi

April 14, 2009 - 11:11 AM GMT

DID YOU FOR GET MOONLIGHT, STARING MICK ST. JOHN? THE NEWEST VAMPIRE. IT WAS A GREAT PROGRAM ON CBS. AND IT WAS A LARGE HIT, AND IT WAS CANCELED, WHY WHO KNOWS. THE FAN'S BEEN FIGHTING TO GET A 2 ND SEASONS AND IT IS SITTING ON THE SELF. THANKS TO SCI FI, IS DOING RERUNS, SO WE CAN WATCH IT OVER AND OVER IT IS THAT GOOD. THEY DID MAKE A D.V.D. AND THAT WAS GREAT.