29 minutes ago, JamesSavik said:

Despite Hollywood's complete idiocy on the subject, elder vampyre are not nocturnal. In fact, they need sunlight.

It is juvenile vampyre who are strictly nocturnal. They are immature, and the change has not taken hold yet. It takes a few decades before they can handle sunlight.

More like German cinema rather than Hollywood since it was Nosferatu which started the trope.

In Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula could walk in sunlight, but couldn't use his powers.

It's only by accident copies of Nosferatu exist since Stoker's heirs sued and won a copyright infringement suit and all copies of the film were ordered to be destroyed.

2 minutes ago, Myr said:

<- it had some redeeming factors...

Yep.