OK so folklore vampires, like Eastern European pre-Dracula monsters risen from the grave to prey upon people and other variations from around the world. Sometimes literally the damned, or arising from curses such as from not being baptized or whatever. Lots of folklore with lots of variations leading to dead people rising up to prey upon the living. In any case usually sentient people preying upon people, similar to a mind flayer's situation. So not necessarily hating all life, just evilly preying upon people because of their situation/condition which is different from animals being predators. A lion eating a person would generally be considered neutral but Aslan choosing to do so would be considered to have moral culpability.
There is a difference between sentients preying upon the living and straight out hating the living, so yes, vampires are more classically evil predators.
As sentient predators there is room for variation, those who do it utilitarianly, those who revel in preying upon the living and do it more, and those who try to actively minimize their harm.