Showing posts with label Vampire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vampire. Show all posts

Stake Land (2010)

Stake Land (2010)
aka: StakeLand
Director: Jim Mickle
Cast: Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Kelly McGillis
America is a lost nation. When an epidemic of vampirism strikes, humans find themselves on the run from vicious, feral beasts. Cities are tombs and survivors cling together in rural pockets, fearing nightfall. When his family is slaughtered, young Martin (Connor Paolo) is taken under the wing of a grizzled, wayward hunter (Nick Damici) whose new prey are the undead. Simply known as Mister, the vampire stalker takes Martin on a journey through the locked-down towns of America’s heartland, searching for a better place while taking down any bloodsuckers that cross their path. Along the way they recruit fellow travellers, including a nun (Kelly McGillis) who is caught in a crisis of faith when her followers turn into ravenous beasts. This ragtag family unit cautiously moves north, avoiding major thoroughfares that have been seized by The Brotherhood, a fundamentalist militia headed by Jebedia Loven (Michael Cerveris) that interprets the plague as the Lord’s work.
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Story centers on Martin a teen whose lost his parents to vampires, he's befriended by Mister a vampire killer, who trys to teach Martin how to survive and look after himself. They set off on a roadtrip for New Eden a city where humans are meant to be safer. But come across a ruthless set of religious fanatics who believe the vampires are gods will and sent here to purge humanity of the weak and bad.

Entertaining vampire yarn that sometimes takes itself too seriously. Stake Lands unique selling point is that its vampires are an out of control plague, and shares as much of the tone and feel of films like Book of Eli and the television series Walking Dead than it does with other modern vampire movies like say Near Dark. Entertaining no doubt we'll see a sequel or two, it'd even work well as a spinoff television series.

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[Rated 7½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 18]
[Gorequota 7/10]
Themes Included: MachetesStakesReligious FanticsShootings
RoadsFangsSuicide

Bloodrayne The Third Reich (2010)

Bloodrayne The Third Reich (2010)
Director: Uwe Boll
Cast: Clint Howard, Natassia Malthe, Michael Paré, Brendan Fletcher
BloodRayne 3: The Third Reich is a 2010 horror film directed by Uwe Boll, starring Natassia Malthe, Willam Belli and Michael Paré. The film takes place during World War II. Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne’s blood in an attempt to transform him into a dhampir and attain immortality.
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(Not Yet Rated)

Metamorphosis (2007)

Metamorphosis (2007)
Director: Jenö Hodi
Cast: Corey Sevier, Irena A. Hoffman and Christopher Lambert
In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in the Carpathian Mountains faces the evil Countess Elizabeth Bathory, accused of drinking and bathing in blood of virgin women. Count Thurzo imprisons the Countess in the tower of a monastery and brings her daughter to live with him. In the present days, Keith is writing a book about Countess Elizabeth Bathory and traveling through Hungary with his friends J.J. and Kim researching her life. While trying to find the monastery, he meets the gorgeous and seductive Elizabeth, who guides the trio to the place. Keith and Elizabeth fall in love for each other, and after a car accident, they have a supernatural journey with revelations and fatalities.
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(Not Yet Rated)

Sergio Lapel's Drawing Blood (1999)

Sergio Lapel's Drawing Blood (1999)
aka: Drawing Blood
Director: Sergio Lapel, Onur Tukel
Writer: Onur Tukel, Noel Anderson
Cast: Amie Childers, Dawn Spinella, Kirk Wilson
A vampire artist forces her brother to bring her victims so she kill them then paint them with their own blood. The brother falls in love with a young hooker, the vampire´s next intended victim, and must choose between sacrificing the girl or killing his vampire sister.
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Poor vampire yarn following a female vampire artist who kills women then paints pictures in their blood. To help her she enlists a struggling male artist to bring her woman to use, only he falls for a down on her luck prostitute. He must kill the vampire in order to stop her feeding and killing his new found love.

The characters are one dimensional and they are poorly acted, the plots boring, the pace is pedestrian in fact the only selling point with Drawing Blood is it does contain a pretty big bewb count. I found it extremely dull to the point of wanting to turn it off.

(3½ out of 10)

Flesh of Your Flesh (1983)

Flesh of Your Flesh (1983)
aka: Carne de tu Carne
Director: Carlos Mayolo
Writer: Carlos Mayolo, Jorge Nieto
Cast: Adriana Herrán, David Guerrero, Santiago García
Columbian Vampire tale.
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It's probably the first movie I've ever seen from Columbia but boy is it one I'm not going to forget in an hurry. It starts somewhat like a classic family sage (think Godfather but instead of following the mafia its a few generations of rich Columbian farmers and landowners). When the Grandma and head of the family dies, her family gather from all corners of the world at her estate, to hear her will be read. Only it spells trouble for two of her grandchildren as both the brother and sister learn of their families dark secret, that there's been numerous cases of incest among the family. As they visit old familiar childhood haunts they start to become insatiably attracted to each other and start to have sex, its at this point they're visited by ghostly apparitions of their dead elders. These ghosts start to chant echo's and remarks about tasting blood. The next morning as the brother and sister wake they're somehow changed. After killing a man checking the security of the estate they taste blood for the 1st time and change a little more into blood craved vampires, they then go hunting the local area for newborn babies to feed on.

Apparently the story is comprised of grisly Columbian myths and folk tales, I'm sure some of the aspects of the film I didn't really grasp but on the whole I understood what was going on. The incest within the film is done without showing any nudity but it's still pretty perverse, not really gory either but there's the odd bit of blood ohh and a turkey gets its head blown off in one of the opening scenes. I guess any of these events could offend viewers which is a shame as its a very haunting little movie and the two vampires are as unique to me as when I first watched a Asian hopping vampire film. Well worth hunting down I've probably over scored the rating purely due to never seeing a film like it before, who knows Columbia maybe as an whole sub-genre of incestous blood drinking baby eating vampire movies to unearth
(8½ out of 10)

A Nocturne (2007)

A Nocturne (2007)
Director: Bill Mousoulis
Writer: Ali Alizadeh, Bill Mousoulis
Cast: Chris Anderson-Peters, Billy, Patrick Boyle
X and Z are a vampire couple, living in an old warehouse in inner-city Melbourne. Over the course of one night, they go about their regular business, teaming up with the poet-cannibal Seers and another vampire Vee. After a strange encounter with the mysterious Rola, the fabric of X and Z's world begins to change. A philosophical vampire film.
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Philosophical low budget vampire tale from Australia, that comes off more like Mike Leigh's Naked than any vampire movie I've seen before. A Nocturne seems to sidestep any idea of a plot, instead we see the vampires meditate on their almost junky like situation of facing their own hopeless existence just to feed. I'd recommend both Abel Ferrara's The Addiction and George A. Romero's Martin over this, both better thinking mans vampire tales, but if you're in the mood for a zero budget shoegaze vampire movie then maybe A Nocturne will suit your tastes.
(5½ out of 10)

Let Me In (2010)

Let Me In (2010)
Director: Matt Reeves
Writer: Matt Reeves, John Ajvide Lindqvist
Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.
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(Not Yet Rated)




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The Dead Undead (2010)

The Dead Undead (2010)
Directors: Matthew R. Anderson, Edward Conna
Writer: Edward Conna
Cast: Forrest J Ackerman, Joshua Alba, Edward Conna, Luke Goss
Good Vampires battle Zombie Vampires while trying to hide their own identity and prevent the infection from spreading.
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(Not Yet Rated)
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Beyond the Rave (2008)

Beyond the Rave (2008)
Director: Matthias Hoene
Writer: Tom Grass, Jon Wright
Cast: Nora-Jane Noone, Jamie Dornan, Tamer Hassan, Sebastian Knapp
An English soldier must find and win back his girlfriend from the clutches of a mysterious group of hardcore ravers before he flies to Iraq in the morning.
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(Not Yet Rated)


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30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)

30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)
Director: Ben Ketai
Writer: Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith, Ben Ketai
Cast: Kiele Sanchez,Diora Baird,Mia Kirshner
After surviving the incidents in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Olemaun relocates to Los Angeles, where she intentionally attracts the attention of the local vampire population in order to avenge the death of her husband Eben.
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Very poor straight to video sequel to 30 Days Of Night, the action as moved from the previous films chilly Alaskan small town to the seedier side of sunny LA. The plot follows Stella the lone survivor from the first movie (sadly most likely due to funds they've replaced Melissa George with Kiele Sanchez), shes now in LA doing lectures on her incident. She gets involved with a group of Vampire killers who are seeking to a kill an Elizabeth Bathory styled vamp leader called Lilith. About the only thing this sequel retains from the original is the way the vampires look (pale usually bald with all razor teeth). Don't get me wrong I wasn't expecting a massive budget for a STV movie, but at least they could of done a less muddled and quicker flowing paced plot than this trite. At least with the Lost Boys STV movies you got the cheesy fun of having the two Corey's frog brothers show up. other than the few brief moments it shows scenes from the original its all piss poor. Its got the most amateurish credits I think I've ever seen, imagine your Aunt and Uncle forced you to watch their camcorder holiday footage from their trip to LA. I've always enjoyed a good vampire yarn even if they suck theres usually blood and the odd naked vampire chick to look forward too, sadly here the blood looks like fruit juice plus zero bewb count with only 2 seconds of Lilith's ass on show even TV vampires give us more than this crap. I said "Pound for pound it’s the best vampire yarn since Near Dark" about the original, for Dark Days I'd say pound for pound go rent anything else and I pray they don't make any more.
(3 out of 10)

Sea of Dust (2008)

Sea of Dust (2008)
Director: Scott Bunt
Writer: Scott Bunt
Cast: Tom Savini, Ingrid Pitt, Troy Holland
An ideology has been loosed on the world, one so powerful, so devastating, that nothing can withstand it. It’s left to a handful of misfits to save mankind by attempting just that.
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(Not Yet Rated)


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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
aka Eclipse
Director: David Slade
Writers: Melissa Rosenberg, Stephenie Meyer
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob.
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(Not Yet Rated)



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Shadowland (2010)

Shadowland (2010)
Director: Wyatt Weed
Writer: Wyatt Weed
Cast: Caitlin McIntosh, Jason Contini, Carlos Antonio Leon
Laura crawls from a pit at a construction site, beaten and bloody, apparently left for dead. With no memory of who or where she is, she sets off into the night, looking for answers and a way home. Soon she finds herself hunted by a mysterious young man named Julian, and it isn't clear if he intends to help her or kill her.
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(Not Yet Rated)


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Transylmania (2009)

Transylmania (2009)
Directors: David Hillenbrand, Scott Hillenbrand
Writers: Patrick Casey, Worm Miller
Cast: Oren Skoog, Worm Miller, Patrick Casey
Spoof horror in which a group of college kids do a semester abroad in Romania and realise that if the partying doesn't kill them, the vampires just might!
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(Not Yet Rated)


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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
Director: Paul Weitz
Writers: Paul Weitz, Brian Helgeland
Cast: John C. Reilly, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia, Jessica Carlson
A young boy named Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a Vampire. After a series of events Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque Du Freak and become a Vampire.
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Entertaining kids vampire yarn. Darren and his best friend Steve decide to visit a local feakshow after their school bans its pupils from going. Only one attraction is a vaudeville vampire who ends up turning Darren into his half blood vampire assistant. The two friends end up becoming a key part in a 500 year old battle between vampires and the vampaneze (whom are a slightly more animalistic evil natured breed of vampires). Loads of interesting characters including a snake boy, wolfman, Salma Hayek still hot as the bearded lady and a Vincent Price'esc vampire played by Willem Dafoe. Sure its aimed at kids but what it lacks in blood and fangs it makes up for in comic action.
(6½ out of 10)

The Twilight Saga New Moon (2009)

The Twilight Saga New Moon (2009)
aka New Moon
Director: Chris Weitz
Writer: Melissa Rosenberg, Stephenie Meyer
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke
After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family. However, a minor accident during the festivities results in Bella's blood being shed, a sight that proves too intense for the Cullens, who decide to leave the town of Forks, Washington for Bella and Edward's sake. Initially heartbroken, Bella finds a form of comfort in reckless living, as well as an even-closer friendship with Jacob Black. Danger in different forms awaits.
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(Not Yet Rated)

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Thirst (2009)

Thirst (2009)
aka Bakjwi
Director: Chan-wook Park
Writer: Seo-Gyeong Jeong, Chan-wook Park
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Ok-bin Kim, Hae-sook Kim
A failed medical experiment turns a man of faith into a vampire.
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(Not Yet Rated)





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Daybreakers (2009)

Daybreakers (2009)
Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Writers: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
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(Not Yet Rated)




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Vampitheatre (2009)

Vampitheatre (2009)
Director: Christopher Forbes
Cast: Linnea Quigley, Dana Cheshire, Joel Hodges
“Vampitheatre” is about a touring band whose members happen to be of the vampire variety. The band moves town to town, “harvesting” members of their audience to satisfy their bloodlust. Unknown to the band, they are being pursued by an fbi agent intent on finding out why fans of a certain band called “Theatre Peace” keep disappearing.
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(Not Yet Rated)




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Sucker: The Vampire (1998)

Sucker: The Vampire (1998)
Director: Hans Rodionoff
Writer: Hans Rodionoff
Cast: Yan Birch, Alex Erkiletian, Monica Baber, P.K. Phillips
One hundred years after Bram Stokers Dracula comes a new kind of vampire story. Anthony is a modern bloodsucker who uses his popular rock band as a front to lure beautiful young groupies. His assistant Reed disposes of the bodies of these nubile, unsuspecting victims after Anthony seduces and kills them. As a result of his bloody lifestyle, Anthony soon contracts a deadly virus. Reed must try to save his master from a fate worse than death. Part dark satire, part horror-comedy, Sucker is truly a rock & roll vampire.
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(Not Yet Rated)

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