- Actors: David Carradine, Natalie Brown, Deborah Odell, Julian Richings, Sebastien Roberts
- Directors: Jonathan Dueck
- Writers: David Robbeson
- Producers: Erin Berry, Curtis Petersen, Kate Harrison, Lewin Webb
- Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Cutting Edge
- DVD Release Date: 12 Sep 2006
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000GBEWKW
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 135,707 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
As trailers get more complicated, the films lose all their plot - this doesn't even seem to have one!
Don't let the trailer fool you, there is only about 2 minutes (total) of vampire action and its seen via a hazy computer screen partially obscured by the main character and there is no blood whatsoever!!
Most of the film centers on an online dating agency being investigated by a reporter who visits the offices in a kind-of gothic mansion. There isn't much dialoge, the acting is awful and nothing really happens.
I collect vampire films and have enjoyed all of the ones I've seen so far (including some that other people have slated), for me to say its bad, it has to be totally awful and I definately shan't be watching this one again, ever.
And just in case anyone was wondering, the woman-woman kiss in the trailer shows the only bit of all female action, so don't buy the film expecting to see more, there isn't any!!
Don't let the trailer fool you, there is only about 2 minutes (total) of vampire action and its seen via a hazy computer screen partially obscured by the main character and there is no blood whatsoever!!
Most of the film centers on an online dating agency being investigated by a reporter who visits the offices in a kind-of gothic mansion. There isn't much dialoge, the acting is awful and nothing really happens.
I collect vampire films and have enjoyed all of the ones I've seen so far (including some that other people have slated), for me to say its bad, it has to be totally awful and I definately shan't be watching this one again, ever.
And just in case anyone was wondering, the woman-woman kiss in the trailer shows the only bit of all female action, so don't buy the film expecting to see more, there isn't any!!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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The previous reviewer is not that far off the mark...I too see and collect vampire films...and have the bibliography books to scan...the only variant I can offer is that some of the less known cast do make an effort to look as if they want you to see evil...but David Carradine sleepwalks through his part...and looks totally uninterested...even moreso than KillerX which he hammed up...yet there was a kind of vampire staking bit that although partially dreamed by the manic him, would have been good in this film...and I certainly agree that this is a one view film...and it is hoped the director reads something on vampires before being let loose on a good idea...which this one could have been.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
All that lives must die.
15 Jun 2008
Format:DVD
There have been some complaints about this film: Not enough gore. Not enough eroticism. Slow-moving.
But for me, it was a tantalizing diversion for a lazy Sunday morning. While the writers lose points for making Carradine a descendant of Van Helsing--a bit overdone, in my opinion--I have to hand it to them for knowing their mythology. Warning: Spoilers follow.
Though there are both male and female creatures of the night in this film, only the women are credited as vampires. The victims they feast upon later rise to become ghouls, fitting the original myths of the medieval revenant who dwells in tombs, attracts plague, and feeds on corpses. The vampires are portrayed in the spirit of the Keats's poem "Lamia," in which a temptress lures innocents to their doom. The matriarchal structure of the film's vampire clan is pitted against what some might see as traditional, patriarchal Church forces.
As a practicing Christian, I do understand the impulse to interpret the film as a mere allegory for the struggle of women to overthrow the patriarchy. But, the director does not stop there. After all, all that lives must die. Do the vampires fulfill nature? Or corrupt it? Are they eco-friendly survivors whose customs seem strange by our patriarchal standards? Or are they monsters, with no place in the Grand Design?
With these questions raised, I was satisfied intellectually. I had no need for blood and gore. There was plenty of eroticism, for my tastes. No need for explicit sex. We can see the seduction is there. It's a subtle work, and I would buy it on DVD.
Oh. And the fight scenes are wicked awesome!
But for me, it was a tantalizing diversion for a lazy Sunday morning. While the writers lose points for making Carradine a descendant of Van Helsing--a bit overdone, in my opinion--I have to hand it to them for knowing their mythology. Warning: Spoilers follow.
Though there are both male and female creatures of the night in this film, only the women are credited as vampires. The victims they feast upon later rise to become ghouls, fitting the original myths of the medieval revenant who dwells in tombs, attracts plague, and feeds on corpses. The vampires are portrayed in the spirit of the Keats's poem "Lamia," in which a temptress lures innocents to their doom. The matriarchal structure of the film's vampire clan is pitted against what some might see as traditional, patriarchal Church forces.
As a practicing Christian, I do understand the impulse to interpret the film as a mere allegory for the struggle of women to overthrow the patriarchy. But, the director does not stop there. After all, all that lives must die. Do the vampires fulfill nature? Or corrupt it? Are they eco-friendly survivors whose customs seem strange by our patriarchal standards? Or are they monsters, with no place in the Grand Design?
With these questions raised, I was satisfied intellectually. I had no need for blood and gore. There was plenty of eroticism, for my tastes. No need for explicit sex. We can see the seduction is there. It's a subtle work, and I would buy it on DVD.
Oh. And the fight scenes are wicked awesome!
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
The last suck
25 Sep 2006
Format:DVD
This film has very good production values, and a reasonably good story-line; a female journalist decides to investigate a web-cam site called Artemis where it appears women act out vampiristic rituals on some poor man - of course she believes it's all trickery.
She goes to interview the head vampire-lady and even upon shaking hands her mind is flooded with erotic lesbian imagery. Unfortunately that's about as far as it goes.
She is met with the vampire lady a few more times, and feels this growing desire, but in the end it comes to nothing really.
I was expecting, as the cover shows, that the head vampire lady would at least bite her in the neck.
In other words this film is full of tantalising images that don't really go anywhere. And for that I was very annoyed. The closest she gets is a bit of blood on her lips but we're not really sure if this is real, or another of her fantastic erotic day-dreams
A much better erotic-vampire film (although no fangs) is Eternal
She goes to interview the head vampire-lady and even upon shaking hands her mind is flooded with erotic lesbian imagery. Unfortunately that's about as far as it goes.
She is met with the vampire lady a few more times, and feels this growing desire, but in the end it comes to nothing really.
I was expecting, as the cover shows, that the head vampire lady would at least bite her in the neck.
In other words this film is full of tantalising images that don't really go anywhere. And for that I was very annoyed. The closest she gets is a bit of blood on her lips but we're not really sure if this is real, or another of her fantastic erotic day-dreams
A much better erotic-vampire film (although no fangs) is Eternal
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