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4.0 out of 5 stars
A PRETTY DECENT VAMPIRE FILM, 31 Oct 2007
A series of strange attacks in Los Angeles leave the police baffled, as the victims are all found drained of blood. Detective Dennis Blass, (Michael McMillen) is the latest policeman to be put on the case, much to the anger of his ex-wife Carrie, (Michelle Owens) also a detective. After getting a lead in the case, Carrie and Dennis are assigned to the case. After being attacked coming home from a stakeout, Carrie comes to believe that it was a vampire, (Gregory A. Greer) who was responsible for the attacks. As she starts to fight off the on-coming vampirism, she helps to finish the vampire case before she turns.
The Good News: This is actually a lot better than it should be. It starts off with a huge plus, as there's a couple of graphic and really nice looking murders which opens it up with a great bang. There's a couple of really nice action scenes later in the film as well, including a garage chase, but none of them really comes as close as the opening one does. The gore is actually a great plus for it as well, since it's pretty gory throughout. There's a very brutal face ripped off, a stake in the neck, one has their throat ripped out, and a person has their head blown to pieces with a shotgun, among other deaths in here. There's also the usual stakes in the chest that a normal vampire film has, and the ones in here are quite bloody. In addition, there's even a nice suspense sequence thrown in during the last half, a very tense walk through of an abandoned house which concludes with the one true jump in the film. True, it can be seen coming but the thrill is that it still shocks on first viewing. All in all, this wasn't all that bad.
The Bad News: Right off the bat, this one has a strike against it: vampires just aren't scary. There's very little frightening aspects about them, and this one here keeps that tradition. There's really nothing in here that will make you change their mind, since it's relatively scare-free. The lead vampire falls into the suave side of portrayal which again doesn't make it threatening. Besides that, there's also a couple of other things wrong with the film. The pacing is a major problem. The beginning half is loaded with scenes that are mainly filler, as they're not there for any reason. The training montage and the scenes in the vampire's lair are the prime examples, as they don't really do much of anything being in there. The one main guilty pleasure sequence, the cat-fight near the end, is a major disappointment, as it takes place in total darkness with the only light coming from a flashlight carried by one of the participants. Otherwise, this wasn't all that bad.
The Final Verdict: Even though it brings nothing new to the genre, this is still a fairly decent vampire film. It may not follow all the rules or conventions, it's still an all-right look for the interested. Give it a shot, there's worse ones out there, especially in this sub-genre.
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