Jerry Ciccoritti’s Graveyard Shift is not the best vampire film you’ll ever see, but it is possibly one of the most ‘80s films out there. And with its random visual elements including yuppie/dinky culture, music videos, and noir, and the shortcomings in its story, you might well describe this film as style-over-substance. […]
A man stumbles through Paris’s night-life looking for a man he doesn’t know. Based on a novel by prize-winning French author Tonino Benacquista, this film (also known as Love Bites) is full of untapped potential and minor plot holes. […]
Nocturna – known in the UK as Vampire Blood – is an interesting and not-too-bad vampire film set in New Orleans. The film had the potential to be good, but has a number of short-comings that drag it down a bit. […]
With season 2, the show is leaving the plot of the original film behind and ventures out into unknown territory. The writing of some characters struggles with these changes a bit, and an abundance of new characters means that we do often spend not enough time with each of them. […]
The first season of the From Dusk Till Dawn series re-tells the plot of the original film, tweaking and changing certain elements and characters, and adding a larger back-story. Despite some structural problems, this show should be enjoyable for fans of the film and for “newcomers” alike. […]
The Thirst is a B-movie which has had lots of ideas thrown into it, without much of it working, or any of it forming a decent, coherent plot. Poor writing and especially poor characters defeat the attempts by actors, set designers, and practical effects artists to create a solid film. […]
It is a shame that filmmaking enthusiasm and can-do attitude must sometimes result in complete failure.
There is no vampire in the world as deadly as the boredom induced by this film. […]
Temptation is an honest attempt to produce a decent B-movie. Many of the cast and crew put a lot of effort into this, and I like the premise and some of the ideas in this film, but an unpolished script, a small budget, and a relative lack of experience lead to a result that on the whole is not really satisfying. […]
Ideas from several other films have been harvested in order to create True Bloodthirst. The end result is a decent (if run-of-the-mill) B movie which ranks above similar shlock – in terms of quality, not in terms of originality. […]
A low-budget B-movie that certainly has its weaknesses, but overall manages to convince; mostly thanks to the acting, and thanks to a style of filmmaking that never tries to do something it cannot achieve. […]
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