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Uzzy Oct 29, 2009, 06:45 PM

This movie could be subtitled 'The Anti-Twilight', and it certainly seems to be a proper vampire film. No sparkling, vegetarian wimps here, but vicious bloodsuckers being vicious in a very bloody way. Looks like it's a guaranteed r-rating film, but seems to have an interesting plot. Namely, Vampires make up 95%+ of the population on Earth, and they are running out of human blood. Add in some proper acting support from Sam Neill and Willem Defoe, and this might be a winner.

Thoughts?

taig (RPG Superstar 2012) Oct 29, 2009, 07:10 PM

Uzzy wrote:

This movie could be subtitled 'The Anti-Twilight', and it certainly seems to be a proper vampire film. No sparkling, vegetarian wimps here, but vicious bloodsuckers being vicious in a very bloody way. Looks like it's a guaranteed r-rating film, but seems to have an interesting plot. Namely, Vampires make up 95%+ of the population on Earth, and they are running out of human blood. Add in some proper acting support from Sam Neill and Willem Defoe, and this might be a winner.

Thoughts?

Sounds interesting. Sam Neill is almost always a plus in a movie.

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber) Oct 30, 2009, 04:42 AM

I remember seeing the trailer a while back. It does look interesting.

Zuxius (Paizo Superscriber, Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber) Nov 11, 2009, 09:35 AM

I suppose Ethan Hawke being in it doesn't matter to most, but I find that the movies he ends up in I tend to really like. Some actors choose films that don't stink.

Zuxius (Paizo Superscriber, Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber) Jan 3, 2010, 10:52 PM

Going to this absolutely

Velcro Zipper (Pathfinder Companion, Battles Case Subscriber) Jan 3, 2010, 11:48 PM

From the look of it, this is another one of those vampire stories that treats vampirism as a disease rather than a supernatural phenomena. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I prefer vampires to be evil, undead monsters that need to be destroyed (thank you, 30 Days of Night.) Call me old-fashioned.

I'll still go see it just to see a few of the leeches crumble to dust or explode into fiery ash or however they expire in this story. It's probably too much to ask that it ends with the entire vampire population suffering a case of severely fatal sunburn.

Velcro Zipper (Pathfinder Companion, Battles Case Subscriber) Jan 8, 2010, 10:21 PM

Saw this tonight. Good movie. Lots of dead vampires. Interesting take on a vampire-dominated society. Also...

"Vampires trapped outside during daylight hours have become the number cause of forest fires."

Now, that's comedy.

ChrisRevocateur Jan 9, 2010, 05:46 AM

Velcro Zipper wrote:

Interesting take on a vampire-dominated society.

When I saw the trailer I was hoping this was the case.

Velcro Zipper wrote:

"Vampires trapped outside during daylight hours have become the number cause of forest fires."

Now, that's comedy.

Okay, I HAVE to see this now.

Oh, and Willem Dafoe in ANYTHING equals +10,000.

pres man Jan 9, 2010, 08:46 AM

One problem I saw:

Spoiler:

At the end when the vamp military guys were feeding off of the newly humanized military guys, the "humanization" should have been spreading exponentially. Each time they showed a human go down there was at least 2 vamps on him. In that case the number of humanized should have been doubling in each wave. At the end there was like 3-5 humans out of some 30-50 original vamps, the math just doesn't work out.

Also, what happened to the vamps->humans in the elevator with sam neill's body?

My thoughts at the end.

Spoiler:

Put out "infected" blood in major cities. And the "cure" would spread exponentially (see above). Any humans who had never been infected, I would have them vampirized by a "nice" vampire and then have them immediately cured. This makes them effectively immune to the disease at that point and if they get caught, a vector for further spreading of the "cure".

Velcro Zipper (Pathfinder Companion, Battles Case Subscriber) Jan 9, 2010, 09:24 AM

I noticed both of those things too.

spoiler:

Yeah. There should have been at least a dozen cured in the room by the end of the feast. I chalked it up to the subsiders going bat-poop insane and just killing each other in a frenzy of bloodlust as they fought over the bodies. I also wondered about the guys in the elevator. Unless the bad doctor guy killed them off-camera, I figure they got out fine until another pack of starving vampires found them.

pres man wrote:

My thoughts at the end...

spoiler:

That'd be one way to do it. I was actually giggling at the idea that all of the newly cured would end up as meat piles for all of the infected vampires who would then become the next course for another pack of vampires and so on. With no control on the vampire's feeding or the cure's spread, you could wind up with another situation like in the lobby where the vampires kill each other trying to get the fresh blood (provided that's what happened.) Eventually, you'd end up with a near-genocidal bloobath because so many humans would have been killed for the end result of curing maybe only half the world's population (the only survivors.) Given that the starving vampires acted alot like Walmart shoppers on Black Friday, I could easily see this happening.

ghettowedge Jun 5, 2010, 10:56 PM

Rented this on the PS3 tonight and I loved it! I had been putting it off because I had little hope for a vampire movie better than Blade 2, but this did everything I wanted it to. Good clean vampire gore. A+

celurian Oct 6, 2010, 10:14 AM

This movie is great. Im not a big fan of gore films (or films with to much blood in it) But in this movie the blood is part of the mood and ambient of this movie.

Im a big fan of fantasy and scifi films and this one totally delivers in both.

I give it 4 and half 20% blood coffe cup.

The Jade (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber) Oct 6, 2010, 10:24 AM

I enjoyed the film.

Vegetarians aren't wimps. We just choose to punch celery hanging from hooks rather than a side of beef. The sound of a bundle of celery snapped in half is far more unnerving.

Snicker-Snack!

Irrlicht Oct 6, 2010, 03:01 PM

I don't like much vampirism, zombification or other things when induced by viruses and the like. I prefer when those things are due to dark powers and whoever fights them is not just at the risk of losing life. Also, from the opening description I was expecting something obscure like Nosgoth's Vampires.

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