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Summary: A great movie
Review: This was a great action horror vampire flick! It also had some great comedy. Only one big dissapointment. It took a whole team with high-tech weapons and what the director wants you to think was well trained to kill just 2 vampires. I really follow genres like this, and all I gotta say is that if it takes that many people to slay 2 vampires, then earth may have a very serious problem! I know that the vampires are strong and fearless, and that they caught the team slightly offguard, but still. Also, what were these slayers doing with hookers and alcohol? I don't think they could possibly been any more off guard! I mean sure, without the hookers, Katrina would have been HARD to introduce (I don't think making her a respectful business women would have been the same), but still. And by the way, if your sqeamish, don't see this movie! But for me, it was good. I liked it and it would be an honor for me to add it to my video collection (which contains some of the best action films ever made)!
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Summary: Pretty good attempt........
Review: Let's face it....vampire films, you like them or you don't. As far as vampire films go, it's one of the better ones. Plenty of good action and some nice ideas. James Woods, an actor i'm not really that keen on, actually does a good job and aquits himself commendably. Worth buying if you like this kind of film. Certainly one of the better of it's kind.
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Summary: Spear guns, head burnings, this ROCKS!
Review: VAMPIRES was a great movie! It fulfills the needs of horror and vampire flick fans alike. James Woods character is one mean dude...sorta reminds me of Ash from the Evil Dead series. But the Master Vampire in this movie is the best villian I've seen in a long time! Valla con dios, slayer!
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Summary: This movie is one of Carpenter's best for a long time
Review: I really loved that movie. Not such a lame crap like Village of the damned or In the mouth of madness. Keep it up that way, John!
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Summary: A great movie!
Review: What stunned me the most in Vampires was the ability of some individuals to act. Those of you who saw Hollow Point, try to imagine Thomas Ian Griffith as a complete opposite personality. He's evil and ruthless as he plays Valek. In my opinion, John Carpenter couldn't have chosen a better person for this role. Same goes for James Woods. The movie itself is well planned out and well made. Thumbs up, get this one!
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Summary: THE WORST MOVIE WE HAVE SEEN IN A LOT OF YEARS
Review: I love horror movies and although John Carpenter is not one of my favorite directors there are some films of him that I like. And I can't understand how the director that made "The Thing" or "Halloween" has been able to do this ghastly movie. A lot of violence, gore and in bad taste. Awful interpretation. Bad dialogues. Dreadful aesthetics. Very poorly executed storyline. Not credible story (The vampires kicks and punches their victims, where are the superhuman powers of these creatures!?, and the only one of them that possesses superhuman strength has to travel by train to go to different places!?... incredible!!). In short: A horror movie that instead of to frighten, surprises for its bad quality. It is absurd, lame, boring and soporific... horrible. (We wanted to give it zero stars in this review, but it hasn't been possible).
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Summary: Knockout movie, a new Carpenter fav!
Review: I liked it, from the first minute to the last.It's lean, mean, gritty, has an entirely non-Hollywoody cast and look and a humor which I dig. One word to those who apparently were too busy looking for CGIs instead of paying attention to the characters. Several say that Montoya beat Katrina constantly up to then 'illogically' and suddenly fall in love with her. I remember (and I saw the movie a few times by now) only one scene during which that happened: when he backhanded her after she bit him. Well, I'd say the cause justifies the action here. Else it is always Montoya who treats her, albeit gruffly first, kindly and with almost humane concern when compared to the behavior of the rest of the cast. This grows steadily including several confrontations with Crow on her behalf. Add to that the premise of a telepathic/personal link between vampire and someone newly bitten and it stands to reason that Montoya ultimately will turn towards the vampire who produced his state. The main conflict of his character is his old loyalty to Crow and his new one and how he decides.
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Summary: CARPENTER ,THE BEST DIRECTOR OF HORROR FILMS?OF COURSE
Review: Once again,CArpenter show me the great director he is...I have seen this film 3 times on the cinema..is it necessary to say anything else?
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Summary: You either Love it, or hate it.
Review: I loved this movie. It was a dark,edgy, realistic look at vampires. Dn't compare it to blade, they're differnet. One thing I loved about his movie. In Blade(which I also loved), the hero is a martial arts, kickin, fighter guy. Harder to realte to. In here, he's a 40 something year old guy. He doesn't kick, or punch, he's just got guns, and a set of cast iron balls. Greta movie
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Summary: Terrific blend of vampire flick and Peckinpah western
Review: God bless John Carpenter. He makes the kind of movies I'd make myself, if only I had his talent. Now that all meaningful genre films are hybrids of more than one genre, Carpenter has put The Wild Bunch into a blender with a vampire movie and comes up with a unique, funny, scary entertainment . Yes, it's misogynistic - Sheryl Lee's prostitute gets little to do other than teeter around in a teeny-tiny short skirt - but that's part of the joke - take a look at any Peckinpah movie, where women are continually slapped around, called bad names and then shot. Carpenter even has a Peckinpah-like line which goes, "How do you like your steak?" I like feisty Ripley-type heroines as much as the next girl, but "Vampires", which is a direct Peckinpah homage, is not the place for them.
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