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- Posted on 2007-05-31
Good B-Movie hooey
After looking at some of the other reviews posted here, I wondered what do people really expect from a b-movie? B-movies are supposed to be fun and sometimes campy. But it seems some take things a little too seriously when it comes to a b-movie.
Being a vampire film, Vampires--Out For Blood immeadiately sets it boundaries around basic vampires lore...no relections, fear of the sun, stakes, etc. and proceeds into a typical tale of a guy mistakenly left alive after a vampire attack only to begin the transformation. There is nothing new in this movie, but it's all done with a sence of fun and energy. Lance Hendricksen turns in a very good preformance as the police captain.
Nothing ever really gets scary and it all seems to have been made tongue-in-cheek.
A fun b-movie romp that does just what a movie should do of this type: entertain
Score: 4
- Posted on 2006-07-09
0.5 STARS: Very amusing.
"Vampires-Out for Blood" is not a good vampire movie, and certainly not a good horror movie. Kevin Dillon stars as a Detective who gets bitten by a vampire. He tries to resist the onset of vampirism. His ex-wife tries to help him, but her agenda is obscure to say the least. Basically, Kevin Dillon's character, Hank, attempts to find the head-vampire to kill him so that he can go back to normal. "Out for Blood" is a pathetic attempt at a horror movie or a vampire movie in my opinion. First, there is nothing scary about this flick...PERIOD! Yeah, you do get some fairly graphic kills in this movie, but that's not enough to make a good horror movie. "Out for Blood" has no style and no substance. The vampires look VERY LAME in my opinion, and the acting was atrocious in this flick!! I like Lance Henrikson and he did fine in his performance...so did Kevin Dillon I thought, but after that, there was a bunch of garbage no-name actors that were absolutely horrible, especially the actress that played the ex-wife, Susan. Also, the actors that played the vampires were pathetic to say the least. Now don't get me wrong, as I said in the title, this movie is very amusing, but it's not scary or horrifying in the slightest. If you find this movie scary, you must be an extraordinary wuss.
Score: 1
- Posted on 2006-05-16
OK Vampire Flick
There's been quite a few vampire movies realeased in the past few years. Some are good(Blade, John Carpenter's Vampires), some are bad(The Horror Within, American Vampire) but Vampires: Out for Blood falls right in the middle.
It's got a decent B movie cast(Kevin Dillon & Lance Henricksen being the standouts) and a fairly typical but serviceable plotline(burned out cop searching for missing teen runs afoul of a group of vampires). Unfortunately nothing makes this film rise above the mass of other vampire films out there.
If you're compelled to see every vampire movie available, then I doubt you'll be disappointed. If you're looking for a new horror classic... keep looking. You're not gonna find it here.
Score: 3
- Posted on 2005-11-20
Too Expensive for nn OK Movie that is far less than it could have been!
This is an OK movie on a bad day I have even called it lame. Having just seen the movie on SCI-FI this weekend made me revisit my way too hard opinion of this movie. Oh trust me it is still not a master work of vampire fiction to say the least but, I have seen much worse than this. Dracula 3000 springs immediately to mind. Compared to Dracula 3000, this Vampires - Out for Blood (Widescreen Edition) DVD is Oscar Worthy high art.
This vampire story has a well developed plot more than I can say about some really bad DVD's. I do not know how they managed it but ever one of the characters in this movie has a flakey aspect to their on screen persona that makes them feel unreal at best or slightly unhinged at worse. The fact that all the people in the DVD come across as slightly cracked bothered me at first because, it made the process of suspending logic to get into the movie more of a chore.
Seeing the movie this weekend taught me I was taking the movie too seriously. This movie is not one of those "Serious Vampire Thrillers". There is a very subtle well executed vein of comedy running throughout this movie for those sensitive enough to the human condition to detect it. Granted the weirdest humor in this movie is so slight it is barely discernable, it took me three viewings to catch the hidden humor in this film but it is for sure there.
Yes the cop hunting the vampires was an amazing lush. His ex-wife was played to ditzy California perfection from the very beginning of the film to its end. The king of the Vampires was a special effect that only the Irwin Allen super elastic bubble plastic monster designers guild could be proud of. I kind of liked the main character in the movie exactly because he was imperfect and sort of tragic in so many ways. The ending of this movie was particularly hilarious and I would not dare spoil it for you chaps here. Taken as a humorous but frightening flick this DVD deserves 3 to three and a half stars.
A more realistic king of the vampire's tighter more believable character development and in some cases slightly better writing would have made this a pretty good vampire movie. The core storyline was awesome it just was not carried out well as it could have been. All things considered it is NOT a bad DVD at all. Now that I have experienced some really bad Vampire movies I have revised my rating on this one to 3 well deserved stars. Is this the best vampire movie NO, but on a day when you just want to watch something mildly funny and scary this DVD fits the need to a T. I might be adding this DVD to my collection soon; it is way pricey for a merely average B-Movie but seeing how subtly funny this thing this past weekend has pushed me towards buying a copy before it goes out of print.
Best wishes to yawl from, WOLFY
Score: 3 - Posted on 2005-06-22
OUT FOR CLICHÉS
Oh, what this movie could have been. Despite all of its big efforts, the end-result is still an uninspiring stereotypical take on vampirism. Kevin Dillon (little bro of Matt) plays a down on his luck cop who one night encounters blood-sucking vampires. He of course has a hard time convincing his boss, but not his best-selling author of the fangs ex-wife who helps him face evil. No surprises, no scares, no talent (except for Lance Henriksen as the boss cop and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe as the party girl vampire) help make OUT FOR BLOOD almost a totally D.O.A. experience. The entire production fails to deliver one slight of originality. From the automatic-pilot script to the brain-dead performance of Vanessa Angel (the ex-wife) to the awful-looking creature effects. Yet OUT FOR BLOOD has a sleek direction that includes a well-choreographed carousal of vampires/mortals flesh in an abandoned building. Richard Brandes may still have a career as a director if he wisely picks out his next project and stays away from the writing credits.-----Martin Boucher
Score: 2