Rating: Red Stuff
I'm not much of a fan of vampire films, most of the time I think werewolf films are better (thank you Ginger.) Initially I liked this film although admittedly I've only seen the second half of it. The main character is played by Jay from Dogma. It's an underground vampire film rather than a night stalker 30 Days of Night film. Most of the time I quite enjoyed it, watching the relationship play out between 'Jay' and his vampire girlfriend in a way fans of Masquerade would approve of despite the occasionally coarse attitude and the propensity of the director to layer on music more than is useful. Unfortunately the director tries to turn the film into a comedy when the mood of most of it makes that totally wrong. The film has a feel that reminds me a lot of Ginger Snaps, albeit in a cruder setting, but the attempts at humour are too out of feel with that and at the end the director doesn't take the film seriously at all. Then end credits are full out out-takes that ruins what was left of the atmosphere. Jason's acting measures up but towards the end just doesn't carry emotion that would have made it a climax. It had elements of a really good horror film but it also had elements that ruined that. It could have been a vampire equivalent of Ginger Snaps, a remarkably similar feel and two people enjoying and wrestling with the effects of a supernatural condition but most of all let down by the director not approaching their material properly. I would love it if they did it right. To be fair maybe it wasn't the director's fault, they get a lot of pressure from other members of the production to do things a certain way but this is what they made it.
