Some satisfying scenes for gore fiends and some beautiful shots...

Rating: 6/10 (27 October 2007)

won't make up for a shallow script and some horrid miscasting.
Also one of the major ideas contained in the source material was completely ignored: that the vampires - having at one time in the past been hunted by man and driven to the point of extinction - had spent centuries fading into myth to preserve their species and now that security is found threatened by the actions of the vampires in Barrow.
Also a side effect of emitting the above content meant losing the conflict between the vampire Elder Vicente and the hot-headed and ambitious Marlow which would have given great insight into the motives and structures of the vampire community.
It's not terribly important, but it sure adds some depth to the vampires history and shows just how vulnerable and susceptible to human failing they really are.
As it is I found a rather shallow and unsatisfying 113 minutes. Disappointing but not terrible.