great vampire flick

Rating: 8/10 (5 September 2008)

As usual on here opinion is polarized and this appears to be a love/hate flick. Well, I'm firmly in the love camp. Its very hard to make an original and stylish vampire movie today, it would have been so easy for the producers to make a clichéd film but this movie stands out as one of the best modern horror films of recent years. Josh Hartnett and Melissa George lead the flick well as the hero/heroine and there is a good supporting cast with mark boone jr and the very underrated ben foster also put in good performances. What makes this film for me though, is the vampires, their hideous shrieking would make anyone's blood go cold,there were no fangs just dark solid pupils and the lead geezer was the epitome of fear. I do have one major gripe and its one that many detractrors of the film are right to comment on, its a bit unbelievable that these vampires with these super human abilities would not find the rest of the towns inhabitants within a few days let alone 30 and no attention is played to the cast's supposed hardship in living without power, light, any substantial food and having to creep around upon fear of death at any time for this amount of time. That aside though, there are some great sequences between the humans and the vampires,some very novel beheadings and killings and I liked the way this was gruesomely done but was not a gore fest. And I thought the ending was very imaginative and cleverly done, i would never have seen that coming. Easily the best vampire flick made in the last few years.