Well made but unpleasant

Rating: 6/10 (11 August 2012)

Its well known that if you want to heal your failing relationship being hunted by vampires is the way to do it. Nothing like it for bringing you closer together.
I appreciate that this film is quite well made but it is essentially unpleasant. You could say it is more realistic than usual but who wants that. Dog Soldiers was better. If you break with the conventions you have to find something better as a replacement. The plot is essentially a cat and mouse game with the humans doing all the ridiculous things people would not do like running around outside of safety.
Also there is no real origin for the vampires. Good old Count Dracula antecedents are well known and of impeccable credentials. They have no class either, just nastiness. Just mindless monsters which the classical master vampire never was.
Not a film I would ever want to watch again. The Thing is essentially the same cat and mouse type plot but so much better. So all in all just another unpleasant horror movie with nothing whatsoever to say about anything. Totally unedifying.