Good ol' vampires

Rating: 10/10 (11 October 2012)

I rated this excellent because it represents vampires the way I like them; unrelenting and evil. These are not your Twilight (yech) vampires, these are brutal killers who lust for blood and care not for any killing. The plot is not deep, but I don't want to "get to know the vampires" when I watch them in movies. I like good versus evil. There is enough strange goings on in the plot to make you wonder "what's going to happen next". The star characters are also not deep, but they are relivable enough to grow a certain 'home town' affection. Just normal folks living their lives in a little out-of-the-way (okay, way out of the way) town where they do their thing. Then along comes terror in the worst possible way. It is spooky, creepy, and probably one of the most bloody movies, vampire or not, I've ever seen. There's plenty of blood, nasty flesh-tearing, and some of the most gruesome deaths this side of 'Wrong Way II' (remember the meat grinder??) The vampires are very creepy and evil looking. The movie-makers adjusted them just enough to give them a new, more violent and fearsome look. I loved it. There's no light-hearted jokes, or subtle humor, it's straight up gore and terror, which gives it a more realistic feel.