Actually -- a little too fast and a little too dull...

Rating: 5/10 (29 October 2007)

Sorry everybody - I had high hopes for this movie; a scare-fest it was not. From the 'jiggly-camera' school of cinematography to the perpetual (and eventually annoying) screechy howl-y screams of the vampires..."Hey, let's all growl, then shriek! All together now!" the whole thing was less of a reinvention and much more of a cobbling together of the last ten vampire films out there.
The predictable nature of the story - the creepy herald of doom at the beginning, followed by the lights going out, and then the small group of survivors trapped hopelessly, then getting picked off one by one, and finally the whole "ultimate sacrifice" at the last five minutes just felt contrived. And once again, Hollywood has to pop the blood-capsules right and left...they would have had much more of a terror effect had we seen less blood and more suspense.