Deadly good vampire movie

Rating: 9/10 (14 March 2010)

Take that "New Moon." Caught this on late night TV about a month ago. Hadn't heard anything about it before, but the plot looked interesting. I found it very intense, very dark, a brilliant plot and it kicked the crap out of all of the recent pretty boy, romantic vampire characters and scared me at the same time.
I'm a huge fan of historical vampire lore. If you want to see something really scary, do some research on the real Vlad the Impaler of Romania. Real history and real evil, just like the characters in this movie.
I found the camera work mesmerizing, especially the scene when the vampires go from taking one or two towns people to engaging in a feeding frenzy of mass slaughter. The camera pans back from a side on shot and swoops up above the towns street level to show multiple patches of blood spray all over the snow. The shots of the stalking and attacks are are frightening as well.
Not a pretty movie but stunning in its shock factor.