Excellent!

Rating: 10/10 (19 October 2007)

This is the first truly scary movie of this year's horror crop. I just got back from seeing this, and it was the most intense movie going experience I have had in a long time. Good acting? Check. Good plot? Check. Scary as hell vampires? Check? Heart in your throat moments of terror? Double check. This movie was non-stop terrifying from just moments in. Even through all the terror, though, there were very poignant moments throughout. The most poignant was probably the ending scene which sort of gives new many to the phrase, "ashes to ashes." But equally touching was the death of a character who had been turned, but wanted to die to join his already dead family. His death is heard off screen. Amidst all the blood and gore, he managed to have a dignified death scene. I don't really have much to quibble about. In fact, I can't think of anything at all that I didn't like about this movie.