Horror / Thriller / Erotic and what not hybrid, yet average.

Rating: 7/10 (24 January 2003)

Warning - MILD SPOILERS included.
I am not a horror fan (though I am not easily scared) but I would never thought of this film beeing a horror. It is a hybrid of many things, but it doesnt work as a whole. It was one or the other I think, eroticism or bestial sexuality that had to be cut out. They didnt work here. Winona Ryder running in a see through dress looked good, but it was followed by a, hmm, some kind of a monster having sex with a woman in the garden. Scene with Gary Oldman licking blood from a razor with which Keanu Reeves' cut himself shaving was absoluetly brilliant. Its all Gary Oldman, extremely passionate about licking the blood off the razor. However, it is soon followed by some kind of vampirella's or she-monsters crawling all over Keanu Reeves in his sleep.
If the bestial sexuality was cut out of the film, and if beasts were reduced to beeing, well, beasts, I think it would have made the film much better. The other way around could work too, but thats a whole different story.