Second... greatest... vampire... movie... EVER!

Rating: 8/10 (9 June 2005)

Second greatest cus let's face it you can't beat the original Dracula. You've got Robert Rodriguez, directing a story by Quentin Tarantino, in the style of Sam Raimi, with a plot akin to a George A. Romero zombie movie. How can it go wrong? It can't! Hell this film is a veritable orgasm of all that is great about horror and crime films. And don't take this for a simple vampire flick either, make no mistake this film is hard core with its crime storyline too. The entire first half of the film is exactly something you'd expect from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, heavy dialog, gruesome violence, bad guys you love to hate, and bad guys you just love. But once the fangs come out all bets are off. Think of Night of the Living Dead, but in Mexico, with Vampires instead of Zombies, and with much more innovative weapons. Man you think Uma taking on the Crazy 88's was intense, Crazy 88's weren't blood sucking demons that could only be killed by impaling them through the heart with a huge chunk of wood. If you love vampire or zombie films, if you thought Pulp Fiction and Resiviour Dogs were just a ingenious as I did, if you loved Rodriguez's Mariachi series or even if all you know about him is how awesome a job he did with Sin City, you owe it to yourself to seek out this gem of a film. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.