Schlock

Rating: 1/10 (24 January 2007)

The movie was garbage. All the references to vampire movies and Tarantino's previous work. Big deal. As interesting as a jackhammer pounding away at the pavement. The film does some misdirection. Misdirection is great. Hitchcock made first-time viewers of Psycho think the movie was going to be about a woman who embezzled money, and who perhaps got second thoughts about what she did. Then he turned the tables on movie-goers with the shower scene. Of course, the surprise is gone from Psycho because we all saw it. Rodriguez and Tarantino try table-turning in this film because the viewer thinks the movie is about a kidnapping. And then the movie turns into something else. The problem is that the something else is schlock.