This is not a cross over between B and A movies.

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2001)

I recently saw Full Tilt Boogie, a documentary on making this particular flick and it did not really shed any new light from seeing the movie itself. I can see from it that Academy Award winner Quentin Tarantino is a fowl mouthed and minded egotistical child not dissimilar to much of the crew but my opinion of him aside here goes.
The idea that they strongly state is that you get to know the characters very well before the turning point of the story and then they start killing them off. That concept is not a bad one but that is the only thing separating this from B gore flick grade. The vampires look and act 100% fake not to mention putrid and sickening. The gore is completely off the wall and occasionally inconsistent and the plot has one major hole. That being that much could have been prevented if they had just applied a cross to the door, not gone out and hoped for the best.
They try for a deeper character exploration with the Gheko brother and in actuality the relationship for the time it lasts is strong. The refencing of the bible and religion is either insulting or redeeming. A priest has lost not his faith in but his love for God and his savior Jesus, which he evidently gets back after Holy water is successfully made. I didn't actually see it coming but that is an objective view of a priests importance.
Basically the makeup is terrible, the story is predominantly shoddy and the gore is unjustifiedly bad, how could they have ever hoped for a hit with this one.