Bloodsuckers

Plot synopsis:
The year is 2210. Humans have moved out into space. In doing so, they have
encountered several alien races -- like the Leatherfaces and the Vorhees -- all
of them vampiric. In order to make space safe for humans, V-San (Vampire
Sanitation) crews serve as advance teams, sweeping planets of vampires and
making them habitable for humans. The V-San crew of the Heironymous is
captained by Nicholas Churchill [Joe Lando], who loves his job as vampire hunter. First
officer is Damian Underwood [Dominic Zamprogna], new to the job after being hand-picked by
Churchill after Damian was blacklisted by Star Fleet for leading a mission that
got his entire crew killed. Damian would rather do almost anything but V-San
work, but Churchill isn't about to sign for Damian's transfer, not when he can
get a cheap but top-notch Star Fleet educated commander who needs just a bit of
training (and stomach) in vampire killing. Rosa Wong [Leanne Adachi] and Roman Kuchinsky [Aaron Pearl] form the rest of the human crew. Then there is Quintana [Natassia Malthe] -- beautiful, telepathic,
and born a vampire-human of two humans who were vampirized. Quintana has chosen
to side with humans in the intergalactic war against vampires, but that doesn't
stop Rosa and Roman from questioning her loyalty and making snide remarks to
her face.After cleaning up the mess following a Vorhee [flesh- and organ-eating
vampires that must be staked to be destroyed] attack on Earth Base Quantum in
the Takai System, the Heironymous receives a distress call from a scared
soil-sample technician on Basra 14, a remote mining colony. Fiona Kennedy [A.J. Cook] is
the sole survivor of an attack by Leatherfaces [primitive vampires who wear
facemasks made of their victims' skin but who can be killed with bullets]. His
stomach still churning from his first experience hunting vampires, Damian
follows the captain into the mining shafts, where they are trapped and the
captain is captured and killed. Suddenly, Damian is catapulted to the position
of Captain pro tem of the Heironymous V-San crew, but Rosa and Roman make it
clear they aren't going to take orders from Damian. They feel the captain's
death was Damian's fault for not doing enough to save him from the Leatherfaces.With no further assignments in the roster, the Heironymous puts down at
Transit Station DHF in the Millerton Quadrant to drop off Fiona and allow the
crew a little R&R while awaiting orders. After an evening at the clubs, Damian
tries to get his crew back to the ship only to find that Rosa and Roman are
refusing to reboard. Instead, they have put in for a transfer and intend to go
clubbing in the interim, but their retinal scans and IDs suddenly won't work.
They have been classified as V-San persona non grata and now have nowhere to go
but back to the ship where Damian offers them a deal. One more assignment
together and he'll sign for their transfers. Until then, all protocols must be
followed under his command, and the bickering between Rosa, Roman, and Quintana
must stop. After more bickering, they agree.Suddenly, an urgent SOS comes in from the Transit Station. They are under
attack. By the time the Heironymous returns, everyone is dead. After a
preliminary investigation of the dead bodies, Quintana admits that she doesn't
recognize the vampire species but can tell that they kill by injecting a venom
that causes immediate necrotization of the tissues; it is on the dead, rotting,
warm flesh that these vampires feed. The hunters go in search of the vampire
and find him feeding; they shoot him but, horror upon horror, a number of
leech-like vampire worms crawl out of his mouth. Quintana now recognizes Vermis
nosferati, a species of wormlike vampires that lives inside the body of a host
and comes out only to feed. After the crew stabs and shoots all the vampires
until the last one emerges from a hole in the vampire's stomach (think
"Alien"), Quintana tries to talk to it. It will say nothing but rant about the
arrogance of humans. Remembering how vampires killed his entire family when he
was a child, Roman shoots it, which starts another big row between Quintana,
Rosa, and Roman.Meanwhile, watching from closed circuit cameras, Fiona and her friends
Gilles [Michael DeLuise] and Vondi [Peter DeLuise] criticize the arrogance of their human species and
applaud the work their group has accomplishedin their efforts to put
a monkeywrench in "unbridled Earth imperialism." Convinced that the Earth's
declaration of Manifest Destiny is a plague on the galaxy, they have been
plotting with Muco [Michael Ironside], leader of the Vorhees to stop the intergalactic expansion
of humans and end prejudice against vampires.Back on the Heironymous, Damian is attempting to fit the pieces together.
One thing he noticed in both the last two attacks is that, although the vampire
species involved were different, the electronic defense systems of both
stations had been shut down. He also noticed that Fiona's body was not amongst
the dead found on the Transit Station and wonders if she might be the key.
Fiona goes to a station, he reasons, and dismantles the electronic defense
system. When the vampires come in, Fiona gets out and moves on to her next
target. Reasoning further that Fiona must have left the Transit Station just
before they returned, Damian calls up the record of her departing flight plan
and learns that it leads to Cosmosis. Just then, they get a call from HQ
directing them on a search and destroy mission in the Knobe System, but Damian
and the crew decide that taking a little detour to Cosmosis is necessary to
revenge Captain Churchill's death, even if it means they'll all be fired. The
crew doesn't know that Damian made up the assignment from HQ, but it served the
purpose of uniting the crew.While the crew catches some zzzz's, the Heironymous follows Fiona's ship,
which leads them, instead, to Dhiagalev 8, a depleted ore planet. Just after
they land, they are attacked by a small craft that Roman manages to shoot out
of the sky. Unfortunately, it lands on the Heironymous and blows it up.
Stranded, they decide to head for the old colony, looking for a way off the
planet. They find the colony, and they also find Fiona and vampires. Fiona
promises that no one will get hurt if Damian goes with her. She leads him to
Muco and Captain Churchill, who has been turned into a vampire. Churchill
explains how the vampires want to learn from humans --things like compassion
and cooperation -- so that they can unite and take over the world. Damian
refuses to teach them, so Muco orders Damian and his crew killed. Fiona,
realizing that Muco has lied to her, challenges Muco to show the other vampires
what he is capable of, so Muco capably fires a bullet into her stomach.While Churchill and Damian duke it out, Gilles and Vondi, after seeing the
ease with which Muco killed Fiona, convince the vampires holding the
Heironymous crew that Muco has ordered them released. Gilles and Vondi grab
weapons and escort Rosa, Roman, and Quintana to the room where Churchill
has almost bested Damian. As they enter, Gilles and Vondi toss the weapons back
to the crew and they open fire on the vampires. Damian stabs Churchill in the
heart with a shard of glass, then sneaks up on Muco and stabs him.
Their work done here, Damian and crew head back to HQ to get a new ship.
[Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]

Tags: violence

Review:
This is no Blade and Star wars cross, but being a movie thats whole budget would have been less then Darth Vader's wardrobe cost its pretty darn good.This is a B movie and I knew that when I bought it, it surpassed my expectations and gave me 90 or so minutes of amusement.The acting ranged from passable at worse to good.
Natassia Malthe is nice eye candy and had a great wardrobe( skin tight and sexy).The special effects were not that great, but they did not ever remove you from the movie by being super bad.
Completely acceptable for a B movie.(well the hand puppet was a stretch but otherwise...) The gore was great, there was lots of it and it was a blast to watch.Someone mentioned a cross between Buffy and firefly( a good review) I agree only think with more edge and darker.This one is a winner for B movie buffs..
Humans#2 Military-reject roughneck squad as first responders to dangerous, unknown Vampire incursions.#3 Sexy female Vampire on the side of the "good guys".#4 Plenty of gore and action.There are four (4) major plot devices that may help you decide if you want to watch this movie.
It will stand-up against any of the other Sci-Fi channel offerings, and even against the other Vampire movie Natassia starred in (who keeps giving Uwe Boll money?)..
First off, the movie I watched was "Vampire Wars: Battle for the Universe", which apparently is an alternate title for "Bloodsuckers" (and a much better one IMO).
Regardless, the story holds together, the special effects were above average, and there were even some good actors (specifically the guy who played the captain and the environmentalist girl).This movie is perfect for the "let's all watch a bad movie" night..
Seriously, if you don't like this, then you're either way too serious or you should just stick to watching Gus Van Sant movies and never visit the modest-budget horror-genre again.
This isn't a prime example of excellent indie-film-making (even if made for TV) and it's not as good as the two aforementioned movies.
The V-SAN (aka Vampire Sanitation) spaceship leaded by Captain Churchill (Joe Lando) receives a distress call from an Earth base and his team formed by the vampire Quintana (Natassia Malthe), the rookie officer Damian (Dominic Zamprogna) and the rebels Rosa (Leanne Adachi) and Roman (Aaron Pearl) seek survivors and vampires and they rescue the scientist Fiona (A.J. Cook), but Capt.
After their next assignment, the provisional captain Damian and his group disclose that a traitor has disengaged the defense system of the bases and they chase their prime suspect.I like B-movies, but "Bloodsuckers" has very contradictory characters and situations.
i mean the acting does grow better later on in the movie, there is some pretty good music, and the storyline isn't bad either.This is a movie that you should watch, it has action, humor, romance, betrayal it has it all.Ow and a funny little fact for those of you that used to watch Andromeda.
The only good thing in this movie was Natassia Malthe, with her stunning Norwegian beauty.
Bloodsuckers has the potential to be a somewhat decent movie, the concept of military types tracking down and battling vampires in space is one with some potential in the cheesier realm of things.
As it is the movie comes across a low budget mix of Firefly/Serenity and vampires movies with a dash of Aliens.The action parts of the movie are pretty average and derivative (Particularly of Serenity) but passable- they are reasonably well executed and there is enough gore for a vampire flick, including some of the comical blood-spurting variety.
A nice try at fleshing the characters out but people don't watch a movie called Bloodsuckers for character development and drama.
The way things are set up Bloodsuckers really does seem like the pilot for a TV series- character dynamics introduced, the world introduced but not explored, etc.
-The credit "And Michael Ironside as Muco." The most annoying aspect of it all though is the really awful and usually inappropriate pop music they have playing very loud over half the scenes of the movie.
Honestly, do you believe that a movie called "Bloodsuckers" aka "Vampire Wars: Battle for the Universe" can actually be good?
It's not brilliant, but it's good enough, and it has a couple of one-liners, some really good character relationship moments, homage to classic horrors (like Leatherface and Voorhees vampires), and a fun ending.
Good camera-work, which I think is rare these days in B-movies, they all tend to shake and zoom, trying to give some "reality" feel to it.If you'd watch every once in a while something different than Oscar winners and summer blockbusters, and if you like sci-fi flicks, I encourage you to see this one.I'm giving it 10/10 cause I think it deserves more than 4-something, which is it's current IMDb Rating.
It's a straightforward sci-fi/horror flick with rich and engaging characters (pared down to archetypes for the time allotted, of course), a fully-developed setting (again, pared for time, but the rich background is obvious in the vampiric languages that are apparently more than gobbledigook and the information given on planets and positions, etc.), a very rapid pace that keeps the story moving without turning into a music video, and pitch-perfect cinematography and direction.It is not flashy or showy, but it's certainly not "sock puppets and CGI." In fact, there is almost none of either.
The story revolves around a group of space vampire-hunters that go from planet to planet trying to exterminate the bloodsucker menace.
Though the idea of the movie is a bit cheesy and there is literally no plot twists; Bloodsuckers has an unexpected charm that lures you in and keeps you watching.
However, Bloodsuckers made up for that by actually showing reasons why the crew start to trust each other, instead of the main character does something cool and they forget all their past discrepancies (A feet that most movies always do).
Also, I enjoyed the idea of many different species of vampires, instead of just one (Yes, even the vampire worm IDEA was creative; not the actual worm itself.) In conclusion, Bloodsuckers is a strange, entertaining film.
In my personal opinion, I would like to see Sci-fi channel make a series from this movie.
OK, it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen but it was still worth watching.The acting is OK for the most part of the film and there's enough eye candy (Natassia Malthe in leather) for the guys.
The special effects could have been better, but are still good enough for me.The plot was about what you can expect for a movie with a title like this, the only thing that really disturbed me was the cowboy-hats.
A little more depth in the characters wouldn't have hurt either.If you're out for a mind blowing experience then you should probably view another movie, but if you're into SCI-FI movies and don't mind if the whole vampire-myth gets a little bit trashed this film ought to keep you company, should you get bored some night..
In this film (which I saw as "Bloodsuckers" but I guess also goes as "Vampires Wars") we see what happens when the imperialist earthlings meet the imperialist vampires.I will make this review very short because it's undeserving of a good review.
but the same can be said of Uwe Boll's work.The concept of the military tracking and killing vampires in space isn't necessarily a bad idea, but it easily falls into the realm of "cheese" and this film falls hard.
If you can stand lots of cheese (on this day I couldn't and I'm from Wisconsin) and want to see average actors with poor costumes fight vampires in space (although "space" looks a lot like any other forest on earth) check this one out, if you can find it.
I don't personally recommend this when you can watch other cheesy vampires films (Jon Carpenter's "Vampires") or other cheesy space movies.
Even Joe Lando said "it was a different kind of experience playing a vampire." The crew that they have is good and will get better.
Okay, Bloodsuckers is not a good or great movie, or at least to me.
Bloodsuckers does actually have some note-worthy performances, Joe Lando, who was the best and only good thing about Meteor Apocalypse, is decent, Michael Ironside while underused does a nice job as the villain and Natassia Malthe, complete with a wardrobe that completely flatters her figure, is incredibly sexy and not too bad acting-wise either.
The story is also an improvement, true it is predictable and not exactly original(apart from the interesting angle of vampire mind sex) but unlike most other low-budget movies I've recently seen it's actually engaging too, and I say the same thing about the action scenes and the gore.
Where Bloodsuckers does fall down is with the rest of the cast aren't as good, either bland or irritating(Leanne Adachi manages to be both those things), the script is of rather cheesy quality, the human characters are stereotypical and not all of them are easy to identify with and the cheap effects for the vampires(who themselves as a whole lacked charisma and menace mostly).
5/10 Bethany Cox. Goofy, Gory Low Budget Sci-Fi Fun. I got this movie on a 4-film "Vampire Collector's Set" DVD under the title "Vampire Wars: Battle for the Universe," though the opening credits of the actual film identify it as "Bloodsuckers," which quite frankly is a cooler (and less wordy) title.
The movie itself was pretty much what I expected: a low budget B-film.
Fortunately, I love stuff like this and "Vampire Wars"/"Bloodsuckers" turned out to be a surprisingly cool mish-mash of the horror, sci-fi and action genres, bolted together from parts of the "Blade" series, a little bit of "Firefly," and some "Aliens" as well.The good news: it's the 23rd century and mankind has at last discovered humanoid life on other planets.
Genre legend Michael Ironside makes a brief cameo, hamming it up in a quick-paycheck role as some sort of vampire overlord in cahoots with the turncoat humans, and eventually lots of big guns go off, and we get severed limbs and gore galore.True "vampire" movie fans will probably hate this movie as this so-called "vamps" act more like zombies (i.e. they eat the flesh of their victims rather than drink their blood).
It is interesting that there appear to be numerous types of vampire races in the Universe (one in-joke refers to two different races as "the Voorhees" and "the Leatherfaces") depending on what planet the V-SANS agents visit, causing me to wonder if this film was intended as the first in a series (or perhaps a TV series pilot -- I did notice that even though the film is quite violent and bloody, language is toned down and though I really hoped to see Quintana strip off that leather bodysuit, no such luck).As with most of the movies on these "4 Film Collections" that I've seen, "Bloodsuckers/Vampire Wars" is worth viewing if you've got a taste for goofy, low-budget fare; those who prefer their horror on the more serious side can safely skip it..
The plot and characters are mainly stolen directly from John Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars" and James Cameron's "Aliens", as a crew of futuristic vampire hunters are crusading through space and regularly holding to eliminate a mutated species that peculiarly named themselves after notorious horror icons, like the Voorhees and the Leatherfaces.
The creativity to the movie is what I think separated Bloodsuckers from any old vampire movie, like the idea of having several different vampire clans and instead of having regular blood-sucking vampires they had flesh-eating vampires.
The flaws in this movie are identical to every other sci-fi original: low budget, bad visual effects, bad special effects, bad acting, horrible script, annoying clichés, bad plots, and lots of obviously fake and overdone gore.
Futuristic soldiers, taking on bad ass Vampires led by genre vet Michael Ironside....In Space.
I mean I wasn't expecting high art, but It looked like a potential B movie classic.
I gave it a 2 just because Natassia Malthe (as the vampiress Quintana) looks sooooo sexy in this movie.Certainly there is very little logic to this movie, but so are most of the sci-fi vampire flicks.
A good vampire movie should be more sensible that you don't need to see a lot of blood -- we all know when a vampire jumps on a human he/she is going to do what a vampire will do.
Pretty much the only thing original about Vampire Wars is about how bad it is.Watching this afterbirth of a film, the only amusement I got was from the feeble attempts at set-making.
This said, I particularly enjoyed the character of the vampire fighting on the side of humans-One of thr problems for this movie is the plethora of high budget films with all the effects money can buy.
So please, if you are expecting lots of awesome vampire action, then think again.But all of this could be blamed on its story.
It's storytelling and character handling like this that still makes this a pretty bad movie to watch, most of the time.It's not the worst genre example but there still is no good reason why you should ever watch this.5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/.
Granted, it was on Sci Fi, and I don't watch much Sci Fi, but man, talk about a razor thin plot and two dimensional characters to the max.The characters were stereotypical and overdone, the plot and setting were unbelievable, the vampires were less intimidating, more funny-looking, the gore was unnecessary, the special effects were down-right horrible, and the ending?
Okay, I have to admit I was a little hesitant about watching a movie about alien vampires, but the overall outcome certainly exceeded my expectations.
I'll admit the plot line did have a few things I was able to spot easy from the bat-like the return of a character you think is gone at the beginning-but it had its good points, like all the tension between the two main ladies (wich made for a really interesting end) and the entire crew at some points.
Well, for the previous, it is better than daytime television....though I'm not sure how much.It does have its points but after about the first 20-30 minutes, the good points pan out and one comes to the conclusion that they are watching a made for TV movie that was put together with not much time to make something that will hold together.
In short, a terrible Sci Fi channel type movie.It has its points such as the future is dirty, like "Blade Runner" showed .....
The Captain looks, sort of feels like actor Robert Forster, the kind of person one might want to be around.But unfortunately, it rather ends up feeling like a bad "Andromeda" rehash where the muscle of the crew consists of poor copies of the smart gunners of "Aliens", the mystic is vampire Willow sexually intensified, and the new Captain might as well be like Jan-Michael Vincent running around on "Danger Island" in the "Banana Splits"; he only put on the uniform with the epaulets; he's got very little right to it.
"Bloodsuckers" is a bit more original than most vampire movies.**SPOILERS**In the future, vampires have been found in every part of the galaxy.
Knowing they have to work one more mission in order to get released, they agree to handle on of the most dangerous vampire groups in the universe.The Good News: There was a bit of truly original thinking in this movie.
Those into watching movies with some creativity and thought put into it will want to give this a look.Rated R: Graphic Violence, some language, and suggested sex scene.
The acting was fairly done well and the plot to it was much better than most of the movies that the Sci-Fi Channel has in its arsenal.
Like I said, it is better than some of the made for TV movies..
low budget vampire movie.
This was well done, but the rest of the movie, forget it.There is another scene, which looks like a engineering plant, which i bet it, and does not look like a space outpost as the character say it is.This movie is stupid, has a serious low budget, makes no sense and God Help Micheal Ironsides..
That's where the likes of Captain Churchill (Joe Lando) & his crew come in, you see he leads a team of soldiers killing Vampires wherever they find them.
This has a pleasing amount of blood & gore, from bodies with legs ripped off, stakings, blood spurts, gory gunshot wounds, Vampire worms bursting out of people's chests & severed limbs Bloodsuckers is a pretty gory film & that's a good thing in my book.
The acting isn't good, the usually brilliant Michael Ironside is only in for about 10 minutes & he gives a terrible performance but he's no worse than anyone else & he's got every right to be p*ssed off if this is the sort of crap he's been reduced to.
A special mention for Leanne Adachi as Rosa who not only gives an awful performance but makes her character so irritating & unlikable you want her to die, horribly (the character that is, not the actress!).Bloodsuckers is a better film than I had any right to expect, it's not perfect but as a one off watch to pass the time it's reasonably good, gory fast moving fun.
I could go on, but as I said it's the same storyline used in about a hundred other 'films' of the genre.The effects were cheese and why Michael Ironside was in this movie is beyond me.
The vampire vampire hunter (still not a typo) was pretty hot, but of course if you're waiting for her to expose more than just her cleavage, look elsewhere.I can't say that it was the worst film I've seen, as I actually rented 'Starship Troopers 2', but wait for this one to come on the Sci-Fi Channel.